Neck fat - specific exercises? Please reply!

I have a slim body build, and have little fat around the navel area.
However, the thing that annoys me the most is the fat around my neck!
The fat that surrounds my neck is very stretchy, and when I lower or bend my head, it is very noticeable and you can see layers of fat which look extremely ugly (like a roly-poly dog) . My
BMI is just over 16 (175cm and 50kg).

My question is, are there any special exercises/workouts which I can relatively easily do to reduce this neck fat (e.g. once a day??), without going into taking medications, etc...??? It seems that no amount of exercise can remove it... I regularly play tennis, do swimming, basketball and cross-country, but to no avail! I even tried to go on a diet but that didn't work either... Please help!!!

Thanks!!

p.s. If it helps, I am 16 years old.

Jesus Christ, Brad, she's *sixteen* years old. Plastic surgery at her age is a ridiculous thing to even consider especially for a "fat neck". Trust me, Cecelia, probably no one else but you notices. But if they do, they are really scrapping the bottom of the barrel for things to tease/criticize you for! Just write them off as a moron and move on with your life.

I remember my best friend in high school spending hours, literally,
HOURS with a curling iron trying to get the curls to go in JUST THE
RIGHT WAY. She had some idea of how she was supposed to look that absolutely no one else cared about. In fact, her focus on this issue made her less fun to be around.

I had a theory in high school that I was basically invisible. No one
CARED what I looked like (besides me) and the only time anyone else ever noticed was just to consider how THEY looked in comparison. If I looked particularly good I'd make people feel bad because I looked better than them. If I looked particularly bad I'd make people feel good because they at least looked better than me. The point is, it was all about
THEM! They didn't give a flying F*** about how *I* actually looked except how it related to them. Life was happier for me after I figured this out.

The answer to your question, Cecilia, is that your particular personal body has vagaries all it's own. It's what makes you look like you. No one cares if you tend to carry fat in your neck, and neither should you. You should aim to be the best CECILIA you can be, but get rid of ideas that you ought not to have skin folds when you look down (how ridiculous is that, I mean, where's the skin supposed to go?!?) Be thankful if you don't tend to have thick ankles or lots of body fat packed around your organs. But no, there is not such thing as spot reducing. Everyone carries their fat deposits in slightly different places.

In fact, at 16 you are just about to start to form more fat deposits on your thighs and hips - be aware that actual women just HAVE those. You need something like 18% - 22% bodyfat to function well, and that is going to come as a HUGE shock to you. (I put on 10 pounds of fat in my last two years in high school despite being a three season athlete: in other words, I got hips and boobs.)

Being that you're only 16, your body shape is probably going to change with time.

I don't know if this will help you, but it did help me from having fat around my chin and neck with weight loss. This is not the same, because I as very overweight at one time, and now I am not. You on the other hand, are no where near overweight.

What I did find helped me to eliminate the double chin and slim down my neck are shoulder lifts, front and side raises:
http://www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/DeltoidAnterior/ DBFrontRaise.html

The raises are the same but you lift your arms to the sides. I do mine at the same time as opposed to alternating as shown in the clip above.

However, I would add a complete upper body workout to make sure you work out all the muscle groups. You can find out more about women's weight lifting at the site above and at:
http://www.stumptuous.com/weights.html

Good luck.

Barbara Hirsch, Publisher

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