For my wife...need help

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For my wife...help...
Ok so my wife has been doing great losing weight and I'm so proud of her. Here's her biggest issue...her problem areas she is considering surgery because she doesn't think exercise will help...
Back fat, belly sag(she's had a baby 2 yrs ago), and a neck hump due to poor posture and overly large breasts. Now the breast reduction is a definite, but what about the other things? Can she get rid of those areas with exercise and proper nutrition? She feels that because she thinks she's big boned she'll never be as skinny as she would like...Is this also true? I just want to support her in the right decisions and avoid surgery if at all possible...also if anyone has had similar setbacks and over came those I would love to see how u did it as well as pics of the results...
Thanks!
 
You can't target specific areas like back fat or other "problem areas", you put on and lose weight in a specific pattern which is unique to your own genetics.

Weight loss also needs to be done in such a way that you're losing fat and not lean body mass (muscle), doing tension training and weights to keep muscle percentage high while also dieting helps make sure you burn off remaining fat pockets and not lean muscle.

Most people on diets, especially those who lose weight quickly are burning a surprisingly high amount of muscle away, it means when the hit their target weights their fat to muscle ratio is really bad and they still have pockets of fat left.

When I started my weight loss I also started doing weights to build muscle, I'm not losing as much overall weight per week, but the weight I am losing is mostly fat which is better.

Loose skin can appear worse when it also carries a lot of fat which is common amongst weight loss, ideally she needs to do some measurements for body fat percentage, it could be quite high, in which case she'll need to build muscle back up (which will cause weight gain) and then lose the remaining fat through exercise rather than diet.

Big bones is a bit of a myth, it can alter body build but not to the point where you retain fat, you can always burn off excess fat you just have to be careful how you do it. You want to be at your target weight but you want as much of that weight to be lean body mass as possible.
 
I would suggest continuing to lose weight and getting down to a healthy weight (preferably get medical advice on what that would be, but if not working to get somewhere in a healthy BMI range- for example. I've got a goal weight based on a weight I've been as an adult, but I've asked my friends to tell me if I'm getting too thin and I should stop losing weight). Definitely work on strength/ resistance training to make sure that there's an appropriate ratio of fat to muscle so she doesn't look flabby or saggy when she's a healthy weight.

I'll agree with what's been said above, with caveats. Spot training is for all intents and purposes a myth, but the fat will generally go (as the poster above said, where and how much depends on genetics- my thighs have remained large, for example, but they've always been large, that's my genetics. Was she thin as a teenager? That should give her/ you an idea of the kind of shape, more or less, that she'll be able to return to, apart from post-pregnancy changes. I've never been pregnant and I've returned to pretty much the shape I was when I was 16).

Breasts will shrink with weight loss (I've lost the better part of a cup size losing ~30 pounds) but if they're very large much of it is probably genetic so won't change. I think permanent changes to the stomach are also typical after pregnancy (but again, I've never been pregnant, not exactly something I know heaps about).

I wouldn't say that being "big boned" is entirely a myth. People do have different bone structures. For example, I'm currently in a healthy weight range (want to lose about 10 more pounds). My hips are still quite big compared to a lot of women. But it's not fat- there's almost no padding on the sides of my pelvic region, and the bone is very clearly discernable. The shape of my skeleton means that I'll always have larger hips than average. So that's something else to keep in mind- she'll probably be able to be thin and have an attractive body shape (I hate the word "skinny", to me that makes me think "anorexic"), but it may not be the body shape she's after. Blame genetics.

Re the neck bump, are you or your wife sure that's fat? It sounds like some sort of injury. Would it be worthwhile seeing a physiotherapist/ physical therapist to have it checked out?
 
i,m also trying to lose belly fats but have no time for exercise
my question is
Is the dieting is enough for this?
 
Yes, dieting is actually the most effective way of losing weight.

Calorie deficit is what causes weight loss and you can get a large deficit by diet, exercise helps but you need to do a lot of exercise to only lose a few calories.
 
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