I sag ..... help!

[Millie1]

Spring comes, the layers come off and it becomes apparent ... I sag, and I mean SAG. It's that old chestnut, my tummy. I'm 5'7", weigh about 8st 10lb and am thin but my tummy bears the look of one that has carried 3 pregnancies, the last being DTs.

What oh what can I do? I have no muscle tone - I just bulge from underneath my ribs down. So come on ye Mumsnetters, tell me how to tone up but here are the criteria: Exercise classes are out. I live in the sticks, spend my days ferrying children around and my nights doing the same so simply don't have time for a class. Sad but true. I'll happily do sit-ups or whatever but nothing too aerobic or fatburning (bad tachicardia at times so don't want to exacerbate that). I'm lazy when it comes to exercise - I hate exercising. I'm quite active though and don't spend my day sitting on my bum (I wish!).

Any ideas to get me toned up for summer then? Or am I a lost cause?

The plank is a great exercise for strengthening the core stomach muscles.

Take up a pressup position, and bend your arms until you are resting on your elbows. Make sure your bum isn't in the air, and your back isn't sagging. Hold for 30s-2 mins, depending on strength.

If you lift one arm out to the side, keeping your body as flat as possible, you can also exercise the obliques. Hold this, then change arms.

Oh I am the same and was wondering if pilates was the answer??