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I Want a Flat Stomach!

How many times is that statement made?

eDiets has an interesting Q&A on the subject. A 14 year old girl is obsessed with wanting that "flat stomach" that every woman "seems" to have. The answer is great:

So what to do? PLEASE understand that flat stomachs are not the norm. It's simply how magazines airbrush the models to make them appear as though their stomach is completely flat. You have organs inside your body and unless your genetics are such, a flat tummy (no matter how fit you are) may just not be in the stars for you.

The magazines preach and preach. The women in them are androgenous - flat angles and bones. Don't believe the hype.

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Claire

We actually learnt in art class that flat stomachs go exactly against the natural anatomy. It's not so much the organs being round as the drastic convex curve of the lower spine (which sits roughly to the centre of teh body at this point) along with the tilting of the hips curving the entire lower torso. You'd have to have your spine remodelled to get around that.
Sad thing is, if it were possible, we could probably find a woman in this world willing to do it...

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Nolo

This guy seems to have mirrored and ripped off your whole blog. Or did you copy it from him? :-)

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Spaceman Spiff

i see lots of people in my clinics who have flat stomachs, and they are more attractive. I dunno what you guys want to say to make yourselves feel better, but really - those girls will always get my attention first.

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alaina

If you have a flat stomach, will all of the boys will come to do than if have a huge stomach?

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anonomous

i am only 12 and i have a big stomach. its been 2 days that ive been exersizing and i want a new body. i try not to eat or drink a lot of fat. i do a lot of hula hooping, sit ups, hold my body weight, and stomach crunches. but am i going to be doing that my whole life? give me a break!! wut else can i do? i need some advise

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Lana

i used to be overweight and obese from the ages of 12-18. i always collected Victoria's Secret catalouges and cut out pictures of the models with beautiful perfect flat stomachs and taped them to my dresser mirror, thinking that was what i wanted more then anything in the world, a beautiful, perfect flat stomach of my own, but instead i had an ugly big flabby gut.

Then, when i was 18, i went on a serious diet and lost 80 lbs and was suddenly thin and beautiful and happy. i had the perfectly flat stomach that i always wanted :) i kept the weight off for two years, and then i got pregnant and had a baby. After i had my baby, i lost all the weight again and i'm even thinner now then i was before i was pregnant, but my stomach sticks out a little at the bottom, even though i've done 500 crunches a day for over a year. i KNOW it isnt fat, because i'm technically 10 lbs underweight. My stomach muscles have been stretched and weakened by pregnancy. :( i dont know what to do, i miss my perfect flat stomach :(

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anomanous

all my life ive had a perfect flat stomach naturaully but about a year ago things changed and i have this bump in it i h8 it it looks like im preggers help me!

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Jo

There is nothing you can physically do to get a flat stomach, if there is fat there it will come off when you lose weight. If there is a little bulge from pregnancy or other things you have to work the muscles around it also to get it nice and flat again.

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Rea

I am 11 and my stomache is pretty flat but right now i feel as though i have roles and everything...I have this friend who has a flat stomache from working out and i want one too,,,Is there something that can make me have a flat stomache?

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Ben

"I have this friend who has a flat stomache from working out and i want one too,,,Is there something that can make me have a flat stomache?"

I think you just answered your own question.

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xXcheryl

well i tried doing sit ups every day and every 20mins. i havent got a flat stomach but it seems to be helping toning it and im 15! i have an awkward figure i have real big hips how can i loose them?!? help me!

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Inoriko

Having a flat stomach does go against basic anatomy as someone previously pointed out, it is possible to have one (to some degree). I've had a flat stomach one and off since I was about 10. I used to be really into gymnastics and training a lot, I was put on a very strict diet, and I gradually picked up bad habits from older girls about food behaviours. It's been five years developed into full blown eating disorders now. Having a flat stomach, working out and dieting are fine in moderation. Just don't let it control your life. Sorry, I didn't mean this to some off as a lecture, but you (the author of this little thread/article thing) reminded me of myself and my eternal goal of the 'perfect body'.

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Meiyume

I'm sweet sixteen and I DON'T have a flat stomach... but I'm happy. I would like one but... I'm too lazy. Honestly, I think having confidence and being happy with the way you are is more attractive to guys.

I don't actually know if that had anything to do with this topic but... hey.

Lots of love
~Mei

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amanda

my names amanda and im 12 years old. i weight 130 pounds... and im a vegatarian but that doesnt seem to work for loosing weight... so i started doing sit ups, and holding weights were ever i go. and now im gonna start to walk to the store everyday and back. i was fat my whole life. and i wanna change, i wanna be around 90 pounds . people call me names and i just hate it. do i have to do this for like ever to get skinny ! like paris hilton or something. plese help

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Ashleigh

I am 14. My stomach is prety flat untill it gets to the lower section around my belly button. I am always self concies about it but i dont know how to burn it off. I see alot of other girls at my school whos stomachs are perfectly flat and i wish i had one to. Is there any secret exersizes that they use or what type of exersizes can i use to give me the shape i want?

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