Losing inches in hips but not much in a waist.

paja02
paja02 Posts: 5 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I don't eat process food, exercise 5-6 weeks per week, 10 000 steps every day, not sure what I'm doing wrong

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  • wunderkindking
    wunderkindking Posts: 1,615 Member
    Yeah, your body just decides to lose where it loses from. Usually the first place you gain is the last place you lose. Just gotta keep going.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,992 Member
    Waist is probably the last to go and first to gain. NOT an uncommon issue with the majority of population.

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  • westrich20940
    westrich20940 Posts: 921 Member
    As everyone else said --- you're not doing anything wrong. You just can pick and choose where your body uses fat from. It does what it needs to and you're not in control of that.
  • Golferdrone
    Golferdrone Posts: 68 Member
    Take photos from all sides in front of a door or something and measurements? you could be losing back fat but you can’t see that in the mirror as easy
  • Golferdrone
    Golferdrone Posts: 68 Member
    Weekly on the photos and measurements
  • Beautyofdreams
    Beautyofdreams Posts: 1,009 Member
    Is there any chance that you could have an undiagnosed diastasis rectii? Men and women who have never been pregnant can also have this along with post pregnancy women. If you take a steroid, it tends to cause abdominal fat deposition. If you are post menopausal, the drop in estrogen causes fat deposition in the abdomen.
    Depending on your build, you may have a large waist relative to your hips and bust. Do you participate in any resistance training? Depending on your body composition, you may have more fat to lose than you think. I have a normal bmi but still have a substantial amount of abdominal fat due to long term steroid use, and post menopausal. Am a normal bmi but still trying to lose weight to reduce my upper abdomen.
  • richardgavel
    richardgavel Posts: 1,001 Member
    Also where a DEXA scan can provide some precision since it will identify where the fat is more specifically.
  • wunderkindking
    wunderkindking Posts: 1,615 Member
    The 'more fat to lose than you think' thing mentioned here is real. I'd have sworn I had almost all my extra weight in my stomach/didn't have anything to lose in other places.

    I was wrong.

    I was proportionally carrying MORE extra in my stomach and my basic shape then was what it is now (I'm very classically 'apple' shaped) but I had plenty of room to lose other places. I dropped 2 ring sizes, a shoe size, and 2 cup sizes along the way, too.

    My BMI right now is 22.6. Still have a stomach. Just a stomach on a size 8 instead of size 18. Still have skinnier legs and arms than middle/torso. It just is what it is on that front.

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