btw Veena: no i think if i had managed to develop abs like that i would have been just plain horified and ran before even checking here, because that's just to scarry.
georgiamarie, do the side excercises help, i've actualy laid off of them as of late because they seemed to be making things worse?
Nothing will ruin your waistline quicker than a baby, and do you plan to forego mother-hood to keep your figure?
Some of it comes down to genetics. I have broad shoulders (size 10//12 jackets) and narrow hips (size 2 jeans). I've never had an hour-glass figure, and never will. Should I hate the way I look?
Rather than focus on this one detail of your body, focus instead on your well-toned muscles, and love the other 95% of your body for what it is able to do. You can visually change the proportion by building shoulders as described. Or you can can cut back on the moves you think are "ruining" your waist-line, eg, more spinning & dancing than lifting moves.
Learn to accept your genetics and make the most of what you have!
I don't want kids anyway so that's not a problem to me.
but no of course my opinions how i think i look and how i don't like how i don't look anymore shouldn't affect how you think you look, heck i don't even judge how other people look based on how i like to look. if someone looks good they look good, and honestly i've come accross very few females i don't find attractive in one way or another. however i have a natural inclination to be hourglass shaped that is my genetics, this is the first time in my life that i don't have that shape, 20 lbs lighter hourglass, 80 lbs heavier hourglass, pole dancing aparently not hourglass. that is the only thing that i've ever had to be proud of and i had to fight for that, the first day i woke up with hips my dad told me i was fat, the first 15 min of that day i was so proud, i felt good and that was the last day i ever felt pretty, so I've had a real love hate relationship with my curves but my waist has been the only thing i've ever felt good about.
i know ya'll are trying to help and i apreciate every bit of it, but accept it, get over it, love yourself, if these things worked i wouldn't need the advice in the first place, my fiance is always insisting i'm fine the way i am, but i don't think so, and i would like to think my oppinion matters for something right? but I apoligise for all the drama I'm making this, and if i could just ignore this one thing i would, but that "name one thing" thread this is the one thing i had, i may not like the layer of pudge over it, i may not like how wrinkly it gets when i'm upside down, i may not like a lot of things about it, but i love how it makes me feel girly even when i'm wearing my boyfriends clothes, how it makes me feel protected when he wraps his arms around it, how it would obediantly corset down faster than normal, in a good fitting corset 8" with no complaint. I'm not sure if i'm just that strange/weak because i can't let this go and it seems like ya'll are a lot stronger than me emotionaly to just be able to accept losing things that make you proud. if i'm getting the wrong impression i'm sorry.