Sides of my stomach.

haaaleyx
haaaleyx Posts: 83 Member
edited November 12 in Fitness and Exercise
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So my stomach is getting better, but it just seems so wide. Is there anyway to make it thinner (width wise), or is it just the way my body is ?

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  • erin_zuk
    erin_zuk Posts: 226 Member
    I think you look fantastic!
    I have a feeling it looks like it's just the way your body is shaped.
    As you keep burning fat off, you may notice some more changes, but we are supposed to be wide through the hips as women.
  • sheri02r
    sheri02r Posts: 486 Member
    Your stomach looks great! :) By width do you mean 'Love handles'? I'd be interested in the answer to this too!
  • NewTeena
    NewTeena Posts: 154 Member
    I think you look great.
  • bmwillisbaw
    bmwillisbaw Posts: 27
    honey i have the same problem sadly its just the way our bodies are built.
  • LiviLou2011
    LiviLou2011 Posts: 437 Member
    gosh i would be thrilled to look like that!! i think you look great!
  • haaaleyx
    haaaleyx Posts: 83 Member
    Your stomach looks great! :) By width do you mean 'Love handles'? I'd be interested in the answer to this too!

    Yeah love handles and that part that kind of goes in before the love handles.

    & yeah, sadly I figured "thats just the way your body is built" would be the answer. haha but thank you !
  • RenaPink11
    RenaPink11 Posts: 329 Member
    I don't see any love handles on you girl!! You look wonderful!
  • qtiekiki
    qtiekiki Posts: 1,490 Member
    You look fantastic. I think it's just your body shape.
  • LilRedRooster
    LilRedRooster Posts: 1,421 Member
    The woman who does TurboFire (don't remember her name), is built similiarly. She is in great shape, but her hips actually go past her legs on top. I think it's based on her overall shape and hip socket orientation. You look awesome, though! Just keep doing what you're doing and see what happens.
  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    I don't see love handles, either. I see a trim waist and feminine hips.

    You look like you might be a smidge short-waisted (I am, too) so your hips might start up a little bit higher than someone with a longer torso.
  • MeadowSong
    MeadowSong Posts: 171 Member
    Uh, you are VERY BEAUTIFUL. Women are too hung up on thin. If you're beautiful quit worrying.
  • sunshineshica
    sunshineshica Posts: 277
    I agree with everyone else. As an experiment though, try an exercise body wrap.
  • MizCJ84
    MizCJ84 Posts: 335 Member
    You have a stomach most women aspire to have. I wouldn't want to be thin with zero curves. That would make you look like a man.
  • snewsome7
    snewsome7 Posts: 189
    You are FAR from wide honey. I have to turn sideways to walk between 2 parked cars. You are NOT wide at all I promise!! You look great!
  • snewsome7
    snewsome7 Posts: 189
    The woman who does TurboFire (don't remember her name), is built similiarly. She is in great shape, but her hips actually go past her legs on top. I think it's based on her overall shape and hip socket orientation. You look awesome, though! Just keep doing what you're doing and see what happens.

    Chalene Johnson :D LOVE her!
  • Switty_Kitty
    Switty_Kitty Posts: 532 Member
    I wish I was as "wide" as you lol You look amazing.
  • eblake111
    eblake111 Posts: 66 Member
    I dont see "wide" when I look at your picture....you look great girl!! Embrace your curves....your a woman :)
  • hiker282
    hiker282 Posts: 983 Member
    Don't see what the problem is there. You're developing some nice definition and your obliques look awesome. Keep working it. Not everyone can have a 14 inch waist. It looks freaky.
  • rextcat
    rextcat Posts: 1,408 Member
    gosh i would be thrilled to look like that!! i think you look great!
    yup me to!!
  • monicalynne68
    monicalynne68 Posts: 87 Member
    I think you look great. I wouldn't worry about it. However if you are bound and deterrmined to trim your waist, there are a number of exercises you can do. You want to look for ones that exercise your obliques. lay on your back, bent knees, lift your shoulders off the floor. hold out your hands in front of you and rock back and forth, tapping your with your fingertips. repeat

    side planks are another good exercise for that area.

    "row your boats" are another good one. sit down and lean back. lift feet off floor, hold dumbbell with both hands, twist to the side and then the other. repeat

    Also try half moon planks...sit on hip, hand on floor. Bend knees, cross top anklein front of bottom leg, lift hips off floor and squeeze thighs togther, reach top arm over head, bending bodyinto a half moon shape and then lower hips to floor. repeat
  • dvisser1
    dvisser1 Posts: 788 Member
    You look great! Whatever you have been doing to get in shape has been working.
  • aquasw16
    aquasw16 Posts: 342 Member
    I dont see lovehandles either. But if you feel like you would like to trim your sides up more, try pilates. Works wonders.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,021 Member
    Your shoulder width [clavicle to clavicle) appears to be about the same as your hips, so you can't change that ratio, but lower body fat can help to reduce some of the fat around your waist.

    A.C.E. Certified Personal Trainer
    IDEA Fitness member
    Kickboxing Certified Instructor
    Been in fitness for 28+ years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition
  • joeabo
    joeabo Posts: 13 Member
    You look fine it just seems that its the way your body is. Good luck!
  • meshashesha2012
    meshashesha2012 Posts: 8,329 Member
    you look like you might be short waisted. there's really nothing that's going to get rid of a certain amount of wideness because your body has a relatively smaller space to fit in all those internal organs. i'm also short waisted and i have about 3" of space between the bottom of my rib cage and the top of my pelvis.

    and i think you look great.
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