It is hiding part of the size of your penis, but it will not prevent you from growing it. If you were to lose some of the fat pad, you would gain NBPEL. It is smart to lose fat WHILE doing PE and to maximize your gains, in fact DLD talks about that heavily in the [words=http://www.mattersofsize.com/forum/showthread.php?64036-My-Best-Work-Ever-Penis-Enlargement-will-Be-Changed-Forever-gt-gt-Gain%20inches%20with%20SRT-Theory-and-Routine]
SRT[/words] write-up.