Losing inches in all the wrong places...

elisa123gal

It is hard to accept that you have to lose all the fat to look really good. And the fat doesn't really care about what order we want the loss to happen. Just keep doing what you're doing. You're making progress.

Ann262

It is never where we want it to be!!

Speakeasy76

elisa123gal wrote: »

It is hard to accept that you have to lose all the fat to look really good. And the fat doesn't really care about what order we want the loss to happen. Just keep doing what you're doing. You're making progress.

I agree with most of what you said, but I can't agree with the idea that we have to accept that to look "really good" we have to lose "all the fat." Besides the fact that it's not only physically impossible to lose all the fat but unhealthy to stay at extremely low body fat levels long-term, I think we should work on accepting the fact that we can still look good, despite our self-perceived body flaws, focusing on progress, not perfection. If we keep thinking we have to lose more fat to look really good, I think we'll never be happy because that goal is unattainable. It's kind of that all-or-none thinking that gets a lot of us in trouble and can be a slippery slope. Plus, as you said, we can't decide where fat leaves the body.

It doesn't mean we can't stop trying to improve ourselves and have body parts we don't really care for, but we have to know our limits and not get so caught up on looking "really good." That's my opinion, anyway.

wunderkindking

Speakeasy76 wrote: »

elisa123gal wrote: »

It is hard to accept that you have to lose all the fat to look really good. And the fat doesn't really care about what order we want the loss to happen. Just keep doing what you're doing. You're making progress.

I agree with most of what you said, but I can't agree with the idea that we have to accept that to look "really good" we have to lose "all the fat." Besides the fact that it's not only physically impossible to lose all the fat but unhealthy to stay at extremely low body fat levels long-term, I think we should work on accepting the fact that we can still look good, despite our self-perceived body flaws, focusing on progress, not perfection. If we keep thinking we have to lose more fat to look really good, I think we'll never be happy because that goal is unattainable. It's kind of that all-or-none thinking that gets a lot of us in trouble and can be a slippery slope. Plus, as you said, we can't decide where fat leaves the body.

It doesn't mean we can't stop trying to improve ourselves and have body parts we don't really care for, but we have to know our limits and not get so caught up on looking "really good." That's my opinion, anyway.

I'm with you.

Also I'm the most body neutral person ever, in most ways - meaning appearance ones. No, not everything about my body is beautiful, but it's healthier, stronger, and more fit. Also I am not here as decoration. What I look like is the LEAST interesting, important, and even useful thing about me.

Also I'm middle age. No matter how thin I get, or how much muscle I build, I'm not going to look like a 20 year old and that's just fine.

jsiricos

boobs, feet (yes FEET) butt, arms, belly... more boobs.. thank god sports bras arent really sized, at my lowest, I had bat wings and an apron.. But have to get back there...