Possible advanced material?
SugarAndSugar
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So ive done some research to see where fat comes off first, for males. Typically its the face first, then arms, then chest, then stomach. However all people are different. It also didnt mention legs back neck etc... and also when they said this order does it mean that once a majority of face fat is lost and after a majority of chest and arm fat is lost then whenever your body burns fat it will then be using the fat from your stomach region??
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SugarAndSugar wrote: »So ive done some research to see where fat comes off first, for males. Typically its the face first, then arms, then chest, then stomach. However all people are different. It also didnt mention legs back neck etc... and also when they said this order does it mean that once a majority of face fat is lost and after a majority of chest and arm fat is lost then whenever your body burns fat it will then be using the fat from your stomach region??
Answered yourself. This is you greatly overthinking the unknown. Relax and just lose weight, It will come off where it comes off.13 -
This is really a pretty pointless pursuit, fat will come off where it comes off and you can't change that, and it depends on your own fat distribution pattern, so why worry?8
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not sure how/why this is advanced material11
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Fat loss does not proceed in any such orderly manner. You gradually lose fat from all over your body and the proportions are dictated by your genetic fat distribution pattern. It doesn’t start here, work there until it’s done and move on to the next location, etc.
As has been said before, you’re overthinking this. Stick to it and trust the process.6 -
Your going to lose weight from all over your body not one area at a time, its trying to say you might lose proportionally more from your face first and then as all over body fat is continued to be lost you might start losing proportionally more from your arms next. Your not going to lose all the excess fat from your face and then all the fat excess from your arms.
With the stomach its often cited by people as being the last place they lose/the bit they are unhappy with despite being a good weight etc. It doenst mean they haven't lost any weight around the stomach region during their weight loss it just means if there is still more fat to be lost the majority of the remaining fat will likely be in the stomach region.0 -
deannalfisher wrote: »not sure how/why this is advanced material
Answer it23 -
Fat loss does not proceed in any such orderly manner. You gradually lose fat from all over your body and the proportions are dictated by your genetic fat distribution pattern. It doesn’t start here, work there until it’s done and move on to the next location, etc.
As has been said before, you’re overthinking this. Stick to it and trust the process.
So its like a ratio but its a different ratio for every person.0 -
"Advanced"... You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
The body uses fat from whatever tissues are most convenient or accessible to the bloodstream. Some parts of the body may show loss more quickly than others, but that does not mean the body isn't using fat from other areas at the same time.22 -
It depends on genetics. Is knowing a common pattern of loss (which may not be your own) helpful for you, personally I wouldn't be focusing too much on it.
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Like peeling an Onion, layer by layer.1
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its an unanswerable question - if you ask 10 different people where they noticed they lost fat first, you would probably get 10 different answers; if you did in depth body composition analysis, you would probably find a similar distribution of fat loss over the body2
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It depends on genetics. Is knowing a common pattern of loss (which may not be your own) helpful for you, personally I wouldn't be focusing too much on it.
It’s not at all worth focusing on, because we have absolutely no control over it. It’s going to happen how it’s going to happen, regardless of how we try to influence it.3 -
L1zardQueen wrote: »Like peeling an Onion, layer by layer.
Just wait until he tries to get his head around the fact that most of the metabolized fat mass leaves the body through exhalation.13 -
L1zardQueen wrote: »Like peeling an Onion, layer by layer.
Just wait until he tries to get his head around the fact that most of the metabolized fat mass leaves the body through exhalation.
Oh yea, onion breath.2 -
L1zardQueen wrote: »L1zardQueen wrote: »Like peeling an Onion, layer by layer.
Just wait until he tries to get his head around the fact that most of the metabolized fat mass leaves the body through exhalation.
Oh yea, onion breath.
@L1zardQueen This line of conversation is bringing up some very odd questions about your dietary choices.
OP, it will come off where it comes off. Since you're new, I recommend focusing on the things you have control over.
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nutmegoreo wrote: »L1zardQueen wrote: »L1zardQueen wrote: »Like peeling an Onion, layer by layer.
Just wait until he tries to get his head around the fact that most of the metabolized fat mass leaves the body through exhalation.
Oh yea, onion breath.
@L1zardQueen This line of conversation is bringing up some very odd questions about your dietary choices.
OP, it will come off where it comes off. Since you're new, I recommend focusing on the things you have control over.
It wards off vampires. I hope.0 -
If you would like to control your fat loss perhaps consider having liposuction... Otherwise, there's not really any point trying to control the uncontrollable..4
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If you draw abs on your belly with a Sharpie, it helps you visualize the fat loss from that area and it comes off faster. This is science.20
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L1zardQueen wrote: »L1zardQueen wrote: »Like peeling an Onion, layer by layer.
Just wait until he tries to get his head around the fact that most of the metabolized fat mass leaves the body through exhalation.
Oh yea, onion breath.
What an insult4 -
SugarAndSugar wrote: »L1zardQueen wrote: »L1zardQueen wrote: »Like peeling an Onion, layer by layer.
Just wait until he tries to get his head around the fact that most of the metabolized fat mass leaves the body through exhalation.
Oh yea, onion breath.
What an insult
:huh: I don't think that was intended to be an insult...4 -
nutmegoreo wrote: »SugarAndSugar wrote: »L1zardQueen wrote: »L1zardQueen wrote: »Like peeling an Onion, layer by layer.
Just wait until he tries to get his head around the fact that most of the metabolized fat mass leaves the body through exhalation.
Oh yea, onion breath.
What an insult
:huh: I don't think that was intended to be an insult...
Yeah, I'm thinking it was more talking about the bad taste a person sometimes get in their mouth while on this fabulous, fun weight loss journey. No fun at all, but I think that's what God made gum for, right?0 -
nutmegoreo wrote: »SugarAndSugar wrote: »L1zardQueen wrote: »L1zardQueen wrote: »Like peeling an Onion, layer by layer.
Just wait until he tries to get his head around the fact that most of the metabolized fat mass leaves the body through exhalation.
Oh yea, onion breath.
What an insult
:huh: I don't think that was intended to be an insult...
Yeah, I'm thinking it was more talking about the bad taste a person sometimes get in their mouth while on this fabulous, fun weight loss journey. No fun at all, but I think that's what God made gum for, right?
Or because onions are gross... :laugh:0 -
Lyle McDonald researched this and published his findings in a book available here: https://store.bodyrecomposition.com/product/stubborn-fat-solution/Spoiler alert: comes down to genetically governed distribution of different types of neural receptors in various parts of the body.
Great read.3 -
L1zardQueen wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »L1zardQueen wrote: »L1zardQueen wrote: »Like peeling an Onion, layer by layer.
Just wait until he tries to get his head around the fact that most of the metabolized fat mass leaves the body through exhalation.
Oh yea, onion breath.
@L1zardQueen This line of conversation is bringing up some very odd questions about your dietary choices.
OP, it will come off where it comes off. Since you're new, I recommend focusing on the things you have control over.
It wards off vampires. I hope.
Garlic. You want garlic for that. If no one complains about your garlic breath you're not doing it right.
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L1zardQueen wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »L1zardQueen wrote: »L1zardQueen wrote: »Like peeling an Onion, layer by layer.
Just wait until he tries to get his head around the fact that most of the metabolized fat mass leaves the body through exhalation.
Oh yea, onion breath.
@L1zardQueen This line of conversation is bringing up some very odd questions about your dietary choices.
OP, it will come off where it comes off. Since you're new, I recommend focusing on the things you have control over.
It wards off vampires. I hope.
that would be garlic breath, silly lol
anyways its different for everyone. you can not control where or how, or how fast. trust me, if you could, my stomach would be flatter and my *kitten* would be smaller.
for me it came off my back first. my upper body loses first, in general. based on how my engagement ring is fitting lately, id say its coming off my fingers and hands right now (which were not huge to begin with lolol). whatever. i cant control it... i just roll my eyes at it lol2 -
Here's my theory.
Fat is an *kitten*.
It know you are trying to get rid of it, and it wants to stay.
It also knows where you want to get rid of it from and where you don't.
So, for women, it leaves to boobs first. For men it stays in the moobs as long as it can.
But it knows (from reading all the threads on MFP) that everyone of both sexes wants to lose belly fat, so it stays there stubbornly flipping you off in the whole weight loss process in the hopes that you give up and it can stick around.
And, it know, once you give up it has won and can go back to partying.22 -
This is the highly scientific explanation that we all should fully support.Tacklewasher wrote: »Here's my theory.
Fat is an *kitten*.
It know you are trying to get rid of it, and it wants to stay.
It also knows where you want to get rid of it from and where you don't.
So, for women, it leaves to boobs first. For men it stays in the moobs as long as it can.
But it knows (from reading all the threads on MFP) that everyone of both sexes wants to lose belly fat, so it stays there stubbornly flipping you off in the whole weight loss process in the hopes that you give up and it can stick around.
And, it know, once you give up it has won and can go back to partying.
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"Advanced"... You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
The body uses fat from whatever tissues are most convenient or accessible to the bloodstream. Some parts of the body may show loss more quickly than others, but that does not mean the body isn't using fat from other areas at the same time.
What you did there, I see it...
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L1zardQueen wrote: »Like peeling an Onion, layer by layer.
Well, more like water being let out of a whole-body unequally distributed water balloon, for some of us. I wish mine had disappeared in layers starting from outer and proceeding to inner. I didn't love the squishy fat stage. Maybe not everyone has that, but I know I'm not the only one.2 -
L1zardQueen wrote: »Like peeling an Onion, layer by layer.
Well, more like water being let out of a whole-body unequally distributed water balloon, for some of us. I wish mine had disappeared in layers starting from outer and proceeding to inner. I didn't love the squishy fat stage. Maybe not everyone has that, but I know I'm not the only one.
The woosh, I have those too! Peeing all day long, for no particular reason.1
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