linhardt wrote:
Sounds corny, but a lot of appearance involves how and where you carry your weight
I am an example of this. I am 5'6" and weigh about 137 on race day. A few years ago I was over 180.
When I tell people this, they refuse to believe me. Sure my face is little thinner, and my upper body is a little more bony, but the truth is that my lower body is where all the weight was and still is and that is hard to see, so people tend to think that I lost 10 or 15 pounds at most.
At 137 and single digit body fat, my upper body is super defined, abs, ribs, triceps. My legs, while lean and a little thinner, still look basically the same (no ripped out muscle, or veins, or anything like my upper body). Sure the thigh circumferencehas changed some, but that is not very discernible to people.
In other words, I carry almost all of my weight below the waist, when I gain some and lose some, unless you are measuring my thighs/hip/etc, the difference is pretty hard to notice on me.
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