Tips?: Excess arm fat

rojiblankalizz

Ok so I'm almost at my first goal which is -50 lbs ...but now I have quite a few excess fat in my arms! I'm trying to make it disappear but it's not letting go lol .......any recommendations? Tips?If you have Also for the abs please! Although I have been losing ab fat , but I mean more would be better .

Tacklewasher

Nope. Fat comes off where it will and there is little to nothing to do about it. Just keep losing and, eventually it will be gone.

I'm down 130 and still have a buddah belly.

AnvilHead

No such thing as spot reduction.

BrianKMcFalls

What everyone else is telling you. That being said, some strength training while losing is usually a good idea.

rheddmobile

You can't lose weight from a certain area any more than you can pick which place in your gas tank to use fuel from. However, strength training will definitely make your arms and abs look better. Good luck!

lorrpb

Congrats on losing 50! You say it's your "first" goal, so I assume you have more to lose. Keep losing and the fat will keep coming off. Also follow an organized strength training program which will help your arms look better when you get to your final goal.

AnnPT77

First and most important tip us to be careful with the arm thing: Be sure you know what you have. I see soooo many women who hold their arms out straight in relaxed fashion & move them back and forth, and call anything that moves "ugly" "fat" "loose skin" on their upper arms.

No.

Before you do that, bend your arms upward, curl your wrists a bit, tighten your triceps (the muscles on the back of your upper arms) and generally flex like a body-builder. Make sure those muscles on the upper back of your arm are as tightly engaged as you can get them. Now move your arms around, staying flexed. Whatever moves now might be loose skin or fat (it may also be that you're not very adept at flexing like a body-builder. ).

Relaxed triceps, even on quite fit women, are somewhat mobile. If it isn't floppy when you tighten everything up, it isn't loose skin or fat, it's triceps. You can also check by holding on to the "flap" on one side with the other hand, then tightening up the side you're holding. If you feel it tightening up, it's a relaxed muscle, not fat or skin.

There are way too many women in the world mis-identifying their relaxed muscles as "ugly" "fat" "bat-wing" "chicken-wing" "flaps", and disliking the muscles that help them move. Be sure you're not doing that!

Beyond that, keep working out, especially strength exercises, and getting to a healthy body weight, to improve the rest. If there's loose skin involved, it can take some time to shrink back, even after the weight loss.

(Even at age 62, my loose skin kept slowly shrinking, even into my 2nd year of maintenance. Also, if there's still some meaningful amount of subcutaneous fat there, if will conspire with gravity to keep the skin from shrinking much, so the continuing weight loss matters.)

The whole process isn't super-speedy, but it works.