The great fat migration of ought-seven
I had the opportunity to visit via online chat with Trainer-in-Training AnaLee (waving!) last week, and she mentioned that while she’d heard about “fat shift,” my photos were one of the first ones where she’d seen it so clearly. As I paid attention to my own body yesterday, I decided I needed to know a bit more about this so-called fat shift. During Lawnmowers, I felt a roll/bulge at my upper hip that was new, whaaaa?
Anyway, I searched the term on the forums, and found lots of encouragement.
- When fat shifts (usually up and toward the middle), it’s on its way out.
- The places where I’m seeing extra (upper hips, waist) are normal on-the-way-out waypoints
- One poster even mentioned one of my specific gripes — that I can see fat below my belly button even more clearly than I used to. It’s like what used to be evenly spread from belly button to pubis is now from the halfway point and upward. The lower half, down to the pubis is firm and flat. It’s just…weird.
After this reading, I tinkered around with my size 12 short Levis 515/bootcut jeans. As I looked at them more closely, I realized that yes, they’re more snug through the butt and thighs, but they’re also sitting much higher. You see, I used to have more fat that was riding low, and less up toward the upper hips and waist. Now, the low fat is gone and/or up at the mid/upper butt and hips. The jeans are sitting all the way up at my belly button. If I pull them down, yes, I see a muffin-top I never would have had before (from the fat that’s shifted upward), but in the rear, where they used to be filled out? Baggy. And the thighs? Ditto.
Okay, I’m starting to believe this. If I keep going, I really *will* eventually see inch loss. I think.
Today, after a great workout yesterday, I feel leaned-out through the waist again. It’s bizarre to me how much my body is moving things around on a day-to-day basis.
Given some time later, I’ll see if I can post some photos showing what I mean.