Where does your body store fat?

Barrera1010
Barrera1010 Posts: 58 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Genetics play a huge role on where each individual stores fat. Where do you gain? Are there any strategies to "spot" reduce?
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  • JaydedMiss
    JaydedMiss Posts: 4,286 Member
    edited August 2018
    Barrera1010 wrote: »
    I've noticed women store around the hips and thighs, upper arms as well.

    ya. i fooled myself i wasnt that fat because i had a thin waist/ribcage and an hourglass shape but really it was because i held a ton of weight in my upper arms and hid with my hair and cropped out of pictures xD Yay for denial

    edit: notice how my arms are hidden even in my profile pic xD mix of old habits and the fact i have alot of loose skin so never really stopped hiding them lol
  • DisneyDude85
    DisneyDude85 Posts: 428 Member
    Waist and chest.
  • VUA21
    VUA21 Posts: 2,072 Member
    Butt and thighs. I have the definite "Latina" build. Butt and thighs hold on to fat for dear life, my stomach and basically entire upper half...nope, that went away first.
  • AllOutof_Bubblegum
    AllOutof_Bubblegum Posts: 3,646 Member
    Inner thighs. Even when I stepped on stage at 7% body fat, they still rubbed together. :s
  • sardelsa
    sardelsa Posts: 9,812 Member
    Legs and underbutt for me.
  • GOT_Obsessed
    GOT_Obsessed Posts: 817 Member
    edited August 2018
    Lower belly and hips for sure.

    (I am genetically Romanian and Ukrainian if that makes any difference)
  • ColoradoChlo
    ColoradoChlo Posts: 517 Member
    thighs first and lower waist
  • manderson27
    manderson27 Posts: 3,510 Member
    Hold it pretty much all around my middle (apple shape) Lose first on my legs and chest. The last time I lost a significant amount I was able to lift weights so that helped a lot with strengthening my core which pulled it in a bit. Took getting down by 30 lbs before a really noticeable difference around my middle.

    I will never be an hourglass :'(
  • nooshi713
    nooshi713 Posts: 4,877 Member
    A little all over. My last place to lean out is my thighs and belly.
  • CassieJones104
    CassieJones104 Posts: 76 Member
    Butt, hips and thighs!
  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,343 Member
    1) Google "android vs. gynoid fat distribution".

    2) No, spot reduction is not possible.
  • whitpauly
    whitpauly Posts: 1,483 Member
    ColoradoChlo wrote: »
    thighs first and lower waist

    Me too :'(
  • MaxT370
    MaxT370 Posts: 274 Member
    Thighs, hips and upper arms. But my backside is the first to go when I lose.
  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    Stomach. I have atypical fat distribution for a woman. My legs lean out first.
  • margbarco
    margbarco Posts: 128 Member
    Belly.
    The unhealthiest area :(
  • DebTavares
    DebTavares Posts: 87 Member
    Unfortunately it's the stomach for me and face. I have strong calf muscles that are a bit too big, but thighs look really good. I don't have cellulite on my legs like some women so I would say considering all of these things I gain like a male shape kind of.
  • Talan79
    Talan79 Posts: 782 Member
    Hips, thighs, lower stomach.
  • BigRed2525
    BigRed2525 Posts: 45 Member
    Evenly enough to where slight gains are hard to notice, with an emphasis on hips/thighs. I tend to lose first in my waist, face, and fingers.
  • squeaker87
    squeaker87 Posts: 82 Member
    Is “everywhere” a valid answer?

    But seriously, even when I was smaller (that one time before my wedding) I still had big thighs.
  • mph323
    mph323 Posts: 3,565 Member
    Every ounce of my remaining fat is draped around my middle. :(
  • middlehaitch
    middlehaitch Posts: 8,486 Member
    edited August 2018
    mph323 wrote: »
    Every ounce of my remaining fat is draped around my middle. :(

    Some days I think we are twins, h.
  • MsHarryWinston
    MsHarryWinston Posts: 1,027 Member
    I always feel like I hold a lot of it in my stomach and that my tummy is the last to go. But when I look at my numbers and shape objectively it’s all pretty evenly distributed and all shrinks together at a fairly steady rate. So, big or small there’s always a 10-11” difference between my hips and waist, and my waist and bust. My proportions are the same, it just gets easier or harder to tell by looking depending on how heavy I am. But even though I’m an hourglass, I do still carry weight on my stomach, so from the side view my tummy feels very large to me. Eventually it will shrink down flat as well and I’ll be fully defined, but it’s a total mind trip of an optical illusion.
  • amusedmonkey
    amusedmonkey Posts: 10,330 Member
    edited August 2018
    Everywhere. My body doesn't discriminate. Slightly more in the lower half and slightly less in the upper stomach. I don't lose/gain evenly, though. I go through phases of certain parts being bigger than others and I've been every shape classification I've ever encountered so there is no telling what my "final form" will be.
  • jdubois5351
    jdubois5351 Posts: 460 Member
    Everywhere, so that a slight gain isn't very noticeable. Right now, when I've already lost about 20 lbs, most of it is in my a s s and my thighs. My top half looks great already, my lower half hasn't caught up yet.
  • SabAteNine
    SabAteNine Posts: 1,867 Member
    Lower half. It's like welcome to slowly with it. The upper half got the loss memo pretty fast, with the cup size going out the window first, followed by the flab on the arms. But the thighs, underbutt, and those little pockets inside and behind the knee, they're #resisting.
  • robot_potato
    robot_potato Posts: 1,535 Member
    Chest, thighs and butt.
    I may have to get down to my birth weight before I can buy a bra at a regular store.
  • hipari
    hipari Posts: 1,367 Member
    Every place between my ribcage and mid-thigh. Also my boobs, but since my non-boob chest area and back don't store much fat (I've always been able to see collarbones and lower ribs stick out despite being obese), so I haven't really attributed the boobs to fat storage as much as just having big boobs.
  • Barrera1010
    Barrera1010 Posts: 58 Member

    JaydedMiss wrote: »
    Barrera1010 wrote: »
    I've noticed women store around the hips and thighs, upper arms as well.

    ya. i fooled myself i wasnt that fat because i had a thin waist/ribcage and an hourglass shape but really it was because i held a ton of weight in my upper arms and hid with my hair and cropped out of pictures xD Yay for denial

    edit: notice how my arms are hidden even in my profile pic xD mix of old habits and the fact i have alot of loose skin so never really stopped hiding them lol


    Honestly, I would have never noticed. We blow things up out of proportion sometimes.

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