Aerobic exercise stimulates the adipocytes to release lots of fat. That fat will be burned by the muscles during exercise, and if not, it returns to the adipocytes for storage.
Weightlifting also stimulates the adipocytes to release fat. Another advantage to weightlifting is that it builds muscle. Muscle is the engine that burns calories and sets your metabolic rate. It's a good thing to have lots of muscle, so any weightlifting is beneficial. Not only that, but when you lose weight, you lose some muscle too, which makes it harder to lose more weight (remember that muscle burns the calories), so weightlifting during weight loss helps preserve the muscle, and also enhances your ability to lose and maintain weight.
Weightlifting will tone muscles, too. If you do leg exercises like lunges, it will tone the muscle under the fat, and that will improve the contour of the leg, but it will not remove fat. Likewise, abdominal exercises will tone and tighten the abdominal muscles, and your pants may even fit looser even though you don't lose weight.
There is evidence that adipocytes in the hips, thighs, and buttocks tend to resist releasing fat into the blood stream. It seems these adipocytes are stubborn, and they don't like to give up fat. This is not good news for people, women especially, who want to lose fat in their thighs, hips, and buttocks, but it does provide some explanation as to why it is difficult for women to lose the fat in their lower extremities. On the other hand, there is evidence that adipocytes in the abdomen do release fat into the blood stream easier than lower extremity fat. That's probably one of the reasons why men can lose their gut faster than women can lose their hips. The adipocytes in the abdomen seem to cooperate more.
For women, pregnancy, childbirth, and menopause are also factors in how much weight and body fat you accumulate and lose. Of course, age is a factor, too.
Cellulite is caused by irregular patterns of connective tissue beneath the skin, and as the adipose (fatty) tissue, which forms in compartments of little honeycombs, pushes into the skin, it causes the dimpling of cellulite. It has been shown that people who have cellulite have different patterns of connective tissue than people who don't, and men tend to have this pattern much less than women. Cellulite is not directly a function of excess weight, but a genetic difference in the way adipose tissue and connective tissue form. In fact, cellulite affects people whether they are overweight or not. Skin creams sold to reduce cellulite make the skin swell so that the appearance of the cellulite changes, but the effects are transient, don't look that good, and do nothing to change the structure of the connective tissue. Biochemically, cellulite does not behave any differently than other fat and there is no health risk to cellulite. Weight loss and exercise can have some effect on cellulite, but in many of the cases it does not significantly change the appearance.
Diet is important. No matter how much exercise you do, if the calories consumed exceed the calories burned, you will not lose weight or fat.
People frequently report that they recently started exercising and dieting. Recently could mean a few days to several months. Patience and realistic expectations are important when it comes to weight loss and fitness. You can expect significant improvements in strength in 8-12 weeks, weight loss of 1-2 pounds per week (but often less for many people), some muscle tone in 8-12 weeks, and improvements in mass in 3-12 months. All of these time frames are estimates, and the results depend on how much body fat and muscle you have to start, your fitness level when you start, age, gender, length of time you have been sedentary and overweight, how often and how hard you workout, diet, and perhaps most important, genetics.
The bottom line to losing fat in the hips, thighs, buttocks, love handles, or anywhere else is to stimulate the adipocytes through exercise to release fat into the blood stream. You can't spot reduce for the reasons I've mentioned. Fat you burn will come from all over the body. Lunges will not stimulate the leg muscles to lose more fat first, and abdominal exercises will not stimulate fat loss in the abdomen.
Finally, there are things we have control over, and things we don't. As much as we exercise, as much as we diet, we may never have the "perfect" body that we desire, and it's not our fault.
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