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Surviving60
April 17, 2012 - 9:02am
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Breasts
Peacegarden - If you are standing correctly in posture, the chest is pulled up very strongly. This tends to stick the boobs out nicely!
kiko
April 17, 2012 - 7:06pm
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Sounds familiar
Hi Peacegarden,
I have similarly small breasts, and that was one reason I always held my stomach in more - I felt it made the profile of my figure look better, and also "yeah, my breasts are small, but look how flat this stomach is!".
Surviving60's comment is a good one, and trust me you'll get used to the posture and realise it's not unattractive.
On the DVD you are working your abdominals, but almost without realising it. Definitely no sit-up type exercises.
Surviving60
April 18, 2012 - 6:27am
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chest up
I'm not overweight, but I have a fleshy protruding belly and smallish breasts. Not wanting to have a beer-belly look is what keeps me remembering to pull the chest up. My abdominal muscles feel stronger since I've adopted WW posture than they ever did before. Belly fat is something else....I know I can't target that area for losing fat, rather I'd need to lose it from all over.
Little Bit
April 18, 2012 - 3:14pm
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Something That May Help
I'm like the others that have commented so far. The posture has been the biggest help to me so far and remembering to keep the chest pulled up is a big help. I have a pectus excavatum (which I don't like to talk about) and that makes it more difficult for me. Here is the big thing that may help most of you with small breasts and that is drinking raspberry leaf tea and it is also good for the uterus as well as other connective tissue. Measure yourself before you start this, drink about a cup or glass a day and after about 6 months, maybe less, you will increase one or two cup sizes not to mention that if you are a little lop-sided, it will even you out. You should also notice your nails growing and better skin and hair. This is the honest truth. I use black raspberry leaves because that is what I have growing on my place but the red raspberry is actually suppose to be a little better. I have read that all the raspberrys have about the same medicinal properties. For those of you that have never drank raspberry leaf tea, it tastes like a weak black tea. Sometimes I mix it with other teas. Another benefit, if you drink a cup of it at the first sign of a cold or the flu, you probably won't get sick or, if you do, it will be gone in 2 or 3 days. Raspberry leaf is one of the "smart herbs", it will only do what needs to be done and is safe for children. The Amish women that live around me drink it to help with childbirth but most of them don't seem to know that it has many other uses too.
Little Bit
Newmamaj
January 24, 2015 - 12:24pm
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belly question
Hi all, I've been searching (with the limited time I have -- 2 kids under my feet) to find this answer. I'm hoping someone can answer or point me towards stuff as I wait for my book and DVD to arrive.
I'll just ask it point-blank:
Is WW posture going to have me looking like I am just sticking my belly out and appear fat, given that you are relaxing the abs. I have a lot of stomach muscle (unfortunately from all the years of ab work and "holding in") but also a bunch of flab right now from having the baby. I just feel like I look like a beer-belly man when I try to do what I know about WW posture. :(
Aging gracefully
January 24, 2015 - 12:49pm
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Hi newmamaj,
Hi newmamaj,
Many new members have this feeling or perception that the belly is sticking way out at first, but you will find that as you incorporate whole woman posture into your life, this feeling will go away to be replaced with a tall proud stature with a gorgeous goddess belly.
The thing is that we have to get over the image that has been engrained into our minds about what our body image should be. Today's society and society for a long time now thinks we should have the figure of a teenage boy with tight abs and square hips. We need to instead rejoice in our natural woman's body just as it was always meant to be in.
Sorry went on a tangent, but hope I have answered your question.
Newmamaj
January 24, 2015 - 12:50pm
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Thanks Aging Gracefully
Thank you. By no means do I care if I have that skinny/flat tummy sort of body anymore (I'm 41 with 2 kids and an awesome husband who loves me "as is" - regardless of how "AS IS" changes :))….I think I'm just so new to this and trying to get up to speed as fast as I can that I don't have a good grounding in what the "goddess belly" is, etc.
I will get there. :)
Aging gracefully
January 24, 2015 - 12:55pm
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It will come to you, newmama,
It will come to you, newmama,
Just do the best you can. Most of our mothers start out with this frantic worry, but after doing the work, they start to relax into it. Your time will come too, and you will be the one coming here giving the new mamas great advice on the posture work!
Surviving60
January 24, 2015 - 2:12pm
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Newmamaj, when I was first
Newmamaj, when I was first starting out with this work, it was the big-belly feeling that kept reminding me to lift my chest. When you do that, even with some belly fat (I've got plenty of that), you still have a sleek strong line up the front, and it feels wonderful. Just try it for awhile. - Surviving