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I'm thin, but I'm pretty rectangular. I have a small waist technically, but it's not defined enough IMO and I'd like to get into waist training. I'd like to decrease it by at least three inches.
As long as you don't mind compromising your health by rearranging some vital organs, you really can't "train" your waist into being smaller. Good old fashioned diet and exercise is a safe, sustainable alternative.
As long as you don't mind compromising your health by rearranging some vital organs, you really can't "train" your waist into being smaller. Good old fashioned diet and exercise is a safe, sustainable alternative.
Then there's nothing else you can do about it, other than dress in outfits that kind of give the illusion of an hourglass figure, by emphasizing your waist.
Then there's nothing else you can do about it, other than dress in outfits that kind of give the illusion of an hourglass figure, by emphasizing your waist.
So when I see other girls that waist train, they've accomplished nothing?
I don't think it works permanently. I had a friend do it and it worked as long as she wore it, once she stopped she went right back to how she looked before. From what I've gathered you have to waist train for several years before you can expect long term results and even then it may not be temporary. The most success I've seen people have is when they waist trained while dieting and working out and losing weight, but if you don't plan on losing weight then I don't see how your body can just reconfigure itself permanently?
A lot of the celebs advocating waist training do it everyday, diet, and have plastic surgeons lol-but for the average person results will vary depending on the person, the quality of the trainer, and how long you wear it since that's how long the results last. You also need to ask yourself how you will wear it? Will it look right under clothing? Are you preparing to sleep with it on and have an uncomfortable sleep? Do you plan on wearing the trainer for the next few years, 24-7?
If not then I think it's silly and another short term weight-loss fad. There's a reason a lot of celebs just get surgery when they want more hips or a narrower waist-it works quickly while training takes much more time, involves health risks, and may not potentially work as well as you think. All the girls I've known who have done it have not had permanent long term results, and it only worked well when they were losing weight and dieting, because to reshape your body the weight on your waist has to go somewhere else lol.
If I were you I would focus on loving my body because ultimately unless you have the cash to pay a surgeon to change your body you are stuck with what you have.
You could always have your lower ribs removed. That would be permanent. Not sure how that would affect you long term when you are older and probably an expensive surgery. But it would be a permanent way to work around a genetics issue.
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