I have been exercising off and on for years now. While my weight has not changed dramatically by any means, I have toned up a bit. I am a bit stronger and some areas – only some – are not quite as flabby as they used to be.
Even what other weight loss bloggers so ‘lovingly’ call their chicken wings has toned up a bit on me. (Thank goodness for that!)
With this toning up, my stomach area has noticed some benefits. I am still pretty flabby there, but it has firmed up a bit an even shrunk a little. Unfortunately, that sort of toning hasn’t extended across my entire stomach area.
I now have a ‘problem area’: my abdomen.
Unlike my stomach, my abdomen fat stretches across nearly my entire front side. It doesn’t look good and it doesn’t feel good at all. With my upper stomach slowly but surely coming right, I’m noticing my abdomen more and more – and hoping that other people aren’t.
My pants may be getting a bit loose around my waist, but my abdomen certainly isn’t. It makes for an odd shaped body and front, one I am growing a bit self-conscious of. As I search around for some yoga and other exercises to help me deal with this, I can’t help but wonder…
Do you have a problem area? What makes it a problem for you? What do you do about it?
Share your story. I’m off to find some abdomen exercises…
My mid-section is a trouble spot too. Given my age and number of years of obesity, I have a lot of droopage. Not much I can do about it, short of surgery. When it starts to get me down, and it sometimes does, I just remind myself of the things I can do now that I couldn’t do when it was inflated.
Apparently the only solution is to slim down completely… Spot reduction is a myth! I know, that kind of sucks!
Cammy – Hehe. That’s a good way to look at it.
Hanlie – Oh, if only spot reduction could happen, eh?