Pot belly or six pack?

If you watch women's beach volleyball, you see all these tall women... I'm sure they've got to be at least 5- 7 and probably taller than that, probably six footers, they all have these little pot bellies above their teeny tiny bikini bottoms.

Whereas if you look at the female track athletes, their stomachs are as flat as pancakes above their painted-on bikini shorts. Indeed, they have "six packs."

Why the difference?

Well, physically, it's because the track runners must do situps with weights, and various stomach crunches, et al, to remove all fat (not excess fat, just fat) from their bodies, which gives the six pack, whereas the volleyballers are perfectly fine with their muscular and toned bodies, rather than sculpted ones.

The first place fat goes on a woman is the breasts and stomach, followed by the thighs. And this fat is needed - it's what gives a woman - or a man - energy! Reserves to draw on!

Right now I'm watching women's water polo - USA vs Australia, and there are some big women on each side... you'd never see them in the diving competitions where the esthetic values of the judges and perhaps even the spectators is that you have to be skinny (although, more likely, I admit, you have to be short, so you can do all the acrobatic stuff before hitting the pool).

Just remember - your goal is to be fit, not to remove all fat from your body. There's "excess" fat, and then there's the fat you need.