What's the best way to flatten a high tummy?  It seems like i only gain weight in my stomach area.?
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You have two options. \n\nYou can cut calories and perform crunches like crazy, try one of the hot new incredible infomercial ab devices and buy the lastest new and improved  "fat burner". \n\nAlso there is another  option but it is not too popular. Eat right, Understand functions of the abdominal muscles, work the body as a whole, and allow for ongoing fat release. \n\nOf all of two options, there is only one that "works," all of the time. Unfortunately, it "appears" to be the most complicated. \n\nHere is the Real Ab-Solution:\n\nBefore we go any further, I would like to point out that slimming down your abdominal parts REALLY means reducing you body fat percentage in those areas. Therefore, the goal is to reduce your body fat percentage.  \n\nNow that we understand what we are seeking, let us zero in on the solution.\n\nStep 1: Eat right to release the fat from the fat cells\n\n"Eat right" sounds so simplistic, but the idea is maximize natural unprocessed foods and minimize processed or junk foods (Please do not go on a depravation diet, it will make things worse). However, you also need to eat in a way that supports Fat loss.\n\nThe real trick lies in stabilizing blood sugar, which allows fat to be released from your fat cells. You would do that by eating meals free from simple sugars and refined carbs, low in processed saturated fat, and balanced with protein, complex carbs, fiber, and essential fatty acids. \n\nStep 2: Move your body to burn the fat in the muscle cells.\n\nOnce the fat is release from the cells, they need to be burned in your muscle cells. Releasing the body fat is not enough; you need to support your nutrition with a more active lifestyle. If you are not active, the released fat just goes back to the fat cells and they are not burned. Burning that fat make your "six packs" visible. \n\nYou not only need to work on your abs or core muscles but you also need to work you the body as a whole (focus on the major muscles like your legs and back).\n\nThen you need to optimize circulation with moderate aerobic exercise (do not go crazy), and fat release should be consistent and ongoing, and a little at a time, those abs will shine through.\n\nDO NOT continue doing something just because "THEY" say it's the way things should be done. Allow yourself to choose the solution that will work for you, regardless of what it may be. The only way for you to know who is right is to measure your progress and ACTUALLY track your results.\n\nCHANGE IS HARD, but it's also worth it. Not getting results makes change EXTREMELY HARD.\n\nGet support from friends, family or a coach. Losing weight is not as hard at it seems once you know what to do. \n\nVisit http://www.charlesblain.com for the best weight loss exercises.\n\nGood Luck with your journey…
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After having a baby our bodies change but that in no way means you can not have back the tummy you use to have...even better :) Do ab exercises...lots of sit ups and give yourself time to get back in shape. If you work at it and take proper care of yourself, you will get back in shape before ya know it!! Congrats on your newbie :)
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Well, I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that you can lose your tummy flab and become more toned. The bad news is that, in order to do this, you must reduce the amount of fat you have all over your body, not just in your stomach. You see, spot reduction, or the ability to lose fat in one specific area, is a myth. However, you can help tone specific regions through exercise.
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if ur stomach has a grip of fat on it doin some cardio will reduce ur fat levels and the flat stomach will appear.  If ur already kinda lean and want to bring ur stomach in a bit to flatten it... just do some concentric tightening of the stomach muscles while ur sitting up and it will start to do it on its own.
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Hello,\n\nIt may well be that the "belly" that you are referring to is loose skin left over from your pregnancies.  This skin has been stretched so much that it has lost its elasticity.  (This happens to people who have lost a great deal of weight, too.)  It would make sense that as the rest of your body tones up, this "belly" would seem more noticeable to you.
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Sit up of course... Maybe you can buy "hot" gel to put on your tummy. I never use it but I heard it works. Usually only one application is enough each day and it works 24 hours.
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HA! I thought you were talking about the ones inside the turkey along with the giblets....DUH! \n\nAnyway, I do some exercises that I read about in Cosmopolitan, and they have worked wonders. One thing you can do is stretch your neck as far out and upward as you can. Repeat this whenever you think about it. Also, another good one (and this helps to prevent your facial cheeks from sagging is to silently mouth the letters A-E-I-O-U, making sure that you stretch your mouth like you are really annunciating each letter. It's best to do this in private, because you won't get funny looks from your kids or others!! LOL!) These simple exercises really do work, and make you look much younger if you do them faithfully! Luckily, my neck didn't show it very bad when I lost weight, because I started doing these exercises about 10 years ago. As you get older, your skin loses elasticity, and is much harder to tone. Now I'm trying to figure out how to get rid of the loose tummy skin. Do you have any ideas?????? Good luck with the neck exercises, though! :)
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1. Start eating healthier.  The reason you gain it back is that once you lose it you return to poor eating habits.  A low fat diet is probably your best bet.  Focus on protien - beans and chicken.  Small portions will help shrink your stomach so you aren't hungry all the time.  When you eat try to limit it to portions less than 2 cups in volume and only eat 4-5 times per day.  Drink low fat milk, avoid butter and try to get rid of salt.  Soda also expands your stomach so if you like low cal lemonade or gatorade you're in luck.  \n2. Exercise - Crunches.  to have a visible six-pack (i know that wasn't your question, but in case you're wondering) it takes an incredible amound of discipine.  Hundreds of crunches a day and 40 or more minutes of cardio exersise.  If you just want to lose some weight and tone up a bit I'd suggest a couple of sets of 50 crunches a day (spend a few bucks on a exersise ball to reduce impact on your back)  plus 20 - 30 min. of cardio... running or biking.   Good luck.
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You need to hit the gym babe and you gotta go on daily jogs. Do 100 to 200 situps each night. You should see results. Oh, and it may sound prissy, but Pilates really work too! My stomach got flatter and I formed some abs in about a month of all that and eating right. You're doing great with the eating(make sure your portion size isn't too big). You're half way there!
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Wow- you are tiny- are you sure you want to lose more weight? I would suggest working out- lots of weight machines will help you tone these areas. For your stomach, use a Roman chair- it works wonders.
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I am having a tummy tuck and liposuction for the same. I have tried every diet and exercise program you can think of for these areas and it has failed. Check into this with a plastic surgeon. Mine is scheduled for July 6th.
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You probably don't have fat anywhere else on your body, which makes your stomach look big.\n\nYou should get some vigourous exercise to even things out by putting mass elsewhere on your body, and lower your BMI - which is the only way you'll get abs.
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no matter how much exercise and dieting you do you will not achieve a flat stomach unless you also have a high calcium intake. Drink lots of skim milk or take a calcium pill with vitamin D. (Vitamin D helps your body absorb the calcium)
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I take it you have exhausted all other options? For example, if you are overweight, lose weight. If you don't exercise, do abdominal exercises regularly. Give it time to work, especially if you have had kids. It IS possible to have a flat stomach even after several children. \n\nIf, after all that, you still feel you need a tummy tuck, you could always try approaching a few plastic surgeons to ask whether it would be possible to get a substantially reduced price tummy tuck in return for advertising their work for free. Some surgeons will do it, some won't.
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How to get a flat stomach - Ok firstly the idea of localised fat loss is a myth - during exercise fat is burned as fuel from all areas of the body and while working your abdominal muscles will help them to develop, but if there is a layer of fat obscuring these new muscles neither you or anyone else will be able to see them. Therefore to achieve your goa,l any abdominal exercise needs to be combined with a well balanced and nutritious diet to see the fruits of your labour. In addition cardiovascular exercise will speed up this process and help to burn extra fat.\n\nBy far the best exercise to build abdominal muscle and toning the abdominal wall is the crunch - this is actually the main stomach exercise performed by athletes and models.\n\nThe Crunch\n• Lie on you back.\n• Place your feet on the floor as close to your bottom as possible and place your knees together.\n• Rest your hands across you chest and relax the neck.\n• Slowly raise your shoulders off the floor by contracting only the abdominal muscles.\n• Don't come up too high - your lower back should always remain on the floor.\n• Hold that position for a count of 1 and breath out forcefully.\n• Slowly relax the stomach muscles and allow your shoulders to return to the floor.\n• Repeat 10 - 12 times, rest for 60 seconds then repeat.\n\nThe amount of crunches you can do, as with all exercises, varies from person to person... its safest to start off with a relatively low number as to avoid strain and build up to more over time.\n\nFurther Exercises \nThe Plank\n• Lie flat on your stomach.\n• Place your hands at either side of your chest - as if ready to perform a press up - although your should tuck your elbows into your sides.\n• Keeping your back perfectly flat, push yourself up onto your knees - so that your upper body is off the floor, with your hands and knees acting as support.\n• Keeping your back flat, pull in your tummy button as high as possible - as if to suck it in close to the spine.\n• Aim to maintain a normal breathing pattern and hold this position for 10 - 60 seconds.\n• Rest, lie flat then repeat twice.\n\nToe Touch\n• Lie on you back.\n• Raise your arms and legs so they are perpendicular with your body.\n• Slowly curl your torso up and forward, raising your hands as close to your toes as possible\n• Contract your abs and then reverse direction, returning to the starting position.\n• Repeat 10 - 12 times, rest for 60 seconds then repeat.\n\nReverse Curl\n• Lie on you back.\n• Place your hands at sides and bend your knees.\nraise your butt as high as possible while keeping your upper back pressed to the floor.\n• Contract your abdominals and then reverse direction, returning to the starting position. \n• Repeat 10 - 12 times, rest for 60 seconds then repeat.\n\nTwisting Crunch \n• Lie on you back.\n• Bend your knees so your thighs are perpendicular to the ground and fold arms across your chest.\n• Slowly raise your shoulders up and forward toward your chest, twisting your body to the right.\n• Feel a contraction in your abdominal muscles and then slowly reverse direction, returning to the start position.\n• Repeat movement but this time twist to the left.\n• Repeat 10 - 12 times, rest for 60 seconds then repeat.\n\n \n   Home \n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n \n The Truth About Weight Loss \n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n \n The Truth About Exercise \n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n \n Great Workouts \n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n \n Exercising With Kids \n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n \n Fitness Myths \n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n \n The Low Carb Diet Dilemma \n\n--------
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There is no sure way to lose it from the stomach area. Some people just can't lose it there - had a trainer who was perfectly toned except for her belly because that is where the body naturally stores it all. \n\nBut there are certain workouts you can do to change that fat into muscle. Crunches, kicks are an example. Just remember when you work out to keep the stomach muscles tight to tone and build muscle ( muscle weight more than fat, so you'll prolly stay the same weight, but have a flatter abdomin.)
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A flat stomach won't appear overnight and it does take a lot of hard work. Unfortunately you can not just spot reduce your stomach, and sit-ups and crunches alone will not get you the results that you are seeking.  In order to slim it down and make it flat, you must reduce the fat in and around this area.  I would suggest that you minimize consumption of fats, refined carbohydrates, and sugars, and eat a healthy balanced diet. \n\nAlso maybe start a good, low intensity cardio program, like walking or slow jogging, to help you lose fat instead of just burning calories.  Pilate's and Yoga are very good for core strengthening, which will also help you gain a flat stomach. \n\nSlower, controlled movements are much better than rapid/quick actions like with fast sit ups. Try and focus more on your form and technique rather than how many you can do, and you will see results faster. Try and vary your exercises daily, so that you don't get to bored. Also, a belly ball is a very good investment. \n\nMost importantly, try to keep a positive attitude and definitely make sure to keep a positive body image.  I don't know why you are seeking a flat stomach but here's something to think about for a moment; Intelligence, paired with a good attitude, and a gentle smile, always projects self confidence, and looks amazing in pretty much anything you wear.\n \nHope I was helpful!\n\nGood luck!