Sitting gives you a fat bum :-(

[Orchidgal]

Google informs me that sitting all day makes your bum big. Something about the constant pressure making fat accumulate in that spot.

This makes me sad because I’m in a sedentary desk job. I’ve been trying to lose weight but not thinking that my job means no matter where or how much lose, I’ll still have a comparatively fat arse.

Anybody here know the science? Or perhaps have successfully shed fat arses while still sitting 8+ hours a day?

Yep have heard that before.

Get a standing desk or get up and move every hour. You should be giving your eyes regular breaks anyway.

I sit all day, at a job I've been doing for 3 years and no fat bum yet, still boney, only padding is muscle I work hard to put on. So no, that's nonsense, fat is distributed mostly due to sex (female/male) and genetics

Ps, I'd love a fat arse

No it doesn’t.

Do all of your colleagues have butts that equate to the number of years in post? So 5 years =x size butt and 10 years =y size butt? Mine don't! Lifestyle around a sedentary job matters a lot!

Here’s an example of what I read. If somebody in the know fancies fact checking it I’m all ears!

https://nationalpost.com/health/sitting-too-much-causes-fat-cells-of-the-buttocks-to-expand-and-stiffen-promoting-obesity-study-finds-3/wcm/854c2447-0251-414e-b3a5-eb8b7b6662df/amp/

An interesting question 😂 I may sneak in with a tape measure tomorrow 🤭

But everyone wants a fat arse these days 🤣
When my teenage girls ask ‘does my bum look big in this?’, the desired answer is ‘yes! absolutely massive’.
Anyway I don’t think the theory can be true, otherwise surely all the people doing billions of squats and protein shakes in pursuit of a Kim k bum would just sit on the sofa instead, surely?

It’s funny how so many people want a big bum! I mean, it’s great as I have one 😆 But having grown up in the 90s with the heroin chic ideal no doubt ingrained somewhere in my psyche, it’s hard to get my head around the enthusiasm!

This is the kind of research data we need @Orchidgal !😂

I got a standing desk and a mat thing to stand on - absolute gamechanger :)

God I’d hate to end up as a stock ‘fat arsed woman’ photo

Do they ask for authorisation or could our images actually be a stock photo!

I often wonder this too 😄

I don’t think they ask. Like who is going to agree to an example of a fat arse pic. I think as long as it’s taken in public and you can’t identify them facially no permission is needed. But no one wants to click on something like that and think fuck sake that’s me.