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hondaicivic
Joined: 01 Jul 2010
Location: Daegu, South Korea
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| Ruthdes wrote: |
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It is literally impossible to "tone" one area of your body and it's a myth perpetrated by As-Seen-On-TV gimmick equipment. The only way to lose your flabby arms is to lose fat, which only comes off of your body from all over, not one area at once.
It has EVERYTHING to do with your diet. People's focus should be on lowering your overall bodyfat %, not "toning" one area. |
This is very true, and is one of the reasons people resort to medical interventions. I lost a lot of weight a few years back (which I have written about on this forum before), and became very skinny above the waist (as in ribs sticking out, many people telling me I was too skinny), but below the waist, I was far from having a flat stomach, and I retained the wide hips and thighs that are my genetic legacy. It's enough to make anyone look at medical intervention. I just have a moral problem with paying someone to make me look like what the media/society says I should look like, when that's obviously not how my body was made. If anyone has any advice about losing fat off my lower half, without looking anorexic on my upper half, I'd love to hear it. (FYI, I do 30 minutes of hard cardio at least 4 times a week, plus a fair wack of heavy-for-a-woman weights at least twice a week) |
one word: VASER........
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaser |
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methdxman
Joined: 14 Sep 2010
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| Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2011 10:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Ruthdes wrote: |
| RMNC wrote: |
It is literally impossible to "tone" one area of your body and it's a myth perpetrated by As-Seen-On-TV gimmick equipment. The only way to lose your flabby arms is to lose fat, which only comes off of your body from all over, not one area at once.
It has EVERYTHING to do with your diet. People's focus should be on lowering your overall bodyfat %, not "toning" one area. |
This is very true, and is one of the reasons people resort to medical interventions. I lost a lot of weight a few years back (which I have written about on this forum before), and became very skinny above the waist (as in ribs sticking out, many people telling me I was too skinny), but below the waist, I was far from having a flat stomach, and I retained the wide hips and thighs that are my genetic legacy. It's enough to make anyone look at medical intervention. I just have a moral problem with paying someone to make me look like what the media/society says I should look like, when that's obviously not how my body was made. If anyone has any advice about losing fat off my lower half, without looking anorexic on my upper half, I'd love to hear it. (FYI, I do 30 minutes of hard cardio at least 4 times a week, plus a fair wack of heavy-for-a-woman weights at least twice a week) |
Just date black guys. |
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Ruthdes
Joined: 16 Oct 2008
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 4:04 am Post subject: |
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| Just date black guys. |
 My boyfriend is black and yes, he does love that about me! I wish I could share his appreciation for it though 
Hmmm... as I said, I don't want to pay for that. The cost of my gym membership is my limit. I did actually do some free proof-reading for a friend of a friend who works at a company that manufactures a machine that does non-invasive liposuction (where ultrasound, vacuum and infrared radiation is used on the fat then your lymph glands excrete it). I got one free session on the machine in return, but you have to go around 10 times for it to work. I could have got a full cycle of sessions, but the guy was really creepy and kept making jokes about wanting to watch it happen, plus is was a really long way from my house and work, so I never went back. I don't want to pay for it, so I guess I'm doing it the old fashioned way and being happy that my bf thinks I'm hot  |
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DorkothyParker
Joined: 11 Apr 2009
Location: Jeju
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| Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 4:22 am Post subject: |
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| RMNC wrote: |
It is literally impossible to "tone" one area of your body and it's a myth perpetrated by As-Seen-On-TV gimmick equipment. The only way to lose your flabby arms is to lose fat, which only comes off of your body from all over, not one area at once.
It has EVERYTHING to do with your diet. People's focus should be on lowering your overall bodyfat %, not "toning" one area. |
You must mean the general "you" and not me because I plainly stated I am lowering my BFP. My diet is just fine.
I don't think anyone said they were trying to localize body fat loss. What are you going on about? |
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