This sweepstakes is now closed. Random winner is… 65, Sarah H.
Ever since being lucky enough to become a brand ambassador for Yummie Tummie, I’ve been hooked. I wear the tanks almost everywhere I go. But not with dresses. Once the leggings came out, my casual dress problem was licked too. Quite simply, these little numbers are the best around for smoothing out the lumps and bumps that baby-birthing or aging has given you. And yes, you will want to make out with these leggings.
We’re excited to offer a lucky reader a holiday present of a Yummie Tummie invisible slimming tank AND a set of the shaping leggings. (Approximate value $144!)
Enter to win! In the spirit of sharing, we want you to comment with a story about a time you really wish you were wearing shapewear (like that holiday party when everyone asked when I was due and I wasn’t pregnant!) -OR- a time you really wish you weren’t (like when I ripped my uncomfortable non-YT girdle-device off in the middle of my brother’s wedding reception). Comments close Dec. 15 and we’ll choose a winner. U.S. residents only.
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Disclosure: We are casual brand ambassadors for Yummie Tummie. One of Oprah’s favorite things is one of our favorite things too. We asked the super smooth women at YT for this great prize for our readers and they said Yes. Unfortunately, we don’t have enough for everyone in the studio audience. Wait. What?
I sing in a band and 5 months postpartum – just to not feel self conscious onstage when I returned, I’ve been wearing a “torset” (torso/corset) apparatus, spanx AND a bra that smoothes out backfat rolls. Oh yeah, underneath it all – I am smokin’! Going to the bathroom, trying to unhook all my hidden garments during a ten minute band break has been fun…I spend my whole break trying to unhook everything and barely make it back in time for the next set! I wish I had some Yummie Tummie garments to make life easier!
I wish I had shapewear the time I went out in my workout clothes about 10mos postpartum. Admittedly, I have been hanging on to about 20lbs this whole time and have done very little to get rid it. Feeling about as far away from attractive as can be, I worked up some enthusiasm and went for a brisk walk up the steep hills in my neighborhood. There was a brief attempt at jogging but my butt, back, belly and leg jiggle quickly stymied the effort. The path took me by a cafe that happens to be a local favorite, and who should be there but a group of friends from college! Including my old boyfriend! Needless to say, I tried to get out of there asap, and as I turned to leave, caught my reflection in the window in time to see the flab bulges around my thong lines. Could have really used Yummie Tummies that day!
Wish I would have had it last week on date night. Went to the theatre to see A Christmas Story.
I wish I had shapewear…now! Postpartum 2 months.
I wish I had some yummie tummies every day! Having 2 kids in less than 2 years makes me wonder where MY body went!
When I was with a family member who was 3 months pregnant and I realized that I looked about the same as she did in the tummy area. Or when I recently wore leggings under a dress only to realize (once I was at work) that you could see not only the line from the leggings’ elastic, but also my underwear line.
Yummie Tummies would have been perfect in my family photos for the Christmas Card this year!
I don’t have a humorous story, but am 21 mos postpartum and am 41 – enough said! Thanks!
I could use some yummy tummy action on my yummy muffin top that overfloweth on my favorite jeans.
I really wish I hadn’t been wearing shape wear at my own wedding. I wore this stupid bodice thing under my strapless dress–it was hot and dug in my sides.
I wish I’d had this stuff for my 10 year high school reunion. The dress was grey knit, and mostly clingy. I’d taken up a few extra drinks in the weeks preparing for the party, and it showed. Not only do I have a FB photo with my best spare tire showing, I also have a red wine stain marking a target between my very cold boobs. I moment to remember until I can redeem myself in 10 years…
High school. Prom night. Wore girdle with “boning” (?). Date asked me what in the world was under there. Died of embarrassment. The end.
I haven’t been able to exercise after the birth of my son 10 months ago, so I have a bit of a muffin top now. I wish I had yummie tummies when I have to wear one of the more fitted tops or sweaters to work… it just doesn’t look as good anymore.
I wish I had it right now…I totally don’t want to tell, but am starting to show (at least to some, judging by the comments).
I wore ill fitting shapewear on my wedding day. The dress looked great, but I felt like I could possibly pass out the entire time! Horrible! So in the limo after the ceremony, my new husband helped release me from hell! I could breath again, but then I was all floppy for the reception!
Last year (pre-pregnancy), my husband’s parents came to visit for his birthday, in October. We had a nice dinner out during which I was wearing a new top that I thought looked great. The following Christmas we went to visit his family, and a tipsy aunt blurted out, “We thought you’d have a big belly by now! We heard you had a baby bump in October!” Umm, what? No.
This set off a chaotic scene among my in-laws, with remarks flying around like “But I thought you said you were getting a grandbaby!” and “You weren’t supposed to tell anyone!” and my favorite, “So you’re not pregnant? But you have a little belly!”
To add an extra special layer of awkwardness, I actually WAS very newly pregnant by that Christmas, which we were planning to announce during our visit. But with my female in-laws hounding me about my belly, our exciting news came out as, “Okay, yes, fine, I am pregnant. But I wasn’t in October.”
Yummie Tummies would have prevented all of this!
My sister’s wedding was not a enjoyable event as I was about 9 or 10 weeks pregnant at the time and the only people who knew were our parents. It was August and hot, and I was sweaty, nauseous and very crabby. I was happy I had the pea in the pod shapewear to wear but really it was a toss up, I didn’t want to be in shapewear OR I wanted something that made me look and feel fabulous. Probably a no-win situation at 10 weeks pregnant. But now, 9 months post baby I’d definitely love and could really use some new fabulous shapewear!
I wish I had shapewear every day these days. At 7 mo postpartum, I still have 30 lbs to lose (10 from this pregnancy, 20 from the last.) Ugh!
After showing my daughter my neighbors pregnant belly- she went over to mine and said, “baby?”. Um, nope. And it would be nice to wear a fitted dress to work events…
When I went to register for my wedding at Target DH and I were SO excited. We got the scan gun, went and registered for all the stuff we wanted and turned the gun back in. A few days later I realized there were one or two things we had forgotten that I would have liked to have added so I went back in on my own. I was wearing a skirt that was admittedly a bit too tight, but I didn’t think it was that bad and went to the counter to ask for the scan gun to make the additions. The girl goes “Oh, is this a baby registry” I replied, “No, a wedding one” and left it at that, but I threw the skirt away when I got home. Shapewear is an even more needed item now with two kids under two!
Honestly after my second child, I shouldn’t leave the house without shape wear! I could have crawled under a rock and died at a HUGE family party, when my very lively (and by lively, I mean loud) niece asked, “Auntie, do you have another baby in there?” Pointing to my muffin top with a huge smile on her face. I sheepishly laughed it off, kids say the darndest things, eh?
I very much wish that I had not worn the bodice/girdle thing under my wedding dress. Sure, it was no problem when I was standing around trying the dress on and getting fitted (and it did make me look fabulous–slimming, smoothing, and lifting in all the right places)…but the moment I sat down was a different story. And the first moment I sat down was in the limo for the 15 minute ride up a windy road (you gals are familiar with it–Claremont to the Brazil Room in Tilden). Sitting sideways, in a limo, on a curvy road, with a tight girdle thing digging into your ribs and tummy (not to mention pre-wedding nerves) is not a pleasant experience and I felt terrible (and apparently looked green) by the time I made it up to the wedding site. I felt better after getting out of the limo and standing for a few moments, had an amazing ceremony…and then couldn’t eat any of my delicious meal due to the sitting down, digging into my stomach problem. Ugh! A comfortable alternative would have been amazing.
I went for a pedicure 7 months after my baby was born, and the lady doing my nails asked me when I was due. I was so embarrassed (for me and for her) that I lied and said I had just had the baby. Maybe shapewear would have helped?
Much like the original blog post: After much hemming and hawing over paying big bucks for smoothing tights to wear under my clingy maternity dress, I only made it halfway through the reception before sneaking off to the bathroom to rip them off. At 7 months postpartum, I’m ready to brave shapewear again so that I can wear sweaters without flaunting my muffintop.
Three months postpartum, I am within 15 pounds of my pre-pregnancy weight but everything has…shifted around a bit. I don’t like where it went.
I could have used Yummie Tummie’s this past week, when I waved hello at my neighbor as she walked past my house, and she shouted out VERY LOUDLY “Are you pregnant again?” I responded, “NO, JUST FAT!” (and 12 months post partnum). Or the other day, when a friend I see occasionally kept looking at my belly and asked inquisitively, “so, what about you? any more kids for you?”. No, and stop looking at my belly!
at my Brother-in-law’s wedding i made the mistake of wearing a cheap and inferior shapewear, and the legs kept rolling up my thighs and leaving big tube-like bumps at the top of my thighs…not cute under my slinky jersey dress!
i could use shapewear every day… i’m working on getting back into shape, but would love to have some of this in the meantime… hopefully one day i won’t need it, but after this second pregnancy with multiples, it’s quite the challenge…
i really really wish i would’ve been wearing some shapewear when we had my daughter’s newborn photos taken. i totally still look pregnant in them.
At my wedding, while I was glad to be wearing a girdle to hide my baby pooch, I wish I would’ve had a much more comfortable one. At the reception, I could hardly dance and let loose because it was so uncomfortable!
hair, check. makeup, check. dress, chhh…until i look down and see a spanx seam obviously protruding through the front of my very fitted silk dress. uncheck. Looked like my dad’s open heart surrey keloid scar! Thank god, I had some old maternity non squeezing underwear to throw on with no lines to show or I would have been skipping this office party!
Feeling like hiding…… I’m 7yrs post-partum and looking like 7 months pregnant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Its so devestating and I just can’t get used to this post-partum body at all – PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!
I wish I had shapewear pretty much the first year after my daughter was born! At a party about a month after she was born, she was being held by somebody else, and a stranger did ask me when I was due. It was awful.
I wish I had the shapewear the other day when my husband made me laugh and my belly LITERALLY shook like a bowl full of jelly. I’m only 5 weeks postpartum, but it put a quick stop to the laughter
I wish I had one of the tanks it’s would really help me so I could have confidence about going out
In the past year, I’ve lost 50 pounds (I still have another 50 to go), but for some reason, it never occurred to me to wear shapewear before I lost the weight. I guess I always thought that shapewear wouldn’t make a difference when you’re 100 pounds overweight! About 40 pounds into my weight loss, I tried on a YT tank. I’d been hearing about them for a while, but had never tried them! I couldn’t believe what a difference it made. During the 1st day I wore my YT tank, I had 5 different people comment on how flat my stomach was! So I guess my answer to when I wish I was wearing shapewear and wasn’t….let’s say from 2000 til 2010.
So glad I discovered Yummie Tummie and would love to win. I don’t have any YT leggings…yet!
I haven’t worn shapewear…. yet! We’re trying for our second, and each month that I find I’m not pregnant again, I wonder what’s happening with my belly and why it’s growing when nothing in there!
I have two stories for you that go right along with one another. I wish I would have had shapewear on when I was at work one day. Most shapewear is so uncomfortable that I never wear it on a work day. (And that’s one of the reasons I have been wanting to try Yummie Tummie because I heard it does the job and you can actually wear all day!) I went to get lunch and it was right before Christmas, and I usually eat at this place a lot but haven’t been in for a month or so because I was so busy. Since I’ve been in I gained a few pounds more than usual from eating all the Christmas cookie and candy, and I gain weight in my stomach first. So the guy I always see there who makes my sandwich was striking up a conversation while someone ran to the back to get more buns. And obviously he noticed I gained weight and he said ahh, you’re expecting a baby! How exciting. I was so embarassed since I obviously wasn’t pregnant yet and didn’t think I looked that bad but apparently I did. I didn’t even go back there to eat again, I just went to the same sandwhich shop that was a block down. So I didn’t have to see him again and would hopefully lose some of that Christmas weight! I sure wish I had Yummie Tummie then! So this leads into my other story…. a couple weeks after, I had a holiday party to go to. So I made sure I worse Spanx this time! So i wasn’t mistaken for being pregnant again! We had mainly appetizers and cocktails. Well by the end of the night I had to go pee soo bad after having so many drink and having my inhibitions lowered. Of course, there’s always a line for the ladies room, so I had to weight and I made it into the stall in enough time. But this shapewear was such contraption, that it went all the way up to my bra and hooked onto it, so I was just going to move the bottom over and go but started to get a little pee on it. So I had to basically take off my entire dress and unhook each loop from my bra. In the meantime, since I already started going to the bathroom a little more came out! So once I finally got the shapewear off and finished my business. I couldn’t even put it back on since it was now wet. So had to stuff it in my purse. Once again so embrassing! I left the party right away in fear someone would see my shapewear or notice I suddenly have a “baby bump” again! So I couldn’t win either way, with or without shape wear! If I don’t wear it I look pregnant, and if I do, it’s uncomfortable and I pee myself. Oh my! That’s why Yummie Tummie would solve all these problems! It’s comfortable, not a one piece garment and I could wear it to work and parties and smooth everything out!
I’m quite camera-shy, and was so proud to get through eight full months of my pregnancy without having a single belly photo taken of me. One day in my ninth month, I had a big meeting at work, and put on a new maternity dress that I thought looked fabulous on me. I felt so great that whole day! My husband also thought I looked fantastic, and wanted to get a picture of me when I came home that evening. I was in a good enough mood that I agreed.
It was probably all the hormones, but I bawled my eyes out when I saw the photo. I looked horrible! I was so huge in all the wrong places. My husband laughed, which he quickly learned was not the right thing to do!
I know pregnancy is such a beautiful thing, but next time around, there will be NO photos!
I wish I had shapewear every day – I’ve gained about 20 pounds in the last year (moving, new job, stress, kids, etc.) I don’t even want to see people I know!!
I happened to be wearing some shaping shorts to a wedding this last summer. They were “skin-toned,” but lets just say they were a little yellow-y. The dress I was wearing went just below the knee, but each time I sat down, the shorts happened to peek out the bottom. So much so that I pulled the strapless dress down further from the top that my breasts were almost falling out. While I was in the food line, I guess the shapewear got a little cling-y and just happened to cling up my butt. My friends husband was in line behind me and was too embarrassed to tell me that these “shorts” I was wearing were showing (my butt was exposed all the way to my upper back…don’t ask how I didn’t notice!), so he just stood close to me so other people wouldn’t notice. I was wondering what he was doing until I was walking over to sit down and his wife ran up to me, pulled my dress skirt down and said, “those Spanks just want to keep showing themselves today!” I will never wear them again- so embarrassing! I just bought some yummie tummie shorter leggings and am obsessed! They work so much better and are super cute. I get lots of compliments like, “You have lost weight!”, “Cute leggings! Where did you get them?” It’s amazing. Wish I didn’t spend so much on leggings that don’t support at all!
I wish I had been wearing shapewear when I was out shopping and a little girl asked me if I had a baby in my tummy. I was embarrassed and told her that I didn’t, but then she continued to insist that I had a baby in there. You can always count on little ones to tell you the truth about how you look.
But seriously, where were her parents to stop her from badgering me?! That was two babies ago (I’m 6 weeks postpartum now), so imagine how much more I must need some shapewear now.
I wish I would have had this for my high school prom! I cringe looking back at the pictures…the lines from the boning on my undergarments show right through the dress! Talk about embarrassing!
Oh yeah. Second baby, then unemployment, then a death in the family. I went for the ice cream therapy, Big Time. I’m working on getting BACK to a muffin top. I can’t wait to look good in clothes again – solidarity with all of you