what is the best way to flatten our tummy?

@xannebull (1793)
Philippines
October 24, 2009 9:28am CST
my friend lent me her sauna belt for tummy and i used it every time i am facing the computer, i just wish that it could help flatten up my tummy since it started to bulge after giving birth to my second child. it seems to be so hard to make it flat, i am lazy about exercising and other sort of stuffs.
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@raj_gupta (311)
• India
24 Oct 09
I think you know it - Exercise. I have never been able to understand Sauna belts and like things. As "undertheoath" states, they dehydrate body and are garbage. I hope you can find something that motivates you to move yourself rather then hoping for machines to do things for you.
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@xannebull (1793)
• Philippines
24 Oct 09
yeah i know it already, exercise is the answer but i am too lazy with it, no pain no gain..
• United States
24 Oct 09
Sauna belts are garbage. They only dehydrate the surrounding areas for little or no satisfaction. The best way is to lose the stomach fat through exercise. If you want to lose it immediately you should consult a doctor. You can also surgically have it removed, but it is painful and costly. Basically, exercise & diet or surgery. And remember when you exercise fat is not burned at the area you use the most, it is dissolved throughout the body equally when it is needed.
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@xannebull (1793)
• Philippines
24 Oct 09
that would be helpful, i'm afraid of removing fats surgically, it's scary, better have a bulging tummy than going to a surgeon, by the way you are right, happy mylotting.
@LiveLove (443)
• United States
24 Oct 09
There are some specific yoga moves targeted towards the belly but I don't know the specifics. Strectches should help a lot and please stay away from crunches. You don't want to build musclemass there. As for the yoga,I'm not sure about how effective the yoga streches will be becuase I have always had a flat stomach even before I started doing yoga. It is still worth a try.
@eowens (10)
• United States
27 Oct 09
I am sorry, but if you have always had a flat stomach, congratulations, but you don't really understand how difficult it is for the rest of us to get a flat stomach. The older you get the harder it gets. The best yoga move I have tried is simply holding in your stomach as hard to your backbone as you can (while breathing) for a count of 15 for about 10 reps. This is something you can do in many situations, several times a day. The other thing that works for me is not yoga, but equally effective. Take a broom handle or baseball bat and hold it with both hands horizontally over your head. Start by holding each end of this object with both hands strait up like a field goal. Turn the object your are holding over your head, while twisting back and forth at the waist. This works to bring in the sides as well as flatten the bulge. I have seen people who do a hundred crunches a day that don't have muscle mass in their stomach, but everyone is different. Whatever works for you, make it something simple because chances are you will always need to do a certain amount of this exersize or stretch to maintain that flat stomach.
• Malaysia
24 Oct 09
There are other ways beside exercise. You can do fasting, be more fussy about what yo want to eat( so you won't feel like eating everything that seems tempting)and attend to more important things to distract yourself. My sister is once overweight and...plus sized,and hate exercises, but she doubled up doing house chores, sleep without turning the fan or the air conditioner on, do a lot of sudoku ( hey, they say doing maths burns ), dance while cooking/ thinking/ folding clothes. The main keys are controlling what goes into your body, and avoid letting your body idle ( means make it constantly moving) at all times except sleeping, and patience. Do you know, swaying your legs while sitting at you desk can also help burns some of those extra fat. So, keep doing things you have fun with, and in the long way, you won;t even realize how much you lose. Stress free and fat free, who don't want that?
• United States
25 Oct 09
Fasting is an unsafe form of dieting in which you starve your body. It is not effective and after a while the body will start to atrophy the muscles you have and eat that away. Starvation is never the answer. Sure it is ok to occasionally do, but if you fast for more than 2 or 3 days, detrimental affects to your body will occur. Your diet, if it is going to be "extreme" should not be less than 1100 calories and not last for more than 16 weeks. If you are serious about it, go to a dietitian.
4 Mar 10
For a start quit being lazy and exercise.
@ElsaElsa (323)
• United States
25 Oct 09
I watched a tv program one time in which the trainer said to hold your tummy in as long as you can through out the day. I haven't tried it personally but felt that how could you do that without holding your breath. But supposedly you are supposed to hold you tummy in and not hold your breath at the same time. Then again excersice, healthy diet and other proven methods are the best option. Surgery should be on the bottome of the list if even appear on the list.
@Rite17 (773)
• United Kingdom
25 Oct 09
thats called tensing ur tum muscles... lol u dnt have to hold ur breath... think about when u tell a mate to punch ur tum n u tense? similar thing but dnt take a breath before u do it... my post earlier describes how i do it... n when ur hovvering n tensing ur tum, u ahve to breathe as u work up a sweat working harder than just hoovering!! lol
• United States
25 Oct 09
ok this is what you do cut out soda ,do 10 to 15 sit ups or crunc although painful this truly helps and you'll defineltly see changes because if you just gave birth you hvae no time for major workout sessions
@srganesh (6340)
• India
25 Oct 09
Just do some abdominal exercises and that is the best and natural way to flatten your tummy.Being lazy to do is not a good excuse.Just spare some 15 minutes daily and you can see the difference in a month time.Don't say,you can't spare that much little time in a day.Cheers!
@zkapfo123 (319)
• India
25 Oct 09
Hi xannebull, i've also tried the sauna belt, but the results are disappointing. It's not worth using it, it does not burn out the unwanted fats as claimed by the manufacturers, all it does is just dry out some body fluids that's all. why don't you try some sort of exercises, like sit ups, aerobics, yogas etc. i believe this exercises have much better results than using sauna belts. Thank you!!!!
@BART78 (2927)
• Canada
25 Oct 09
sauna belt...it sound money making for fitness center....that's crap equipment..just go on diet and a little walk for 10mins... or streaching every morning..avoid to much carbs, calories and unhealthy fat..discipline is the key to achieve your goal... :D
@sunnycool (12714)
• India
25 Oct 09
hi xannebull,as u want to loose wait without exercise and any other means.i suggest u to take calabash which is also called as bottle gourd.it is an vegetable very easy to find. in order to loose ur extra fat take 1 glass of calabash juice(remove the seeds) thrice a week that is every alternate day it really works nd i am suggesting it coz my frnd have lost weight by this nd it is productive (do not have anything for 2 hrs after u take da juice).As dis a vegetable so no fear of having any side effects. but do not start with 1 glass of it directly.start with one-fourth of a glass try to gradually increase until ur capacity increases to 1 full glass.if u start with a full glass you may feel really tired tats y start with one-fourth of a glass.if u follow dis for a month you can c da change.have a nice day.
@solared (1207)
• United States
25 Oct 09
Drink nothing but water, an do jogging or get a treadmill, or exercise bike, an do crunch's an sit ups.
25 Oct 09
My friend I have used sauna belt but have not flattend my stomach at all try to lay down then put your 2 legs above then do crunches atleast 50 a day I know that you are lazy just like me but it really is effective it makes my stomach flat.
@neethin (38)
• India
25 Oct 09
there is no shortcut to sucess! work ur head out at the gym, then there is no stoping u! wana make heads turn towards you. look good, smell good, and have a body to die 4! guys will go gaga ....
@jugsjugs (12967)
24 Oct 09
A friend of mine who has had children told me after i had my sixth child todo sit ups as well as drink alot of water.She has had 5 children and she has a flat stomach,so there must be some truth in it.Where as i have never tried the sit ups or the water all the time instead of anything else.
• United States
24 Oct 09
Of course this won't have a great affect if you don't loose most fat infront of stomach muscle. When breathing in push belly out. Then when breathing out pull belly in. Helps tighten and strengthen tummy muscles.
• Philippines
24 Oct 09
A good exercise is a big help to flatten our tummy and other support from sauna belt maybe can help too. It's good to make a try who knows it will work right? Few of my friends told me that dancing is also best exercise maybe we could try it sometime.
@Rite17 (773)
• United Kingdom
25 Oct 09
unsure about sauna belt... hear that it is good for cellulite... gets water retaining out!! But think that if u hoover n mop alot... tense ur tum and twist ur upper body opposite to ur hips... u will sn feel muscles burn n if u do it often wnough should just tense up everytime without u thinking about it... iv started to notice it.. n tum is slowly leaving me.. but holiday didnt help so start all over again!! hope it works for u... muscles just need to be pinged back into shape... and its goo dfor working up a sweatso fat is burned off!! GET MOPPING!!! :-)
@snurre (17)
• Sweden
25 Oct 09
The sauna belt will not make your tummy flat. What it does is make you sweat. This is good because the sweat rinses out your pores from the inside out. Your skin will become very clean, it is really hygienic. But it does not burn fat. It is not possible to burn fat on a specific area of the body, like the tummy. When exercising, fat from any part of the body is used regardless of which muscles are being trained. This is why big women have large reasts and women with flat bellys have smaller ones (however, because of your baby, you will need large reasts anyway so that will not really be an issue for you). So, because body fat can be reduced by exercising any part of the body there is no point in focusing on the tummy or putting a belt around it. You say you are too lazy to exercise, but it doesn't have to be the really exhausting exercise. How do you feel about taking a one hour walk every day? Or if you normally drive a car, why not try riding a bicycle (don't forget the helmet)? It's environmentally friendly, and if you live in a large city it might even go faster than the car during rush hour. I also recommend that you stop eating sugar. I'm not talking about fruit or milk sugars, I mean the refined sugar found in candy, softdrinks and icecream. It's very fattening. Another problem after a pregnancy is that the skin around the tummy might be a bit too large, because it has been stretched so much. It might be somewhat flappy when you get down to your normal size, because the skin has lost some of its elasticity. To fix this, there are two things you can do. One is to use some lotions on the skin that make it more elastic, the other is to exercise the muscles around the tummy. The muscles on the sides and above and below the tummy can stretch the skin more if they are stronger. I think it's best to combine these two methods. (Of course the third solution would be to eat more to fill up the extra space, making the skin streched again, but that would undo the flattening of the tummy which is the subject of this discussion.) After writing such a long response, maybe I should point out that I am not a doctor or anything. I have no expert knowledge about this, but I am confident that you can flatten your tummy by following my advise. Good luck!
• United States
24 Oct 09
That is a great way but you must add running not only will you get thinner but your abdomen muscles will begin to show becuase they are usaully under a layer of fat