Stretch marks - a tiger earning her stripes

Now remember I told you about that Palmer's Stretch Mark cream I had bought in Boots in Gatwick airport? Now here's what I think: it's super. It doesn't take your marks away, it doesn't really hide them, but they feel a lot less thin. The thin skin really tends to look like cellulite from afar, so it's really nice to notice, that now my stretch marks are actually starting to look like stretch marks and not like cellulite.

I don't mind having my scars. I think scars tell about a life lived. I can't get them off, I don't want to hide them. But I've always hated it that they seem to ruin my skin when look from a distance. And people don't know how I got them, they assume I just got fat by eating. Sure I did that too, but I got the stretch marks a lot earlier due to heavy treatment with cortisone. So... here's some inspiration for all you stretch marked out there, and believe in yourselves goddarnit!

My own weightloss #1 (only adults)

I'm going to start a small series now with pictures of me on my journey to a good, healthy, comfortable and hopefully pretty body.
If someone recognizes me from these pictures, fine, I don't really care. I am just too lazy to remove my tattoos from the photos. They are all censored otherwise so no porno-y bits visible. This is only to inspire weightloss, and notice the difference.

I've also tried recording the amount of cellulite and stretch marks I have (they tend to intertwine as well, so differentiating one from the other is not easy) so you'll be able to see what havoc strong amounts of cortisone can do in a short perioud of time. Please understand that though I these days eat way too much and am overweight because of bad habits, all of the horrible scarring and most of the cellulite is a result of extreme doses of cortisone (methylprednisolon) when I was just 12 years old. I was not fat then, I was just eating my meds that kept me alive. So this sort of change is not always due to "greed".

Here are the shockers (and trust me, they are shocking):

Top: From the front with no underarm flab, bottom: with flab

From behind all muscles relaxed

Stretch marks on the side of my hips all the way to my waist.

More side stretch marks, and some marks from my hospital trousers

Stretch marks on my upper arms, they go all the way from my armpit to my elbow bend

Stretch marks all through my legs, they go from my *krhm* ladyparts all the way down to my ankles

Cellulite showing while butt muscles are not held relaxed

Butt muscles relaxed, you can also see my side hip stretch marks on both sides

Day II: Firminators and stretch marks

When I was in England a week back (spent a nice eight days there and loved every second of it!), I went to Boots to check out what I always missed.
Annnnnd I ended up coming out of there with two creams. One against stretch marks (which I have so so many) and one that's supposed to firm your skin and get rid of some of that cellulite.

As I have only used these for the last three days, I can't give any absolute reviews on their ability to keep their promises.
However, I still love both creams. The Firminator is a very weird looking green lotion, smells rather nice and applies extremely well. I'm really picky when it comes to lotions since most feel very uncomfortable on the skin and sticky and yuck, but this is just fine. For some it might even be excellent! And I like the colour green, and especially this one, since it reminds me of the hand soap my grandpa used to have. All sort of retroish.

Soap&Glory Firminator!

The stretch mark cream I like even more, it's thicker, so it is a bit sticky on the skin, but it smells wonderful (very cocoay) and it really feels like velvet, so even if it doesn't get rid of my extreme stretches, it does make them feel so much nicer!

 

 Palmer's Cocoa Butter Formula Massage Cream for Stretch Marks

Let's wait and see it they actually hold their promises as well!