Ugly stomach crease/ pooch
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ylimeoen
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Hi! I have this ugly stomach pooch and stomach creases.. how can i lessen it? Thank you!
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I don't believe it's even ugly. You should see my stomach after 4 kids, 2 csection and a twin pregnancy then come back to me on your crease concern.
Not mocking you. Just saying, it is not even bad. That's in your head.8 -
I agree with the above poster, it isn't ugly at all. Pretty normal looking to me.
However, if you want improvement, eat at a slight deficit (250 calories under your maintenance calories), get enough protein, and lift heavy (for you) weights using a progressive lifting program.
Also, check out these threads...
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1161603/so-you-want-a-nice-stomach/p1
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10689837/does-this-uterus-make-my-stomach-look-fat/p1
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What you have is quite a normal sort of stomach. Don't believe me? This might be a good thread:
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10689837/does-this-uterus-make-my-stomach-look-fat/p1
The photos we see online of fitness bloggers and IG influencers are all posed, carefully lit, photoshopped. The linked thread has lots of actual women, including some quite fit ones, and many of them at a healthy weight. It's a better guide to what real, normal women look like. Your stomach isn't ugly, it's normal.
If you feel you have a bit of weight to lose, then managing calories will get you there. You don't appear to be substantially overweight, so if you do want to lose a bit more weight, a very slow loss rate (like half a pound a week, not much more, might serve you well). This thread is a sensible guide to what it takes to improve midsection appearance:
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1161603/so-you-want-a-nice-stomach/p1
If you feel like your current weight is good, another option would be to do strength exercise to gradually, slowly increase your muscle mass and reduce fat mass. That's called "recomposition", and this is a good thread about that:
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10177803/recomposition-maintaining-weight-while-losing-fat
If you're worried about strength training making you look more muscular than you'd like, that's not something that happens quickly or by accident, especially for us women. Most women will find that strength training slowly brings them to a more defined, slim body (and a stronger one, which is useful). The process is so gradual that if you find you're reaching a level of muscularity that you personally like, you'll notice and be able to maintain it.
This thread has some great examples of results (ignore the joke/click-bait title). It's an old enough thread that some of the older photos have disappeared from the internet, but if you click the page numbers to go more toward the end, you'll see current photos.
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/977538
Best wishes!4
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