Hanging abdomen!!

Kind of sort of goes but not easily and if you're older (I'm 55) it's still loose. I'm good to my navel but then there 's this "apron" of looser skin and no matter how much I lose or how much I exercise it's still there. I can't see it really standing up now but when I sit it's right there again! Good news is that muffin top is gone!

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For all you great fitness people, will it go away with diet and exerciese or will I always have this sitting on my thighs no matter what??

Anyone have any good exercises for it???

Would love any help!!

Ugh! I have a fat apron. Ugh again! That's all I can say about it.

I'm so glad you asked and I want to see all the positive responses. Please please please let there be only positive responses!

People do see improvement in their skin after a few years, so if it doesn't happen right away don't give up hope.

Ok, yesterday, I asked about muffin top, and thanks for all your responses, they were great. Forgot to ask, hoping again I am not the only one out there with this problem, but does any one have a really saggiing, fatty, lower abdomen that just hangs there?? My Dr. said is is commonly referred to as an apron. This is TMI,, but when I sit in down there the thing is resting on my thighs!!! I had it. My husband says to get a tummy tuck if I want, really don't want to do that,

For all you great fitness people, will it go away with diet and exerciese or will I always have this sitting on my thighs no matter what??

Anyone have any good exercises for it???

Would love any help!!

Mine went away once I lost the fat. It's all about losing the fat. Exercise builds the lean body mass and makes it pretty for when the fat is gone.

We are all different. I am short and ab exercises actually makes my waist thicker. The only thing that got rid of fat was a calorie deficit. I've had the fat flabby tummy for 20 years, it's gone since last year, from a calorie deficit. Since then I've done experiments with ab exercises and they only effect the lean body mass under the fat.

Oh and I'm a little younger than you, 52.

I too have the apron. But, I am told that it is something that takes time. A lot of time. I still have a lot of weight to lose and refuse to worry about it until I am closer to my goal weight. I am almost 1/2 way there. I am 35 and drink a lot of water. I moisterize daily and I can tell you that there was a time about 16 months ago after my first 30 pounds that I looked in the mirror and couldn't see my ... "personal area" ... at all. It was hidden behind this nasty hanging flab of funk. Now, not only can I see my ... "personal area" ... but I can even see the top of my pubic line. The apron is still there, it still hangs like a disgusting dead flap, but it is improving.

I am super hesistant to get any sort of surgery. I am a bleeder, anesthetics (sp?) dont work well on me, a slow healer and a terrible patient ... I have to find a way to lose/lessen the apron without surgery. I can tell you that cardio helps the fat burn off, but core strengthing exercises (like weight bearing exercises) have made the biggest difference in the size of my apron. The more core exercises I do, the smaller it gets.

Good luck!

I'm just about to turn 65 so I really don't expect my excess belly to go away. I just know that I will get into smaller jeans and let the jeans hold it in. I have a problem with hanging skin on my legs too. In 1990 I had lost 90 lbs and was 20 lbs to my goal weight. I had asked my doctor if there was any exercise to get rid of it and I was told - no - surgery was the only answer. Sorry, I know you wanted a different answer. Needless to say I took care of the problem by gaining all the weight back - plus. I'm now working on losing again and I don't ever plan on getting into a bathing suit without a little skirt.

I got rid of mine with watching what I eat and exercise. It takes time but it can be done. I've been here over a year and it is paying off and I'm 56.

You get used to finding undies that suck it in

I think it depends on how much weight you had to lose.Mine was small so it is going away but I don't expect perfection after 4 abdominal surgeries and being 50 pounds overweight.

A trainer told me that it takes approx. 2 years for healthy skin to bounce back. I hope that is true!

I'm already at goal weight. Mine is still there plus a little extra right in the middle. After my skin being that stretched for 19 years it's not going easy. It's slowly shrinking but not as much as I'd hoped. Tummy tuck I'm not against.... and I can get it done free so I'm not worried about $$$ of it.... problem is that I don't want to have to not exercise after it..... so I don't mind having it....but would prefer to work it out rather than cut it out.

Let's hope ppl are right about it going over time.... cause I still had that pregnancy belly 19 years later.... could be 2 late for me.

Ok, when I first started I lost a lot of weight relatively quickly and for several months looked like a melting ice cream sculpture. However, as the months have gone by and a lot of exercise as well my "apron" is beginning to at least not hang out past my hips, lol.