Fitness Update

So, I haven't posted the last two weeks of updates.  Mainly because I was discouraged.  June 4 I saw some improvement everywhere except my waist. 

Weight down 1kg
Chest (ribcage) down 1.5 inches
Hips down 3/4 inches
Thigh, no change
Waist up half inch

I had been doing my Turbo Jam and Turbo Sculpt exercises.  I didn't realize that my ab separation would get worse from it.  The Turbo Sculpt is great... lots of squats and lunges and such.  Really works the glutes and brings in a lot more muscle tone.  However, I guess there was too much twisting.  My muscle separation went back to 3-4 finger widths. 

I could cry.

I've stopped doing the exercises that I know would help me with my fat loss because they are no good for my muscle separation.  I hate it.  So, I've been trying to find more things to do to help heal that separation.  I worked at that a bit this week, and tried mostly to walk, as that is supposed to help as well.

June 11 saw this

Weight down 0.4kgs
Chest up 1/2 inch
Hips down 1/2 inch
Thigh no change
Waist down 1 inch

So, somehow, things are still going down.  However my muscle gap hasn't changed.  It is still sitting at 3-4 finger widths.  However, I also figure I'm measuring properly now, and that previously my 'one finger width' wasn't actually that small.  Would explain why it separated again.  It wasn't truly down to 1.  I need to figure out how to bring that muscle back together.  I may even think of getting a proper binding to support and help heal those muscles.

Has anyone else had this before?  I looked into videos of various people talking about their diastasis, however nobody actually showed what it looked like.  I saw pictures showing their bellies and how they look pregnant, but nothing showing what it looks like when you lay down.  What is a shallow and a deep diastasis, and how do they differ?  How do they look in comparison?  How does it look when you are healing? 

Since I haven't really seen progress videos or photos like that, I'm thinking of doing something myself.  Would that help anyone?  Is that something that anyone would even want to see?  Honestly, I cannot even see it for myself (it is my belly after all... and raising my head uses the muscles so they draw together). 

We'll see.  I need to find a time where I can enlist the help of my husband for videoing though, as I'm not sure I can do so myself.

Until next week!  Hopefully my waist will go down further.  I have another inch and a half I want to lose there, and 4kgs to lose to get back to my weight/size prior to pregnancy.

Oh, look forward to a Diastisis Recti post on something I discovered recently, and my musings as to how that affected my pregnancies and deliveries.  ;)