They say that having extra weight mostly in the abdominal area is a sign of an insulin resistant body type. I certainly agree with that. Most of my weight is in the front and I just despise it. I am sure it will be the last to go.

Orchid

My stomach didn't look like it was losing fat, but when I measured it, its gone down 3 inches.

1 CRUCIAL thing that a lot of people don't do is sit-ups. The muscles in your abdomen are so distended and weak that no matter how much weight you lose, they're still going to hang loose. You have to do sit-ups and other ab exercises to tighten them up.

For me it is the last area to actually "show" progress. It showed everywhere else first.

Truth is we burn fat evenlly all over. Even with exercise, say targeting the tummy, you will still lose all over. You can tone it up but not force the body to just lose the fat in any one place. There is no way to get the body to lose the fat in any one place over another. Now some might tell you they lost first in their face or their hands or something. It just looks this way since there is less fat there than say in the tummy. Think about it, if we could pick and choose to lose five pounds here or there, while not losing anywhere else, we would probably end up looking lopsided! So anytime you lose anything remember SOME of it came from you tummy. And sadly, for people like me who were really obese and carried most of it in the belly, it seemed to take the longest to lose the belly. This is because, like I said, we lose all over but in my case, my belly being the largest part of me, it took longer for it to start to show there. But hang in there because I am living proof it can happen!

If you want to speed up the process of burning stomache fat all you can really do is cardio. Crunchies and situps will condition the muscles which may make your tummy appear slightly smaller if even that. However if you are doing your cardio once you get that fat burned off you will have a nice set of abs underneath. My luv chuncks on my sides are usually the last to go, my boobs are def the first!

I've never taken Relacore but I have taken Relora which is suppose to basically work the same. I had great results with it. Does seem to work really well on the tummy. I have been thinking of using it again. I can't remember exactly how it works but it works with the cortisol in your body to keep you from gaining weight in your tummy butt and hips, and helps you lose weight there by releasing fat or something. You could probably do a search on it and find tons of things.

Face, Tummy are first for me...hips, thighs and butt are last....
Therefore pants that are too big in the waist fit lovely in the hips...such a pain.
I have started doing exercises to target those areas!

Click here for more Info:

http://www.suncoastherbs.com/carter-reed/relacore.asp

Mine is starting now at 18% BF, my legs are already quite hard en muscular. So it takes a lot of time before your stomach is STARTING to go.

Although your waist should get smaller anyway in the process before this.

WARNING:

I only recently found that the TVA muscle quite often stay's neglected in these ab-exercise. The TVA is the one you suck your belly in with when you pass some good looking ladies in the sauna. If it is weak, and sometimes it is even with good built BB types, your belly will protrude. Mine did, and I was terrible frustrated about this. Now I am training only this one, because I may have overtrained the front abs.

Ditto for me.. but I'm wondering if mine is just flabby skin from 4 pregnancies?? UGH.

Watcher, how do you target the TVA muscle? I've been doing reverse situps (lay on your back, keep your legs together and straight and raise them til they're perpendicular to the ground) and they KILL my lower abs in a way that crunches/situps never did. Is that the same muscle?

i agree you got to work your abs, got to have muscle tone of some type... works for me.... just keep after it
the fat will go!

I'd like to know as well

I would love to know more about this too . Thanks.

Orchid