Thread 76541590

You can't outlift it, you can't outrun it, you can't starve it away, and no matter what you do, even when you're on a very low overall bodyfat percentage, you will still look like a sack of potatoes. You will never be able to get good shirtless aesthetics.

Telltale sign of insulin resistance
Fix your insulin resistance and you'll lose this fat

>>76541590 (OP)
Yeh, I store fat in a similar way, except it's so concentrated in the lower part of my stomach (between the adonis belt and the upper abs) that I got to the point where I had visible abs in the upper part and then a 3 inch thick 4 inch wide strip of fat around the lower part and then a visible adonis belt with very noticeable blood vessels right below
Pic related to give you the rough idea, pardon the extremely shitty drawing
Was auschwitz mode at 6'4'' 150lbs before that and still had that shit
It just doesn't go away, I made peace with the fact and am now on a permabulk, smashing 4k calories and 250g of protein per day, if I look like shit at least I can be strong, plus when I'm generally fat as fuck the freakish shape is less noticeable, I look like a regular tub of lard instead of a walking genetic disorder

believing this is the natural progression of mental illness that starts from when you convince yourself that you're at 12% bf when you're really at 18%

>>76541655
Is there any explanation for what I described in the post above yours?
I was so lean that I had veins popping out on every part of my body and then the fucking shelf of fat in that one absurdly small area?
I heard this can happen if you're very stressed because cortisol fucks your hormonal balance up and stuff, which would make sense since I'm extremely nervous

>>76541664
yes, exotic scenarios like pathologically high cortisol can add to that effect
but unless you're a 60 year old alcoholic who is welding 18 hours a day 6 days a week, you almost certainly just got filtered by the slow visible progress cuts take from the high-mid teens to the low teens

im on another cut cycle after a bulk, down to probably 14-15%, low abdomen is the last part to leave, but my legs and arms are shredded
it's just how the body decides to lose fat

>>76541664
also, in addition to not being as lean and muscular as you expect, you better be doing ab work otherwise you're just deeper in the self sabotage

>>76541674
>yes, exotic scenarios like pathologically high cortisol can add to that effect
Well fuck me, that had to contribute something since my hair went gray in my 20s from how destroyed I was getting
>>76541679
I do plenty of core work because my routine is mainly based on calisthenics, got into the habit when I was in school and couldn't afford a gym so I just continued progressing in that since I hated the actual gym when I finally tried it out
I haven't done a cut in like 10 years because I'm also afraid of losing my gains (despite being at like 25%bf right now)

>>76541590 (OP)
But you can out eat it.

>>76541637
Same. I went down to 160lbs at 6'3 to try and twinkmax for aesthetics but I always have a slight pouch of fat on my lower stomach no matter what. Lost a ton of strength trying to get rid of it and it looks fucking stupid when the rest of your body is skeletal. Literally looked better when I was 200lbs with more muscle and fat everywhere else. Now I'm perma bloatmaxxing.

>>76541590 (OP)
to put it in simple english this is complete and total bullshit in case youre new and didnt know

>>76541699
Twinkmaxxing worked at 150lbs as long as I kept my t-shirt in and sucked in my gut, I never got more female attention than I did then
But all the pussy in the world can't compare to the sheer ecstasy of pumping out 20 pull-ups when you weigh 260lbs and look like a fucking mountain troll
They look at me in disgust because of my exterior, I look at them in disgust because they're all fucking DYELs

>>76541686
whats actually happening is your anxiety-ridden mind gets hopeful when you first see abs in the high teen %'s, and then you do a shit cut at only 300 cal deficit for months and get to maybe 15% where nothing changes, and the pressure of the cut gets to you and you make up elaborate fantasies about a cursed body

"calisthenics" is not some guarantee that you've got a good ab routine btw

>>76541749
I did a 1 month cut eating 300kcal a day, didn't help much
Am probably going to do a several week water fast at some point and start again from scratch

>>76541781
>I did a 1 month cut eating 300kcal a day, didn't help much
really? you dont say?

>>76541799
I mean I'd expect that eating at a 2900kcal daily deficit would burn off the patch of fat, but it got rid of everything except that patch instead is what I meant

>>76541590 (OP)
You cam still look good in clothes

>>76541664
Genetics, my mom has lost a lot of weight and still has it.

Also drinking liquid calories and a lot of fluid in general with food might cause it

>>76541781
>>76541822
300 cal deficit = "I worked out today, my online tdee calculator says my activity level today burned a total of 2.8k!" (Reality: 2.5k) = maintenance days for the majority of the week = burning maybe a pound of fat every 2 months

If you're serious about a cut, especially towards the end, you better be consistently at at least 600 cal deficit FROM SEDENTARY TDEE ESTIMATES

No one struggling to figure out how to get abs is realistically capable of reasoning their way through such thin margins

>>76541590 (OP)
You're wrong, you can literally do all of these things and you will look great once you're lean enough.
But you, OP, you can't do it.

>>76541864
No, you're misunderstanding, I'm saying I ate 300-400 kcal total per day and was at a 2500kcal deficit
As in, about 100 grams of protein diluted in water per day and nothing else

>>76541601
how does one this

>>76541590 (OP)
I store it mostly in my ass even though I'm a guy and that makes my waist to ass ratio feminine

>>76541590 (OP)
I'm 340 lbs and I look nearly normal in my face and limbs. No double chin, barely any fat on my jaw, I run my finger along it lightly and feel the bone the whole way down. It's all in that area and a little on my chest and upper legs, though oddly my legs seem to be mostly muscle from a combination of sprinting and running up stairs when I was younger, and working on my feet lifting boxes, occasionally heavy ones, as I gradually accumulated the mass of two men. So mostly just muh brown organ fat or whatever it is.
I had lightly defined abs as an older kid and younger teen, didn't even work out or play sports much, just did martial arts.
I absolutely could and will starve myself down to at least under 250 lbs and maybe under 200 if I somehow don't get too sick of the false sensation of starving that miscalibrated ghrelin secretions provide me.
I don't care how I look and just want to pare down the probability that my eventual demise comes early from heart disease or similar bullshit.
Every day I stay alive is another chance to wake up and find out abortion has been globally banned or some other good thing happened after all.

>>76541601
This one I can't really do because I was born with messed up hormones and some of my organs underdeveloped, and had hypoglycemia as an infant and even as a younger child sometimes it recurred. I can just avoid doing more extra damage to it than I already have.
>>76541664
Roid gut?
Or just your body storing fat because you need it to survive which is more important than your gay obsession with aesthetics?
>>76542985
Anorexia fucks your body's functioning harder than even my level of obesity does so you should never be surprised to fail any given goal no matter how autophagy-related if you do it. It isn't something you should ever consider going back to, you can lose more than your gains. And you're also a retard if you regularly fast longer than 36 hours while at low bodyfat just in case you were going to.
>I won't take dieting advice from a literal obeast etc etc
okay die then o algo

>>76541590 (OP)

its painful but one can shred to lowest possible bf and hope for redistribution of fat. i've seen guys with this body type lose all their marbling, and after a couple competition preps, they look decent even at 20%. the major diff is in the original state, the fat is under right under their skin such that when i can pinch a thick layer of their skin, but after fat redistribution, the skin is not as thick.

>>76541590 (OP)
Isn't this just visceral fat? Mostly from drinking?

>>76543828
I think it's genetic, I have had that shit my entire life and I sure as hell wasn't drinking alcohol when I was 5 years old

>>76543986
Yeah it's genetic

>>76541590 (OP)
You can outlipo it

>>76544316
>just be rich bro