I have started to lose weight, but I still have a distended stomach. Is there some reason for this? Can you please help with any suggestions as it is beginning to look unsightly.

obvious of which is that you still haven¹t quite reached your ideal weight. You may find that when you get down to your target weight your stomach has lost it¹s roundness too.

“Bloating is when your abdominal region or belly feels full, tight, and has the appearance of being swollen or distended,” says Allison Koch, RD, of the Running Dietitian. It can occur when ...

The main characteristic of abdominal distension is having a visibly swollen abdomen. This means the girth, or width, of your abdomen (the area between your hips and chest) is noticeably larger ...

Upon presentation the rat had a severely distended abdomen ... by consumption of the shredded paper bedding. The abdominal bloating had returned and we did a second abdominal tap.

During a routine examination of our department's animal husbandry unit, we found a female Swiss albino mouse with an extremely distended abdomen (Fig. 1). This 6-month-old mouse, which was ...

For more information, visit our medical review board. If you've ever had to unbutton your pants due to a swollen stomach or trapped gas, you've experienced bloating — a condition that affects 15 ...