congratulations on losing 40 pounds! that is amazing and you should be proud of yourself! what you're perceiving as fat around your midsection may in fact be excess skin. sometimes when a person loses a large amount of weight the skin that had stretched out is not able to firm back up when the weight is lost. if this is the case there's no exercise you can do to help that flab. you can confirm whether or not you have excessive belly skin by consulting your health care provider. he or she can tell you if you have more body fat to lose or if you have a skin problem. if it's a skin problem your only recourse is surgery to remove the excess skin. this surgery is called " abdominoplasty " or "tummy tuck. " regardless pat yourself on the back for that great weight loss!
i have lost 40lbs (my goal) but most of that weight was everywhere but my stomach. why is that and what can i do? . last year in august i started to gain weight unexpectedly and ended up gaining about 45lbs over 3-4 months. i began a long series of tests for cushings syndrome- and the verdict was that i did not have it. however when i started the testing my cortisol levels were through the roof. the doctors gave up after a while and i joined weight watchers instead. i've lost 40lbs but can't seem to get my stomach to slim down. is there something else i should be doing or that could still be wrong?