Stretch marks and weight loss

Hi I have the same concern has you after having 2 kids..I still have 50 pounds to lose but my stomach does not look very nice...I have seen my doctor about it...He told me to keep on doing exercise...and to reach my ideal weight for my age and height and said that most likely I will be left with stretch marks due to the large amount of weight I have lost...He told me the only option for me after all that would be a tummy tuck..I dont think I will ever do that but It is a option. But I guess everybody is different..and it depends how bad it is..

Ya, stretch marks MAY fade from purple to clear but they will ALWAYS be there, they never go away no matter what, only a tummy tuck can "remove" them on the belly, any other part of the body they're there for life.......sorry.

I gotta tell you... Im 69lbs down and Ive noticed most of my stretch marks are nearly gone. There are just hints of pale-pink at this point...

Will I need surgery after all is said and done? Im pretty much counting on yes... when I had my daughter 18 years ago, she was a hella-big baby! Just shy of 10 pounds, and she was almost 22in long! Forget newborn, I had an instant toddler! LOL!!!!! At my highest of 303lbs, ohhhhh yeah, I was a walking human road map! BWAHAHAHAHA

But, Im down to 234lbs as of today and sonovagun, most of the stretch marks are gone... I do have a few under my arms that are still there... but not like before...

Im sure as you continue losing weight, you will begin to notice changes...

But the most important thing here is not the stretch marks... its gettng healthy and losing the weight... so make sure you keep your focus on that instead of the stretch marks... If you lose focus, you wont stay on track....

Start using Body Butter for Stretch Marks....you can find it at Walgreens or Walmart. Works great!

i had a couple on my lower stomach when i was really heavy. i can't find them now. i think that they can fade pretty well given enough time.

That is SO cool to hear a man say that! I mean I have ALOT of stretch marks because my skin does not have alot of elasticity but I really dont let them bother me because of the SAME reason Good to know some guys out there appreciate from the same angle

Loose skin is quite an controversial topic. Some people say they have it, other say they don't. Some will say if you have it you can't get rid of it without surgey, some say you can. Some even say it doesn't exist.

Firstly ncardell and Tanya the fact you are 29 and 30 goes in your favour. The younger you are the more elasticity your skin is so it should shrink and tighten up really well and not leave you with loose skin. As you get older your skin naturally gets looser so the odds of you getting loose skin goes up. It's very rare that you see people under 40 with turkey neck flapping about for example. But elderly get that a lot.

The best way to try and avoid it is to lose weight gradually and not drop huge amounts of weight as your skin will adjust to the size of your body decreasing. If you've ever watched the TV show The Biggest Loser I'm always suspicious why when they start and are at their heaviest they are shown without shirts showing off their vast bodies for the world to see. But as they start to lose more and more weight and have lost 60+ lbs in a 2-3 months suddenly they get weighed in wearing t shirts. Why? is there something they don't want the viewer seeing?

I mentioned that some people say that loose skin doesn't exist. The reason for this is when you look at the thickness of skin you aree looking at millimetres. Even if you say it's 1cm at a maximum, you then get a fold of loose skin is it more than 2cm? If it is more than that is it really loose skin. Lots of people say that is actually pockets of fat.

As no doubt you are aware you can't target where the weightloss will come from. If you have say bingo wings and want to lose them first then your thighs and so forth you can't just diet and they will disappear in that order. For this reason people find that no matter how much they diet they just can't shift it.
What some people say is you can lose these pockets of fat but it's not just a matter of conventional basic dieting. In the same way athletes eat and train and get their bodies down to jusr 0.5% body fat, that is what you need to do to hammer out these fat pockets. When you get begin going down to that low a percentage of body fat the pockets go and that tin will tighten up too.

What is right and what is true I don't know.

I do tend to have some belief in the pockets of fat theory. I also know that a lot of people tell themselves or hide behind the idea they have loose skin. My sister's partner lost a lot of weight. She then said that she can't lose anymore and it was loose skin. I don't agree. I think she lost a lot of weight by burning calories on an exercise bike, the weight dropped off and then it stalled because just doing the exercise bike isn't enough anymore. Id she did other things using other muscles she would probably burn more calories and lose fat. She would likely have done much needed toning too. As I say she says she has loose skin. maybe she does but how is that possible that this loose skin is on her forearms, bulbous giving her arm a circumference of about 24-26inches? Surely loose skin should be flapping about like the turkey neck? Is that bulbous arms really a huge fat pocket of fat that isn't getting burned> She has similar on her thighs and her belly below her belly button. All bulbous areas.

I think that you can just accept if it does exist and you can't do anything about it then just lose weight and and accept it. Don't let it start to create a negativity in your head so you start self sabotaging.