It's really weird because my upper body is shrinking, but my lower body is still fat or getting fatter :(
Should I stop working my lower body because it's getting bigger and I'm getting more stretching marks, but in this case will I still be lossing fats from it by just working my upper body plus the cardio?

It's really weird because my upper body is shrinking, but my lower body is still fat or getting fatter :(
Should I stop working my lower body because it's getting bigger and I'm getting more stretching marks, but in this case will I still be lossing fats from it by just working my upper body plus the cardio?


I can help you if you post your diet, it could be your diet?

A day sample
Cal/Carbs/Protein/Fats
8:00 AM
Bread, 2 slices whole-grain 160/29.6/6.4/2.4
Cheese, low fats 210/1.4/4.4/3.2
Tomato slice 4.2/0.9/0.2/0.1
A cup of coffee 1.8/0.2/0.1/0

10:30AM
Skimmed milk with chocolate powder155/22.7/7.6/3.7
Banana 105/27/1.3/0.4

1:00PM
Tuna 100g 189/0/21.1/0.11
Cabbage 31/7.4/1/0.4
Whole-grain bread 80/14.8/3.2/1.2
Olive oil (1 tsp) 39.8/0/0/39.8
Some lettuce 15/2.8/1.4/0.2
Tomato 25.8/5.7/1/0.4

4:30PM
Skimmed milk with chocolate powder or low-fat yogurt
An apple or a banana

7:30PM
Some lettuce 15/2.8/1.4/0.2
2 egg white (each)17.2/0.2/3.6/0.1
1 whole egg 77.5/0.6/6.3/5.3
Potatoes 118/27.4/2.5/0.1

Total cal = 1550-1650 c
C=54%
F=20%
P=26%

sometimes these changes but still in the range.

My metabolic rate is 1,330
My Total burn is 2,195
BF=23%
acorrding to Mybodycomp.com.
5'5",124 lb, 21 yrs

Don't trust the mybodycomp figures. My scale reports at least 3% lower than the figures it give me. I've never had it checked, so I'm not sure which is closer to the truth, so I'm trying not to believe either.

It was FIVE months before I achieved any shrinkage at all in my thighs. I hardly worked them at all for the first four months, and it wasn't until I started doing glute kickbacks and dumbbell bench step ups that I really noticed a difference. Probably just a coincidence where I'd finally lost enough fat. It was really hanging on tight.

I balance my upper body lifting about equally with lower now, and I'm pleased with the increased definition I'm achieving in my legs.

A day sample
Cal/Carbs/Protein/Fats
8:00 AM
Bread, 2 slices whole-grain 160/29.6/6.4/2.4
Cheese, low fats 210/1.4/4.4/3.2
Tomato slice 4.2/0.9/0.2/0.1
A cup of coffee 1.8/0.2/0.1/0

10:30AM
Skimmed milk with chocolate powder155/22.7/7.6/3.7
Banana 105/27/1.3/0.4

1:00PM
Tuna 100g 189/0/21.1/0.11
Cabbage 31/7.4/1/0.4
Whole-grain bread 80/14.8/3.2/1.2
Olive oil (1 tsp) 39.8/0/0/39.8
Some lettuce 15/2.8/1.4/0.2
Tomato 25.8/5.7/1/0.4

4:30PM
Skimmed milk with chocolate powder or low-fat yogurt
An apple or a banana

7:30PM
Some lettuce 15/2.8/1.4/0.2
2 egg white (each)17.2/0.2/3.6/0.1
1 whole egg 77.5/0.6/6.3/5.3
Potatoes 118/27.4/2.5/0.1

Total cal = 1550-1650 c
C=54%
F=20%
P=26%

sometimes these changes but still in the range.

My metabolic rate is 1,330
My Total burn is 2,195
BF=23%
acorrding to Mybodycomp.com.
5'5",124 lb, 21 yrs


You ll have to cut down your carbs a little and up ur protein intake a lot to 40% of ur diet.

It's not that I'm not lossing fats, but my upper body is getting kinda skinny (and I don't want to shrink more) while my lower body is big.
Maybe it's a matter of time ...

It's not that I'm not lossing fats, but my upper body is getting kinda skinny (and I don't want to shrink more) while my lower body is big.
Maybe it's a matter of time ...

That is the way girls are. It is a matter of first on, last off for the most part. I am not sure if your complaint includes breasts, remember they are mostly fat cells. I am sure when all is said and done, you will be happy with results as things even out. Just work all body parts, you can't spot reduce.

That is the way girls are. It is a matter of first on, last off for the most part. I am not sure if your complaint includes breasts, remember they are mostly fat cells.

I have lost almost all my breast :d_frown: whish I could have loose it over my dummy abs, but Yep, as you aid it is almost fat cells