Lose Your Mummy Tummy by Julie Tupler, Jodie Gould Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Lose Your Mummy Tummy
Book Review: Great Book for new mothers
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is a great aid to losing the "mommy pouch". Details the physical changes of of your muscles during pregnacy and shows you a great techique of how to get them back in order. A must for new moms and also good for mothers still trying to tighten up their mummy tummy years down the road.Book Review: Great for fit moms who want to look their best
Summary: 4 Stars
I am in the final weeks of my first pregnancy and can't wait to get skinny and fit again! This book seems to explain what is going on with your body during pregnancy and how to avoid mistakes that can cause even more damage to your body after your baby is born. It gives you excercises to get your figure back - a lot of good advice and support for new moms. I recommend this book to everybody who needs to lose a few pounds after giving birth.Book Review: Great!
Summary: 5 Stars
I needed to replace this book, and was able to because I got an awesome deal without paying the cover price. The item was just as described, and can't to start using it! Would buy from this seller again.Book Review: Hmmmmmm
Summary: 2 Stars
I bought the book after realising I had severe "Mummy Tummy" (think a fist-width diastasis) which wasn't going away through diet and traditional ab exercises.
I heard about this book on a Mums' forum so purchased it (together with the DVD from Ms Tupler's own site).
Huge huge disappointment.
THe only reasons I am giving it two stars is that the information into what a diastasis is, how to self-diagnose and the whole "suck your gut in when you do anything" was pretty useful.
I didn't find the exercises difficult to follow (I cheated - I did get the DVD so could compare the pictures/instructions) but I did find it (and still do 14 months later) extremely unrealistic timewise and her attitude rather negative and off-putting.
Also the blurb claims that the programme is for mums no matter when we had our baby(ies) but, as another reviewer has already pointed out, the emphasis is very much on newly postpartum mums. Maybe I will go back to it once my child is at nursery - I will certainly have more time to faff about pulling in my transverse muscles then - for now I'll stick to my Peggy Brill core exercises as they have helped bring my diastasis to about 3 fingers (instead of 8) in about 3 months. Not perfect but they only take 20 minutes out of my day instead of an hour plus with e Tupler Technique. Sorry Julie but NOT my cup o' char.
Book Review: I didn't have to have surgery to tighten my tummy
Summary: 5 Stars
I am a mom with two small children. After my second pregnancy I developed a "mummy tummy" and lower back pain. People continued to ask if I was pregnant. My Obstetrician said my protruding belly was a diastasis recti and suggested surgery to bring the muscle together. My gynecologist told me to do sit-ups. I tried - sit-ups didn't help and I did not want surgery!
After reading "Lose Your Mummy Tummy" by Julie Tupler, I went to the author's website and also purchased the DVD because I personally learn better if I "see" what I am supposed to do.
The exercise program involves breathing techniques and an awareness of moving belly muscles. I was getting bored with the program and wondered if I was doing these simple exercises correctly, so I contacted the author. Ms Tupler answered my questions and told me that the book was based on recent research from Columbia University Dept of Physical Therapy and that this exercise program made the diastasis smaller during and after pregnancy. She gave me the encouragement that this program does work.
Ms Tupler told me that she was personally training a 50 year old pregnant woman who had a three finger diastasis and low back pain. In eight weeks the woman closed her diastasis (while her belly was growing with twins) and her back pain disappeared. I figured if a 50 year old pregnant woman could do it, so could I!
In a few weeks of following the exercise program described in the book, I was able to accomplish more than I ever expected from an exercise program. I discovered that it really wasn't difficult to incorporate the breathing techniques into my everyday life. Most important to me, I didn't have to have surgery to tighten my tummy.