Hi all,
I have lost fat and got stretch marks around the hips and the legs but I thought that you only got stretch marks from when you put on weight what is going on is there any way to stop or prevent this from happening.
Please help.

Stretch marks occur when your skin is growing or shrinking, because either way it is stretching or recovering from being stretched.

First, I'd recommend the search feature - there are plenty of great threads and discussions about stretch marks.

Suggestions:

Lose weight slowly
Train with weights intensely so that as much lean mass is maintained to keep your skin filled (as much as possible) with something
Drink plenty of water
Include dairy on occasion - namely milk
Include plenty of healthy fats - primarily in your flax seeds, other nuts (peanuts are not nuts,) and fish and olive oils
Get plenty of sleep
Take a multivitamin
Lotion and exfoliate


Hope that helps. Good luck. :)

I had the same problem. I got them from gaining alot of weight in a fairly short amount of time. I was 250 and have lost almost 60 pounds since then. I'm maintaining around 190 for the time being. With the weight loss came the stretch marks. I rub cocoa butter on them everyday in the morning, and they are slowly diminishing. I don't think they'll ever fully disappear, but this is at least helping to make them less noticeable. There's also many other lotions available as well. Hope this helps.

Yes thanks it does help. My wife got me some lotion last night that was recomended to her. When she was pregnant the last thing that she wanted was stretch marks so the doctors recomended this cream she had to use it after she had my son for about 6 weeks she did not get any stretch marks at all so I thought I should give it a shot I am at the office at the moment so I do not have the name of it but when I get home I will get the name and post it here any the results that I get from it.
I am also going to get the cocco butter. At least the marks are only around the hips and inner thighs they are not to noticeable.