I need help tightening my flabby stomach..(especially for mo

Women tone up in their stomach last - hips, legs, and thighs are first to lose. This is because generally women lose the weight they most recently gained first. Plus, its where our bodies are prepping for future baby, so we are naturally going to store more fat in this area to build a potential womb.

Here's a good article about women and weight loss:
http://www.livestrong.com/article/150089-where-in-the-body-do-women-lose-weight-first/

Hi,

As already stated- you can't spot reduce. But, I swear by Pilates. I love the Mari Winsor Pilates series. She's got a bunch of DVDs. If you don't want to buy them, you can watch them on YouTube! Anyway, I highly suggest trying mat pilates. They're pretty easy to do, even if it's not easy in the beginning! You won't need anything but yourself and a mat!

Just to get you started, here's a link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiofMIbEJeA&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PLB98F48F242EC9835

just keep going! It may be the last place that goes for you. Mine is my hips/tummy. When I initally started losing weight, it didnt want to budge. It finally did though. You lose enough and it will go away. Toning initially made my belly bigger, because it built muscle up under the fat, but it made my core stronger and made my posture better so it looked a little smaller, then, it finally started to come off. But it took almost 40 lbs of my initial 142 before i could tell a difference. This time (going from 200 to 150) it seems to be coming off faster, but I am focusing on staying really hydrated and a fair amount of mine was water weight I think.

Is the issue remaining fat or loose skin?

If it is fat, don't worry. Your body will use this up sooner or later. My understanding is that as we exercise and eat better, our body uses the excess fat in our body in the reverse order it was stored. ie - Last In - First out.

So those areas on your body that first became "fat" will be the last to lose the excess.

I cannot say for certain that this is accurate. However, it worked this way for me.

As for loose skin... the hearsay I have indicates that for many people the skin will slowly firm up but this depends a lot on age and how overweight the person was before the weight loss.

My Doctor told me that he expected that most of the elasticity of the skin around my tummy would return but that it would take time.

Best of luck and keep up the good work.

Sometimes our bodies don't want to lose weight and they hit a plateau and can't go any further. The cause of this is the body adjusting to the change and slowing down your weight loss manually. I lose about 10 pounds before I hit mine and had to come up with a different way to lose weight. And then I came across http://boyels.com and read my first review on a program that was going to change my life. I started losing about 3 pounds a week and still use it today 87 pounds lighter and with a visible 4pack of abs (working on the 6 pack lol). Anyways you just got to remember not to give up and stick with it and only success waits because while others sleep, we are running.