Re: Does the baby belly ever go away!

January 3, 2007

I dropped the weight over 6 months with each of my kids (and gained a good

40 with each!).....I find, that with a muscled tummy, I still have loose

skin....but you know what? It doesn't look bad, check out the TJ lady, Chalene

, she's had kids, you can tell and still looks great....I look at it as

remembering one of the happiest times of my life and makes me feel part of the

female tribe or something....so if you're fit and like batman

otherwise.....celebrate that you've given birth too, and don't sweat some skin

in your

bikini!!!!

January 3, 2007

It depends a bit on genetics and where you carry your weight, but most women

need to have a percentage of body fat in the mid to low teens to see sharp

ab definition (3 vertical lines) and in the single digits to see a six pack

(horizontal + vertical lines). So it's possible that with a little more fat

loss you'll still see the results you want. You may not have any scale

weight left to lose though. Now it's all about body composition, building

lean muscle, speeding up your metabolism, and getting " thinner skinned " so

to speak.

Tom Venuto has a good article called Everything You Need to Know About Loose

Skin and Weight Loss:

http://www.skwigg.com/id84.html

Congratulations on the great first challenge!

>

> This is my first post, but it is a question I am dying to have

> answered. My boyfriend and I completed our first challenge on December

> 4th, I ended up at 19% bodyfat, and went from a size 8 to a size 4 -

> which at almost 6 feet tall made me quite pleased! What I am not too

> pleased about is the results in my stomach. I have had a baby, but

> almost six years ago and thought my stomach would look better than it

> did after the first challenge. We started our second challenge

> yesterday, and my goal is to get down to around 15-16% BF to see if

> that will really bring out my abs. I guess my question is if it is

> still fat my body is hanging on to in that area, or if it is loose skin

> that will never go back to its original shape. I want to look hot in a

> bikini for our spring getaway!! Does anyone else wonder about this???

>

January 3, 2007

I've had 4 kids and I have a bigger belly than I did before...but I had a

very flat one b/f kids.

I don't feel it appropriate for me to wear a bikini, so I don't worry about

the tummy much.

But, what really helped flatten my belly after the first one was doing

upright leg raises. I

even did them while I was pregnant. And my belly flattened out in no time.

I have gotten lazier since then and have let it go a bit, figuring that I

would catch up later.

But now IS later. I've got to DO SOMETHING!

So, congrats on your weight loss. Sounds like you are doing great. Your

committment

helps me to want to get off of my (ever increasing in size) butt.

Cori

Does the baby belly ever go away!

This is my first post, but it is a question I am dying to have

answered. My boyfriend and I completed our first challenge on December

4th, I ended up at 19% bodyfat, and went from a size 8 to a size 4 -

which at almost 6 feet tall made me quite pleased! What I am not too

pleased about is the results in my stomach. I have had a baby, but

almost six years ago and thought my stomach would look better than it

did after the first challenge. We started our second challenge

yesterday, and my goal is to get down to around 15-16% BF to see if

that will really bring out my abs. I guess my question is if it is

still fat my body is hanging on to in that area, or if it is loose skin

that will never go back to its original shape. I want to look hot in a

bikini for our spring getaway!! Does anyone else wonder about this???

January 3, 2007

Don't give up. It took nine months for mine to go away, and my kids

weighed a few ounces shy of nine pounds. Plus I was 38 at the time. I

gained 40 pounds with the pregnancies. I threw out a whole wardrobe of

great clothes after four months thinking I'd never fit into them. What

a dumb thing to do. Don't throw anything away.

What I thought was loose skin was actually just really lumpy kind of

mobilized fat lurking just beneath the surface. It took a while but

after that fat was gone the skin remained tight.

Don't give up.

Stasia

January 3, 2007

Makes me wonder how they did it on the Biggest Loser program! Do supplements

help loose skin? Tom Venuto didn't mention that.

Skwigg wrote: It depends a bit on genetics and where

you carry your weight, but most women