Is a flat stomach always attainable for a woman?

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  • CMNVA
    CMNVA Posts: 733 Member
    I had a very flat stomach until I had my first child. It's not too bad now (I'm in my 50s now) but it would probably never be very flat. I think I *could* get it there with excessive working out and very little body fat.

    I do still have the thigh gap though!! Honestly, it all comes down to how you're built and there's very little you can do about certain features that's against your natural build.
  • Thehardmakesitworthit
    Thehardmakesitworthit Posts: 838 Member
    Yeah....no....LOL. Highly doubtful HOWEVER when I lay down and suck it in until I cannot breath....well what I see makes me smile... have lost 79 pounds with about 30 to go but its good. :)
  • usmcmp
    usmcmp Posts: 21,219 Member
    Flat 24/7? Absolutely not.

    Flat for the most part? Depends on if you're willing to put in that kind of long term effort. Having a flat stomach comes down to adequate lean mass and low body fat (and for some improving posture). With the exception of excess skin I believe everyone is physically capable of attaining a flat stomach. I don't think everyone has a supportive lifestyle or the long term drive to build the muscle and get that lean.

    This is a handy infographic about what it takes to get to that:
    http://www.precisionnutrition.com/cost-of-getting-lean-infographic
  • nowine4me
    nowine4me Posts: 3,985 Member
    Ain't happening for me, and that's okay.
  • Sp1tfire
    Sp1tfire Posts: 1,120 Member
    You have to eat, and the food has to go somewhere, so no, not attainable.
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    This thread has made me feel so much better about my unflat stomach :lol:
  • Meghanebk
    Meghanebk Posts: 321 Member
    Is a flat stomach attainable? Sure if you remove a few internal organs. And never eat a full meal at a time.

    We're conditioned by extremely thin models to think flat=normal/ideal, when really, it's not.

    You can work on strength training and core exercises, but even with that you might have to lower body fat to unhealthy levels to get a "flat" stomach, and even then it might not work.
  • bioklutz
    bioklutz Posts: 1,365 Member
    I have a flat stomach a few days a month - totally related to where I am at in my menstrual cycle. This is assuming I have not had any alcohol or an extremely large meal or a crazy high sodium day during the flat tummy time of the month. :p

    This is a small gallery of ladies showing side by side photos of bloated vs not bloated.
    https://www.self.com/gallery/bloat-roundup
  • EatingAndKnitting
    EatingAndKnitting Posts: 531 Member
    I have always been overweight, or large anyway, but when I was twelve or so and just starting my period cycles I had a fairly flat stomach. I think I carried my weight well is all, because I was larger than all the girls my age (I was 5'6 and 130 with a 32" waist at 12, and thought I was soooooooooo fat. Hah! I wish I was still that fat). Except for a pouch under my belly button. I postulated that that was my uterus and normal for a woman. It's good to read here that I was right.
  • ladyhusker39
    ladyhusker39 Posts: 1,406 Member
    This is a very interesting thread. I love reading everyone's thoughts on this. It's one of those things that I've always wondered how it even became a thing to aspire to. Why do women care so much about having a flat stomach? And how did that become a measure of health or worse of beauty? I'm truly not trying to be mean so I hope I'm not coming across that way. I just sometimes marvel at the things that are "things" lol.
  • GottaBurnEmAll
    GottaBurnEmAll Posts: 7,722 Member
    It won't be for me. A 9 lb 4 oz baby at 40? (That was 15 years ago) There was no bouncing back from that. I bounced back from my first pregnancy just fine, but my stomach skin on my very short-waisted torso noped out of that one. I have a lot of loose skin. It's all crepey now.
  • EatingAndKnitting
    EatingAndKnitting Posts: 531 Member
    ladyhusker39 wrote: »
    This is a very interesting thread. I love reading everyone's thoughts on this. It's one of those things that I've always wondered how it even became a thing to aspire to. Why do women care so much about having a flat stomach? And how did that become a measure of health or worse of beauty? I'm truly not trying to be mean so I hope I'm not coming across that way. I just sometimes marvel at the things that are "things" lol.

    Hollywood and fashion magazines. All the pictures of women you see they have impossibly flat stomachs. All the movie stars have flat stomachs, even three weeks after having a baby. (Almost)

    It's peer pressure and it's inescapable.

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