stomach fat

 Hi all was just wondering if u guys are having trouble loosing your belly and no matter how much weight u loose u will always have that.  Lets face it everyone cant get on the Biggest Loser so without the trainers can someone loose that jelly roll on their lower stomach or will they need plastic surgery.  I exercise every day but I am beginning to wonder will this work on my stomach?

All of my weight loss so far has been in my stomach. At least it looks that way to me and my daughter. I will always have a pouch though, unless I get plastic surgery.

 Thank you for replying Flo.  So can you tell me of any specific exercise that will help that pouch?  For some reason my poch seems bigger now I don't know if its because I'm loosing or just because the skin isn't tight.

 I still have a little roll of fat right above my waistband.  Actually, I had my surgery at a research hospital and, as part of their study, they take a sample of that particular area of fat from all their patients.  I think they're trying to come up with a way to get rid of that stuff, but it's been almost five years since my surgery, and I've heard nothing about it yet!

You can burn and lose fat, but you cannot remove skin through exercise.

Some people have more resilliant skin than others (age, heredity, length of time you have been obese).

When we are obese, our bodies actually make extra skin cells to cover our growth --- when you lose fat and tone your muscle, those skin cells do not go away.

You can hide excess skin with clothing, under garments ---- but, for many of us, the only long-term solution if reconstructive surgery.

Plastics for me.

WOW!!

Thanks for sharing your photos...I'm having plastics on my stomach in June and it is amazing to see such wonderful results...I can only hope mine turns out half as good!

Jackie

Just tell them pull it tight folks, who cares if you ever stand up straight again.  lol  Seriously my doctor was a German resident and gorgeous, I said ummm make me look like you.  She smiled and was probably thinking I don't have a magic wand, but I said well try your best I want it flat.  And flat I got, I was/am thrilled even nearly 6 years later.  Every morning I look in the mirror to see if its still there.  lol  It sounds strange, but you know how you have the dreams where you wake up fat again, I dream I wake up and my stomach is gross again.  Thankfully its not.

Can I ask...did you get your legs done at the same time?

Nope my legs are a mess, thank god for tights.