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I'm skinny everywhere except on my stomach. My body thinks that when I diet to lose weight it's because I want to look like Skeletor, so the first place I lose fat from is my face and it becomes gaunt and looks unhealthy.
I've heard that could be a posture thing. If you sit like a shrimp, you're gonna have belly rolls, no matter how skinny you are.
I say, hunched over my keyboard like a gremlin.
I think posture does have something to do with it, because when I stand up straight and tense my stomach muscles, I look a lot better. I suspect that the problem isn't so much that I have excess fat on my stomach (although I do have some) but rather that my stomach muscles aren't preventing my stomach from bulging out unless I'm deliberately focusing on keeping them tense. I think better posture can be made subconscious (or else why have adults always told children to stand up straight) but I don't think there's a way to keep the muscles tense subconsciously. Or is there?
Speaking of posture, my new office chair has a significant forward curve at my lower back which I find uncomfortable. (I used to sit in an old-timey banker's chair with a back that sloped smoothly backwards.) Is that because my posture is bad? Am I supposed to be sitting in a way that conforms to that curve? I know some people who strap cushions to their car seats in order to add that curve. I find those cushions really uncomfortable too, but are those people actually on to something or are their backs just different from mine?
Sorry for the double response, but I just remembered something else. Right before COVID, I was in a car accident, and crushed my pelvis. I was bedbound for a year, and had six months of PT to get my muscles back, which is where I learned a lot of this stuff.
Turns out I was also not sitting correctly. I always curled my tailbone under and was sitting on the bottom of my sacro-iliac joint, but your pelvis has something called 'sit bones' that you're supposed to sit on. I find that I can't sit 'correctly' in bucket seats at all, so if you're sitting at the desk like you sit in a car, maybe that has something to do with it?