I keep hearing “the first place you gain fat is the last place you lose it”. Is this true? If so, how does that work?

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In my experience with dieting and reading about fitness I’ve heard many many times that the first place you gain fat is the last place you lose it. Is that a myth? It sounds like myth to me. If it’s not a myth then the last place you gain fat is the first place you lose it, right?

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Well if your body is storing fat somewhere, and goes ‘oops getting a bit full here guess we should put it somewhere else’, it can then go ‘oh no we need some more energy, let’s get rid of the bits in the overflow first’.

It’s more nuanced and complicated than that, but it’s fairly eli5

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