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Stretched skin post by C revisited please!
Hi all,
I was intrigued by this thread and since it is one year old I'd love to see it revisited. Has anyone tried any of the products? How did they work for you? I'm dealing with the ugly flabby upper arm thing and since I tend to run warm I'm always in sleeveless tops and my arms are always visible. They are getting all loose and saggy and I'd love to do something about them. I'm also at that wonderful age where lines and wrinkles are starting to form. I've been using some products from Dr. Perricone and was happy to see there were some less expensive versions available. Susan in Indiana, using a new email addy to cut down on the dreaded spam Original post: From: Icrazyhorsei ) Subject: Stretched Skin(by C!)LONG View: Complete Thread (23 articles) Original Format Newsgroups: alt.support.diet.low-carb Date: 2003-01-29 20:58:36 PST I just got a post offboard from a person who was interested in the Trireduction cream from skinbiology.com. This would be *ITEM 44* on the main order page: Trireduction Copper Peptides with Lavender and Retinol. I also saw another post regarding this Awful Problem of stretched skin and I meant to answer it but....hell, I was too lazy at the time. But both of these together made me think I should offer everyone an Update on My Belly, which y'all haven't been gifted with in, what is it now, a week? Sometimes I wish I had a picture of what I started with because aside from losing 100 pounds, what's happening around my belly button is my most amazing personal transformation ever. Ever heard the word Pannus? I had one of those, plus a belly button that stretched down to places it had no business being, bright red stretch marks -- everything and a side of horseradish. And right now..after losing weight, doing Pilates for almost six months and bombing it with the most intensively researched protocols in my personal arsenal...it's just about flat. Where I once had maybe eight inches to pinch under my belly button, I've now got exactly an inch. Where the fold was there is just the lightest crease. Stretch marks fading to little spidery white lines. it's *really working* and I have every hope it will work all the way. Do not be fooled by the Evil Plastic Surgeon. The Evil Plastic Surgeon makes a ****load of cash for every person he convinces that the knife is the only answer. Think about it, why do you believe that the only way your stretched skin is going to go away is by getting it cut off of you for twenty thousand dollars? Didya read it in a magazine, perhaps? With an authoritative quote by a renowned plastic surgeon? The truth is, you don't lose elasticity in significant enough amounts to never ever snap back until you are over *50*. If you lose a lot of weight, impatient and horrified and possibly low on muscle, you might believe you deserve to have your skin cut off because of your "past abuses", but the human body is a magical machine and it will reward you with normalcy if you treat it right. So this is what you need to do if you have the Awful Problem and yet, alas, lack the twenty thousand bucks and an interest in being surgically skinned: 1. Wait. If you've dropped a lot of poundage, wait at least a *year* at maintenance. Sometimes it's just a question of your puzzled outer layer catching up with the rest of you -- in a lot of cases that's all it takes to resolve it. 2. Build muscle. One little known fact about strength training is that it brings oxygen and tone to the area in question, correcting the flab that informs the Awful Problem. 3. Intense skin therapy. A fancy dermatologist told me once that since the miracle potions designed for facial skin were not for any other skin on the body, they would work on any other part of the body. ? So what do you have on the rest of your body? Notskin? Hide? Fur? It's all the same thing, it covers every inch of you. Therefore, potions designed to frim skin, treat scars, and improve elasticity on your face work just fine on other areas and the only real drawback to that is the cost; you're covering a little more surface area. Still, I personally guarantee that any cream you buy for your skin is going to cost less than twenty thousand dollars. Now, I am about to write out the C is for Comprehensive Belly/Skin Shrinkage System below. If you're really interested in this, could you do me a favor and save this post or remember it says by C! at the top to Google later? I really want to let people know they don't have to spend twenty thousand dollars to get their skin fixed but I get tired of typing the same thing over and over: Glycolic acid or AHA in home peel, three times a week at ten, twenty, or thirty percent. This lifts the top layer of dead surface skin and gets you closer to the place you really want to work on. Also, AHAs and BHA improve skin elasticity over time, as does all types of exfoliation. Another AHA of lesser strength ( say two percent) every day or twice a day, under a copper peptide cream of which there are about only three to choose from: Trideduction with Lavender and Retinol, item 44 on the main order page at Skinbiology.com is cheapest, and the strongest of all. This also once or twice a day. Do this for about six months and build muscle under the stretched spot for six months and see where you are. I guarantee it will be somewhere if not all the way home. Optional: Alpha Lipoic, Ester C and DMAE cream: This is a skin lifter. It works, try it on that soft spot under your arms for a couple weeks, you'll be convinced. Two companies make it in the world: Perricone has a cream for about sixty bucks a jar, Reviva Labs makes the same thing for 22. Wise Ways Herbals Beautiful Belly Balm: I'm not sure what the Garnet Gem essence it lists as an ingredient is exactly for, but the prevalent lavender essential oil is what women used to use to snap back from pregnancy before there were copper peptides. it's good, highly emollient, and cheap. Massage: Punch, pinch, whap, whatever the Awful Area in question once a day or as often as you think of it. Rub it down with a loofah, whenever you think of it. You might think this is too simplistic to be helpful, but it increases circulation and drains away lymph around the damaged area so good stuff, like blood and water and nutrients, can get to it. For women with ruined bellies from pregnancy: Pilates. it will mend the recti muscle your towhaired tot revised for you..usually in about six months if you do it regularly. So now that you have the protocol, don't wait. A C's Comprehensive Belly/Skin Shrinkage System works better and faster while you're losing weight and not six or eight months after, which is when you'll typically be vulnerable to the cry of the Evil Plastic Surgeon. One day...maybe four months from now, I am going to post a picture of my personal progress with C's System. And then I'm going to send it to every single human in America who thinks their skin isn't smarter than a doctor's knife. I really mean it. |
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Stretched skin post by C revisited please!
Susan wrote:
Hi all, I was intrigued by this thread and since it is one year old I'd love to see it revisited. Has anyone tried any of the products? How did they work for you? I'm dealing with the ugly flabby upper arm thing and since I tend to run warm I'm always in sleeveless tops and my arms are always visible. They are getting all loose and saggy and I'd love to do something about them. I'm also at that wonderful age where lines and wrinkles are starting to form. I've been using some products from Dr. Perricone and was happy to see there were some less expensive versions available. Susan in Indiana, using a new email addy to cut down on the dreaded spam My skin is wrinkly--not so much saggy except a bit on my butt. I tried some lotion containing copper peptides, and it caused me to break out. I'd love to hear of any lotions/creams that help with wrinkles, esp. on my face. (Susan, I am almost 54.) -- Jean B. |
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Stretched skin post by C revisited please!
Susan,
I read in a book by a doctor that exercising the muscles in your legs will have a positive effect on the muscles in the arms because they share a similar biochemistry. I have found this to be very true. I have physical limitations that make it hard to do weights, but my 9+ months of near-daily treadmill exercise have caused my floppy underarms to recede to where I was wearing sleeveless shirts this summer for the first time in my life. So work those upper legs for 40 minutes a day and see if it helps! -- Jenny - Low Carbing for 4 years. At goal for weight. Type 2 diabetes, hba1c 5.2. Cut the carbs to respond to my email address! Low carb facts and figures, my weight-loss photos, tips, recipes, strategies for dealing with diabetes and more at http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/ Looking for help controlling your blood sugar? Visit http://www.alt-support-diabetes.org/...0Diagnosed.htm "Susan" wrote in message m... Hi all, I was intrigued by this thread and since it is one year old I'd love to see it revisited. Has anyone tried any of the products? How did they work for you? I'm dealing with the ugly flabby upper arm thing and since I tend to run warm I'm always in sleeveless tops and my arms are always visible. They are getting all loose and saggy and I'd love to do something about them. I'm also at that wonderful age where lines and wrinkles are starting to form. I've been using some products from Dr. Perricone and was happy to see there were some less expensive versions available. Susan in Indiana, using a new email addy to cut down on the dreaded spam Original post: From: Icrazyhorsei ) Subject: Stretched Skin(by C!)LONG View: Complete Thread (23 articles) Original Format Newsgroups: alt.support.diet.low-carb Date: 2003-01-29 20:58:36 PST I just got a post offboard from a person who was interested in the Trireduction cream from skinbiology.com. This would be *ITEM 44* on the main order page: Trireduction Copper Peptides with Lavender and Retinol. I also saw another post regarding this Awful Problem of stretched skin and I meant to answer it but....hell, I was too lazy at the time. But both of these together made me think I should offer everyone an Update on My Belly, which y'all haven't been gifted with in, what is it now, a week? Sometimes I wish I had a picture of what I started with because aside from losing 100 pounds, what's happening around my belly button is my most amazing personal transformation ever. Ever heard the word Pannus? I had one of those, plus a belly button that stretched down to places it had no business being, bright red stretch marks -- everything and a side of horseradish. And right now..after losing weight, doing Pilates for almost six months and bombing it with the most intensively researched protocols in my personal arsenal...it's just about flat. Where I once had maybe eight inches to pinch under my belly button, I've now got exactly an inch. Where the fold was there is just the lightest crease. Stretch marks fading to little spidery white lines. it's *really working* and I have every hope it will work all the way. Do not be fooled by the Evil Plastic Surgeon. The Evil Plastic Surgeon makes a ****load of cash for every person he convinces that the knife is the only answer. Think about it, why do you believe that the only way your stretched skin is going to go away is by getting it cut off of you for twenty thousand dollars? Didya read it in a magazine, perhaps? With an authoritative quote by a renowned plastic surgeon? The truth is, you don't lose elasticity in significant enough amounts to never ever snap back until you are over *50*. If you lose a lot of weight, impatient and horrified and possibly low on muscle, you might believe you deserve to have your skin cut off because of your "past abuses", but the human body is a magical machine and it will reward you with normalcy if you treat it right. So this is what you need to do if you have the Awful Problem and yet, alas, lack the twenty thousand bucks and an interest in being surgically skinned: 1. Wait. If you've dropped a lot of poundage, wait at least a *year* at maintenance. Sometimes it's just a question of your puzzled outer layer catching up with the rest of you -- in a lot of cases that's all it takes to resolve it. 2. Build muscle. One little known fact about strength training is that it brings oxygen and tone to the area in question, correcting the flab that informs the Awful Problem. 3. Intense skin therapy. A fancy dermatologist told me once that since the miracle potions designed for facial skin were not for any other skin on the body, they would work on any other part of the body. ? So what do you have on the rest of your body? Notskin? Hide? Fur? It's all the same thing, it covers every inch of you. Therefore, potions designed to frim skin, treat scars, and improve elasticity on your face work just fine on other areas and the only real drawback to that is the cost; you're covering a little more surface area. Still, I personally guarantee that any cream you buy for your skin is going to cost less than twenty thousand dollars. Now, I am about to write out the C is for Comprehensive Belly/Skin Shrinkage System below. If you're really interested in this, could you do me a favor and save this post or remember it says by C! at the top to Google later? I really want to let people know they don't have to spend twenty thousand dollars to get their skin fixed but I get tired of typing the same thing over and over: Glycolic acid or AHA in home peel, three times a week at ten, twenty, or thirty percent. This lifts the top layer of dead surface skin and gets you closer to the place you really want to work on. Also, AHAs and BHA improve skin elasticity over time, as does all types of exfoliation. Another AHA of lesser strength ( say two percent) every day or twice a day, under a copper peptide cream of which there are about only three to choose from: Trideduction with Lavender and Retinol, item 44 on the main order page at Skinbiology.com is cheapest, and the strongest of all. This also once or twice a day. Do this for about six months and build muscle under the stretched spot for six months and see where you are. I guarantee it will be somewhere if not all the way home. Optional: Alpha Lipoic, Ester C and DMAE cream: This is a skin lifter. It works, try it on that soft spot under your arms for a couple weeks, you'll be convinced. Two companies make it in the world: Perricone has a cream for about sixty bucks a jar, Reviva Labs makes the same thing for 22. Wise Ways Herbals Beautiful Belly Balm: I'm not sure what the Garnet Gem essence it lists as an ingredient is exactly for, but the prevalent lavender essential oil is what women used to use to snap back from pregnancy before there were copper peptides. it's good, highly emollient, and cheap. Massage: Punch, pinch, whap, whatever the Awful Area in question once a day or as often as you think of it. Rub it down with a loofah, whenever you think of it. You might think this is too simplistic to be helpful, but it increases circulation and drains away lymph around the damaged area so good stuff, like blood and water and nutrients, can get to it. For women with ruined bellies from pregnancy: Pilates. it will mend the recti muscle your towhaired tot revised for you..usually in about six months if you do it regularly. So now that you have the protocol, don't wait. A C's Comprehensive Belly/Skin Shrinkage System works better and faster while you're losing weight and not six or eight months after, which is when you'll typically be vulnerable to the cry of the Evil Plastic Surgeon. One day...maybe four months from now, I am going to post a picture of my personal progress with C's System. And then I'm going to send it to every single human in America who thinks their skin isn't smarter than a doctor's knife. I really mean it. |
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Stretched skin post by C revisited please!
Jenny wrote:
:: Susan, :: :: I read in a book by a doctor that exercising the muscles in your :: legs will have a positive effect on the muscles in the arms because :: they share a similar biochemistry. I have found this to be very :: true. I have physical limitations that make it hard to do weights, :: but my 9+ months of near-daily treadmill exercise have caused my :: floppy underarms to recede to where I was wearing sleeveless shirts :: this summer for the first time in my life. :: :: So work those upper legs for 40 minutes a day and see if it helps! This sounds like simple fat loss to me. Moving heavy limbs takes energy, you burn more calories. If you control food intake, you lose bodyfat. I don't see what changes you can expect in arm muscles. :: :: -- Jenny - Low Carbing for 4 years. At goal for weight. Type 2 :: diabetes, hba1c 5.2. :: Cut the carbs to respond to my email address! :: :: Low carb facts and figures, my weight-loss photos, tips, recipes, :: strategies for dealing with diabetes and more at :: http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/ :: :: Looking for help controlling your blood sugar? :: Visit http://www.alt-support-diabetes.org/...0Diagnosed.htm :: :: :: :: "Susan" wrote in message :: m... ::: Hi all, ::: ::: I was intrigued by this thread and since it is one year old I'd love ::: to see it revisited. Has anyone tried any of the products? How did ::: they work for you? ::: ::: I'm dealing with the ugly flabby upper arm thing and since I tend to ::: run warm I'm always in sleeveless tops and my arms are always ::: visible. They are getting all loose and saggy and I'd love to do ::: something ::: about them. ::: ::: I'm also at that wonderful age where lines and wrinkles are starting ::: to form. I've been using some products from Dr. Perricone and was ::: happy to see there were some less expensive versions available. ::: ::: Susan ::: in Indiana, using a new email addy to cut down on the dreaded spam ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: Original post: ::: ::: From: Icrazyhorsei ) ::: Subject: Stretched Skin(by C!)LONG ::: View: Complete Thread (23 articles) ::: Original Format ::: Newsgroups: alt.support.diet.low-carb ::: Date: 2003-01-29 20:58:36 PST ::: ::: ::: I just got a post offboard from a person who was interested in the ::: Trireduction ::: cream from skinbiology.com. This would be *ITEM 44* on the main ::: order page: ::: Trireduction Copper Peptides with Lavender and Retinol. ::: ::: I also saw another post regarding this Awful Problem of stretched ::: skin and I ::: meant to answer it but....hell, I was too lazy at the time. But both ::: of these ::: together made me think I should offer everyone an Update on My ::: Belly, which ::: y'all haven't been gifted with in, what is it now, a week? ::: ::: Sometimes I wish I had a picture of what I started with because ::: aside from ::: losing 100 pounds, what's happening around my belly button is my ::: most amazing ::: personal transformation ever. Ever heard the word Pannus? I had one ::: of those, ::: plus a belly button that stretched down to places it had no business ::: being, ::: bright red stretch marks -- everything and a side of horseradish. ::: ::: And right now..after losing weight, doing Pilates for almost six ::: months and ::: bombing it with the most intensively researched protocols in my ::: personal ::: arsenal...it's just about flat. Where I once had maybe eight inches ::: to pinch ::: under my belly button, I've now got exactly an inch. Where the fold ::: was there ::: is just the lightest crease. Stretch marks fading to little spidery ::: white ::: lines. it's *really working* and I have every hope it will work all ::: the way. ::: ::: Do not be fooled by the Evil Plastic Surgeon. The Evil Plastic ::: Surgeon makes a ::: ****load of cash for every person he convinces that the knife is the ::: only ::: answer. Think about it, why do you believe that the only way your ::: stretched ::: skin is going to go away is by getting it cut off of you for twenty ::: thousand ::: dollars? Didya read it in a magazine, perhaps? With an authoritative ::: quote by a ::: renowned plastic surgeon? ::: ::: The truth is, you don't lose elasticity in significant enough ::: amounts ::: to never ::: ever snap back until you are over *50*. If you lose a lot of weight, ::: impatient ::: and horrified and possibly low on muscle, you might believe you ::: deserve to have ::: your skin cut off because of your "past abuses", but the human body ::: is ::: a ::: magical machine and it will reward you with normalcy if you treat it ::: right. ::: ::: So this is what you need to do if you have the Awful Problem and ::: yet, alas, ::: lack the twenty thousand bucks and an interest in being surgically ::: skinned: ::: ::: 1. Wait. If you've dropped a lot of poundage, wait at least a *year* ::: at ::: maintenance. Sometimes it's just a question of your puzzled outer ::: layer ::: catching up with the rest of you -- in a lot of cases that's all it ::: takes to ::: resolve it. ::: ::: 2. Build muscle. One little known fact about strength training is ::: that it ::: brings oxygen and tone to the area in question, correcting the flab ::: that ::: informs the Awful Problem. ::: ::: 3. Intense skin therapy. A fancy dermatologist told me once that ::: since the ::: miracle potions designed for facial skin were not for any other skin ::: on the ::: body, they would work on any other part of the body. ::: ::: ? ::: ::: So what do you have on the rest of your body? Notskin? Hide? Fur? ::: It's all the ::: same thing, it covers every inch of you. Therefore, potions designed ::: to frim ::: skin, treat scars, and improve elasticity on your face work just ::: fine ::: on other ::: areas and the only real drawback to that is the cost; you're ::: covering ::: a little ::: more surface area. Still, I personally guarantee that any cream you ::: buy for ::: your skin is going to cost less than twenty thousand dollars. ::: ::: Now, I am about to write out the C is for Comprehensive Belly/Skin ::: Shrinkage ::: System below. If you're really interested in this, could you do me a ::: favor and ::: save this post or remember it says by C! at the top to Google ::: later? I really ::: want to let people know they don't have to spend twenty thousand ::: dollars to get ::: their skin fixed but I get tired of typing the same thing over and ::: over: ::: ::: Glycolic acid or AHA in home peel, three times a week at ten, ::: twenty, ::: or thirty ::: percent. This lifts the top layer of dead surface skin and gets you ::: closer to ::: the place you really want to work on. Also, AHAs and BHA improve ::: skin elasticity over time, as does all types of exfoliation. ::: ::: Another AHA of lesser strength ( say two percent) every day or ::: twice a day, ::: under a copper peptide cream of which there are about only three to ::: choose ::: from: Trideduction with Lavender and Retinol, item 44 on the main ::: order page at ::: Skinbiology.com is cheapest, and the strongest of all. This also ::: once ::: or twice ::: a day. ::: ::: Do this for about six months and build muscle under the stretched ::: spot for six ::: months and see where you are. I guarantee it will be somewhere if ::: not all the ::: way home. ::: ::: Optional: ::: ::: Alpha Lipoic, Ester C and DMAE cream: This is a skin lifter. It ::: works, try it ::: on that soft spot under your arms for a couple weeks, you'll be ::: convinced. Two ::: companies make it in the world: Perricone has a cream for about ::: sixty bucks a ::: jar, Reviva Labs makes the same thing for 22. ::: ::: Wise Ways Herbals Beautiful Belly Balm: I'm not sure what the Garnet ::: Gem ::: essence it lists as an ingredient is exactly for, but the prevalent ::: lavender ::: essential oil is what women used to use to snap back from pregnancy ::: before ::: there were copper peptides. it's good, highly emollient, and cheap. ::: ::: Massage: Punch, pinch, whap, whatever the Awful Area in question ::: once ::: a day or ::: as often as you think of it. Rub it down with a loofah, whenever you ::: think of ::: it. You might think this is too simplistic to be helpful, but it ::: increases ::: circulation and drains away lymph around the damaged area so good ::: stuff, like ::: blood and water and nutrients, can get to it. ::: ::: For women with ruined bellies from pregnancy: Pilates. it will mend ::: the recti ::: muscle your towhaired tot revised for you..usually in about six ::: months if you ::: do it regularly. ::: ::: So now that you have the protocol, don't wait. A C's Comprehensive ::: Belly/Skin ::: Shrinkage System works better and faster while you're losing weight ::: and not six ::: or eight months after, which is when you'll typically be vulnerable ::: to the cry ::: of the Evil Plastic Surgeon. ::: ::: One day...maybe four months from now, I am going to post a picture ::: of my ::: personal progress with C's System. And then I'm going to send it to ::: every ::: single human in America who thinks their skin isn't smarter than a ::: doctor's ::: knife. I really mean it. |
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Stretched skin post by C revisited please!
Jean B. wrote:
My skin is wrinkly--not so much saggy except a bit on my butt. I tried some lotion containing copper peptides, and it caused me to break out. I'd love to hear of any lotions/creams that help with wrinkles, esp. on my face. (Susan, I am almost 54.) BRBR Interesting, I recently started using a copper peptide wrinkle cream on my face and started breaking out. I NEVER have had a breakout problem so this really bothers me. Will it stop when my skin becomes accustomed to the new lotion? I don't know which is worse, breaking out or wrinkles. (BTW I'm 42.) Brenda 135/106 |
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Brenda wrote:
Interesting, I recently started using a copper peptide wrinkle cream on my face and started breaking out. I NEVER have had a breakout problem so this really bothers me. Will it stop when my skin becomes accustomed to the new lotion? I don't know which is worse, breaking out or wrinkles. (BTW I'm 42.) I hope someone else answers. I pretty much stopped using it. :-( -- Jean B. |
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If you are talking about the Skinbiology products, try the serum if the CP
cream breaks you out. I have always had really, really dry skin & I just soak up the creams, but they are too heavy on the oil for normal facial skinRobyn |
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If you are talking about the Skinbiology products, try the serum if the CP
cream breaks you out. BRBR I can't afford the skinbiology products. I bought Neutrogena night cream and eye cream, both with active copper. I began breaking out about two weeks after I began using the products. Coincidence? Any ideas anyone? Brenda 135/106 |
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Robin wrote:
If you are talking about the Skinbiology products, try the serum if the CP cream breaks you out. BRBR (Sorry, I never saw your original post.) I couldn't use that on my face I guess. It is getting much drier, but it is not totally dry. Do they have a body version? Where do you get it? -- Jean B. |
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