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Question: I've lost a lot of weight (75 pounds in 6 months). I began working out
about 3-4 months ago. I do 25-30 minutes on the treadmill (5.0 incline and
3.5 speed), a ski machine. Then I do 40 pounds (about 30-40 reps) on an arm
machine, same on a leg machine for back of the thighs.
I do about 60 pounds on a tummy machine where you bend from the waist
sitting down and about 60 pounds on a modified sit up (for the lower back).
About 50-60 reps.
I have a flabby middle. I'm not interested in becoming muscular, just fit
and firm. What is the best thing to do to get rid of the gut?
Answer: know first hand what it feels like to lose a lot of
weight.
The machines won't do anything for your tummy. You just need to lose more
weight. What ever you were doing before, just keep doing it.
Those people who lose a significant amount of weight, around 100 lb, tend to
have excess skin that does not shrink back. The way to test for this is to
pinch the area in question. If the distance between your 2 fingers is 2cm or
less & you can pull the tissue away from the body excess skin is the
problem. No amount of exercise will shrink it unless the excess is minor &
enlarging muscles can fill the envelope of skin. If the distance is more
than 2 cm there is still usually significant amounts of fat present that
need to be lost/removed before you can assess for the degree of excess skin.
Excess skin that will not shrink can only be addressed by surgical removal-a
tummy tuck.
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