I’m a fairly in shape person and I wouldn’t mind getting rid of a few spots that I don’t like.

My mom lived on a diet of black coffee and cigarettes. She was very proud of the fact that she gained exactly one pound during her first pregnancy, a full term 4lb baby who, because she was so small, was preceded into the birth canal by her umbilical cord and who eventually strangled to death. Her “diet” and obsession…

No one is scared away from exercise by the “no point” genetic argument. They may use it as an excuse, but it’s not what actually -scares- people. We are scared away from exercise by people judging us for being large in the first place, which for some of us happened when we were too young to know or do any better. We…

Not for all. I was hiking 20+ miles a week and doing Pilates as well. I changed my diet to low fat, low carb. I don’t use sugar. I don’t use artificial sweetener other than stevia. I don’t drink soda. And I eliminated alcohol. I was still steadily gaining weight.

You might have a point if the article, or the comment you replied to, was actually about *losing weight*. It’s not.

I suppose that’s nice, but it doesn’t have much to do with my comment.

I’ve always wanted to ask one of y’all this: do you authentically believe you’re the first person to tell people these things, or do you just think it’s important that they hear it from you, specifically?

If I lose weight then I end up with boobs that never go down a size and look like a reject from a Russ Meyer movie. I still end up looking the same since shirts that fit my boobs are still big.

Uh, it’s a thing. There have been numerous studies of late (reputable studies) and numerous articles written about said studies that show that people who have gained lost and gained weight again often must maintain a much lower calorie intake than someone at their same weight who has never lost weight. Google is your…

yeah, I find getting body fat lower and lower is very diminishing returns, looks wise, at least for me. I can get mine down low so I like one body part, then I lose my butt completely, and that’s no good, and I don’t like that I lose muscle mass in other places as well.

They’re also incorrectly conflating it with weight loss when it’s purpose is literally in the name: CoolSculpting. As some pointed out in another thread, stuff like that and liposuction don’t result in significant weight loss. No one is paying a thousand or more just to drop 2 lbs at best.

I’m not saying I think they’re a good substitute for natural weight loss, I’m saying natural weight loss CAN’T always achieve what they achieve, whether they’re a good idea or not (I happen to be on team “no,” myself, but my opinion isn’t the point).

This may shock you, but there are people whose arms and legs aren’t “plump” even though they have fat pockets they don’t like in other places.

Holy shit, we have a REAL scientist commenting on the site!

Ugh IKR. What is the answer to this ridiculousness? I got sticks for arms and legs and all my fat accumulates in my arleady short torso. It has always been this way! It was this way when I ran 4+ miles a day and lifted weight and played sports! WHY WHY WHYYYY

Yeah... you’re assuming people can target weightloss to specific areas of their body. There are people who are a completely healthy weight who carry large amounts of fat disproportionately in one or two areas (myself: double chin, big time.) If I lost weight, I would be too skinny and it still probably wouldn’t get…

I kind of want this too. My body keeps basically 95% of it’s fat on my stomach, so for me to get really good abs I need to keep my bodyfat low enough that it makes the rest of me too low, plus eating the amount required fucks with my workouts which I hate. Tara Reid’s stomach (of like 2005ish times) has always…

But there are absolutely people with weird deposits of fat that they can’t lose through diet and exercise. I am old enough that I remember first hearing about lipo when it came out and thinking, well why don’t people just exercise instead of doing a risky surgery - and then saw an article with photos of two women with…

Fat cells don’t multiply; they just get larger or smaller depending on what they store. When fat is removed from one area, what it once stored will be distributed across what remains elsewhere in the body. This isn’t a problem for people who just want to do a little shaping.

Wow gee, I didn’t know that! Thank you so much for the condescension.