Was your belly the last to go?

[Justwanttocomment]

I’m a stone and a half down, with around the same left to go. I know everyone is different but I’m just wondering if for most people if belly flab was the last thing to go? I am exercising, mix of cardio and weights. In reality I think I’m just at that impatient stage.

For me, yea it was. I lost 4 stone, it’s ok considering my age and weight loss but is a little deflated balloon, although really not that bad.

Interesting – for me, the scale is being really slow to move but I've gone from a very tight size 16 to an indisputable size 12 and just this morning I wondered if that was because of my belly fat going

Erm, that was meant to say JEANS, i.e. relevant to waist size

Not exactly. The fat went off my middle first , then everywhere else, then what remained seems to have relocated itself to my abdomen again. Hey ho. I've kept 12 kilos off so that'll do me.

Yeah. I’ve lost 7 stone, have gone from a size 20 to an 8-10 and yet I’ve STILL got a belly. Some of it is excess skin and some is diastasis recti from when I had DC, but there is defo still fat that is refusing to budge.

I think it will depend on your shape. If you are an apple, then belly will be the last to go for sure.

Pear shaped it will be the hips/bottom/thighs

I am an hour glass, so the weight tends to come off my belly/waist quite quickly, but it's pretty evenly spread across my body to be fair. Although for me it feels like my arms are the last to reduce.

Yes. My arms and legs are lean, my face is starting to look a bit gaunt even, but my belly hangs on (literally) till the bitter end!

Wow @Eminybob that's a fantastic result. I am also a size 20 and am 10 days into my mounjaro journey! I also have diastasis recti, I can't imagine every having a flat tummy honestly it's like a beer belly after multiple csections. If I lift it up I look about 6 months pregnant 😱

I don’t expect mine to go completely. Even my naturally very skinny friends who’ve had children have a squashy bit of spare tyre there. But it has shrunk.

Yes. I am nearly at BMI 22 and still the spare tyre persists. I didn't have it when I was last this weight, which was 20 years ago. I would love to shift it, but that will probably involve the rest of me getting too thin (I am old so the thin parts look pretty wrinkly), so I may have to live with it.

Mine wouldn't go completely unless I dropped about 5 dress sizes, which I can't be arsed with. I still have a belly but it's definitely shrunk- I take my measurements with a tape measure as well as weigh.

The very outside of my thighs are still the worst for me, the only place left I have fat. Saddlebags. Had no idea they were there until I got to a size 8 and I don’t remember them being there as a 20 year old.
I have no belly left.

Back fat went first, belly fat has gone down but after a c-section it’s a bit of an apron so I don’t think it’ll ever properly go. My stomach is more defined now though, I can see the proper outline of muscle (was hidden for a long time 😂)

I'm down to a size 10 and BMI 23 and I've still got a belly. Its a surprise to me, as the biggest part of me was always my bum. Unfortunately, my bum is now flat and my face has sagged, but I've still got a podgy belly, above and below belly button. I think i need to dramatically reduce the sugar and carbs to stand any chance of reducing it.

Don't regret the MJ though.