Body pet hates/trouble spots
fionadg
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Mine is underarm cleavage, know what I mean ladies? Any solutions? A PT told me chest flys. I think they`ll only improve so much with weight loss. What is your body hang up? Maybe someone can suggest fixes?
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Learn to love yourself in the body you have.
Body recomposition is hard enough and time consuming enough. The first step is always to learn to love yourself no matter what your body looks like right now.11 -
Mine is underarm cleavage, know what I mean ladies? Any solutions? A PT told me chest flys. I think they`ll only improve so much with weight loss. What is your body hang up? Maybe someone can suggest fixes?
I have that when I have too much fat.... Lose fat, and they go away! I have decent pecs and have done plenty of flys, it doesn't help underarm cleavage if there's fat over the top2 -
Mine is my banana rolls and love handles. Last to go always.0
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what are banana rolls, sound yumm
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Chef_Barbell wrote: »
I call the bits on the sides of my upper thighs saddlebags.. They are the bits that hang around me the longest, even when the rest of me is lean.0 -
I have some imbalance that all the weight lifting in the world can't fix. Left side is bigger than the right genetically from head to toe. I'm the only person who sees it but my chest arms and traps are noticeably different sizes on each side when I look in the mirror.
Otherwise at this point it's just loose skin that gives the appearance of fat when the clothes are off. Maybe with time that will tighten up. Even though the love handles are depleted and gone, the skin from them remains.
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I used to be self-conscious about having small boobs. Then, I realized no one else cares. Why should I?
Gym creepers gonna creep.0 -
Learn to love yourself in the body you have.
Body recomposition is hard enough and time consuming enough. The first step is always to learn to love yourself no matter what your body looks like right now.
This is the best advice. I've really struggled with this issue since losing weight (never thought about my body enough to have feelings either way before that) and right now I'm trying hard to focus on what my body can do rather than what it looks like.4 -
What is your body hang up?
i'ts not as bad as a hangup, and more posting just for solidarity than because i want anybody's advice, thanks. but . . .
>.< chubby inner knees are my AAGGH spot >.<
on the end of the scale, i like my shoulders a lot. for all i know they're some kind of aesthetic faux-pas of the moment as well. but i'm so old at 52 that i'm really over the revolving door of arbitrary fashion-mag declarations about what some random new part of us is 'supposed' to look like. i'm too old not to have noticed that they think up new things every six months or so. literally. and the 'should' and the 'shouldn't' literally gets reshuffled and swapped in and out all the time. just because someone needs something to write about, i suppose.
but anyway, i sure like looking at mine. i have no idea what others might think about them, and tbh i like them so much i don't think i would care even if i found out.
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My knees are really not cute.
And saddlebags.
Calves are huge too.
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Big tummy, back fat. I have always carried a lot of my excess weight in my stomach and on my back. Ugh. Well I carry it all over but those are the only two places I'm self conscious about. My huge butt and thick thighs? Don't even care, love them.0
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PT is wrong. You CANNOT spot reduce any body part by just directly exercising it.Mine is underarm cleavage, know what I mean ladies? Any solutions? A PT told me chest flys. I think they`ll only improve so much with weight loss. What is your body hang up? Maybe someone can suggest fixes?
You approach it by losing body fat, getting to a weight you want then reassessing what you need to do to improve from that point.
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I hold fat around my mid section even though I'm not heavy0
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Pretty much everything on my body is awful. From the arms to the fat belly, butt, thighs, and saggy boobs.0
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awww kurumi, youre in the right place to change, be happy
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I hate my floppy gut and hanging skin there and in my thighs. The only solution I am aware of is to continue losing and get skin surgery. So realistically I just have to continue to be proud of my hard work and accept that they are my battle scars. While it isn't a body part but a result of my body, another big one is my gait. I have had a number of people say how great/healthy I look (yay! thanks!) and that they didn't recognize me until they saw me walk. I'm becoming more self-conscious of my gait every day.2
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I have saddlebags AND banana rolls. But.....They are getting less baggy and rolly with each pound I lose.1
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Underarm side cleavage for me too. I don't know how much more fat I can lose, but I'll keep at it starting Wednesday of next week. (Doing my A race of the year on the 4th- can't be in too much of a deficit while I'm training).0
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I hold fat around my mid section though you can barely get a pinch of skin anywhere else...it's annoying.0
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Learn to love yourself in the body you have.
Body recomposition is hard enough and time consuming enough. The first step is always to learn to love yourself no matter what your body looks like right now.
+1.
Still, my pet hate has to do with other women's bodies.
I hate to see a woman hold out her arm, wiggle it around, and call out anything on her upper arm that moves as "bat wings", " chicken wings", etc. Typically, if I can make her move into a nice bodybuilder-style flex pose, a whole big bunch of that tightens right up. It was a relaxed triceps muscle, in large part. Sure, there may be some fat or loose skin, but some is muscle.
We women have learned to misidentify our own functional, useful triceps muscles as something "fat" and "ugly", and to hate on them. That's sad.
I hate that.4 -
Even 1 extra pound... straight to the lower-abdomen. I wish it would go to my butt or hips where I have plenty of space.
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moobs.0
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my upper abs they've always been my nemesis, once I had them looking good but I was really dieting a lot. I'll keep working on them0
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Learn to love yourself in the body you have.
Body recomposition is hard enough and time consuming enough. The first step is always to learn to love yourself no matter what your body looks like right now.
+1.
Still, my pet hate has to do with other women's bodies.
I hate to see a woman hold out her arm, wiggle it around, and call out anything on her upper arm that moves as "bat wings", " chicken wings", etc. Typically, if I can make her move into a nice bodybuilder-style flex pose, a whole big bunch of that tightens right up. It was a relaxed triceps muscle, in large part. Sure, there may be some fat or loose skin, but some is muscle.
We women have learned to misidentify our own functional, useful triceps muscles as something "fat" and "ugly", and to hate on them. That's sad.
I hate that.
I almost came back to say my pet peeve was how much my own body can make me sad sometimes.
If I had one thing to lose or fix- I would change that. I think I'm god damn awesome... and I have some bad hang up days. I'm not delusional- we all have them- even some of us who are really okay with who we are- but sigh- that one thing- that occasional mental hiccup- I wish I could get ride of THAT.4 -
I can confidently say that if you allow me five minutes of examining myself in front of the mirror, I can find something wrong with everything, lol. But my current pet hate is with my thighs, which are huge no matter my BMI and especially so since I really started cycling as transportation (even worse than when I picked up running.) On one hand, they are at least muscular, but on the other hand, they are huge. I know that's kind of "in" right now for women, but I was young and impressionable in the 90s when the ideal was a lot more waifish and I struggle with the fact that I do not have slim thighs like I've always wished for and never been able to achieve. I don't really have the saddlebag or banana roll issue since they're pretty hard thanks to the aforementioned running and cycling, but they are just so large.0
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This thread kinda makes me sad. While there are portions of my body that I think I can improve upon, I love how freaking strong my body is. If it stayed this way, I'd be perfectly happy. Even the tiny little sport boobs and the lower belly fat.1
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