Originally Posted by Richard Cranium
"The body loses its fat deposits at roughly the same rate all over the body"
Can you support that statement? I doubt it. Of course using the term "roughly" can mean just about anything.
Actually, a complex set of homones and enzymes determine whether fat is "mobilized" or contiunes to be stored in a given area during a caloric deficit.
Your statement's simplification regarding adipose tissues' mobilization and caloric-deficit driven lipid transport is just too inaccurate to be ignored.
Actually, you're correct. Men tend to lose fat from trunk first, then butt and thighs, chest, and arms last, per some research done by....John Berardi or Christian Thibbadeau - I can't remember at the moment. For women it's another story.
However, once you hit a certain fitness level, as this fella seems to be, then it DOES become relatively the same rate over the whole body. More often however, catabolism sets in when weight is lost beyond a certain percentage - especially if that person engages in "duration cardio" i.e. biking.