I love my body but not my belly

No- you can't spot reduce.

What I mean is take up weight lifting and work all of your body. You can build more muscle on your butt, quads, arms, back.. you can do abs & core exercise too they will improve your posture and strength and suck the tummy in a little.

As you gain muscle all over and lose fat all over you will naturally hold less weight in your stomach area due to your fat percentage being lower overall. But your body will have a good shape from the muscle.

Do you get what I mean?

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madiha1397 wrote: »

courtneyfabulous wrote: »

Lift weights. Build muscle, lose fat. That way you get to keep your size and curves, but the tummy will go away (it is mostly fat).

Ok? So what sort of weights would be good for the tummy??

A program that has you work every body part at some point during the week. It's not about exercising your abdominal muscles, but building overall muscle. One suggestion is New Rules of Lifting for Women, but there are many free exercise programs online. Bodybuilding.com has a bunch and they all have videos to show you how to do them.

It's important to note that almost every single compound movement requires core bracing. Since the core is built up of mainly slow twitch muscle fibers, they take a long time to fatigue, and thus working them out by forcing them to stabilize is significantly more effective than doing "ab" work.

Elise4270 wrote: »

I second the weights. I just do upper body and core. Makes a big difference in shape. Good luck!

Personally I would NOT skip lower body. If you want a booty but not a tummy you gotta build that butt.

Friends don't let friends skip leg day.