Skinny Fat

[TheUnk]

Being skinny fat sucks. Nobody knows you have a gut and love handles. It's almost not visible when standing. But if you sit down with your back straight, you can grab handfuls of flubber and it's pretty gross looking along with the love handles that flop over your jeans.

You drink a diet soda and someone sees you and says "why the hell are you drinking diet". They find out you are exercising "wtf like you need to lose more weight". The fatty fats bring in donuts and all sorts of shit food and you only take a small portion "eat up, you can afford a few pounds".

Maybe this is how all the fatty fat people were like before they became fatty fat and were too lazy to do anything about it so their skinny fat became fatty fat and now I can't buy size 32 jeans without having them search in the back.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

I'm a classic skinny fat. I was a fatty fat and then lost weight but never focussed on weight training (because I hate the damn gym) so now I'm skinny fat. It's better than fatty fat but I'd like to correct the issue.

 

[Fritzo]

I am also a member of this club.

 

[TecHNooB]

Start lifting!

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Start lifting!

But it's haaaaaaaaarrrrrrd! And I'm laaaaaaaaazzzzzzyyyyyy!

 

[nageov3t]

I'm a classic skinny fat. I was a fatty fat and then lost weight but never focussed on weight training (because I hate the damn gym) so now I'm skinny fat. It's better than fatty fat but I'd like to correct the issue.

same here (not that I'm skinny either, but getting there... have another like 20-25 pounds to lose)

I kinda feel like I wouldn't be able to utilize a gym without a trainer and there's no way I can afford a trainer... though I've started supplementing my generic cardio with some weight lifting around the apartment. hoping to change my financial situation when I move next year (also, if I start working out of my company's NYC office, they have a free gym)

 

[Gothgar]

what the fuck? does that make sense if you are high?

 

[Crono]

what the fuck? does that make sense if you are high?

I think he just means he has excess fat and isn't fit, but isn't overweight. It's pretty common with people that don't regularly work out, and eat/drink just enough calories to maintain that fat.

I'm plain overweight and have fat around abdomen. Losing it slowly over past couple of months, though, and should be down to 185 in a couple months (at 198 now).

 

[coldmeat]

I'm also skinny fat, but slowly getting fatter. I've been gaining weight ever since I started working full time. And not easy desk work either. It's weird. I like working out when I get into a routine, but actually starting it is the hard part for me.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

I think he just means he has excess fat and isn't fit, but isn't overweight. It's pretty common with people that don't regularly work out, and eat/drink just enough calories to maintain that fat.

I would estimate my fitness is above average, I get a decent amount of cardio, just don't lift weights enough (or ever).

 

[overst33r]

dont eat junk food. eat whole foods. lay off sugar and fat and you will start losing the blubber. exercising helps.

 

[Crono]

I would estimate my fitness is above average, I get a decent amount of cardio, just don't lift weights enough (or ever).

If you do enough cardio and eat less, you won't have any flab (unless that flab is actually edema or something else from some deficiency or other disorder).

Weight lifting is good for building muscle and gaining a toned physique, though.

 

[Sluggo]

If you're fat, you're fat. Nice job trying to polish that turd...fatty.

BTW, yes I am fat too, but really more of a stocky mediumish fatty.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

If you're fat, you're fat. Nice job trying to polish that turd...fatty.

No. I've posted photos of myself here before, people can confirm that I'm not fat. But I'm skinny-fat, which you likely wouldn't know if I wasn't shirtless or wearing lycra.

 

[kalrith]

what the fuck? does that make sense if you are high?

While poorly written, I can totally relate to that. I'm 6'1" and weighed 182 and wanted to lose 12 lbs. I'm certainly not fat, but I also certainly have fat that I want to lose. If I mentioned my weight-loss plan to anyone, their response was, "You don't need to lose weight. Why are you dieting and exercising?" It really does get quite annoying. If I weighed 300 lbs, then people would be patting me on the back and congratulating me for my efforts to try to lose weight. Instead people undercut my efforts and almost complain that I'm trying to lose weight because they all weigh 50+ lbs. more than me.

Edit: I got down to 174 but am almost back up to 182 again. I'm less than a month away from finishing remodeling a house and plan to hit the weights and the bike hard after that. I've also been watching what I eat over the holidays.

 

[hanoverphist]

While poorly written, I can totally relate to that. I'm 6'1" and weighed 182 and wanted to lose 12 lbs. I'm certainly not fat, but I also certainly have fat that I want to lose. If I mentioned my weight-loss plan to anyone, their response was, "You don't need to lose weight. Why are you dieting and exercising?" It really does get quite annoying. If I weighed 300 lbs, then people would be patting me on the back and congratulating me for my efforts to try to lose weight. Instead people undercut my efforts and almost complain that I'm trying to lose weight because they all weigh 50+ lbs. more than me.

you should know to not "brag" about working out and losing weight to people larger than you...

 

[DangerAardvark]

dont eat junk food. eat whole foods. lay off sugar and fat and you will start losing the blubber. exercising helps.

You mean like a whole plate of spaghetti? Or a whole turducken?

 

[Alienwho]

You skinny fatties would get 10x better results if you lifted heavy instead of spending all day on cardio. Just sayin'.

 

[daw123]

Yup, I'm also a skinny fatso.

I've decided I'm going to become a member of a gym and build up my upper body strength and lose the gut. It'll be the first 'proper' exercise that I've done in over 10 years.

I'm currently looking at local gym membership and personal trainer costs.

 

[TridenT]

Well, I'm skinny skinny! I think being skinny fat is probably better than skinny skinny... I mean, my entire ribcage is visible. :|

 

[SirStev0]

I'm just fat fat. I still pound pussy like it is going out of style though. Jealous?

 

[TridenT]

I'm just fat fat. I still pound pussy like it is going out of style though. Jealous?

Liar. :thumbsdown:

 

[AbsoluteParadigm]

dont eat junk food. eat whole foods. lay off sugar and fat and you will start losing the blubber. exercising helps.

While I'm no health expert, I feel things would be better if the above quote was changed to "Exercise a lot, cardio, weight training. Dieting helps." I'd place more emphasis on exercise and less on dieting.

 

[destrekor]

you should know to not "brag" about working out and losing weight to people larger than you...

they should not be jealous or offended because they themselves made themselves like that.


I'm kind of in the same club as the OP - skinny fat.
I'm 5'11" and 165lbs.

It doesn't help my lower chest is deformed - I have that "bowl chest" where the sternum appears caved in. Mine is odd because it's in the lowest ribs, and as the ribs radiate from the "caved in" part, they end up extending out further than the upper ribs. I don't have massive pecs, but when lying down, my lower ribs rise higher than my nips. It's just all kinds of strange.
I think it doesn't help with my stomach, because it might be pushing the diaphragm down lower than usual, which helps make my stomach, even when flexing, almost out further than my chest. I have the weirdest torso shape because of all that.

I don't have a fat stomach by any means, but it's like a little pouch of flab. If I flex my abs you can tell I have quite the abs, but I must be genetically predisposed to having a layer of protective fat on my stomach because I've never achieved visible definition of my abs. I have definition everywhere except my stomach, argh. I focus quite a bit on my core for exercising because one day I hope to finally have visible abs but my efforts remain unseen.
I can tell when I make efforts to cut caloric content (actually, laziness makes me eat less or during high stress times where I just don't eat as much), I do cut the minimal love handles, and they often reappear a little bit when I have times where I stop exercising frequently and eat more. Like when I'm at home for the summer and winter.

 

[overst33r]

While I'm no health expert, I feel things would be better if the above quote was changed to "Exercise a lot, cardio, weight training. Dieting helps." I'd place more emphasis on exercise and less on dieting.

He said he doesn't like to exercise. I suggested dieting because it might be easier for him.