I’ve also been exercising and eating less. I’m not doing it quickly, as I want this to be a permanent change.   So far, I have lost the most prominent inch-loss around my navel (around 1.5 inches!) but I haven’t really lost weight around my waist, which is where I want it the most.

It’s always a problem with different body shapes– the place we want to lose weight the most is also the last place it seems to go from.  Women who hate their hips or thighs, always lose inches in their bust and waist first.  Us apples see our bums reduced to the bare minimum before it starts to come off the stomach.  Of course you can target exercise to tone these areas, but that doesn’t control where fat comes off.  No matter how much you want to, it comes off where it likes to.

It’s not fair, but that’s just the way it is.  I’ve readjusted my goals for waist to be more attainable for the way my body works.  I will never be a perfect hour glass, and just as I’ll be disappointed that I’ll never reach that goal, so I encourage all of you to be realistic about your goal bodies on graffed.  Be a bit kind to yourself, and you WILL get to those goals.