Stretch Marks?

I've had that same worry too.

So far I have been taking care to use lotion after every shower. I've lost 40 lbs and the stretch marks are definitely lighter, but still quite prominent. I'm curious about this question too. I dont want to splurge on Mederma for scars yet since these stretch marks are already old.

I ended up tattooing over some of mine. Unfortunately, because I kept gaining and losing over the last 10 years the skin stretched and stretched back and restretched and now where the old red stretch marks were are now thin layers of wrinkly skin. I've asked dermatologists and plastic surgeons and they told me not much to do about it. Urgh. Have them on arms, boobs, stomach and inner thighs.

Stretch marks are scars so they will never go away, but you can camoflauge them with some cover up lotions. Laser treatments have been promising.

Yeah I was told the laser will reduce the puffiness and redness. For me that is all gone now just the light scars.

at your age and as you don't have ALOT to loose like some of us on here you wont/no shouldn't have problems with loose skin! as for strech marks they will fad over tome but never go put them down as battle scars! :laugh:
just moisturise and water intake and do not smoke the rest will fall into place with no "left overs"!! lol

bump. i lose more weight, and more show up...

ya know...i have a few stretch marks on my love handle areas..but they are sooo faint...i don't get what all the whoohaa is about...i kind of like mine lol i say embrace them :-) love your body :-)

you know, I have heard worries about stretch marks as well. and trust me, I have my fair share. As you get thinner though, why not think of them as progression marks? ' look at me, look at how far I have come, and here are my abs and my scars to show it.'

When you are unlucky enough to get a lot of stretch marks like during pregnancy the skin stretches and ladders your skin like a pair of tights, this is permanent. They start off red and sore looking and can be thin or very wide, most people that get them will have a mixture, the ones that develop on the thighs, arms and boobs are often thinner than those on the belly. If you imagine then everything going back into place, it can't because the stretch marks (if you have a lot) has made the area bigger and the taughtness of the skin go. I have a lot of stretch marks like above everywhere, this was due to my 10llb son lol! He is now 27 and mine are like has been said above faint and silver, the ones on my boobs and thighs are not noticable really but on my belly they still are but are pale and faded so they're are just lines. I spent a lot of time trying to do something about tightening that area where initially I had a terrible apron, and then wrinkly skin, the medical profession said my only option was surgery and the gym trainer said it would never go. Not one to give up, I found a solution, I started bodybuilding and doing specific lower ab exercises after doing a shed load of research, I dropped my body fat down to a minimum, and except for a little line my stomach was better than it was when I was 16! This in turn made the stretch marks look so much better because they weren't sagging. In order to pull in excess skin you must use heavy weights and drop body fat not muscle!

Good Luck xx

When you are unlucky enough to get a lot of stretch marks like during pregnancy the skin stretches and ladders your skin like a pair of tights, this is permanent. They start off red and sore looking and can be thin or very wide, most people that get them will have a mixture, the ones that develop on the thighs, arms and boobs are often thinner than those on the belly. If you imagine then everything going back into place, it can't because the stretch marks (if you have a lot) has made the area bigger and the taughtness of the skin go. I have a lot of stretch marks like above everywhere, this was due to my 10llb son lol! He is now 27 and mine are like has been said above faint and silver, the ones on my boobs and thighs are not noticable really but on my belly they still are but are pale and faded so they're are just lines. I spent a lot of time trying to do something about tightening that area where initially I had a terrible apron, and then wrinkly skin, the medical profession said my only option was surgery and the gym trainer said it would never go. Not one to give up, I found a solution, I started bodybuilding and doing specific lower ab exercises after doing a shed load of research, I dropped my body fat down to a minimum, and except for a little line my stomach was better than it was when I was 16! This in turn made the stretch marks look so much better because they weren't sagging. In order to pull in excess skin you must use heavy weights and drop body fat not muscle!

Good Luck xx

Very awesome!

ya know...i have a few stretch marks on my love handle areas..but they are sooo faint...i don't get what all the whoohaa is about...i kind of like mine lol i say embrace them :-) love your body :-)

TOTALLY AGREE!
i have forgotten all about mine i just wanna loose the weigth and be healthy and fit again! :drinker:

Ladies this was a bit silly, when you only have a few in an area it is absolutely not the same thing as being pickled in very deep, wide bad ones, it's very well for people who don't have them badly to say "Embrace them", they can bring a lot of very real problems for people and the way they feel about their bodies, and this in turn effects their confidence. Speaking from personal experience I hid myself from everyone from when I had my son, I looked like I'd been attacked and had knife wounds. I was 18 years old and felt like my body was ruined forever, I loved my son of course and wouldn't change it ont he one hand but on the other I was devastated. The love for my body again tok a very long time.