Question about Fat Oxidation, Blood Flow, and Body Heat

[skelooth]

I have huge love handles. My love handles stick out much further than my belly does, and over the course of losing 65+lbs, they have shrunk the absolute slowest (and have actually only really begun shrinking recently).

I was standing in the bathroom taking a pee, when I realized. My love handles have a slight red/pink discoloration to them. So I press my finger on them and it leaves a "white spot" for a second or two. Furthermore, I realized something else, my love handles are cold to the touch, where as the rest of my body is warm/normal temperature.

Are the cold temperatures and slight discoloration a sign of poor blood flow to these areas? Would this cause the fat in these areas to not be burnt for fuel? If so, is there any way to increase blood flow there?

I really, really hate my love handles, and would love to know if there is a way to get my body to chop away at them faster. Thanks. (Even more so, I'm scared that my body is not chopping away at them as fast as it should be).

[manthemachine]

Hey Skelooth. When pressing your finger into your "love handles" this is whats known as capillary refill. Medics use this to determine ones bloodflow. The correct response time for bloodflow is around two to three seconds, so looks like your in the clear. The white spot is the blood being blanched, or pushed out of your tissue. Usually a Capillary refill test is done by pushing down on a fingernail, waiting for the nail to be blanched, and then released. Hope this helps.

[randomality]

try putting some warm packs around it, and massage it to increase blood flow to the area. it helped for me a little.

[melon]

Everybody has different preferred fat storage areas. Unluckily for you it seems your body wants to hang on to its love handles! But don't worry, they will eventually be burnt off - it wouldn't make sense for the body to lay down stores that it then can't use.

Great job on the loss so far!