Areas of Fat Loss

etherealanwar
etherealanwar Posts: 465 Member
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Which area(s) did you long to lose weight from first? What sequence did your body actually lose the fat?

At the beginning I really wanted to lose weight from my face as it had ballooned up and I barely recognized myself. Thankfully I did lose noticeable weight from there first! Secondly, I wanted to lose weight off my midsection/belly area...and I suppose this time around I was not lucky enough and it appears now that I am nearing goal that this is the LAST place I lose from, haha. I guess you can't have everything!

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  • nighthawk584
    nighthawk584 Posts: 2,024 Member
    The area I most longed to lose weight, my moobs! haha but it is the slowest coming off! 1st to come off was face , then arms & legs and now slowly but surely , stomach fat, back fat, armpit fat and moobs!
  • RFC2549
    RFC2549 Posts: 14 Member
    It tends to come off where it last came on and come on where it last came off. Face and upper body seem to be common starting areas.
  • NovusDies
    NovusDies Posts: 8,940 Member
    You can lose weight from anywhere from literally the top of your head to your feet. It has been my experience that weight comes off in waves that are probably determined by genetics and the total amount you have to lose. I have been losing for 20 months and a wave of loss hit my face and upper chest area late summer of last year. Then it appeared to stay about the same until the spring of this year when I lost another round there.

    It can make clothing a fun challenge because I have gone down 2 sizes in less than 4 weeks because of how the fat was coming off. I could then stay in the same size while it just got slightly baggier for a long time afterwards.
  • missysippy930
    missysippy930 Posts: 2,577 Member
    Face, hands and feet first. Stomach area I lose fast too. Now, it’s coming off from all over.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    extremities, limbs, neck, face...gut was the last to go. The mid section is primary fat stores for most men and many women...primary fat stores are a first on, last off proposition.
  • Terytha
    Terytha Posts: 2,097 Member
    Legs, face and back first. And, honestly, not really anywhere else yet.
  • riffraff2112
    riffraff2112 Posts: 1,756 Member
    stomach and face are usually the first, hips and butt usually the last. My thighs....never.
  • etherealanwar
    etherealanwar Posts: 465 Member
    lgfrie wrote: »
    It looks like I've had a different experience so far than other posters. Most of my weight has come right off my stomach/gut, and secondarily, my arms. But mainly stomach. No huge changes anywhere else yet.

    60-ish pounds:


    That would be a total win in my books.
  • ellie117
    ellie117 Posts: 293 Member
    My chest is usually first :/ and also thankfully my face area. My first to put on and last to lose is my thigh/hip area. It's so frustrating as my waist gets smaller but my hips stay wide so clothes are so hard to fit well.
  • tamtam_nc
    tamtam_nc Posts: 3 Member
    ellie117 wrote: »
    My chest is usually first :/ and also thankfully my face area. My first to put on and last to lose is my thigh/hip area. It's so frustrating as my waist gets smaller but my hips stay wide so clothes are so hard to fit well.

    same girl, same
  • spiriteagle99
    spiriteagle99 Posts: 3,750 Member
    I lose weight in my breasts first, then back then arms. Last is where I would most like to lose weight - thighs. My upper body is very skinny/bony, lower body not so much.
  • Shortgirlrunning
    Shortgirlrunning Posts: 1,020 Member
    I feel like I lost pretty evenly all over my body but maybe from my butt the fastest/soonest. Stomach fat seems to be the slowest to come off but my arm fat is what I hate the absolute most and am most critical about when I look in the mirror.
  • nooshi713
    nooshi713 Posts: 4,877 Member
    I wanted to lose weight from my face and abdomen. I did lose the face weight first and some tummy fat. The last place I lose from is my legs. I can be skinny everywhere and still have thicker legs.
  • LeiLaura
    LeiLaura Posts: 238 Member
    Sharon_C wrote: »
    I seemed to have lost all of my weight in my legs. My legs!!! What a bummer. Now they're really thin but I still have the back fat that will. Not. Go. Away. :D

    It is what it is, I guess

    This is me, too. My leggings are getting baggier by the week, but they're still snug around my tummy because it WILL NOT SHIFT! I never even thought of my legs as fat in the first place :neutral:
  • gcminton
    gcminton Posts: 170 Member
    So far the loss has, unfortunately, been pretty even. I just loooooooove continuing to have my bust, hips and waist have almost exactly the same measurements. Not! My belly is definitely going to keep annoying me. EVERYWHERE else fits into the same size clothing, but that belly insists that my shirts or dresses be a full 1-2 sizes larger. Ugh.

    I remember as a kid, when I first started gaining weight, my belly was the first place it showed up. I guess the loss is most noticeable on my legs because my whole bottom half is the same size; no bigger area to make the clothing obscure the rest.
  • boyragisadhok
    boyragisadhok Posts: 1 Member
    i wanna be most sexy figure
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  • xxzenabxx
    xxzenabxx Posts: 948 Member
    I’m losing from my stomach and hips first. I’ve also lost from my arms and chest. I have hardly lost from my things unfortunately. But then again I do have 29 lbs left to goal weight so let’s see...

    Also when I was 130 lbs before my legs were much slimmer so I hope they do slim down in the end.
  • HoneyBadger302
    HoneyBadger302 Posts: 2,089 Member
    Boobs (boo), then extremities in for the most part, with my "saddlebags" (fat pads on the top/back of my illiac crest area) the last to go. I'm down to about 10-15 pounds to lose, and still have a BIG fold, even standing straight up, due to those stupid saddle bags. My ribs and upper body muscles/bones will be clearly visible before these go away though. They're FINALLY starting to dwindle, the waist on my pants is finally getting a little looser, but not until the very end here....
  • Luke_rabbit
    Luke_rabbit Posts: 1,031 Member
    I wanted mostly to lose chest, hips, thighs, calves and upper arms.

    I have mostly lost lower abdomen, lower arms and hands (SO much from hands), face & neck, and bottom.

    The hands freak me out. My ring, which I got when I weighed under 125 lbs, is constantly falling off even though my weight is still above 130 lbs.
  • rainbow198
    rainbow198 Posts: 2,245 Member
    edited October 2019
    I lost fat from my stomach first, then I seemed to lose a little bit from everywhere pretty evenly.

    Losing fat from my face happened towards the mid point of my weight loss. That's when everyone started to notice my progress and it made me think wow, I'm really doing this!

    The last places I lost fat were from my inner thighs and back.
  • Danp
    Danp Posts: 1,561 Member
    I tended to carry pretty much all my weight on my torso and face which I think is a pretty common thing for guys.

    What little weight I did carry on my arms and legs was the first to go and now is pretty much gone all together. The rest (chest, belly, lower back, neck, face, etc) has all kinda been "deflating" at approximately the same rate.

    This made it particularly hard for me to notice the progress I was making. Since everything was reducing at the same rate and proportions my "shape" and proportions didn't change much even though my overall silhouette was getting smaller.
  • Lobsterboxtops
    Lobsterboxtops Posts: 92 Member
    Legs, face, bunchyness under my arms, gut, arms, back


    I still have a lot to lose in my arms and gut, but it’s coming. Honestly it was my arms and back that was the tipping point for me to start exercising...I saw a picture of me from the back and it wasn’t pretty. So that’s where I wanted to lose first.
  • slbbw
    slbbw Posts: 329 Member
    Face first, then hips, but then fairly evenly overall. Which is actually a bit annoying since I carry a bit extra fat in the hips stomach and under arm. By the time I did start losing those problem spots I was getting a bit thin other areas. I had lost 45 lbs and gained about 10 back, mostly evenly, but the places that had dropped quickly first gained a bit back. So now I am back at it trying to lose the last 15 slowly. I am hoping since I have so drastically changed my shape that I will be able to now target those bits without getting "too thin" looking in the parts that carry less fat.

    TLDR - for me doing it all at once did not work and adding a cycle where I gained a bit back seems to be helping me hit my goal physique better.
  • _BlahBlah_BlackSheep_
    _BlahBlah_BlackSheep_ Posts: 2,148 Member
    I shrink from the top down. Boobs first (not that there's much to lose), and then stomach. I have a horrible time trying to lose weight from my thighs and from the little muffin top on my back. And those are pretty much the only areas I'd like to see shrink a bit, so naturally they don't budge. My face has never been affected by my weight.
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