I have lower stomach fat even though I'm thin??

Then that's the last place you still have body fat and when you lower your body fat even more that will be gone. You can just eat less fat and diet down to that point. Or you can alter your fat to muscle ratio by increasing your muscle mass. I think there's a way to do that. Might wanna ask around.

Then that's the last place you still have body fat and when you lower your body fat even more that will be gone. You can just eat less fat and diet down to that point. Or you can alter your fat to muscle ratio by increasing your muscle mass. I think there's a way to do that. Might wanna ask around.

MIght wanna do some research when recommending eating less and dieting to someone who is already undereating, and then in the same post recommending increasing muscle mass, which would require OP to eat MORE and do strength training. Which, if you'd read the entire thread, is what most of us have been telling her to do all along.

Brad that's interesting. About 5 years ago I was on the Tom Venuto BFFM kick... I was in a simple caloric deficit and I was doing well... I found that I had to seriously lose weight before my love handles and belly were affected... I was also on some OPC-3's and other vascular enhancing vitamins(Which I haven't taken in about 2 years) and I didn't think they were that important... But now that you bring up blood-flow it makes perfect sense that those were my most successful fat burning days... My blood flow was great, I had popping veins and could easily tell it was improved.

The problem is that for me losing weight meant looking gaunt and a little sickly to be honest. I would frequently be told that I was too skinny and that I had taken it too far... But I was eating and I was working out and I felt great. I went from 22% BF to 14% but I was 173 pounds and 6'1...

So the lesson here is to just stick with your dieting and training and perhaps try to enhance your vascular system to enhance your fat burning.

Thanks!

Please reference earlier post with "DO NOT DUMB HERE" sign.

Man, people are feisty on this board...

Word up, Erik.

I assume when you talk about vascularity enhancing vitamins, you mean a supplement meant to enhance blood flow to skeletal muscle, like citrulline-malate or the like.

Keep in mind that (as I mentioned in a previous post), that blood flow to your muscles and blood flow to adipose tissue are not the same, so having a "pump" during a workout doesn't necessarily mean you're going to see better fat burning as a result, nor would taking a supplement that induces a pump independent of your workout window aid in that regard.

The point is, there isn't really a way to enhance blood flow to adipose tissue or to decrease insulin sensitivity (another factor in stubborn fat retention), so it's going to be a matter of patience regardless. What we don't want to see is someone continuing to reduce their calories in an attempt to eliminate a pocket of fat at the expense of their LBM (lean body mass) and their general health.

I won't broach the topic of leptin, except to say that this is another powerful component in losing that last bit of fat and going too low in your caloric intake is sure to reduce the amount of this (fat-burning) hormone that your body is producing.

Sorry, I kind of wandered a bit there.

Thank you everyone for replying.
By full body strenght i mean a workout like this:
http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/92/38/34/923834691ecc6033fd2d2f7414af9e5d.jpg
Abs:
http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/6d/e0/80/6de080c9ee149f884138151437d31c7d.jpg
Arms:
- Bicep curls
- Tricep dips
etc.

So here's what I have to do to lose the weight:
- Eat more (preferably protein)
- Less cardio and more strenght (lifting heavy weights with low reps)

Am I right?