Tummy help needed...

I don't know Crystal! When you find out let me know 'cause this top belly is killin' me!
I'm pretty sure it's all just cardio, cardio, cardio.
In time it will go!

good on you that its going...i had a c-sec and i still have my pooch......

Woman loose it differently I would just keep it up sounds like you have the right idea.

Okay so I obviously am watchin my calories... I am at the gym at least 4-5 times a week on the treadmill or the bike for at least 30mins sometimes 45 or 60mins. I do situps on my ball most nights. I do 3-5 sets of 15. Sometimes with alil 4lbs weights.

So my bottom lil pouch of tummy is slowly disappearing.. like I am not noticing it. I can feel it's going away. Its so nice. I love it.... but my top pouch isn't going away as fast... why not? what can I do? anyone?

Everyone loses different amounts in different places. Guess it's genetics.:grumble:
I do know you can not "target" an area with spot training. Situps are good to work your core. Your core is your abs,obliques,transverse abdominis,lower back. You can google core exercises to give you some other things to do. Because your abs and core are muscles they also need time to rest, recover and rebuild to get stronger. You should not be working those muscles more than 3-4 times per week.

Building muscle helps and will speed up our metabolism. Cardio:grumble: is what helps to burn fat(and a proper diet:happy: )

Sounds lke you are doing everything right in my very unprofessional opinion
keep on keepin' on:flowerforyou:

Talk about sisterhood and can I join. Birth control contributed and 60 days later it is finally starting to go away. I have about another 60-90 days before all the hormones are out of my system. I am hoping to see a big difference. In the meantime, my butcher knife looks really good on certain days. Why pay a doctor to cut it off, making these filets has got to have taught me something!

Mine's going down too... but not fully... I still feel like I could pull out a kangaroo if I needed too :laugh:

:laugh: And I can barely find my belly button under all that skin!

me too! it's in between my 2 rolls!
I always said that I had a flat belly when I was pregnant b/c it was the only time I didn't have a roll and could see my belly button!
My stomach is so stretched out, (10 & 11 lb. babies). I have come to the realization that it will go down eventually, but will need surgery to flatten it.

Sadly ladies, mkeithley is right that you can't target fat loss. Unfortunately your body will pull the fat it burns from the places that it can grab the fastest, and in most cases that's the places closest to the blood stream, unfortunately, the stomach, butt, and thighs are NOT close to the blood stream (relatively speaking). Let me clarify, those areas, when perfectly flat and small ARE close, but as they grow, they move further and further away, also compressing the fat and packing it tighter together, which makes it more difficult to grab. In other words, the longer a fat deposit has been sitting around in your body, the harder it is to remove it. It's a sad sad truth. The worst part is, sometimes it's easier for your body to grab lean muscle to burn instead of fat, and the body doesn't care where it gets it's fuel, so it does just that. It won't completely stop grabbing fat, but it will start using it in combination. Which is why some weight training or resistance training becomes terribly important as we start to lose the fat, if you're losing muscle tone along with fat, you are losing your ability to burn fat at rest, and no matter how much exercise you do, if you have very little lean tissue (muscle), it's going to become very difficult to lose weight after a while without a good solid muscle base.

Sadly ladies, mkeithley is right that you can't target fat loss. Unfortunately your body will pull the fat it burns from the places that it can grab the fastest, and in most cases that's the places closest to the blood stream, unfortunately, the stomach, butt, and thighs are NOT close to the blood stream (relatively speaking). Let me clarify, those areas, when perfectly flat and small ARE close, but as they grow, they move further and further away, also compressing the fat and packing it tighter together, which makes it more difficult to grab. In other words, the longer a fat deposit has been sitting around in your body, the harder it is to remove it. It's a sad sad truth. The worst part is, sometimes it's easier for your body to grab lean muscle to burn instead of fat, and the body doesn't care where it gets it's fuel, so it does just that. It won't completely stop grabbing fat, but it will start using it in combination. Which is why some weight training or resistance training becomes terribly important as we start to lose the fat, if you're losing muscle tone along with fat, you are losing your ability to burn fat at rest, and no matter how much exercise you do, if you have very little lean tissue (muscle), it's going to become very difficult to lose weight after a while without a good solid muscle base.

Thanks for that information and advice. I've known I need to do more resistance training, but I only have so much time to exercise, and I'd much rather spend it running rather than lifting weights. That's one more reason to start it now!

Sometimes when I'm pressewd for time and I know I can't get a run in the morning I'll do circuit training. It is resistance w/some weights and moving quickly from one exercise to another. It gets your heartrate up and i am dripping with sweat when I get finished. You could google circuit routines to get some ideas. I'm so addicted to running now though that I find somewhere oto get my run in

She is right on! You want to keep your heart rate up and keep in a circuit type workout. Then hit the cardio hard...What ppl dont understand is that when your gaining muscle mass it grows out...so doing heavy abs for someone who has alot of fat in that area is only going to push it out further...as the ab muscles grow there going to push that fat on top out. This goes for the chest too alot of girls still think that doing chest exercises will make you flatter when in turn they will make the breast grow up and out...Just some FYI...dont hit the abs that heavy until you lose some more. I would do them but only planks and stuff like that