Order of fat loss

[novamanms]

I'm just glad VAT is the first to go...it's the most dangerous, anyways.

 

[Lifterforlife]

For some chest fat is something that hangs around a while , does anyone agree ? seems to be a bitch for me to get rid of.

You have a point, but not near as long as other fat usually.

I do get plenty of posts from folks who want to know how to develop their lower chest. Many of them don't realize it is simply a place for fat storage, and when they shed that fat they actually have lower chest developement.

 

[Lee]

sounds dead nuts on to me. when i cut at the end of high school i still had a little chub on the bottom of my stomach, but that was about it. My legs have never been fat, even at 280 my legs have minimal fat.

 

[Lifterforlife]

sounds dead nuts on to me. when i cut at the end of high school i still had a little chub on the bottom of my stomach, but that was about it. My legs have never been fat, even at 280 my legs have minimal fat.

It is very much dependent on the person, actually from puberty. On further inquiry, I got this information....



Prior to puberty, little boys and little girls have essentially identical fat pattersn

what happens hormonally basically determines fat patterns after that and, as I recall, research shows that fat cell patterning is esentially 'set' at that time. So the typical boy is testosterone dominant, the typical female estrogen/progesterone dominant. This determines what pre-adipocytes (basically dormant baby fat cells) develop to store fat after that. So girls typically get hips thighs and boobies, boys get fat on their stomachs.

In this vein, transexuals will show at least a temporarry shift in fat patterns. Put a male->female trannie on androgen blockers and female hormones and they will develop hip and thigh fat (later on, they wil lregain ab/visceral fat). Same for women in reverse

So bascially if you developed hip and thigh fat during puberty, for whatever reason (and note that there are some odd shifts in fat patterning happening these days; I'm seeing more and more girls with visceral fat) you developed fat cell in your hips and thighs, which act just like a typical female's lower bodyfat in terms of getting super lean.