How does your fat under your skin feel?

elphie754 · January 2015

This is kind of an awkward question. As I've been losing weight I've noticed that my fat feels like rice under the skin. It's mostly my arms. The skin visually looks smooth but if I run my hand over it it feels like rice.

It actually started in my breasts so I was at first worried it could have been subcutaneous emphysema. I went to my MD and had a chest x-ray and it was good. Since then though more and more of body feels this way.

Has anyone else experienced that?

Sued0nim · January 2015

Squishy fat ...it's a good sign and transitional

bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/of-whooshes-and-squishy-fat.html/

tomatoey · January 2015

It's a thing. I had that when I lost 50 lbs, and I can't say it changed much from that 'ricey' feeling through 4 years of maintenance.

The only stuff I've been able to find about it comes back to this article:

(See also )

Some MFPers' experiences

nwright77 · January 2015

Suprisingly yes! Around my belly area you'd think it was your intestines LOL. It never used to feel like that, mainly because all I would get was a roll of fat.

elphie754 · January 2015

rabbitjb wrote: »

Squishy fat ...it's a good sign and transitional

bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/of-whooshes-and-squishy-fat.html/

Thank you for the link. It is more hard than squishy but it sounds similar.

nwright77 wrote: »

Suprisingly yes! Around my belly area you'd think it was your intestines LOL. It never used to feel like that, mainly because all I would get was a roll of fat.

Lol same here. All my fat used to feel kind of hard.

noelkm67 · January 2015

This is an interesting topic. Mine feels like small hard pellets about the size of green peas.

How does your fat under your skin feel?

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