STRETCH MARKS

teamAmelia

Ive had stretch marks on my tummy since I was 12. I grew fast and gained a lot of weight during puberty. This was a few weeks ago, as you can see I carry almost all my excess weight in my mid section.

154 pounds


I dont have any skin befores, but I will add this just so you can see how I carried the weight then.

228ish


My tummy (and the ugly stretch marks) are my biggest trouble area.

You look GREAT!!

Yes. Very good job.

Sqeekyjojo

Is there some tips how to prevent them? I'm starting to loose weight and I'm using body lotion every evening, and sometimes dietary supplement that contains extra collagen, what else?

U can't prevent thm. They're genetic

Scars are genetic? Did you hear that from Dr. Oz?

Actually, in this case, they can be. Genetic coding affects all proteins in the body, collagen being one of those proteins. Certain genetic blips affect the production of collagen and elastin and you can have skin that is exceptionally prone to stretchmarks as a result. It's actually one of the criteria for diagnosis of Marfans Syndrome or Ehlers Danos Syndrome. Which is often characterised by hypermobile joints, depending upon the variant, eye problems, limb and digit length and elasticity of skin. As this can extend to the valves of the heart too, making aortic rupture a possibility, it's actually quite important to know this.


So, despite Oz's obvious quackery, in the context that he's probably seen a few fit and healthy young adults die as a result of the same problem, if he's made comments about this aspect, he might Actually be going back to the science for a change.

CEHayes73

Yes, you CAN PREVENT them! Cocoa oil! Not cocoa butter. Moisturize! I have a good friend who applied cocoa oil every night from the moment she got pregnant until 1 year after the baby was born. Her mother and sister both got stretch marks, but she did not.

Once you have them though, they do not go away, continue to moisturize to prevent more, and don't worry about it too much.

She probably didn't prevent them. Most likely she was never gonna get them to begin with.

TRUE.

I did the whole cocoa butter/oil thing with my first child.. waste of time/money because I ended up getting stretch marks in the exact same places as my mother. I was meant to get them.

Yep. The mother and sisters thing isn't fool proof either. I got the other end of that, since neither of my sisters or my mother got any stretch marks, and I got some from puberty, and even more from delivering a nine-pounder. I would guess that I got that particular genetic predisposition from one of my grandmothers. That being said, I've come to accept them as part of who I am. (Oh, and I mosturized every day through my first pregnancy, and got a ton, 3 subsequent pregnancies, I didn't bother, but didn't get any more - those babies were smaller!)

Stevo_89

Mine are shocking (and so is that gut, but I'm working on that!)






When you have finished losing the weight, do they look more...loose? If I push up against them, they look like they come out more and look thicker, or maybe I'm paranoid, I'm just wondering if they look worse? I need to get some cream.

dixiewhiskey

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