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Anonymous wrote:I agree with lifting HEAVY. You say you already lift, but from the way you're talking about it, I do assume you don't lift heavy. You may be what a lot of people call "skinny fat" - you have a low body weight but you don't have tight, toned body. The only way to combat that is to build muscle and ignore the scale. Seriously look at this woman: https://www.instagram.com/p/BIVJquZAghL/?utm_source=ig_embed

Yes ! That's me...
Ok contradicting myself again: I'll take the heavier weights... (and you are right my weights are on the small size)

I agree heavier weights, lots of various ab exercises, and cut back on carbs might help, but most of it is body shape & muscle mass. I'm 2 inches shorter than you, 124 pounds and have a 25-inch waist. My hips are easily 8 inches larger than my waist and I wear a size 4 pant. My chest probably 6 inches larger than waist & a DD cup.

A friend of mine is same weight & height as me. No butt or hips yet wears a size 6 and no boobs. She is saggy looking, exactly the definition of "skinny fat"

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Anonymous wrote:OP...this is the way your body is built. With modern technology and plastic surgery, you can do liposuction. I used to kill myself at the gym and go on extreme diets and then one day I got fed and did liposuction. It was was the best thing I could've done!
Don't waste your time on cool sculpt.

Can you explain more ? Did you take out a lot ?

So you finally found some advice that you find helpful. Why didn't you just post in beauty and ask about liposuction? [b]This is unrelated to diet & fitness, and it's sickening that someone at 5'4", less than 120 pounds would be considering lipo.

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5'5" please

If you know anything about lipo, it is not a weight loss procedure, it is meant to remove localized areas of fat. Which is what OP is complaining about!

As a person with a pooch from kids, lipoing the area just seems like a recipe for needing a tummy tuck due to the excess skin.

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Anonymous wrote:Seriously?

Lift weights.

Eat healthy. You might not be eating enough food.

I eat very healthy, I am not skin and bones at all. I just have a very narrow frame. I also lift weights but as I said I don't build up easily. At one point I had very well defined arms (but they get toned not bulky), I stopped for 2 weeks as I was traveling, my muscles melted so fast it was scary...

I also have pretty strong abs considering how super soft my stomach looks. I always focused on abs, I can easily do a 3 min plank for example. But I have never had the slightest hint of muscle definition on my belly...

A 3 minute plank isn't impressive. Over 5 minutes is respectable. 10 minutes is impressive.

If you start lifting heavy and you train to the point where you can deadlift over 2x your body weight, the skinny fatness will go away. You will have muscle definition everywhere and a flat belly. Assuming you eat healthy.

OP here: was your goal to reach a particularly low body fat overall? I realize with my questions and everybody's reply that I am probably looking for something impossible. I like to be a bit more toned but I am not looking to get rid of the level of softeness I have on the other parts of my body, it works for me. I can see that it is not possible

My goal with lifting wasn't losing weight. I wanted to be healthy. But I was similar to you, I had a pooch at weights over 125 lbs, and I was 5'5". I started lifting heavy, and I stayed the same weight. My friends swore I lost 20 lbs though. (I was keeping track of body fat, and it definitely decreased over time; I looked awesome at around 21-22% body fat).

As I said, eat healthy. Eat enough to nourish your body and grow muscles.

Lift heavy at least 2x a week, maybe even 3. Hike some. Yoga. Metcons. You will end up with the look you're looking for.

ps I have no clue what you're saying. You want to be "toned" but not soft. that makes zero sense. If you're toned, you're well muscled. And muscles are hard. Fat is soft.

If you want to be soft but have a flat belly, then what you're asking for is to be skin and bones. That's not healthy and can only be achieved by anorexia/lipo/surgery. If that's really your goal, you need to see a therapist.

Many of us have tried to give OP advice, but I think it's pointless and a waste of our time. The only advice she seemed interested in was lipo, everything else had a con attached to it.

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Anonymous wrote:OP...this is the way your body is built. With modern technology and plastic surgery, you can do liposuction. I used to kill myself at the gym and go on extreme diets and then one day I got fed and did liposuction. It was was the best thing I could've done!
Don't waste your time on cool sculpt.

Can you explain more ? Did you take out a lot ?

So you finally found some advice that you find helpful. Why didn't you just post in beauty and ask about liposuction? [b]This is unrelated to diet & fitness, and it's sickening that someone at 5'4", less than 120 pounds would be considering lipo.

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5'5" please

If you know anything about lipo, it is not a weight loss procedure, it is meant to remove localized areas of fat. Which is what OP is complaining about!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP...this is the way your body is built. With modern technology and plastic surgery, you can do liposuction. I used to kill myself at the gym and go on extreme diets and then one day I got fed and did liposuction. It was was the best thing I could've done!
Don't waste your time on cool sculpt.

Can you explain more ? Did you take out a lot ?

So you finally found some advice that you find helpful. Why didn't you just post in beauty and ask about liposuction? [b]This is unrelated to diet & fitness, and it's sickening that someone at 5'4", less than 120 pounds would be considering lipo.

[/b]
5'5" please

If you know anything about lipo, it is not a weight loss procedure, it is meant to remove localized areas of fat. Which is what OP is complaining about!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP...this is the way your body is built. With modern technology and plastic surgery, you can do liposuction. I used to kill myself at the gym and go on extreme diets and then one day I got fed and did liposuction. It was was the best thing I could've done!
Don't waste your time on cool sculpt.

Can you explain more ? Did you take out a lot ?

So you finally found some advice that you find helpful. Why didn't you just post in beauty and ask about liposuction? This is unrelated to diet & fitness, and it's sickening that someone at 5'4", less than 120 pounds would be considering lipo.

Yep. And it reminds me of that actress Tara Reid who was thin and got lipo on her stomach. It did not go well.

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Anonymous wrote:OP...this is the way your body is built. With modern technology and plastic surgery, you can do liposuction. I used to kill myself at the gym and go on extreme diets and then one day I got fed and did liposuction. It was was the best thing I could've done!
Don't waste your time on cool sculpt.

Can you explain more ? Did you take out a lot ?

So you finally found some advice that you find helpful. Why didn't you just post in beauty and ask about liposuction? [b]This is unrelated to diet & fitness, and it's sickening that someone at 5'4", less than 120 pounds would be considering lipo.

[/b]
5'5" please

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Anonymous wrote:Seriously?

Lift weights.

Eat healthy. You might not be eating enough food.

I eat very healthy, I am not skin and bones at all. I just have a very narrow frame. I also lift weights but as I said I don't build up easily. At one point I had very well defined arms (but they get toned not bulky), I stopped for 2 weeks as I was traveling, my muscles melted so fast it was scary...

I also have pretty strong abs considering how super soft my stomach looks. I always focused on abs, I can easily do a 3 min plank for example. But I have never had the slightest hint of muscle definition on my belly...

A 3 minute plank isn't impressive. Over 5 minutes is respectable. 10 minutes is impressive.

If you start lifting heavy and you train to the point where you can deadlift over 2x your body weight, the skinny fatness will go away. You will have muscle definition everywhere and a flat belly. Assuming you eat healthy.

OP here: was your goal to reach a particularly low body fat overall? I realize with my questions and everybody's reply that I am probably looking for something impossible. I like to be a bit more toned but I am not looking to get rid of the level of softeness I have on the other parts of my body, it works for me. I can see that it is not possible

My goal with lifting wasn't losing weight. I wanted to be healthy. But I was similar to you, I had a pooch at weights over 125 lbs, and I was 5'5". I started lifting heavy, and I stayed the same weight. My friends swore I lost 20 lbs though. (I was keeping track of body fat, and it definitely decreased over time; I looked awesome at around 21-22% body fat).

As I said, eat healthy. Eat enough to nourish your body and grow muscles.

Lift heavy at least 2x a week, maybe even 3. Hike some. Yoga. Metcons. You will end up with the look you're looking for.

ps I have no clue what you're saying. You want to be "toned" but not soft. that makes zero sense. If you're toned, you're well muscled. And muscles are hard. Fat is soft.

If you want to be soft but have a flat belly, then what you're asking for is to be skin and bones. That's not healthy and can only be achieved by anorexia/lipo/surgery. If that's really your goal, you need to see a therapist.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seriously?

Lift weights.

Eat healthy. You might not be eating enough food.

I eat very healthy, I am not skin and bones at all. I just have a very narrow frame. I also lift weights but as I said I don't build up easily. At one point I had very well defined arms (but they get toned not bulky), I stopped for 2 weeks as I was traveling, my muscles melted so fast it was scary...

I also have pretty strong abs considering how super soft my stomach looks. I always focused on abs, I can easily do a 3 min plank for example. But I have never had the slightest hint of muscle definition on my belly...

A 3 minute plank isn't impressive. Over 5 minutes is respectable. 10 minutes is impressive.

If you start lifting heavy and you train to the point where you can deadlift over 2x your body weight, the skinny fatness will go away. You will have muscle definition everywhere and a flat belly. Assuming you eat healthy.

OP here: was your goal to reach a particularly low body fat overall? I realize with my questions and everybody's reply that I am probably looking for something impossible. I like to be a bit more toned but I am not looking to get rid of the level of softeness I have on the other parts of my body, it works for me. I can see that it is not possible

My goal with lifting wasn't losing weight. I wanted to be healthy. But I was similar to you, I had a pooch at weights over 125 lbs, and I was 5'5". I started lifting heavy, and I stayed the same weight. My friends swore I lost 20 lbs though. (I was keeping track of body fat, and it definitely decreased over time; I looked awesome at around 21-22% body fat).

As I said, eat healthy. Eat enough to nourish your body and grow muscles.

Lift heavy at least 2x a week, maybe even 3. Hike some. Yoga. Metcons. You will end up with the look you're looking for.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seriously?

Lift weights.

Eat healthy. You might not be eating enough food.

I eat very healthy, I am not skin and bones at all. I just have a very narrow frame. I also lift weights but as I said I don't build up easily. At one point I had very well defined arms (but they get toned not bulky), I stopped for 2 weeks as I was traveling, my muscles melted so fast it was scary...

I also have pretty strong abs considering how super soft my stomach looks. I always focused on abs, I can easily do a 3 min plank for example. But I have never had the slightest hint of muscle definition on my belly...

A 3 minute plank isn't impressive. Over 5 minutes is respectable. 10 minutes is impressive.

If you start lifting heavy and you train to the point where you can deadlift over 2x your body weight, the skinny fatness will go away. You will have muscle definition everywhere and a flat belly. Assuming you eat healthy.

OP here: was your goal to reach a particularly low body fat overall? I realize with my questions and everybody's reply that I am probably looking for something impossible. I like to be a bit more toned but I am not looking to get rid of the level of softeness I have on the other parts of my body, it works for me. I can see that it is not possible

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Anonymous wrote:I agree with lifting HEAVY. You say you already lift, but from the way you're talking about it, I do assume you don't lift heavy. You may be what a lot of people call "skinny fat" - you have a low body weight but you don't have tight, toned body. The only way to combat that is to build muscle and ignore the scale. Seriously look at this woman: https://www.instagram.com/p/BIVJquZAghL/?utm_source=ig_embed

Yes ! That's me...
Ok contradicting myself again: I'll take the heavier weights... (and you are right my weights are on the small size)

OP again: if you look closely she did loose her breats of course between the 145 and 140 pounds transition

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree with lifting HEAVY. You say you already lift, but from the way you're talking about it, I do assume you don't lift heavy. You may be what a lot of people call "skinny fat" - you have a low body weight but you don't have tight, toned body. The only way to combat that is to build muscle and ignore the scale. Seriously look at this woman: https://www.instagram.com/p/BIVJquZAghL/?utm_source=ig_embed

Yes ! That's me...
Ok contradicting myself again: I'll take the heavier weights... (and you are right my weights are on the small size)

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree with lifting HEAVY. You say you already lift, but from the way you're talking about it, I do assume you don't lift heavy. You may be what a lot of people call "skinny fat" - you have a low body weight but you don't have tight, toned body. The only way to combat that is to build muscle and ignore the scale. Seriously look at this woman: https://www.instagram.com/p/BIVJquZAghL/?utm_source=ig_embed

Yes ! That's me...
Ok contradicting myself again: I'll take the heavier weights... (and you are right my weights are on the small size)

OP again: if you look closely she did loose her breats of course between the 145 and 140 pounds transition

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree with lifting HEAVY. You say you already lift, but from the way you're talking about it, I do assume you don't lift heavy. You may be what a lot of people call "skinny fat" - you have a low body weight but you don't have tight, toned body. The only way to combat that is to build muscle and ignore the scale. Seriously look at this woman: https://www.instagram.com/p/BIVJquZAghL/?utm_source=ig_embed

Yes ! That's me...
Ok contradicting myself again: I'll take the heavier weights... (and you are right my weights are on the small size)

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP...this is the way your body is built. With modern technology and plastic surgery, you can do liposuction. I used to kill myself at the gym and go on extreme diets and then one day I got fed and did liposuction. It was was the best thing I could've done!
Don't waste your time on cool sculpt.

Can you explain more ? Did you take out a lot ?

So you finally found some advice that you find helpful. Why didn't you just post in beauty and ask about liposuction? This is unrelated to diet & fitness, and it's sickening that someone at 5'4", less than 120 pounds would be considering lipo.