High Abdobmen Fat

[Tim C 335]

I have this high abdobmen fat between my belly and my chest. Most or many men have this when overweight. It seems like a fat retention pond. While I can already see my belly getting smaller this high adobmen fat seems like it has not gotten any smaller even though I have lost 35 pounds or about 12% of my high body weight. It doesn't want to leave me!!

[catwoman7 10,923]

people don't lose fat evenly - they'll notice less fat in some places long before they'll notice it in others. I'd give it more time..

[NovaLuna 710]

I hate to say it, but my stomach was like the LAST place I started to lose weight. You don't lose weight evenly and can lose it in the strangest places. I literally lost my butt. No joke. I have absolutely no padding back there what-so-ever and sitting on anything not padded HURTS! Hell, even sitting on something padded sometimes hurts. I barely had a butt prior to surgery and what little I had just disappeared... pants don't fit quite the same when you have no butt to speak of. 😥

[ms.sss 14,783]

I've read somewhere that generally, the first place you gain weight, is the last place that you will lose it.

For me the first place to shrink during weight loss was my boobs, the last were my legs.

Hang in there ❤️

[BigSue 1,322]

Yeah, I've lost 180 pounds and I still have a big belly. It's not just loose skin -- there's definitely still some fat in there that does not want to go away. I'm having a hard time figuring out the right size of clothing to buy because if I go by my actual waist measurement around the middle of my belly, everything is too big. And I don't leave the house without wearing a shaping cami.

[SummerTimeGirl 580]

Ugh, I hear that! Aside from my stomach being big all around, right under my left breast is like a pouch of fat that sticks out further than the part of my stomach under my right breast. Last time I lost 40lbs I felt like it was possibly shrinking but not too sure. I HATE THAT POUCH and worry that it won't go away once I have my surgery done. I feel like that area may eventually need Lipo.

I'm basing that off of a surgery I saw on TV. The person had some sort of fat pouch on their *ss (mush like my pouch) that they thought was a lipoma or something but ended up the fat just poofed out in that area and she was told it would never just go down/away no matter how much weight she lost or exercises she did so they ended up sucking out a great deal of it. Hope that doesn't need to happen but who knows.

[Tim C 335]

Well I hven't even hit 1 month surgery date but everytime I look in the mirror I am still fat!

It will be several months before I get to where I can see I am losing weight. I have lost over 36 lbs and that was like taking a cup of Water out of the Gulf of Mexico. I cant tell I have lost a pound.

[Tim C 335]

1 hour ago, BigSue said:

Yeah, I've lost 180 pounds and I still have a big belly. It's not just loose skin -- there's definitely still some fat in there that does not want to go away. I'm having a hard time figuring out the right size of clothing to buy because if I go by my actual waist measurement around the middle of my belly, everything is too big. And I don't leave the house without wearing a shaping cami.

Big Sue I have only lost 36 lbs since starting pre op diet on 1/25. I cannot tell that I have lost a pound yet.

[Tim C 335]

1 hour ago, SummerTimeGirl said:

Ugh, I hear that! Aside from my stomach being big all around, right under my left breast is like a pouch of fat that sticks out further than the part of my stomach under my right breast. Last time I lost 40lbs I felt like it was possibly shrinking but not too sure. I HATE THAT POUCH and worry that it won't go away once I have my surgery done. I feel like that area may eventually need Lipo.

I'm basing that off of a surgery I saw on TV. The person had some sort of fat pouch on their *ss (mush like my pouch) that they thought was a lipoma or something but ended up the fat just poofed out in that area and she was told it would never just go down/away no matter how much weight she lost or exercises she did so they ended up sucking out a great deal of it. Hope that doesn't need to happen but who knows.

I think what I have is pretty common in fat men. I need to exercise more and hopefully in a few months it will shrink down. Never would have thought I would have comfortably gotten this fat!

[Tim C 335]

3 hours ago, catwoman7 said:

people don't lose fat evenly - they'll notice less fat in some places long before they'll notice it in others. I'd give it more time..

I am not sure where 36 lbs was lost from since 1/25 but it sure does not ppear to be my abdobmen or legs.

[Jaelzion 1,123]

3 hours ago, Tim C said:

I have this high abdobmen fat between my belly and my chest. Most or many men have this when overweight. It seems like a fat retention pond. While I can already see my belly getting smaller this high adobmen fat seems like it has not gotten any smaller even though I have lost 35 pounds or about 12% of my high body weight. It doesn't want to leave me!!

My tummy was the last to go as well. It wasn't until I got within 20 pounds of goal that my stomach began to seriously shrink. It's like my body hung onto that weight to the bitter end, LOL. And even now, I have a lot of excess skin there. I'm planning a Tummy Tuck because the doctors tell me there's no losing that skin (and the small amount of fat attached) without surgery.

[Tim C 335]

2 hours ago, ms.sss said:

I've read somewhere that generally, the first place you gain weight, is the last place that you will lose it.

For me the first place to shrink during weight loss was my boobs, the last were my legs.

Hang in there ❤️

Yeah...I cant tell I have lost any weight from anywhere unless I get on the scales. I gues I will have to lose 70 lbs or more before I can tell.

[Tim C 335]

3 minutes ago, Jaelzion said:

My tummy was the last to go as well. It wasn't until I got within 20 pounds of goal that my stomach began to seriously shrink. It's like my body hung onto that weight to the bitter end, LOL. And even now, I have a lot of excess skin there. I'm planning a Tummy Tuck because the doctors tell me there's no losing that skin (and the small amount of fat attached) without surgery.

Yeah I never thought I would need a Tummy Tuck but I am open to whatever I need to do to be looked at as normal again.

[Tim C 335]

3 hours ago, catwoman7 said:

people don't lose fat evenly - they'll notice less fat in some places long before they'll notice it in others. I'd give it more time..

I guess you must need to lose a good bit before you can tell. Right now I cant tell I have lost anything.

[Tim C 335]

3 hours ago, OAGBPal said:

You'll be Under Construction for a while my man My neck got 'normal' within a month, while I wasn't losing a lot of inches on my belly. Then it was legs time; all of sudden, my legs looked normal again. Then, it was belly time - and that's when people started going "omg you lost a bunch of weight, didn't you?". Then, my upper chest and face followed, and in the right clothes, I look almost normal-but-a-little-chunky now.

It's weird, but just hang in there. One day you'll wake up and feel your ribcage where your fat used to be.

Well I will look forward to that! I may have to adjust my goal weight at some point. The last time I weighed 210 (35 yrs ago) I was in really good shape. I m starting to believe that my goal may be south of 210.