Back fat/muffin top!! HELPPPP .___. (contains slight nudity)
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justcat206 wrote: »If it helps, I've got a perennial muffin top - even at 95 lbs I had one. I just started buying higher-waisted clothes that accentuated my little waist and made my hips look curvy instead of lumpy. Honestly, vintage styles are coming back again so you can totally get away with the look if you want to try it. I did also start doing tons of squats and deadlifts and it's helped round out the glutes so I'm more balanced looking. Good luck!
Congrats on your loss thus far. I know its hard to hear, but the honest truth is you need a different style suit bottom and a larger size. That suit is not baggy. Sorry. You've gotten excellent suggestions on lifting while you continue to lose, and I've no doubt youll have great success since you've cone this far. You have a lovely hourglass shape.0 -
I'll just say this too, there is far too much fabric.0
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When you lose more weight, it will come off everywhere, including your problem areas. Just lose some more weight.
Buy clothes that fit. Those are a size or two too small.
If it's a suit, try a one-piece. That will smooth out and cover the problem areas.0 -
When you lose more weight, it will come off everywhere, including your problem areas. Just lose some more weight.
Buy clothes that fit. Those are a size or two too small.
If it's a suit, try a one-piece. That will smooth out and cover the problem areas.
^^Definitely this.
It will come off all over, trust me. You've already proven you can do it by losing 25 lbs, which is a serious chunk of fat.
What you'll be left with is your basic body shape, which may or may not change a whole lot, and you'll just have to try on lots of clothes to find out the styles that suit you best. Dress for how you are now, and love the body you have now. Before I lost weight, I had a cleavage to die for, and I loved it. Now I've lost weight, I'm pretty flat, but I love that too. I just wear different styles.
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Great job on the weight loss! I haven't read all the comments, but just wanted to say that I don't think it's the size of the suit that doesn't fit well, I think it's the *style* of that particular swimsuit bottom. That style doesn't flatter me either, never has, and I'm 114lbs. Maybe one with a fold down waist (like yoga-style, but on a swimsuit) or one that isn't such a low rise?
I also agree that continuing with weight loss will help shrink the muffin. Just keep on keepin' on, you'll get there.
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Great job on the weight loss! I haven't read all the comments, but just wanted to say that I don't think it's the size of the suit that doesn't fit well, I think it's the *style* of that particular swimsuit bottom. That style doesn't flatter me either, never has, and I'm 114lbs. Maybe one with a fold down waist (like yoga-style, but on a swimsuit) or one that isn't such a low rise?
I also agree that continuing with weight loss will help shrink the muffin. Just keep on keepin' on, you'll get there.
I was about to go crazy if I heard another "size is to small." If I would have took the picture from the side you would have saw the loose fabric. The swim suit is in fact the wrong style for my muffin top. Even in its proper placement on my body (not in the pictures, they go higher) They still make my love handles quite noticeable. So thank you I'll definitely try weights and yoga and some other stuff listed.
As for those I confused with my wording. I in fact do know that you can target fact. What I meant was exercises that target the muscles in that general area (my back) to help tone the muscle or "build muscle."
I did put swim suit a a bit lower to show my love handles without the swim suit getting in the way sorry for any confusion. I do know how to dress my body (well kinda haha,) I definitely wear mid to high rise jeans to flatter my curvy-ness
Thank you for all your guys help0 -
you just need to keep losing more weight.0
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I have an hour glass figure also, I always thought it was a good thing. Embrace it and be proud of the 25lbs you have lost, a little extra on the bottom... some people cant get that 0
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Honestly I don't think you need to loose any more weight , but I do think you need to hit the gym, or do home exercises to get toned. I'd advice squats, and I think there are beachbody programs that target middle section. Give them a look even on youtube and try out some exercises to see what works for you.0
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Anyway , in my opinion you did great , so well done for that , keep up the good work.0
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fitforlife7915 wrote: »Great job on the weight loss! I haven't read all the comments, but just wanted to say that I don't think it's the size of the suit that doesn't fit well, I think it's the *style* of that particular swimsuit bottom. That style doesn't flatter me either, never has, and I'm 114lbs. Maybe one with a fold down waist (like yoga-style, but on a swimsuit) or one that isn't such a low rise?
I also agree that continuing with weight loss will help shrink the muffin. Just keep on keepin' on, you'll get there.
I was about to go crazy if I heard another "size is to small." If I would have took the picture from the side you would have saw the loose fabric. The swim suit is in fact the wrong style for my muffin top. Even in its proper placement on my body (not in the pictures, they go higher) They still make my love handles quite noticeable. So thank you I'll definitely try weights and yoga and some other stuff listed.
As for those I confused with my wording. I in fact do know that you can target fact. What I meant was exercises that target the muscles in that general area (my back) to help tone the muscle or "build muscle."
I did put swim suit a a bit lower to show my love handles without the swim suit getting in the way sorry for any confusion. I do know how to dress my body (well kinda haha,) I definitely wear mid to high rise jeans to flatter my curvy-ness
Thank you for all your guys help
Lift heavy weights. Stronglifts 5X5 is your friend.0 -
JEEZ! I AM SHOCKED!
No. Not at your muffin top... at all these people who don't quite seem to understand....
I have the same muffin top. No your bikini isn't too small (I know)... when you move it you can still see the curve where the muffin top starts. This is just the shape of your body (and mine for that matter...)
I have good news and bad.
GOOD NEWS: I have got rid of mine before so there's hope!
BAD NEWS: It took me 3 months of diet and exercise with cardio & weight alternation routine.
I've attached a series of pics from the last time I worked on my weight issue so you can see the difference it made on me. (needless to say, I slacked off and am now more at the medium size of the pcs attached rather than the super slim I got to before!). Add me as a friend and we can try to motivate each other.
Hope this motivates a little xx
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dodgethepodge wrote: »JEEZ! I AM SHOCKED!
No. Not at your muffin top... at all these people who don't quite seem to understand....
I have the same muffin top. No your bikini isn't too small (I know)... when you move it you can still see the curve where the muffin top starts. This is just the shape of your body (and mine for that matter...)
I have good news and bad.
GOOD NEWS: I have got rid of mine before so there's hope!
BAD NEWS: It took me 3 months of diet and exercise with cardio & weight alternation routine.
I've attached a series of pics from the last time I worked on my weight issue so you can see the difference it made on me. (needless to say, I slacked off and am now more at the medium size of the pcs attached rather than the super slim I got to before!). Add me as a friend and we can try to motivate each other.
Hope this motivates a little xx
That's not muffin top.0 -
That bathing suit is not doing you any favors.
You admit you haven't weighed in a while - I assume you're not tracking, either? If you expect to lose fat, you need to work to lose said fat.0 -
Nope sure isn't.dodgethepodge wrote: »JEEZ! I AM SHOCKED!
No. Not at your muffin top... at all these people who don't quite seem to understand....
I have the same muffin top. No your bikini isn't too small (I know)... when you move it you can still see the curve where the muffin top starts. This is just the shape of your body (and mine for that matter...)
I have good news and bad.
GOOD NEWS: I have got rid of mine before so there's hope!
BAD NEWS: It took me 3 months of diet and exercise with cardio & weight alternation routine.
I've attached a series of pics from the last time I worked on my weight issue so you can see the difference it made on me. (needless to say, I slacked off and am now more at the medium size of the pcs attached rather than the super slim I got to before!). Add me as a friend and we can try to motivate each other.
Hope this motivates a little xx
That's not muffin top.
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Bullcrap about the spot reducing. If you build muscle in a small specific area, the fat will be reduced in that area. I've seen it on friends, massage clients (where I have looked at and touched their naked bodies over long periods of time), and on my own body over the years with very specific, spot-reducing results.
I have M.S., and there was a time in my life where I lost coordination and strength in certain parts of my body, and the size and shape of those parts definitely changed (regardless of my weight) when I didn't work them. I've also seen the size of my legs reduced inconsistently with the size of my arms during years where I was a school teacher compared to when I did constant upper body work as a massage therapist. The actions performed over long periods had a direct effect on the shape of specific parts of my body with no difference in overall weight or BF%. Here's the sum of it: same overall BF, different shape of legs, butt, or arms for each period of life directly related to activities performed.
These kids see something on the internet or hear it from some athletic coach with no formal education, some 6-month certificate in personal training, no science background, having no idea what scholar.google.com is, or where their local library is located, and they quote it as absolute fact. Just look up some good exercises for the areas you're especially interested in toning, and put some muscle there. There's a reason you can see 95 pound women with pooches, and 180 pound women with toned thighs, and smoother bellies. Also, don't listen to these men who've been bullying you on here about losing more fat. They are vain, inconsiderate, and probably insecure about their personality and penis size. Your body is where half the women in America want theirs to be. -2 -
OP can do as many exercises as she wants to rid the love handles, but you cannot spot reduce. She can strengthen those muscles, but it will have no impact on the fat stored there.Alicebriana wrote: »Bullcrap about the spot reducing. If you build muscle in a small specific area, the fat will be reduced in that area. I've seen it on friends, massage clients (where I have looked at and touched their naked bodies over long periods of time), and on my own body over the years with very specific, spot-reducing results.
I have M.S., and there was a time in my life where I lost coordination and strength in certain parts of my body, and the size and shape of those parts definitely changed (regardless of my weight) when I didn't work them. I've also seen the size of my legs reduced inconsistently with the size of my arms during years where I was a school teacher compared to when I did constant upper body work as a massage therapist. The actions performed over long periods had a direct effect on the shape of specific parts of my body with no difference in overall weight or BF%. Here's the sum of it: same overall BF, different shape of legs, butt, or arms for each period of life directly related to activities performed.
These kids see something on the internet or hear it from some athletic coach with no formal education, some 6-month certificate in personal training, no science background, having no idea what scholar.google.com is, or where their local library is located, and they quote it as absolute fact. Just look up some good exercises for the areas you're especially interested in toning, and put some muscle there. There's a reason you can see 95 pound women with pooches, and 180 pound women with toned thighs, and smoother bellies. Also, don't listen to these men who've been bullying you on here about losing more fat. They are vain, inconsiderate, and probably insecure about their personality and penis size. Your body is where half the women in America want theirs to be.
She needs to continue to eat in a caloric deficit. You cannot tell fat where to come off first. It doesn't work like that.
As for the 95 lb woman with flab vs the 180 lb woman with toned legs....well that is about genetics and bf%0 -
Alicebriana wrote: »Bullcrap about the spot reducing. If you build muscle in a small specific area, the fat will be reduced in that area. I've seen it on friends, massage clients (where I have looked at and touched their naked bodies over long periods of time), and on my own body over the years with very specific, spot-reducing results.
I have M.S., and there was a time in my life where I lost coordination and strength in certain parts of my body, and the size and shape of those parts definitely changed (regardless of my weight) when I didn't work them. I've also seen the size of my legs reduced inconsistently with the size of my arms during years where I was a school teacher compared to when I did constant upper body work as a massage therapist. The actions performed over long periods had a direct effect on the shape of specific parts of my body with no difference in overall weight or BF%. Here's the sum of it: same overall BF, different shape of legs, butt, or arms for each period of life directly related to activities performed.
These kids see something on the internet or hear it from some athletic coach with no formal education, some 6-month certificate in personal training, no science background, having no idea what scholar.google.com is, or where their local library is located, and they quote it as absolute fact. Just look up some good exercises for the areas you're especially interested in toning, and put some muscle there. There's a reason you can see 95 pound women with pooches, and 180 pound women with toned thighs, and smoother bellies. Also, don't listen to these men who've been bullying you on here about losing more fat. They are vain, inconsiderate, and probably insecure about their personality and penis size. Your body is where half the women in America want theirs to be.
Your first two sentences are wrong.
And wtf 'these kids"? And wtf 'these men'? Also, lol at the last paragraph. Do you have years of personal training experience with a science background? If you are so good at using google scholar, can you cite some studies that indicate that you can spot reduce? Thanks!
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Alicebriana wrote: »Bullcrap about the spot reducing. If you build muscle in a small specific area, the fat will be reduced in that area. I've seen it on friends, massage clients (where I have looked at and touched their naked bodies over long periods of time), and on my own body over the years with very specific, spot-reducing results.
I have M.S., and there was a time in my life where I lost coordination and strength in certain parts of my body, and the size and shape of those parts definitely changed (regardless of my weight) when I didn't work them. I've also seen the size of my legs reduced inconsistently with the size of my arms during years where I was a school teacher compared to when I did constant upper body work as a massage therapist. The actions performed over long periods had a direct effect on the shape of specific parts of my body with no difference in overall weight or BF%. Here's the sum of it: same overall BF, different shape of legs, butt, or arms for each period of life directly related to activities performed.
These kids see something on the internet or hear it from some athletic coach with no formal education, some 6-month certificate in personal training, no science background, having no idea what scholar.google.com is, or where their local library is located, and they quote it as absolute fact. Just look up some good exercises for the areas you're especially interested in toning, and put some muscle there. There's a reason you can see 95 pound women with pooches, and 180 pound women with toned thighs, and smoother bellies. Also, don't listen to these men who've been bullying you on here about losing more fat. They are vain, inconsiderate, and probably insecure about their personality and penis size. Your body is where half the women in America want theirs to be.
Strong first post :huh:0 -
OP: stick to a reasonable caloric deficit to lose the extra fat (which cannot be targeted) and to build muscle in your butt/lower back - hip thrusts, deadlifts and squats will probably give you most bang for your buck - if you are new to lifting, you will be able to make some 'newbie' gains. Look into Brett Contreras' Strong Curves.0
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I know people keep telling you to buy a size that fits. I understand your predicament. If you go with a larger size it will be saggy in the booty, am I right? I have that problem too. Unfortunately you can't spot reduce. I carry a lot of my excess weight in my "flank" area too. I have done a lot of research & the only thing you can do is reduce body fat & increase lean body mass. Lift more weights, do moderate cardio, eat well. I am working on it also but I have seen a lot of progress from following what I posted above. Good luck to you. You're looking great & congrats on the weight loss so far 0
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Squats, lunges and a calorie deficit.....Oh, and definitely a size bigger swimsuit...0
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For the rude person:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16985258
Yay, spot reduction is possible...rejoicing commenced....err, hang on..
"Although clearly local exercise did impact on fat cell lipolysis and blood flow, you might note something I left out of the above discussion: the actual quantitative impact of this. That is, how much extra fat was actually mobilized for fuel, potentially to be burned off.
Addressing that very thing, based on the measured changes in blood flow and lipolysis, the researchers estimate that, in 30 minutes of local exercise, an additional .6-2.1 milligrams (one milligram is one thousandth of a gram) per 100 grams of adipose tissue adjacent to contracting muscle was mobilized.
Let me put that in context. First let’s assume that you’re carrying a whopping 5 kg (11.1 pounds) of fat in a specific area.
If local exercise can mobilize 0.6-2.1 milligrams of fat per 100 grams of fat mass, that works out to:
0.6-2.1 mg/100 grams * 1000 grams/kg * 5 kg = 30-105 milligrams of fat.
Or 0.03-0.1 gram of extra fat mobilized in 30 minutes of activity.
Now, a single pound of fat (0.454 kg) contains about 400 grams of fat so our hypothetical 11.1 pounds of fat contains 4,440 grams of fat. And 30 minutes of local activity mobilized at most 0.1 gram of fat. Whoo hoo. You’ll be ripped in about 1000 years."
"And, so far as I’m concerned, that should be the death knell for the idea of spot reduction. Yes, there appears to be an effect whereby working a given muscle impacts on local fat cell metabolism but the effect is completely and utterly irrelevant in quantititive terms. The amount of fat mobilized due to increased hormones or blood flow is simply insignificant to anything in the real world.
There is also the fact that, compared to something like full body cardio types of activities, local single muscle group activities burn tiny amounts of calories. Doing cardio for 30 minutes at even a reasonable caloric burn of 5 cal/minute (very easy) burns 150 calories. If you get say 90% fat utilization for fuel, you’ve burned 15 grams of fat. Compared to the 0.1 gram you might mobilize doing crunches or leg lifts."
The quotes above are from Lyle Macdonald...full article can be found in the link below.
http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/research-review/are-blood-flow-and-lipolysis-in-subcutaneous-adipose-tissue-influenced-by-contractions-in-adjacent-muscle-in-humans-research-review.html/
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Nope sure isn't.dodgethepodge wrote: »JEEZ! I AM SHOCKED!
No. Not at your muffin top... at all these people who don't quite seem to understand....
I have the same muffin top. No your bikini isn't too small (I know)... when you move it you can still see the curve where the muffin top starts. This is just the shape of your body (and mine for that matter...)
I have good news and bad.
GOOD NEWS: I have got rid of mine before so there's hope!
BAD NEWS: It took me 3 months of diet and exercise with cardio & weight alternation routine.
I've attached a series of pics from the last time I worked on my weight issue so you can see the difference it made on me. (needless to say, I slacked off and am now more at the medium size of the pcs attached rather than the super slim I got to before!). Add me as a friend and we can try to motivate each other.
Hope this motivates a little xx
That's not muffin top.
but... you just don't know!
Sara, well, to play the devil's advocate card... it *is* possible, but involves paying a pound of flesh, quite literally. Lipo.0 -
You are what is called a "violin shape" or "8 shape". An apple tends to store fat mostly around the middle/higher belly, which is not the case for you. This shape tends to have higher hip bones and tends to store fat around lower back and lower belly. Short of losing more fat there is not much you can do about this.
You could also work your butt and thighs to increase their size which balances out your look. Try dressing more appropriately for that shape if you do not like the way it looks. I'm a violin shape as well, and I personally think it rocks!0 -
You don't get to choose where it comes from.
We pay for clothes to make is look good, not the other way around.0 -
Hi there, well done with the weight loss. I know it is not easy and so disappointing when you don't end up looking and feeling the way you want to. The good and trusty aerobics helped me to muscle tone my problem areas but at the end of the day, there are no quick or easy solutions to offer you but just wanted to say ' well done'. (*)0
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