Where does your ass go?

[Clematis]

This makes no sense to me. I’ve lost this amount of weight in the past several times but my ass just went from enormous to big — even at an anorexic 110 I had a wide, full butt. Now it’s completely and totally (and weirdly) flat. It’s not just about weight loss. My stomach is much smaller but still visible and sticks out farther than the backside. My breasts are much smaller but still there. My ass is just gone. Is it because the remaining butt fat slides down into the bagged out, empty thighs? Does the fat malabsorption of the DS somehow redistribute fat? There has to be some medical or physics explanation.

(And on a similar subject, why do many people’s calves remain stocky even when they are at goal?)

 

[Susan in Tennessee]

I can't answer your question why "baby not got back", but when I have lost in the past butt and boobs are first to go, stomach not so much. But I have always thought calves remain stocky ( muscular)due to all the weight bearing exercise they have received.

 

[Spiky Bugger]

I think we melt from the top down...

 

[southernlady]

I lost my weight first in my face, then my ass. Now I've never had a large ass...genetics just didn't give me one.

And yes, the remaining fat does redistribute but usually not until a year or so out. Mine all moved to my middle which needed NO help at all.

 

[southernlady]

Oh and I got told by my vein specialist (had my varicous veins fixed about a year post op) that I had NO excess fat on my legs.

 

[DSRIGGS]

I have afflicted with a bad case of noassitol. I was very athletic as a younger man and have always been solid as a rock with strong legs. My freaking legs are bird legs right now and my calves have lose wrinkly skin around them.

Oh well.

 

[Munchkin]

Even when I was fat, I was the queen of flatbutt. Now I am still the queen of wrinkly flatbutt. I never for 1 minute had an ass. I need to have my gut transplanted to my ass. Take care of 2 problems at once.

 

[aaa]

I had a large bottom. Now it's flat. I've always felt it was the fat redistribution and/or malabsorption. Look at your inner arm (wrist to elbow). Is the skin thinner? Can you see your veins much more than you could before?

 

[Clematis]

Look at your inner arm (wrist to elbow). Is the skin thinner? Can you see your veins much more than you could before?

Probably not the best place to measure anything for me. I've always had very long thin arms like a spider monkey. And I am pale Scottish-transparent so have always been able to see every vein. Actually if I get my arms in the right position and nothing is twisted or pinched by clothing, my arms look pretty good. But if I so much as twist my arm, the skin looks like crepe paper. Because my arms are naturally thin, even the bat wings aren;t too noticeable as long as I don't move or they wiggle and sway. (But I won't be wearing sleeveless shirts.)

Perhaps the answer to the question "Where does your ass go?" is "Who cares as long as it doesn't come back."

 

[southernlady]

Probably not the best place to measure anything for me. I've always had very long thin arms like a spider monkey. And I am pale Scottish-transparent so have always been able to see every vein. Actually if I get my arms in the right position and nothing is twisted or pinched by clothing, my arms look pretty good. But if I so much as twist my arm, the skin looks like crepe paper. Because my arms are naturally thin, even the bat wings aren;t too noticeable as long as I don't move or they wiggle and sway. (But I won't be wearing sleeveless shirts.)

Perhaps the answer to the question "Where does your ass go?" is "Who cares as long as it doesn't come back."

AMEN! Just makes it hard to find the right jeans. Esp when all your weight is still residing in your middle and you want a waistline that actually comes close to hitting the waist! (aka mom jeans, my generation).

My bat wings aren't too bad. Yes, I have them but no worse than most women with a bit of weight and over 60. But unlike you, I am of the age AND opinion that comfort comes first. If I go sleeveless, so be it. If others don't like it, they don't have to look. It gets too damned humid here in the South to worry.

 

[SmilinsShrinking]

I was visiting with a client of mine about wearing sleeveless shirts. I was at the time 360 saying I wear them, she was maybe 160 saying she just can't, because of her arms. I told her my thought process was, 'Even if I wear sleeves, people still know I'm chubby. Besides, tan chub is cuter than pale chub.'

 

[Clematis]

It's not the batwings on my freckly, alabaster arms that keep me from sleeveless shirts but my armpit scrotums. If you don;t know what I'm talking about, you didn't have the ball of fat/breast tissue in the lower front of your armpit that when deflated with weight loss looks like a wrinkly, saggy scrotum. When I get a breast lift, those bad boys are outta here. Maybe then I'll reconsider sleeveless.

 

[Charris]

@Clematis where does your ass go? AWAY!!!!!

 

[hilary1617]

I *still* have back... Bubble butt. Oh well. Something upon which to sit!

 

[Charris]

Lucky you @hilary1617 . I had a shelf now I have saggy sharpei looking skin talk about bad luck. In 2000 with rny went from DD to A cup
Now with DS I have no azz.........