Belly fat last to go!??

I can tell that I'm losing weight all over, but my belly won't seem to budge! Just seeing who else's belly fat doesn't seem to be going away!!?:grumble: :grumble: :mad:

The fat deposits that are the most recent are the easiest to lose. This is a sad reality I've accepted also. The first place I started to gain (when I was a KID) was on my belly. So I know that stubborn abdominal fat will hang on with a death grip until the last days. It helps to keep measurements of other areas so you can see improvements beyond your own personal "problem" area(s).

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Sadly it's true. The technical reason of why this happens is based on what PH said.

As you accumulate fat, the fat is stored in certain places on your body, the longer that fat hangs around, the more compressed it will become. Also the further from blood flow it is, the harder it will be to lose. I know, your asking "then why is it stored there?" Well way back when, when we walked on 4 legs, this wasn't the case, and although our body evolved, the fat locations really didn't. As fat gets "older" it compresses, get's firmer, and there is less space between each fat deposit, blood vessels shift to less dense areas that are more in need of blood flow (fat doesn't really need anything so blood flow isn't really necessary). Unfortunately, the only way to get fat from the deposits to the places energy is needed, is to use the blood flow. Add this to the fact that the body is an efficiency engine, and you get stubborn fat deposits. See the body will grab energy on a "just in time" basis, and if it takes too long to grab the energy from the fat, the body will start pulling it from more accessible locations. Eventually, it will come off, if you continue to work hard, but it will just take a lot longer then other places. It can take months, or even years to work this off. The longer you have had significant "belly fat" the harder it is to remove.
this is the reason why someone who has recently "become" overweight can usually get rid of it quicker. It's also why people who are extremely overweight can lose their initial weight quick. With the amount of fat they have, much of it tends to be close to blood flow, making it easy for the body to grab the energy stored in it.