growing waistline is disturbing! About a month ago or so I noticed that I was gaining weight but only around my midsection! I took a pregnancy test, as my first assumption was that probably there was something/someone growing in there, to my shock it came back negative. I ve since taken several others, all negative! But my belly keeps expanding, I ve noticed recently that I ll have just a small meal and my stomach bloats up really bad to the point were I need to adjust my belt. It doesn t hurt or anything just rather really really annoying and unattractive! I m confined to wearing only certain clothes now, I ve tried working out, watching my diet, but nothing. From time to time I ll also get these fluttering sensations in the left side of my navel or below my left rib cage, again this doesn t hurt. It s sometimes accompanied by popping and gurgling sounds.