Muffin top

[SippNSotaGirl 1]

Hi everyone!

Does anyone know any good exercises to get rid of this unsightly muffin top I'm getting? I'm happy that I'm slowly losing weight, and my pants are fitting better. But it's getting harder and harder to find shirts that don't prominently display my developing muffin top. It's a little embarassing. Any ideas are greatly appreciated. Thanks!!

[Jachut 487]

A muffin top is the only real sign I was left with that I was once obese. My stomach flattened and I dont need a Tummy Tuck unless i really wanted to trade a scar for a small amount of loose skin. However, despite not hanging or being really bad, my skin IS a bit loose and its the muffin top that shows.

You cant exercise that away, its just where the hang tends to settle. I have a couple of Shapewear items that help with certain outfits that show it, otherwise, I dress to conceal it - and that doesnt mean wearing baggy clothes.

I often use a pregnancy belly band - they're an Australian invention, but its just a little bit of elastic that has a button on one side, button hole on the other, comes in several lengths, I just use the one inche one, you button it onto your jeans and hey presto - it lets out the waistband just that bit so that it doesnt pinch and give you the muffin top. I have lots of jeans that fit me well all over, and arent tight, but pinch just enough at the waist to give me a bulge. Otherwise, if I'm wearing a very clingy top, I just wear a shapewear type camisole (cant BEAR the feeling of tight girdles and stuff round my waist but strangely its comfortable if its a top rather than a bottom, go figure).

Truly, with huge slabs of fat that women go round showing over the tops of their low riding pants these days, a small roll round the middle is hardly a worry, I just dont worry about it, and avoid things that really emphasise it.

But the real key to losing fat around your middle is cardio - hard and lots of it. It melts away body fat. No amount of crunches will make any difference.