Stretch Marks?

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.

I say embrace them!!! When I was preggo with my kids, mine got so bad, and were so deep that they were cracking and seeping! They started with my first, and by my third, the skin was so thin, they were scabbing (NOT from itching, trust me I asked). Something out of x-files, seriously!!! LOL But oh well, you know?! If your going to spend all this time getting healthy, why not embrace the efforts you have made to better yourself, and not focus on yet another inperfection?! It's a glass half full kind of thing!!! btw, vitamin E does help them to heal up and be less red looking. . . but for those who say they feel they have to hide because theirs is worse than others, well that is fine if they want to do that, but mine were the worst I have seen, and I wear them proudly!

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

i am also covered i would imagine i have a few more than you! after 3 large babies,and was nearly 400lbs!
i have them tummy all over,back,arms (down to elbows) boobs,legs(down to just past knees)basically most places other than the face and they are not light hardley can see ones either! so i do know what i am talking about
i was just agreeing saying you should love your body and take it what it gives you!

I must be abnormal, because bio-oil did absolutely nothing for me at all. I used it for 8 months daily and didn't notice anything at all, apart from the hole in my bank balance.

NO! It didnt work for me either! I used it for a full year! I guess it depends on how bad the stretchmarks are! In fact, i have tried everything, acid skin peels the lot. Nothing made a difference! I guess we just need to live with them.