I've been maintaining ~10% body fat (9% according to the Navy tape test and 8% according to the YMCA tape test, but 10-12% seems more likely judging by the mirror) for some time now. In fact, I've been very slowly getting leaner, though not enough to register on the tape tests as a significant difference that would change my body fat estimates. At this body composition, I have high vascularity on the arms and some on the legs, a shoulder striation here and there, a pronounced v-taper, and slightly sunken cheeks. An adult's small shirt is generally slightly loose on me around the waist, so I have to wear children's shirts to not have that "hanging" effect (thank you, American vanity sizing).
"You look like an alien." My mother said that to me yesterday. She also told me I need to gain 20 pounds of fat -- not 20 pounds in general, but fat specifically -- to look ideal. According to my calculations, this would put me at 20% body fat, which is borderline clinical obesity. A 20 pound weight gain would also put my BMI at around 27, which is clinically overweight, as opposed to my healthy BMI of 24. Now, why would I need to gain 20 pounds of fat to look human? I asked this. One, my arms are too vascular and defined, and my wrists are too thin. (Yes, bluepillers, people do notice skinny wrists.) My face also looks malnourished, my legs are skinny, and my v-taper is too pronounced; basically cartoonish.
Now, I've been 20% body fat. I've also been 15% body fat. I look even worse at those percentages. At 20% fat, I have a shapeless moon face, hanging belly fat, a muffin top, a sagging chest, and thunder thighs. My wrists are still skinny, too, since as it turns out, getting fat doesn't make your bones bigger. 15% is, as you would imagine, somewhere between this and my current 10%, roughly the same shape as 10% but with the softness and lacking definition of 20%.
Does anyone else have family trying to make them look even worse on purpose? I have enough trouble looking decent as it is; I don't need to bloat back up to a skinny-fat 20% body fat and hide the few decent features I have behind lard.
"You look like an alien." My mother said that to me yesterday. She also told me I need to gain 20 pounds of fat -- not 20 pounds in general, but fat specifically -- to look ideal. According to my calculations, this would put me at 20% body fat, which is borderline clinical obesity. A 20 pound weight gain would also put my BMI at around 27, which is clinically overweight, as opposed to my healthy BMI of 24. Now, why would I need to gain 20 pounds of fat to look human? I asked this. One, my arms are too vascular and defined, and my wrists are too thin. (Yes, bluepillers, people do notice skinny wrists.) My face also looks malnourished, my legs are skinny, and my v-taper is too pronounced; basically cartoonish.
Now, I've been 20% body fat. I've also been 15% body fat. I look even worse at those percentages. At 20% fat, I have a shapeless moon face, hanging belly fat, a muffin top, a sagging chest, and thunder thighs. My wrists are still skinny, too, since as it turns out, getting fat doesn't make your bones bigger. 15% is, as you would imagine, somewhere between this and my current 10%, roughly the same shape as 10% but with the softness and lacking definition of 20%.
Does anyone else have family trying to make them look even worse on purpose? I have enough trouble looking decent as it is; I don't need to bloat back up to a skinny-fat 20% body fat and hide the few decent features I have behind lard.
