Calling all apple shaped women to this thread. Show me I'm not alone :(

I'm so insanely jealous of all of you normal women with hips and junk in the trunk and skinny little middles. You look good even when you gain weight. You can wear medium sized tops. I can barely wear a medium when I'm 5'7" and 130lbs. I mean COME ON.

Then there's me, the dreaded apple shaped woman who can't lose weight around the middle. It's the most unhealthy shape and nothing makes you look worse than a big blob of fat right on your gut, despite the fact your arms and legs are twigs.

I know this is my second thread bitching about this, but I'm just in a mood

Any pears or hourglasses who stick their skinny waisted self in my thread are gonna get a nasty response because I'm jealous and spiteful and full of venom

I have a big butt and a big ole gut. *sigh* If anything, now that I am losing this weight, my stomach looks worse if that makes any sense. I am slimming down everywhere but my boobs ( I look like Dolly now) and gut. So they both seem to stick out more now. What the hell.

I am an apple shape... very round and heavy in the middle area when I get heavy.  I held most of my weight in my tummy & chest area.  The chest area was one of my first areas to go besides my arms and legs.  Now... the dreaded tummy and gut are still hanging around and are almost impossible to get rid of.  I'm almost to my goal and not comfortable with my tummy area still... doesn't look too bad when I'm standing, but when I sit...   :(   Oh, and I have no bum, pants seem to hang back there and not too much of a waist either.  I've noticed that when I'm buying new shorts they seem to fit in the waist, but are baggy in the butt and the legs are kinda loose, where if my waist were smaller, I'd be in a smaller size.  I think I saw in another post about the apple shape, something about looking like a ruler when thin?  Well... I feel like I'm starting to look like the ruler, or more like a boy...

Spiro.. you are my hero :)) really.. how come you are in a bad mood today?
:)) I was reading a book about running. " Complete book of women's running", look at what they say.
" understand what it means to be healthy for your body type." and I think you are healthy at 5'7" and 130lbs
I carry most of the weight in my thighs, tummy and guts. I don't know if that a pear or an apple shape.
everytime, I do squats, I remember what you said about the correct form. Basically, I was about to break my neck LOL but you told me how to do it right.

LOL  you caught my eye!  5'7" here too...  134 with a big, round belly.  :D 

i am down to right where i want to be now as far as weight loss, but i admit, i should've worked on toning from the start & i didn't.  maybe then, this gut would be gone.

i know exactly what you mean.  LOL  i would NEVER be caught wearing a bikini!!!  not even to bed!!!

i am an apple but honestly do not find it so very horrible... there are worse things:)

Original Post by ka2007:

i am an apple but honestly do not find it so very horrible... there are worse things:)

Like maybe a sharp stick in the eye

 

I'm not in the 130s now unfortunately, but even when I am, there's the gut. I finally lost most of it when I was like 117lbs, which isn't really ideal for a 5'7" woman.

I am doing things a lot differently than I did when I was that thin, so I'm assuming when I get rid of extra padding I won't be such a damn apple.

Cursed apple shape

amen!  LOL  start toning up now!  don't wait like i did...  you don't want to keep on losing weight til that belly is gone.  you want to tone it up instead.  :D

or you'll end up being too skinny & still having a big belly...  i have to admit though, some people have "cute little bellies".  i really don't think that's what i have though.  nope!  not at all...

i'm a rotten apple too.  i have so much vascularity in my arms and shoulders, it's off the hook.  yet, there's my belly.  like you, spiro, i was belly-less when i was super underweight.  but at a healthy weight?  i am waist-less plus flubber.

Hybrid apple-pear here. Stomach and thighs are the bane of my existence...

yup. here i am. an apple gal.

i would really rather it - if i didn't have such a short torso. all my jeans are low riders so i can avoid my Belt Digging Into My Ribs. i don't think i could handle having a gigantic butt though. i am happy with my butt. it's perky. my BFF (gag suppressed with a grin here) and i are veritable twins and her boyfriend calls it her cute little cartoon butt. so ya, cartoon butt. i can dig it.

a slim middle would be nice though. men like it from what i understand. not a wasp-waist... just a suggestion of the hourglass please and thanks.

at least i have lost enough weight that people aren't congratulating me on my pregnancy :)

 

jerks.

 

I remember when I had a flat enough stomach that could wear a body suit and jeans (give me a break...it was the nineties).  I'm 5'4" and I've never been even close to 130lbs...maybe when I was in jr high!  After kids...and 3 c-sections (they cut me vertically, ouch) I am an apple to the core!  I sweat my legs and ass are getting thinner and thinner but my stomach is here to stay! 

And the worst thing is just when I was starting to think my stomach was finally getting a little smaller (in relation to my ample buson) I bought a cute snug t-shirt and skirt to wear and I just saw a photo of myself in it and I WILL NEVER WEAR IT AGAIN!!!  The apple belly was out and SO unattractive!  Ack!

Apple here...  I gain so much weight in my stomach that I'm often mistaken for being pregnant.  I mean, asking a woman (you don't know personally) when she is due is simply setting yourself up for a bad case of foot-in-mouth.  As bad as it is, I get a small sense of satisfaction in looking them in the eye and saying "Oh I'm not pregnant, I'm fat."  Pleasantly deadpan gives this best, and make sure it's loud enough that plenty of people can witness their response without seeming like you're yelling.  This really is a skill.  

The stammering I get in return is great entertainment.  Very rarely will I get a "Oh I'm SOOO sorry" or "Oh I'm embarrassed, I didn't realize."  I usually blow it off at this point but I'll bet you dollars to donuts that they think twice before asking that stupid question again.  Very rarely I get someone who actually argues with me.  "Are you SURE you're not pregnant."  These people should NOT be allowed to procreate.  There should be a law against it. 

To be honest, this is the ONLY question where I will actually bother with a comeback.  Usually I just pretend I didn't hear them and go about my merry way.  After all, I have to live with myself regardless of whether someone else chooses to or not. 

My mother has taken to buying me maternity clothes.  ARE YOU SERIOUS?  I DON'T EVEN HAVE A UTERUS ANYMORE FOR PETE'S SAKE!   She's constantly trying to come up with ways for me to 'hide my belly.'  She means well, but I don't want to hide it.  I want that constant reminder there to help me avoid the junk that put me into this position in the first place thank-you-so-much.  I'm fat, it's not contagious, and while I'm not going to be wearing half tops anytime soon, I REFUSE TO WEAR MATERNITY CLOTHES!

I dress decently, but no matter how big the top is, I know the fat's there.  And I'm flat sick of it.  It's got to go, no more having to deal the underwear roll resting underneath my belly (no matter what kind I wear.)  No more having to deal with my pants rolling down either.   No more baggy front and back of those pants (except for the part where the underwear roll is, no that part is plain as day.)  No more 4 pack (rolls that is, one stomach above the pants line, one below the pantsline, one pants roll, one undies roll.)  The only apple I want in my life is the one I eat. 

However, I'm not particularly inclined to be a ruler either, so I'm starting my strength training now...  Just in case.

Safiyah

Don't be jealous of me, I'm a pear with a fat stomach.  I'm losing it but I still got this inner tube around my middle. 

Wow, I just found this site today, and it's because I am lamenting my apple shape! No matter what, I can't get rid of the roly poly midsection. I'd like to have more junk in the trunk as well, but I don't gain around the hips or butt - just belly. I feel your pain - I just don't think a thick middle carries as well as curvaceous hips and thighs - at least the waist is defined. I'm also heavy chested, so I need  a size 8-10 on top, and 5 on the bottom. (I'm only 5'2). Yep, top heavy, and nothing fits right.

I am trying to play up my arms and legs, which carry muscle definition well, but I'll always dream of an itty bitty waist. Sigh.

 

Oh me too!  Although I definitely don't have sticks for arms and legs.  They're really muscular.  Thick middle, no hips.  My waist is about a size 6-8, and my hips are about a 2-4.  So I get the choice of diaper butt pants or muffin top.  ARRGH.  As I have been losing weight my face/neck/collarbones have gotten really thin, but the belly remains.  And I don't think I can really lose much more, not sustainably.  So I think I'm just going to have to suck it up (haha or in).

I am a big apple!  I have a huge belly,  and skinny legs and arms,  so I know how you feel,  believe me!    I am 5'6, weight 240 lbs,  and when I was 140 lbs,  I still wore a large or X-large!   I am big boned,  so I guess that's why,  but I see people alot heavier then me wearing the same size clothing I do and it baffles me.   I have a friend,  weighed 413 lbs,  she wore a 3X or a 26-28 before she had lap band surgery.  She's now down to 285 and is in an 18-20.  So why am I in a 26-28 at 240 lbs?    I hate that and it makes me very angry too.   

 

Another apple here. -sigh-

When I was at my lowest weight (110 lb/165cm) ten years ago, my waist was what? A tantalizing 28 in. I simply don't get it. I didn't even enjoy fatty food back then, and I was constantly exercising.

Now I am more than 200 lb, my belly's protruded, my waist a 43, but my *ss is 45, what in the world...People of my weight fit into way smaller jeans, ugh!

And with all the exercises that I do, granted that my upper limbs, my shoulders, my hip, and my legs are now all muscular, NEVER MY WAIST!!! (Grabbing that huge slob of fat)

Christ - I am so with you!  Pears and hourglasses can look "curvy" and "womanly" when they put on a bit of weight - I just look FAT. 

I have all of my weight in my stomach, back, upper arms and chest.  I've got skinny legs (actually I think they are quite nice), no hips, no thighs and the world's flattest ass. 

Oh! So that's what you call it. Apple-shaped. Wow, I think I hate apples now.

Apple-shaped here. Managed to lose weight just about everywhere BUT my stomach. It's going nowhere. Lost my butt (didn't even WANT to!), arms and legs got thinner . . . jeez, even the back fat is going away finally . . . and the belly is still here. And there's muscle under the fat, I KNOW it, I can FEEL it, but the fat isn't going anywhere.

Hate it, hate it, hate it. Can't do a damn thing about it either.

I'm an apple here too. No matter how thin I was I have always had a round middle and a huge chest and no matter what I do to lose my belly, it's still there. I think everyone has covered the problems apples have with dispropotion to tops and bottoms. I especially hate dress shopping for this reason.

 

I am about a size 7-8 on the bottom and a 10-12 up top. I am always trying to hide my belly for fear of someone mistakening me for being pregnant. I also feel sloppy wearing a lot of clothes (too tight around the tummy, lose in the butt). I woud love to be an hour glass or a pear-so much easier dressing a pear than an apple shaped body.

 

My legs and arms are pretty skinny but my gut just look aweful. It's like no matter what I do, it's there to stay!