Hey!  - it's Ashley, right? (yeesh, sorry I'm bad at remembering names tonight...)
Oh swimsuit shopping! (I really need to do that myself sometime in the near future!) Anyway, here's the deal with toning: there really isn't such a thing... That is, you can't target an area of your body that's a little uh, flabby(?) or whatever (I'm sure you're far from flabby, m'dear!), and make it nice and hard (no matter how many late night informercials for gimmicky things like 'ad busters' tell you you can!). Our bodies pick where the fat gets stored first - and consequently where it gets lost last. So, mostly for reproductive purposes I'd imagine, us ladies get stuck with stubborn butts and thighs, and the stomach (covering up those abs) and "love handles" (obliques) are problematic for everyone. (Now you know why all those 'ab buster' thingys DON'T work! Everyone has abs... some people's are just hiding underneath a thicker layer of tissue...  )
So basically the short version is that to make these areas look tighter, you need to engage in some full-body fat loss stuff. Since you're not going to the gym any time soon, cardio like runs around the block are great for this. The best fat burning cardio is interval cardio - i.e. sprint really fast for a minute then walk for a minute, then sprint for a minute, then walk for a minute... etc. (Keeps things interesting too!)
Diet is also really important too. You don't need to eat like you're trying to lose a bunch of weight or anything but make sure you're eating 'clean' (as they say, i.e. with as little junky foods as possible) and that you're eating ENOUGH but not too much (both ends of the spectrum are very important.) Looking at your posts though, your diet seems to be great, so I don't think you have much to worry about there at all.
Hope that helps, and let me know if you have any other questions!
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