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Stretch marks. Indicator of weightloss?

Nonkonzo
Nonkonzo Posts: 6 Member
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Hi guys. I've been on Keto for 2 weeks. My scale says I'm losing weight but this morning I noticed fresh stretchmarks on my stomach. I was so discouraged. Does this mean I'm gaining weight?

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  • Sunny_Bunny_
    Sunny_Bunny_ Posts: 7,140 Member

    Nonkonzo wrote: »
    Hi guys. I've been on Keto for 2 weeks. My scale says I'm losing weight but this morning I noticed fresh stretchmarks on my stomach. I was so discouraged. Does this mean I'm gaining weight?

    I think you probably just never noticed them before.
    Or your skin is more loose and making it more apparent since you have lost weight.
  • Nonkonzo
    Nonkonzo Posts: 6 Member
    You're probably right about me not noticing them before. I have heard that the scale is not always accurate so that is why I was alarmed.
  • Sunny_Bunny_
    Sunny_Bunny_ Posts: 7,140 Member
    My belly as far as skin and stretch marks, texture and all that is NOT as nice looking as when it was full of fat. (More full of fat. Still have plenty to be evicted).
    Unfortunately, I feel like you get the benefit of being smaller but it doesn't always come with every improvement in appearance we would like.
    I'll never wear a 2 piece bathing suit. Not without a tummy tuck or a major change in my comfort level with the saggy skin left behind.

    We can go from obsessing about the fat to obsessing about the squishy left behind... just something to be mindful of along the journey.
  • baconslave
    baconslave Posts: 7,018 Member
    Sunny_Bunny_ wrote: »
    My belly as far as skin and stretch marks, texture and all that is NOT as nice looking as when it was full of fat. (More full of fat. Still have plenty to be evicted).
    Unfortunately, I feel like you get the benefit of being smaller but it doesn't always come with every improvement in appearance we would like.
    I'll never wear a 2 piece bathing suit. Not without a tummy tuck or a major change in my comfort level with the saggy skin left behind.

    We can go from obsessing about the fat to obsessing about the squishy left behind... just something to be mindful of along the journey.

    Me neither, but we can still rock the hell out of that one-piece. I look pretty smokin' in mine.
    No I can't wear a bikini or daisy dukes, but I wouldn't give back what I have gained from weight loss for anything.

    I'd really love my pushin'-40-lost-weight-turkey-waddle to disappear though. UGH.
  • RalfLott
    RalfLott Posts: 5,036 Member
    Pix or it didn't happen.... :*
  • Sunny_Bunny_
    Sunny_Bunny_ Posts: 7,140 Member
    RalfLott wrote: »
    Pix or it didn't happen.... :*

    Theres a reason all my progress pics are side views! Looks better that way!
  • KenSmith108
    KenSmith108 Posts: 1,967 Member
    My belly looks like
    anr5h9tead7n.jpg
    so it ALWAYS stays in a tee-shirt.

    >:) or o:)

  • RalfLott
    RalfLott Posts: 5,036 Member
    KenSmith108 wrote: »
    My belly looks like
    anr5h9tead7n.jpg
    so it ALWAYS stays in a tee-shirt.

    >:) or o:)

    That's a lot of ripples - more than most 6-packs!
  • KenSmith108
    KenSmith108 Posts: 1,967 Member
    RalfLott wrote: »
    KenSmith108 wrote: »
    My belly looks like
    anr5h9tead7n.jpg
    so it ALWAYS stays in a tee-shirt.

    >:) or o:)

    That's a lot of ripples - more than most 6-packs!

    6-pack more like a
    3zngjbw06d8s.jpg

    >:) or o:)
  • tcunbeliever
    tcunbeliever Posts: 8,219 Member
    I still wear a bikini...I have plenty of stretch marks, plenty of wrinkles and sags, I just don't care...I'm more comfortable in a bikini (long torso, one pieces never fit right) so that's what I wear...and if I end up on a beach version of people-of-walmart then so be it!!!
  • baconslave
    baconslave Posts: 7,018 Member
    tcunbeliever wrote: »
    I still wear a bikini...I have plenty of stretch marks, plenty of wrinkles and sags, I just don't care...I'm more comfortable in a bikini (long torso, one pieces never fit right) so that's what I wear...and if I end up on a beach version of people-of-walmart then so be it!!!

    OMFG! That long-torso *kitten*. I had to pay extra for my suit because of my freakishly long ab... BAH!

    It's cute though. Next time I'm getting a 2 piece that still covers everything but doesn't give me an atomic wedgie! :rage:


    RalfLott wrote: »
    Pix or it didn't happen.... :*

    You might not have noticed, but I don't do cameras...they steal your soul. Loki already thinks he owns mine. I don't want to risk Immortal-litigation. :confounded: That would be an eternal nightmare.
  • Sunny_Bunny_
    Sunny_Bunny_ Posts: 7,140 Member
    That's the kind of thinking I need to cultivate! Little by little, I may just get there.

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