looking pregnant???

iVillage Member
Registered: 06-14-2005
looking pregnant???
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Fri, 07-15-2005 - 8:44pm

PLEASE....can someone out there in message board land help me???

I am a healthy 38 year old mom of three, whom use to be pretty thing years ago before kids!!
Before my first pregnancy (20 years ago!) I was a size 2 and 100 lbs. At 5 feet...this was considered thin. Now...I am a tad overweight at 137 lbs.

While I totally understand the way our bodies change over the years and what not....One thing bothers me to no end........

I look pregnant.

I can assuse you I am NOT pregnant.....and I am also healthy with no underlying diseases or anything.
It is just the *shape* my body has taken on over the years...and it depresses me to no end.
Can anyone give me any excercises/advice to tone and GET RID OF this tummy shape my body has taken on? Anyone know what type my body is? is there certain things to tone it?? etc....
I am totally self conscious because of this...and always end up wearing huge shirts and such to cover up my body. I won't even dress nice, for me, my BF or go out to fancy places because of this....I use to do the crunches and such...was even using the katami bar to work out...but it still has not helped, so I gave up....

Please help...... ;-(

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iVillage Member
Registered: 03-04-2005
Tue, 07-19-2005 - 1:30pm

Doing all over strength training, along with cardio would help burn the fat faster, not to mention having nice looking body when the fat is gone.

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 04-19-2004
Tue, 07-19-2005 - 2:26pm
no kidding
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Registered: 12-04-2003
Sun, 07-24-2005 - 6:55pm

Welcome to our fabulous board RAvynne!!

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