Thanks so much for the wonderful advice! I'll definitely keep up with my (to my thinking) moderate sit up plans...about 50 crunches every other day along with 15 side touch crunches for each side (twist elbow towards knee while sitting up).
Yup, thanks, Michelle...I'm not pregnant yet, though I would *love* to be...my body is way too overweight to healthily support a baby. So I'm losing this weight to ready my body for that most special of blessings!
Of course, I'm especially worried about the loose skin because I know that if I have it, I can't have a tummy tuck until I have all our kids. But I also realize that if it happens, it happens. I'll just have to deal and know that I'm pretty no matter what skin is flapping around!
I just want to know that I did all I could to tone what I have.
Is it true that crunches are more beneficial than sit ups? My Cooking Light had an article saying that sit ups are just as beneficial, but they carry the possibility of back injury if you do them improperly. I'm definitely not powerful enough in my stomach to sit all the way up yet on my own. So I'm sticking to powerful, slow crunches, trying to suck my belly button into my spine with each one.
I totally agree with you on the tummy sucking in all day thing, Seek! I've noticed that I actually can pull my tummy in with my muscles now, where as before I started SBD, my muscles were so weak and my tummy so big, that I could not! I feel much better when I sit tall and such in that tummy, so I try to do it as much as I can all day.
Thanks again, guys! I really appreciate your patience and willingness to share your interest and knowledge about exercise!
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