1/2 inch

You can tell that I am excited about learning that there is something besides surgery that I can do to flatten my belly...because this is my third blog post about it this week. I haven't blogged this much is a LONG time!

Just wanted to publicly congratulate myself on losing half an inch around the largest part of my waist line...in 3 days! Maybe I ate different food or drank more water Monday...that could account for something. But I have also done 500+ sitting transverse exercises and about 40 transverse squats every day for 3 days in a row...and I can feel it! I am focusing on flexing my transverse muscles anytime I am going to squat, bend, sit, stand...pretty much all the time.

The transverse muscles are the deepest on your ab muscles...the first to tear and pull apart when you have a baby growing in there....or gain weight for any other reason. I also read that chronic constipation (which I thankful do not have) can tear or weaken those muscles. I am learning that the key to a strong core is to stregnthen the transverse muscles first.

I am waiting for my Tupler Splint to arrive in the mail. I am NOT looking forward to wearing this thing in the heat....but I know I need to to help things heal and to be able to do other transverse work out without further damaging those muscles.

LOVE this quote from the fit2b.us site! " {read this like Jeff Foxworthy talkin’ about rednecks terms}: If you’ve got a 3-finger wide Grand Canyon in the trench of yer gut, you might need to splint! If you can sink yer knuckles into the ocean of yer belly like the Titanic and yer feeling yer own spine bones like icebergs, you might need to splint! If your pulse hops under yer fingers like a jumpin’ bean, you might need to splint!" 

...yep...I need to splint!

..I don't think I will  feel like I have officially started working the Tupler Technique until my splint, band and guidebook arrive. When they do, I am going to take some "before" pictures. Then I will be able to look back and really know if this is working or not! Click HERE for other peoples before and after pictures. (Do not fear...mine will be taken in a DownEast under shirt! Those things are great at showing off my mommy tummy...) ugh.

Wish me LUCK!