Fri, Sep-02-11, 11:14
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Senior Member
Posts: 653
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Plan: Atkins- leaning Paleo
Stats: 182/154/145
BF:
Progress: 76%
Location: NW LA... state, not city.
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Help?
I'm 49 years old. 5'7" 158-160, depending on time of day, etc.
I'm right at the border of "barely overweight/high end of healthy weight".
I've had 4 C-sections, spread over 13 years, the last one 17 years ago.
Thirty years ago, I was an athlete in peak physical condition. I had two of those C-sections four years apart. Then I became a runner rather than a gymnast/strength trainer.
Then I became a model-thin slip of a girl. I lost a lot of my musculature, but not nearly all of it. Basically I went from a 36-24-36 to a miniscule 34-23-34. My weight dropped from mid 120's to mid-high one-teens. I maintained the tiny frame until 1992. (I'm thinking this is where I may have done myself some damage...) After 30 and with two additional C-sections just 20 months apart, plus burning the candle at both ends, my youthful vigor started to slip away. I still maintained at roughly 140 for the next fifteen years, though.
To cut to the chase... in the last TWO YEARS I have put on roughly 30-40 lbs... by medicating with sugar. I have taken twenty of them off, but my lower abdominals are just SHOT. The girl who used to do a hundred and fifty situps a day has become the woman who finds it near impossible to do as much as ONE crunch. I can do a lot of OTHER exercises, but lifting my body from the floor into a crunch just isn't happening!
I desperately need something to strengthen my lower abdomen... the interior deep muscles that were cut and cut and cut and cut and stretched and stretched...
Help?
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