ropeorcope
Hopeless copelet
- Joined
- May 18, 2020
- Posts
- 211
- Reputation
- 556
This is my first post here in many years, this is a question I've wondered the answer to for a long time and thought that maybe there are some high-IQcels here who have a good understanding of the underlying mechanisms for how our body stores body fat that could be able to answer it.
We all know that generally speaking, the lower someone's bodyfat % is, the leaner and less recessed their face looks since their facial bones and structure become more prominent and defined, and this is the most potent looksmaxxing method outside of surgery. However, bodyfat % is purely a calculation based on the lbs of fat on their body relative to their total mass, and doesn't take fat distribution into account.
This brings me to my question: If someone lowers their bodyfat % primarily by increasing their lean mass but not lowering their fat mass, will their face get leaner?
Let's say theoretically you had a skinnyfat incel with a bodyfat% of 20% who weighs 140lbs. Based on his bf%, it means he has 28lbs of fat mass (20% of 140), and as expected for someone being this fat, he has a fat face and looks recessed. He then gymmaxxes for years and even hops on a few roid cycles and puts on 40lbs of pure muscle but doesn't lose nor gain any fat. He now weighs 180lbs but still has the same 28lbs of fat mass, which means his body fat % would now be about 15%. Would his face be leaner? Would that have the same effect on his face fat as if he had just lost 7lbs of fat while not gaining any muscle (which also would place him at 15% bf)? How would that work, did his body magically break down the fat on his face and start redistributing it elsewhere?
Obviously the example is extreme but it just serves to illustrate my point. My hypothesis is that no, his face would not appear any leaner because the body doesn't break down and redistribute fat that way. And thus bodyfat % as a marker for facial leanness is not as reliable as it may seem since it doesn't take a lot of factors into account.
TLDR: Does fat redistribute itself when lean mass is increased?
We all know that generally speaking, the lower someone's bodyfat % is, the leaner and less recessed their face looks since their facial bones and structure become more prominent and defined, and this is the most potent looksmaxxing method outside of surgery. However, bodyfat % is purely a calculation based on the lbs of fat on their body relative to their total mass, and doesn't take fat distribution into account.
This brings me to my question: If someone lowers their bodyfat % primarily by increasing their lean mass but not lowering their fat mass, will their face get leaner?
Let's say theoretically you had a skinnyfat incel with a bodyfat% of 20% who weighs 140lbs. Based on his bf%, it means he has 28lbs of fat mass (20% of 140), and as expected for someone being this fat, he has a fat face and looks recessed. He then gymmaxxes for years and even hops on a few roid cycles and puts on 40lbs of pure muscle but doesn't lose nor gain any fat. He now weighs 180lbs but still has the same 28lbs of fat mass, which means his body fat % would now be about 15%. Would his face be leaner? Would that have the same effect on his face fat as if he had just lost 7lbs of fat while not gaining any muscle (which also would place him at 15% bf)? How would that work, did his body magically break down the fat on his face and start redistributing it elsewhere?
Obviously the example is extreme but it just serves to illustrate my point. My hypothesis is that no, his face would not appear any leaner because the body doesn't break down and redistribute fat that way. And thus bodyfat % as a marker for facial leanness is not as reliable as it may seem since it doesn't take a lot of factors into account.
TLDR: Does fat redistribute itself when lean mass is increased?
