Limitations on waist

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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,377 Member
    SModa61 wrote: »
    @annpt77 I just ordered the last copy off of amazon. I'll have it this Thursday. Thank you for the recommendation. That's amazing to here that there are so many atheletes in the upper age catagories.

    I hope I haven't oversold it, for you. I really like this book. When you get it, if the edition is the same, I think my very favorite photo is not of someone doing their sport. It's on page 109, a woman - probably in her 80s? - with her grandson . . . because, even though I have no grandkids, I think that's a photo about why to stay strong.
  • SModa61
    SModa61 Posts: 3,099 Member
    @annpt77 that would be fantastic inspiration!
  • SummerSkier
    SummerSkier Posts: 5,159 Member
    Late to the party but I do honestly think that we tend to "thicken" above the belly button where our waist is if we gain after menopause. I noticed that in my last upward swing in 2016 that was something new where the fat accumulated. That and lower in my groin area? seriously? I do think over time in maintenance that it will recomp a little. I don't know what my waist was before because I really did not measure it as a kid... LOL and in the chart below you can see the little health metrics from work that they have been doing for 10 years. They only started the waist one in 2013. You can see that the first 2 years in maintenance I was 25" I am now somewhere between 23 and 24 depending on how tight I measure, but I am fine with that. waist measurement was not really a huge thing for me as long as I did not have a flabby tum. The <35 recommended # seems high but then again my height varies from 5' to 5'3" depending on the measurer.

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  • sandramarshall200
    sandramarshall200 Posts: 108 Member
    So what is a stomach vacuum?
  • SModa61
    SModa61 Posts: 3,099 Member
    sandramarshall200 wrote: »
    So what is a stomach vacuum?

    Tried to find you a link for ease of explaining. There are lots of youtube and internet articles. Here is just one: https://www.womenshealthmag.com/fitness/a19981979/stomach-vacuuming/
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,377 Member
    sandramarshall200 wrote: »
    So what is a stomach vacuum?

    Described and discussed in this thread:

    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10824708/what-you-may-not-be-doing-to-get-a-flatter-stomach
  • SModa61
    SModa61 Posts: 3,099 Member
    SummerSkier wrote: »
    Late to the party but I do honestly think that we tend to "thicken" above the belly button where our waist is if we gain after menopause. I noticed that in my last upward swing in 2016 that was something new where the fat accumulated. That and lower in my groin area? seriously? I do think over time in maintenance that it will recomp a little. I don't know what my waist was before because I really did not measure it as a kid... LOL and in the chart below you can see the little health metrics from work that they have been doing for 10 years. They only started the waist one in 2013. You can see that the first 2 years in maintenance I was 25" I am now somewhere between 23 and 24 depending on how tight I measure, but I am fine with that. waist measurement was not really a huge thing for me as long as I did not have a flabby tum. The <35 recommended # seems high but then again my height varies from 5' to 5'3" depending on the measurer.

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    Nice numbers. Crazy that you height varies by three inches though. When I get measure, I fight for every 1/4" inch I can get. :P
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  • Beverly2Hansen
    Beverly2Hansen Posts: 378 Member
    Have you had children? Our bodies widen also fat vs muscle. My best weight was 140lbs but I was far more muscular then 140now is a very different look. With that being said I'd say either your wider because you had children or your weight was more muscle less fat. If your wider post childbirth then this is where you're at if it's that you're higher body fat and lower muscle you'll improve over time.
  • 142jmh
    142jmh Posts: 89 Member
    Something to consider: if you did have had children, is it possible that you had diastasis recti (ab separation)? It's possible that it never fully healed, especially if it was undetected. Bodyfit By Amy has a great playlist about it on youtube that offers great explanations as well as great exercises to improve it. These (generally speaking) go along with strengthening the transervse abdominis which cinches the waist.
  • SModa61
    SModa61 Posts: 3,099 Member
    @Beverly2Hansen @142jmh I have indeed had children. Two, with the youngest turning 30 next month. As for the concept of greater width post childbirth, I would assume that that is a muscle issue as well, but I could be wrong. The diastasis recti is an interesting concept, though if I had it if certainly was in the "undetected" catagory. I will check out that Bodyfit by amy and see about her suggested exercises.

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