Actually it's just the skin and the stretchmarks that are the problem. The muscle underneath is in really good shape. I'm trim and toned, looking really great. If I stand tall and kind of stretch backwards a little my belly looks great but I can't bend forward at all because the saggy skin gathers around the middle and it looks terrible. I have little if any belly fat, just too much skin. :-P I'm going to go in for a consultation with a cosmetic surgeon and see what he recommends. I know that I don't need a full tummy tuck because I would rather not have the muscles messed with at all and I don't need any fat removed because theres not much to remove! Besides I like a little bit of fat on the belly so that I don't look like a teen age boy. :-P The skin thing is all that concerns me.

I've seen some tattooing done over light to medium stretch marks on the belly and it actually looked really good. I might consider that if I wanted tattoos at all but I'm not a tattoo kind of person... more of a henna girl. I'm definately done having kids. I have two and if we ever have more they're not coming from me! I understand that theres a stretch mark product recently out that is the only product to produce actual results for stretch marks. I have unfortunately forgotten the name and there are too many out there who make the same claims that I can't find it again. Even if I cover or fix the stretch marks I still need to do something about the excess skin. I've been drinking oodles of water and doing the vitamin thing regularly. Though I look pretty good... I think this is as good as I can get naturally. :-(

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