Losing inches in hips but not much in a waist.

paja02

I don't eat process food, exercise 5-6 weeks per week, 10 000 steps every day, not sure what I'm doing wrong

lorib642

I don’t think you are doing anything wrong. I have abdominal fat. They tell me it can be the last. Unfortunately you can’t spot reduce. Keep up the great work! It will happen

wunderkindking

Yeah, your body just decides to lose where it loses from. Usually the first place you gain is the last place you lose. Just gotta keep going.

ninerbuff

Waist is probably the last to go and first to gain. NOT an uncommon issue with the majority of population.

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goal06082021

+1 to everything already said. Bodies gonna be how they do, you can't spot reduce, you're gonna look funny for a little while during this time of transition. Trust the process.

westrich20940

As everyone else said --- you're not doing anything wrong. You just can pick and choose where your body uses fat from. It does what it needs to and you're not in control of that.

Golferdrone

Take photos from all sides in front of a door or something and measurements? you could be losing back fat but you can’t see that in the mirror as easy

Golferdrone

Weekly on the photos and measurements

Beautyofdreams

Is there any chance that you could have an undiagnosed diastasis rectii? Men and women who have never been pregnant can also have this along with post pregnancy women. If you take a steroid, it tends to cause abdominal fat deposition. If you are post menopausal, the drop in estrogen causes fat deposition in the abdomen.
Depending on your build, you may have a large waist relative to your hips and bust. Do you participate in any resistance training? Depending on your body composition, you may have more fat to lose than you think. I have a normal bmi but still have a substantial amount of abdominal fat due to long term steroid use, and post menopausal. Am a normal bmi but still trying to lose weight to reduce my upper abdomen.

richardgavel

Also where a DEXA scan can provide some precision since it will identify where the fat is more specifically.

wunderkindking

The 'more fat to lose than you think' thing mentioned here is real. I'd have sworn I had almost all my extra weight in my stomach/didn't have anything to lose in other places.

I was wrong.

I was proportionally carrying MORE extra in my stomach and my basic shape then was what it is now (I'm very classically 'apple' shaped) but I had plenty of room to lose other places. I dropped 2 ring sizes, a shoe size, and 2 cup sizes along the way, too.

My BMI right now is 22.6. Still have a stomach. Just a stomach on a size 8 instead of size 18. Still have skinnier legs and arms than middle/torso. It just is what it is on that front.

kshama2001

While the "waist is probably the last to go" crowd are right, if you are a female with a uterus and haven't seen your GYN in a while, you should go just to rule things out. For example, I have an abnormally large uterus and thus abdomen due to uterine fibroids.