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I know we all have them after losing some weight… Both men and women lose weight and we're all left with the flabby arms and in my case I have flabby arms with stretch marks.< /p>

I wanted to see if anybody had any suggestions when it comes to getting rid of the flabbiness (if that's even a word) and I guess toning your arms as much as possible. The only thing is, I'm disabled so I do have limitations but I would greatly appreciate any suggestions anyone might have as to how to at least decrease them outside of having plastic surgery… Which is something I just can't afford. I would honestly prefer to do it more of a natural way even if I did have the money for plastic surgery. Unfortunately, on the year postop and I haven't exercised at all. I have a lot of pain conditions and I'm just now starting to get some sort of control over it with the aid of some medications. So I 'd like to start exercising with the hope that it would help me lose some more weight.

I'm just a girl that would love to wear dresses and outfits without having to add a sweater, Shawl, or jacket on top of it! I don't want to always have to wear some sort of cover-up.

I tried to look up exercises on Pintrist. But it was a hard thing to search for. All the results that came up that I could find was more of a bodybuilding thing. I know that I need to exercise. If anybody has a basic/ start up exercise plan that they use or had used, I'd appreciate it as well... We all have to start somewhere. So if you have some sort of plan in place, I know it would be appreciated by me and I'm sure others would appreciate it as well.

I do have some Jergens "skin firming" lotion. When I was in my early 20s, I noticed a difference with it but I haven't been using it for a long time now and don't know if it'll still work or help while I am in my early 30s... If anyone has product suggestions – I'd appreciate any info there as well. I'm give me wrong, I know that there's no miracle cure by any means but is there something out there that I can help out my skin with, I love the info. I know that their products out there that claim to aid in getting rid of stretch marks too. I don't know if that's really the case but again, is someone's had a good experience with something, I'm sure we'd all appreciate people posting it here.

I realize I'm all over the map here but I just thought is anybody have suggestions, I'm sure it could be go along way to helping not only myself out but others as well. Let's face it, we probably all have some of the same questions.

Hope everyone's having a good day,

Natalie

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Get a thera-band and do some resistance exercises. That will help more than you think!

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You know I have those...and I should get my lazy butt (er...arms) to use them... I need to work on them as well..,

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Yes, I was going to say Use the exercise bands like they mentioned above. You can purchase them at Walmart as well..

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I appreciate the input. I've been researching some exercises that I can probably do. So far all of my weight-loss is been without exercise and I wish that had not been the case but it is what it is at this point and I'm trying to get motivated… Just need to get over that hump. I saw some exercises that involved freeweights and then I know of course there are the exercise bands which I have several of. Maybe I could start in one capacity and move on to the next after I've accomplished my initial intention.

I hope everyone's doing well and I sincerely appreciate the input

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