[sportmom]

OK, I don't know if this was some wonderful dream I had or what, but I think I've read somewhere or at this site, that as you begin working out your skin appearance on places like your thighs/hips can actually begin to look worse for a period of time or more cellulity, because you are disrupting the layers of fat and the networks that hold it in. Please, tell me this is true!!!

I have gone, in week 3 of my renewed program, from looking like an out of shape mom with 40 something legs to an 80 year old grandma leg. I seriously look like things are getting worse and not the same or better.

WHAT IS GOING ON?!?!?!?

[csoar2004]

I'm speaking here as a former cellulite-sufferer from a long line of cellulite-prone women.
you can beat it.
HONEST! I started shedding my excess weight at age 49 when I did NOT have the collagen of a 20-something. After spending my entire adult life as queen of thunder-thighs, I'm thrilled to report it's all gone and I have an honest-to-goodness-gap between m'thighs <cue the marching band!>

How did I do it?
1) Pilates. Nothing like it for building long lean muscle to show off your skin.
2) Fat Flush Plan and all its lovely omegas.
3) Dry skin brushing. Google it. It stimulates the skin to keep shrinking along with the rest of you AS WELL AS stimulating your lymphatic system. Your lymph system is your body's garbage collector but it has no central pump (unlike the cardio system which has the heart or the respiratory system which has the lungs) so in order to remove waste from your cells, YOU NEED TO MOVE.
4) Rebounding (think: mini-trampoline). Best cardio work-out for least output. Not only that but it's a dyno-mite lymph system workout.
5) water. Lots of it. At least 64 oz per day, ideally more! Nothing like keeping your skin hydrated to remove that orange-peel look. So what if you have to use the toilet more. I mean, if it's a choice of NO MORE CELLULITE or few trips to the toilet - punch my ticket babe, I'm jumping on the restroom express!
6) genes. Ok, ok, so you can't do much about your genes. But everything else is in your grasp.
Go for it - whaddya got to lose?!

[northernbelle]

Yes, it's true for me. I had the beginning of cellulite on my thighs and butt. As I worked out, my thighs were the first to respond- the cellulite disappeared. My butt is slower to shrink, but not as dimply. However, my belly fat is really really slow to go. It is becoming soft and jiggly, and cellulite is appearing in places. I think the soft and jiggly means that the fat is breaking up- a good sign.

[silverbirch]

Hullo hrbabe! I'm just leaning out of lurkdom for a moment to say that I have been and am where you are. Here's a link to a thread I started about the same subject. Perhaps this was the one you remember reading.

http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/showthread.php?t=79823

It seems we have to keep on with the good work. We can do it.

P.S. I'm lurking because of Life. You know how it gets in the way sometimes. All going well generally, though. Love and kisses to you all.

[sportmom]

Thank you SO MUCH Silver!! That is indeed a wonderful thread. I think it's is WORTHY OF A STICKY UP TOP since it will affect so many people in their WL journey (Mel or Meg, maybe a title, what's happening to my fat? or ...to my shape?)

Now that I have a better attitude I'm loving that I find a little marble like item in my stomach now. And it moves, and it's soft. The next day, it was somewhere else. Pack up babies, you're movin out!! Woo hoo!