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What Causes Stubborn Fat? Why Some Fat Won’t Budge No Matter How Much You Work Out

You've cleaned up your diet. You're hitting the gym consistently. The scale is even moving in the right direction. But that pocket of stubborn fat on your lower belly, your flanks, or the underside of your arms just sits there, unchanged. A few different factors can be at play when fat refuses to respond to diet and exercise, from receptor activity to hormones to genetics. Dr. Maningas and Dr. Baker offer several treatment options at our Joplin practice designed to target stubborn fat directly when you have hit that wall. What Makes Fat "Stubborn" The fat that resists diet and exercise is usually subcutaneous fat, the layer just beneath your...