Moms...wrinkly belly

EEEEEWWWWW my stomach is really wrinkly around the belly button and on my lower stomach where it hangs in 2 separate sections (i jokingly call it the butt in the front if that gives you a visual). While I am a bit overweight in that area, I'm almost afraid it will look even worse as I lose more.  My kids are 2 and 4, so I don't think it will shrink up any more. Is there any hope other than surgery? 

You could start doing exercises to tone that area. You can tone it up a lot more than you think.

do what you can before abdominoplasty. get yourself settled at a goal weight, take massage, use lotions and ensure you are always hydrated. you may be lucky and find your skins elasticity is recoverable, and you may not. ensure you do anything you humanly can to avoid surgery before you consider it seriously.

 it may take 2 years or more for your skin to come back to normal. 

 i personally have never had children but have the exact same tummy as mothers i know - and sometimes mine looks worse than theirs~ just from weight loss. unreal.

 

 

 

 

I am going to seriously hydrate while I lose-- I normally don't have any (not even a drop) of water and am eating much cleaner.  I'm hoping that it can look normal again-- I was hoping for encouragement from someone else who had done it too.

Well, my "pouch" doesn't hang in two separate sections, but I do understand the wrinkles around the belly button thing.  Between preganancy stretch marks and the weight loss, I just have to accept the fact that I won't be wearing low cut jeans or itty bitty bikinis even when I reach my goal (which is okay - I never wanted to wear them any way).

Short of surgery, the only thing I know of to help is muscle building/toning exercises, and keep the area hydrated - there are various types of "body butter" that are really good for that.