Should I get Lipo??

AnnPT77

jessef593 wrote: »

@springlering62 my apologies. I wasnt attempting to sound rude.

Been giving people the same answer for years and I've just gotten to be cut and dry. Because that is the hard truth. If you still have fat its because you haven't lost enough. Picking a goal weight is one of the worst things you can do. It often leaves beginners disappointed. Which is unfortunate. I only use my weight as a gauge to see if I'm moving in the right direction. And currently that Is up

One of @springlering62's implications, I think, is that we (perhaps especially people like her, and me, as women of a certain length of service as same) recognize that sometimes people, perhaps especially women, perhaps especially young women, think they have major fat when they really have, at least in part, a misperception.

Generally, I agree with you (@jessef593): If someone truly has an undesired level of fat, it's because they haven't lost enough fat yet. . . as long as they're seeing themselves reasonably accurately. And picking a goal weight out of the air is not a good approach: Could be too high, could be too low, don't know until close to there.

Still, some are calling their relaxed triceps part of their fat . . . which of course they aren't. But literally every woman I've ever met in real life who complained about "upper arm fat" ("bingo wings", "bat wings", etc.) was including her actual triceps in that perception, once I showed her how to find the difference. (Was there zero fat there? Not necessarily. But there was *always* substantially less than she thought.)

Same deal with the thigh thing, when sitting, that @springlering62 mentioned. Some see that spread, and call it fat, when it's in significant part that relaxed hamstrings flatten and spread a bit under the weight of one's legs.

There are other examples, like women associating the slight abdominal swell that comes with having a uterus as "fat" that's preventing her getting "a truly flat belly" (like XYZ instagram fitness influencer who lit/posed/photoshopped her femaleness out of the pictures).

These are partly perception problems, not strictly just fat problems.

And that's without even getting into the people who think they still have fat, when they're down to pretty minimal fat levels in reality, but look slack and flabby to themselves because there's not much muscle there at all to create the look they really want.

Diatonic12

Your body rearranges itself like a crazy woman moving furniture. I lurve that!

jessef593

@AnnPT77

So kind of along the lines of slight body dysmorphia. Yeah I hear you. I struggle to find jeans that fit as I have larger than average quads and you can see that they are muscle when I'm standing. However when sitting they look flabby as heck.

People associate relaxed appearance as looking fat. When all these influencers are highly photoshopped and also receiving chemical aid. Which Is not a problem. However misleading is.

But personally i think liposuction is a mistake as itll all come back before long since they haven't resolved the actual issue. Themselves.

I do find it interesting as for men it's the opposite. They almost never see themselves as big enough and always feel lesser than others.

Diatonic12

@springlering62 I've shared your wisdom with my mother and all of my aunts. They're crazy women who move their furniture constantly. We think you need to write a book.