I have never had a flat tummy - though I remember it feeling hard - like a pregnant belly kind of hard. I remember way back when I was 14-15 that I had a poochy stomach, but it was HARD. I think my guts just don't fit within my pelvis in a way that they can be flat. My mom and my sister have the same pooch.

Now, at 170.8 and working out regularly, I can feel the stomach muscles under the remaining fat and loose skin. I can feel them quite well and they have gotten quite strong, but I know I'll never have a non spongy stomach. I will always have the blah over top as I have quite a bit of loose skin on my belly and I don't think it will tighten up completely - especially as many pregnancy stretch marks I have there. Scar tissue doesn't shrink and my stomach is becoming one big mass of scar tissue as the 'healthy' skin shrinks up around the scars, but it still leaves a lot of skin (and the fat layers attached to that skin).

I'm not going to worry about it too much - I can feel my ab muscles now , so that's my victory right there.

Yeah, this is what I long for most. I don't think it will ever happen for me. Without plastic surgery anyways. I carry all of my excess weight in my belly and always have, i'll never wear a bikini

I did in my teens but let me tell ya I worked HARD for that six pack! I was fit with low body fat. What did it feel like, it felt TIGHT. I get that feeling now that I'm back into strength training the difference though is I have fat now and it's the strangest feeling to feel that TIGHT feeling yet to have the jiggles. You know when your done doing a bunch of ab crunches and you stretch and you feel tight....it's like that tight feeling, you feel it when you dance, walk, move it feels hot and sexy and I SO WANT IT BACK! Don't know if it will happen again because now at 35 I've had 2 kids and have been obese since I was in my mid 20's....sigh.......but I'm gonna try and work at it again!

Yeah, I highly doubt this is ever going to happen for me without surgery. I already have one kid and would like another. Plus I gained way too fast in my first pregnancy and have now lost a lot of weight so I have loose skin to content with too.

That being said, my stomach has flatten out quite a bit but with the loose skin it's never going to be smooth. I honestly don't mind at this point. I look great in clothes and my stomach can be hidden quite easily. As long as I wear high waisted bikinis (which I love the look for anyways) I don't have any problems with my loose skin/little rounded belly showing.

I think at some point you just have to accept that your body isn't going to be 100% and I'd even go on to say that perfectly flat stomachs are quite rare.

We all want what we don't have. I've always had a firm, flat belly (even now at 55), but I would kill to have really slender thighs!

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Good point, freelance.

I have pretty small legs that have a lot of shape and tone to them, but my midsection is always flabby. If the rest of my body were was easy to work with as my legs, I'd be in business! But it's not. Ah well. Count our blessings, right?

Yep! I wish I knew that feeling!

For me, a flat stomach is never going to be realistic. I have a very short torso and that is where I gain weight when I gain it, there just not enough space for internal organs that I can ever expect a flat stomach. Tighter and cinched in with muscle training? Sure! I'm working on that now! But completely flat on its' own? Never. Not after children, massive weight gain and loss, etc. I'll take comfortable and looks good with a little shape wear under clothes. That's the most I can ask of my skin and body frame.

Now my legs on the other hand? Looked gorgeous even fifty pounds go. We all have better and worse assets, I think it's worth more to play up the good one's and not stress about the bad. That's crazymaking, right there, and what use is it to be chronically dissatisfied with a part of me that I can improve but never fully change because of how my body was created?

Well I also have a really short torso and I still have a flat stomach.



Here's my pic from mybodygallery, a few pounds ago... I'm not fit but my tummy is flat, feels good for sure. I never had a huge gut, but it was bigger for sure, and I like sitting down without having any rolls !

I remember when I was at my highest weight, I was like "why the **** am I always bloated ?" then one day I realized it's not because I was bloated, but because I have gotten fatter and I had gotten a belly. Not a nice feeling to realize that :/

Now, YOU tell me how it feels to have a big belly

It feels awesome. (Mine's not all that firm right now, but it used to be).

What i've always wondered was what it's like not to have your thighs touch each other when you walk...

It feels AWESOME. My sister says that its gross when thighs don't touch, but I've been overweight (borderline) and my thighs didn't touch. It guess it doesn't "feel" like anything, but when my thighs chafed it was such an annoying feeling and its one less thing to be bugged about. Its kind of like...if your ears are always ringing and one day they stop ringing-you aren't "feeling" anything but you are sure are relieved they aren't ringing.

LOL, this one will never happen to me either! My stomach is bad, but my thighs are worse. I still carry a lot of weight in my legs, and I have a ton of sagging skin. Even at a normal weight now I would not be comfortable wearing a pair of shorts. First place I'll have plastic surgery if I ever decide to do so.

My upper body, on the other hand, looks pretty decent.

I have no idea but I've wondered that myself. Even at 130 I had a stomach. I asked my now-ex what he thought and he said he didn't mind it, that he liked that I still felt soft to cuddle with. But I wouldn't mind it shrinking considerably...

How do you get your stomach so flat in the first place? >.<

The best I can describe it, its like you have a warm pillow wrapped around you constantly. Its alright in the winter and when you want to feel cozy, to have just like 15 or so pounds on your midsection, but in the summer and stuff when you just want to feel cool and fresh? Honestly it makes everything uncomfortable, im fidgety with my clothes and stuff. especially if you're obese (which I was). I feel a lot more comfortable though, being close to a normal weight. The only thing left is my tummy. I can still grab a handful of fluff.
Which I dont want lol.

beats me - even when i was bodybuilding, weighed 115lbs, and could shove my arm down the side of my size 5 jeans up to the shoulder, i never had a flat stomach because of pregnancy damage. in fact, it looked exactly like a popped blister. really gross. foundation garments were my friend.