what does skinny fat look like?

Here some tips to become skinny-fat:

1. Eat a Vegan Diet – If you don’t want to eat any meat, your body will just eat you instead. Unfortunately it’s on a low fat diet in this case.

2. Do lots of cardio – Training your body to be catabolic, breaking down muscle and to store fat is great if you want that “I used to be 300 lbs until I got sick” look.

3. Take lots of thermogenic fat burners – Nothing like turning up the furnace while the windows are open. The room might get warmer, but the bill in the end is never pleasant. Thermogenic maybe be short term fat burners, but in the long run they are more muscle burners and long term fat storers.

4. Go on a low calorie starvation diet – The HCG diet is a great examples. It’s like paying for the experience of a prison camp without making any new undesirable friends.

5. Join weight watchers – Obviously the only point these people haven’t gotten is that if you want to be healthy you should eat a healthy diet and exercise. Is there an app for that?

6. Take a spin class – Did you know spinning classes actually increase lower body fat. Do enough of them and you might slim your waist after you have completely fried your adrenals, but by then you will be sports some major cottage cheese thighs.

7. Never pick up a weight ever – I’m serious, it will make you so huge you will have to walk sideways down the hall to your office. Ok not really, but you know that age old testament, if you don’t use it you lose it. Well it’s pretty accurate when it comes to muscle tissue. If you don’t want to be Skeletor for next Halloween, then you might start moving some iron.

8. Skip meals – Skipping meals is like training for fat storage. The more you go without proper nutrition the more you tell you body to store fat for these long breaks.

9. Eat lots of Gluten – Nothing says lose muscle and store fat like a highly inflammatory food that depletes your body of vital nutrients and damages your digestive tract making it harder for you to get nutrients from the rest of your diet.

Seriously? And what are your credentials? Cycling makes you skinny fat? What a joke. The people I cycle with are anything BUT skinny fat. Please stop bashing what you clearly don't know.

This is me. This is what skinny fat looks like & I hate it! Trying to get rid of it. I am probably the textbook definition.

You look great.

You aren't skinny fat. Looking at your picture, I'd guess about 25% bf (dangerous to guess)
Skinny fat is 35%bf or higher for someone with a BMI in the "normal" range.

Good luck onyour goals! Please understand that your body is normal and fine - you can go for more fit look, if that is what you want. But let go the hate.

Yes, this. Don't mistake "I'm not at my goal yet" for something "there's something wrong with me."

Yes, I've been guessed to b 25% But I'm 5'4 3/4 119lb. That is a bit too high of a BF% for my height & weight I would think. In a few more lbs I'll almost be underweight I hope by that point I can be 20% so I can bulk, but idk if it will happen. Once I posted with my pictures on here & people called me the definition of skinny fat.

Nnnnnnnooooooooooooooo don't do what I did. I waited until I was 5'7 and 120lbs before I started 'bulking' and as you can see on page 5 in the pictures on the left I had like no muscle so I had to gain 10lbs in hope of acquiring some muscle mass back and so I'm packing on the fat again. Back up to about 20%BF now. Some day, I well have that line down my stomach...it was the vaguest thing ever and I was about 17% BF. Retain the muscle you have now *creepy voice while rattling weights* train now.

This is me. This is what skinny fat looks like & I hate it! Trying to get rid of it. I am probably the textbook definition.

You look great.

You aren't skinny fat. Looking at your picture, I'd guess about 25% bf (dangerous to guess)
Skinny fat is 35%bf or higher for someone with a BMI in the "normal" range.

Good luck onyour goals! Please understand that your body is normal and fine - you can go for more fit look, if that is what you want. But let go the hate.

Yes, this. Don't mistake "I'm not at my goal yet" for something "there's something wrong with me."

Yes, I've been guessed to b 25% But I'm 5'4 3/4 119lb. That is a bit too high of a BF% for my height & weight I would think. In a few more lbs I'll almost be underweight I hope by that point I can be 20% so I can bulk, but idk if it will happen. Once I posted with my pictures on here & people called me the definition of skinny fat.

Nnnnnnnooooooooooooooo don't do what I did. I waited until I was 5'7 and 120lbs before I started 'bulking' and as you can see on page 5 in the pictures on the left I had like no muscle so I had to gain 10lbs in hope of acquiring some muscle mass back and so I'm packing on the fat again. Back up to about 20%BF now. Some day, I well have that line down my stomach...it was the vaguest thing ever and I was about 17% BF. Retain the muscle you have now *creepy voice while rattling weights* train now.

I lift weights on a small deficit now, so I think I"m maintaining MOST of my muscle. I know not all of it. But it's not recommended to bulk at 25% BF.

This is me. This is what skinny fat looks like & I hate it! Trying to get rid of it. I am probably the textbook definition.

You look great.

You aren't skinny fat. Looking at your picture, I'd guess about 25% bf (dangerous to guess)
Skinny fat is 35%bf or higher for someone with a BMI in the "normal" range.

Good luck onyour goals! Please understand that your body is normal and fine - you can go for more fit look, if that is what you want. But let go the hate.

You would have to have a very slight build to be 35+% BF and still be in "normal" BMI. Normal BMI cutoff for my height is 191. In order to be more than 35% body fat at 191, I'd have to weigh 124 pounds. My LBM is 150ish.

This is me. This is what skinny fat looks like & I hate it! Trying to get rid of it. I am probably the textbook definition.

You look great.

You aren't skinny fat. Looking at your picture, I'd guess about 25% bf (dangerous to guess)
Skinny fat is 35%bf or higher for someone with a BMI in the "normal" range.

Good luck onyour goals! Please understand that your body is normal and fine - you can go for more fit look, if that is what you want. But let go the hate.

You would have to have a very slight build to be 35+% BF and still be in "normal" BMI. Normal BMI cutoff for my height is 191. In order to be more than 35% body fat at 191, I'd have to weigh 124 pounds. My LBM is 150ish.

the thing a being skinny fat is having very low LBM

I understand that, but as a 5'7" male, 124 pounds LBM would require a ridiculously small amount of muscle, The only men I see like that are usually ill, and don't have much fat on them, besides.

This is me. This is what skinny fat looks like & I hate it! Trying to get rid of it. I am probably the textbook definition.

You look great.

You aren't skinny fat. Looking at your picture, I'd guess about 25% bf (dangerous to guess)
Skinny fat is 35%bf or higher for someone with a BMI in the "normal" range.

Good luck onyour goals! Please understand that your body is normal and fine - you can go for more fit look, if that is what you want. But let go the hate.

You would have to have a very slight build to be 35+% BF and still be in "normal" BMI. Normal BMI cutoff for my height is 191. In order to be more than 35% body fat at 191, I'd have to weigh 124 pounds. My LBM is 150ish.

the thing a being skinny fat is having very low LBM

I understand that, but as a 5'7" male, 124 pounds LBM would require a ridiculously small amount of muscle, The only men I see like that are usually ill, and don't have much fat on them, besides.

Thinking about it more, I guess it could happen, with a different body type than my own; perhaps I'm just trying to picture myself looking like that. I wouldn't think it is very common, though.

It would definitely be easier for a woman, too, since they are naturally higher in bodyfat% and less in muscle%. Perhaps 35% is not the cutoff for men.

I think it's much more common in women

Damn I used to look good-



5'3, 135 pounds, 32% body fat. Size 6-8

Eta: this is really embarrassing to see... =\. Even my face was fat.....

Damn I used to look good-



5'3, 135 pounds, 32% body fat. Size 6-8

Eta: this is really embarrassing to see... =\. Even my face was fat.....

Hmm. I'd say you are closer to 27% body fat than 32% which would give a LBM of 98.5 lbs vs 92 lbs.

This is me. This is what skinny fat looks like & I hate it! Trying to get rid of it. I am probably the textbook definition.

You look great.

You aren't skinny fat. Looking at your picture, I'd guess about 25% bf (dangerous to guess)
Skinny fat is 35%bf or higher for someone with a BMI in the "normal" range.

Good luck onyour goals! Please understand that your body is normal and fine - you can go for more fit look, if that is what you want. But let go the hate.

You would have to have a very slight build to be 35+% BF and still be in "normal" BMI. Normal BMI cutoff for my height is 191. In order to be more than 35% body fat at 191, I'd have to weigh 124 pounds. My LBM is 150ish.

the thing a being skinny fat is having very low LBM

I understand that, but as a 5'7" male, 124 pounds LBM would require a ridiculously small amount of muscle, The only men I see like that are usually ill, and don't have much fat on them, besides.

Thinking about it more, I guess it could happen, with a different body type than my own; perhaps I'm just trying to picture myself looking like that. I wouldn't think it is very common, though.

It would definitely be easier for a woman, too, since they are naturally higher in bodyfat% and less in muscle%. Perhaps 35% is not the cutoff for men.