Question about fat deposits

I'm a 41 y/o male, been working out pretty hard since the beginning of the
year.
I lift on MWF, do cardio on the other days, and sometimes I even do some
more
cardio later on the days I lift. I'm up to 60-75 minutes on an elliptical
stair climber
machine. I've increased my protein intake, lowered intake of calories (not
excessively)
- particularly carbs and fat, and I take vitamins and a few other
supplements.

I read Tom Venuto's arcticles on "stubborn" body fat, and I like the
swimming
pool analogy he used - where it when on first all those years ago, it will
come
off last. I think I've made some decent headway the last 8 weeks:

1/2) weight 177, waist 36.5, body fat 24.1%
2/1) weight 167, waist 34, body fat 21.7%
2/22) weight 164, waist 33, body fat 17.3%

So far, I think I've made a decent start. I've noticed some nice gains in my
lifts,
and my overall muscularity is a lot closer to where it was when I was 30.
And
while I don't really have a specific target for ultimate body fat %, I'd
like to go
as low as I can, and I eventually want to get my waist size back down to
31".
I'm really committed to getting into the best shape of my life.

Here's my question: I still have the fat deposits in my lower abdomen,
waist,
and lower back. According to Venuto, this will be the LAST area that I see
the fat come off of. Is there a body fat percentage that I should expect to
start seeing this come off? Am I closing in on it?

Thx in advance,
Tony


--
What decade besides the 80s could give us a bunch of pretentious rock stars
thinking they could fix Africa by singing a song like "We Are The World?"

And it worked too. Just look at what great shape Africa is in today.

"Tony Cristaldi" <TCRISTALDISpamBlock.TakeThisOut@cfl.SpamBlock.rr.com> wrote in message
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>
> I'm a 41 y/o male, been working out pretty hard since the beginning of the
> year.
> I lift on MWF, do cardio on the other days, and sometimes I even do some
> more
> cardio later on the days I lift. I'm up to 60-75 minutes on an elliptical
> stair climber
> machine. I've increased my protein intake, lowered intake of calories (not
> excessively)
> - particularly carbs and fat, and I take vitamins and a few other
> supplements.
>
> I read Tom Venuto's arcticles on "stubborn" body fat, and I like the
> swimming
> pool analogy he used - where it when on first all those years ago, it will
> come
> off last. I think I've made some decent headway the last 8 weeks:
>
> 1/2) weight 177, waist 36.5, body fat 24.1%
> 2/1) weight 167, waist 34, body fat 21.7%
> 2/22) weight 164, waist 33, body fat 17.3%
>
> So far, I think I've made a decent start. I've noticed some nice gains in
> my
> lifts,
> and my overall muscularity is a lot closer to where it was when I was 30.
> And
> while I don't really have a specific target for ultimate body fat %, I'd
> like to go
> as low as I can, and I eventually want to get my waist size back down to
> 31".
> I'm really committed to getting into the best shape of my life.
>
> Here's my question: I still have the fat deposits in my lower abdomen,
> waist,
> and lower back. According to Venuto, this will be the LAST area that I see
> the fat come off of. Is there a body fat percentage that I should expect
> to
> start seeing this come off? Am I closing in on it?
>
> Thx in advance,
> Tony
>
>
> --
> What decade besides the 80s could give us a bunch of pretentious rock
> stars
> thinking they could fix Africa by singing a song like "We Are The World?"
>
> And it worked too. Just look at what great shape Africa is in today.
>
>

I'm at 12% bodyfat and it is all focused in the same area. Really annoying
too, I'm gonna work to get down to 8% at least momentarily to see if it will
go away. It's strange to be in such great shape and still have remnants of
the old love handles.