Weight distribution

Just wondering but how long does it take before the fat that seems to just go straight to your stomach during gaining start to redistribute? I am having a really hard time believing that it is ever going to move off of my tummy...I have always had the flattest stomach ever so this is just really hard for me. Please tell me this is just temporary!

i'm going through it too...i think it sort of evens out...like right now it looks like the tummy is SUPER big...well mine does...but once everything else gets normal size it won't be so bad and will kind of balance out. our organs are most important which is why fat centralizes there before going elsewhere..no need to panic though...give it time. we have 3 months before summer time so that's plenty to allow things to get better. i am kinda eager...i hate my chicken legs and refused to wear a swimsuit, short, skirts, or even short sleeves last year because i was TOO SKINNY and people looked at me so I am pretty thrilled. it will be better trust me =)

ughh i really hope so...this is just freaking me out. I keep thinking it will never go back to the way it was before I lost weight. Why did I have to go and ruin a perfectly wonderful body? Sometimes you just wonder how in the heck you got here. :(

It takes time but it happens. I'm going through this again where I lost weight after gaining and then it redistrubuting - damnit, I had a butt and I've lost it again and now I am, as chrissy put it, chicken-legged. |: But it happens. The initial gain around the abdominal area (that's not just your stomach but your thighs and hips) is because your body initially starts protecting your organs - and most of them are in that area! Your kidneys, your liver, your digestive system, your ovaries and other reproductive organs... and it is also a hormonal response.

But it does happen. Thankfully the one benefit of it having distributed for me before is knowing that even if I am going through it again now it will go back to normal again. But only if you keep up your eating, so your body trusts you enough that oh, you're not going to starve anymore, so it doesn't have to pad out around your organs!

Well the belly is the last place the fat will burn because ther is where fat is mainly stored, so you will first burn fat all over ur body, and then ur gona burn the fat from ur belly =D... i hav problems with that as well lol, i have lean arms, but i just cant get a 6pak... its lyk imposible :S

Dadivan... they're not trying to burn fat, this is about weight distribution during regain, particularly in recovery from anorexia nervosa. However, you are right about it not being possible to spot lose weight, but that is not the issue at hand.

OOOOOO GOOOT IT!! SOZ! well that would depend from person to person right?

i've always found it interesting that those in recovery first gain all their weight in their tummy area, but that doesn't seem to apply to me...or maybe i just never noticed??? all i know is that i've got hips and thighs now, but i'm still scrawny on top. i'm hoping the redistribution happens because i feel awkward with this shape, which makes me feel like i am larger than i really am. because i'm not - it's just the lack of proportion that makes it appear that way.

lately though, i've noticed that my arms are a tad larger (just a tad though :(), so i suppose it does happen. i'm not sure how the body knows where to put the weight, but i think we should just trust it.

Ya I know exactly what you mean...I feel like my arms, ribs, and back are what REALLY need the weight gain. It is so frustrating to have the weight gain go to the places that don't look bad. I wish I had a magic wand and could fix it all haha Guess I will just have to wait this out. :/

I know what you mean yogurtqueen! I feel like my arms, ribs, etc have not changed much but my thighs and stomach have gotten bigger.

I am glad to hear it will redistribute with time. :-)

That is good to know, because I've been struggling with that lately, too. Even though I'm still under the weight I maintained for years before my disorder, my pants from that time are fitting me differently and I feel uncomfortable about that. My waist/hip size is larger than before my disorder but my thighs are still thinner than before. It's very tempting to want to take my meal plan control into my own hands to "fix" this process but I know that's just the fast lane to relapse.

my belly is humongous...i've actually even had a kid make fun of me at school because of it...i can't wait for this weight to distribute....how long do you think it will take once the gaining is over for the weight to distribute...a month? longer? i know everyone is different but what do you guys think?

It takes about a month, maybe two. But what is imperative is that you DO NOT DROP YOUR INTAKE. It will distribute.

One other thing to remember? Your own view of your body is going to be warped to a degree. What you see as "big", "huge", etc, may really... not be.

well to me have been even more odd and I still do not understan what is happening but I just hope it doesn't change till I reach my goal of calories intake, Im 400 cals far and 4 weeks of increasing, but well I still keep my measurements the same than at the begining, I just have gained a pair of cms in my but  and legs and instead I lost some cms n my waist and low abs and hips!!! but... I have gained like 4 or 5 pounds (maybe more)  but I cant notice where... basically I am the same, I feel more energized now and I am not so far of my daily needs but I dont know where that weight has gone... maybe could that be muscle? Im hard weight lifting like crazy but someone told me it was virtually impossible to gain muscle without gaining fat also... is that true?