TTMA Spanx

[michelin82]

So, with DS1, my body bounced back pretty well.  I looked like my old self in no time!  But with my little June Bug I had polyhydramnios (excess amniotic fluid).  This caused my belly to get super big...and I mean BIG!  I've lost all the weight, but I still have so much excess skin because my belly stretched so much.  I'm generally comfortable with my body, and I don't typically think of myself as terribly overweight, but the extra skin makes me feel incredibly self conscious.  So many of the clothes I have - and the ones that I like at the store - give me mega muffin top from all this skin.

I can't go up a size in pants or else they'll be way too big everywhere else.  But I also don't want to constantly wear frumpy shirts to hide the muffin top.

So just yesterday I thought about possibly wearing spanx or something similar to help with this issue.  Maybe it'd increase my confidence a bit.  Haha.

Does anyone wear Spanx or something similar on a regular basis?  Or do you only wear them on special occasions?  What brand/type would you recommend?  Any other insight you'd care to share? 

[michelin82]

^ nice use of the spoiler button, mcbush.

I must say, I am really liking the new features of our new home

[callmeKD]

I have a span slip that I wear under dresses. otherwise I bought some contouring/stomach holding in underwear from costco. they work really well under my dress pants.

[mufflerlove]

I used to wear a pair of knock offs with jeans pretty frequently. I think they were from walmart. They weren't super tight otherwise it would get uncomfortable to wear them everyday.

[sympkin]

Honestly post-maternity I just bought a couple of Bellaband knock-offs in a smaller size to hold things in, as it were. Much more comfortable than the spanx I've had but still enough structure to smooth out the lines.

[ciahanna]

I had both the Assets brand and the Spanx.I prefer the Assets and gave my friend the Spanx. Try Assets first since Spanx are pricey.

[michelin82]

Thanks, ladies!

[germaphobe]

Jan 19, 2015 11:46:16 GMT -5 mcbush said:

Oh and I will add this...

SPOILER: Click to show

{Ew factor} I used them for the same reason you are planning to... I lost about 50 pounds and had some loose semi hanging skin - like my own natural muffin top - and what would happen is that instead of just compressing the skin in, it'd kind of make folds, which is where the sweat would be mostly.. ew I'm sorry I'm even sharing this... but I wanted to give you an idea of my real-life experience there. So I suppose it depends on how much skin you have going on there, but you might not want to subject yourself to that daily.


ETA: I wanted to try out the spoiler button

How do you make a spoiler button?!

[germaphobe]

michelin82 have you looked into those "magical" wraps? I don't know what they do or how they work, but might be worth looking into.