Mummy Tummy success stories...

[bcsnowpea]

I have a beautiful 11 week old ds, and don't mind all my stretch marks, but I have started getting irritated with my floppy tummy. I'm just wondering if it is actually possible to tone your tummy after a baby, and even mildly reduce the floppiness of the tummy

If anyone can tell me that they've actually succeeded in this, I think I might be a little more motivated to do exercises specifically for my tummy.

Pleeeeaaase help me!

After 11 weeks? It's going to take a bit longer...

In my case, after the first one, after about 6 months (breastfeeding throughout) the weight dropped off and tummy back to normal.

Went back to gym 3 months after ds1 and did a mix of fat-burning and toning exercise. Took 6 months to get back to old self, but did do it.
Ds2 is 6 weeks and I returned to the gym today (though was running fairly soon afterwards too). I've been doing the exercises in the book below since he was born. Have a fairly flat stomach already - so don't look like I recently gave birth when in my normal clothes - , but loads of stretch-marked crepey skin still and am still quite flabby (for me) generally.

I think you need a 2-pronged approach - though you probably already know this. You need to do some fat-burning since a common place for the body to store excess weight is on your stomach (so limiting the nr of cakes, chocolate etc) plus running/cross-training/step machine/aerobics classes etc. And you need to be doing lots of crunches (for flat abs nothing beats them imo). You have to be sure before you start, though, that your abs have knitted back together. (Lie on your back with your legs bent, feet close to bum, place one hand a couple of inches below belly button and one hand a couple of inches above belly button, lift chin towards collar bone and see if you can feel a valley at all down your mid-line. If you can you need to do some of the tupler technique to strengthen your abs before you begin. If not you can start on the crunches, though you need to be very careful about good technique.)

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