Weight gain is often an unpleasant experience. When clothes stop fitting right, people can become uncomfortable in their own skin. Extra pounds can cause several negative emotional effects, and even if the weight is lost, there can be some long-lasting reminders of those painful times. Stretch marks commonly occur when people gain weight. Even on the thinnest of bodies, stretch marks can show signs of increased inches, leaving behind unpleasant purplish or red marks for years after.

What Causes Weight Gain?

Some reasons for weight gain are obvious, while others result from underlying issues. The following are a few of the most common reasons people experience weight gain:

Poor Diet & Lack of Exercise

Although poor diet and lack of exercise are the obvious reasons people gain weight, they're often not the primary factors. In the case of people who don't exercise regularly or eat a proper diet, additional pounds usually do begin to appear, particularly as the body's metabolism begins to slow down in the thirties, forties, and fifties. Even in youth, obesity and extra weight can be a problem.

Medications & Illness

Many medications have the unfortunate side effect of weight gain. While these medications are often great at fixing other ailments, the chemical imbalance they create can cause the body's metabolic process to come to a halt. This caused the body to store fat it would have otherwise been able to burn off naturally.

Similarly, certain illnesses harm the body's ability to process fat. Psychological and physical ailments of many different kinds can cause people to put on unwanted weight, often very rapidly.

Age

As noted above, weight gain often occurs as the fast-producing metabolism of people's teens and twenties begins to slow. A decrease in metabolism causes the body to keep extra fat on standby. Each extra calorie consumed requires additional exercise to eliminate the fat from the body's system.

Stress

Stress is a known factor of weight gain. For some people, stress causes them to eat more food than they normally would. In other cases, people may stop eating regularly, causing the body to begin to store fat reserves in anticipation of the next meal. In other cases, stress induces physiological changes in the body's chemistry, causing it to process foods and fats differently than it would when the person is not in a stressed state.

Pregnancy

Weight gain during pregnancy is inevitable. A certain amount of weight gain is considered normal by health standards, but many women experience additional pounds beyond pregnancy’s expected "normalcy." Even women who don't gain a ton of extra weight during pregnancy may experience stretch marks, as their bellies are growing at a rapid pace, and the skin only has so much ability to keep up with the growth.

How Does Weight Gain Lead to Stretch Marks?

For some people, weight gain occurs gradually over time. The weight gain may not cause stretch marks in these instances because the body can quickly produce elasticity proteins to keep up with the additional surface area. However, weight gain inevitably leads to unsightly stretch marks for many people.

So, why are weight gain and stretch marks so closely related?

The skin naturally produces a protein called collagen. Collagen is responsible for giving skin its bounce-back abilities, allowing it to stretch and flex as a person moves. As young people grow, collagen also facilitates the skin's ability to stay plump and firm as it stretches over long bones and increasing surface areas. Collagen can only produce so quickly, however. If a body begins to need extra skin faster than the body can produce collagen, the skin’s elasticity is compromised. The result is stretch marks.

Weight gain causes the skin to stretch to accompany the additional space added pounds produce. If a person gains weight rapidly, the body's collagen levels often can't keep up with the production of skin cells. As the skin stretches, red or purplish marks appear where the skin is deficient in elasticity.

Can Weight-Gain Stretch Marks be Erased?

Stretch marks from weight gain can appear all over the body. People often experience weight-gain stretch marks on their bellies, buttocks, upper arms, thighs, and hips. Fortunately, they don't have to stick around forever. Stretch marks happen because of the damaged skin during weight gain—a time when the body was unable to produce enough collagen to provide the necessary elasticity to the skin. The skin needs to be exposed to a nurturing environment that facilitates collagen production and helps the dermal layers rebuild moisture and elasticity to remedy this damage.

Silicone patches, such as those produced by Dermaclara, help erase weight-gain stretch marks by:

• Normalizing hydration. Hydration is essential in the repair process. Silicone pads create a microclimate whereby the perfect amount of moisture accumulates beneath the pads, allowing the skin to properly hydrate and produce an environment necessary to facilitate collagen growth. This hydration-inspired environment prevents dryness and improves the skin's overall appearance.
• Easy to apply. This at-home remedy is non-invasive and pain-free. The medical-grade silicone pads have a gentle adhesive that can be used on any part of the body. Optimal wear is up to nine hours, making overnight application the perfect remedy for people who want to erase stretch marks caused by weight gain. 
• Rebuild cells on every part of the body. Dermaclara is gentle enough to be used on any part of the body. People who have experienced weight gain may have stretch marks on their breasts, thighs, bellies, or other body parts. Dermaclara 's gentle enough to take care of the most delicate tissue and can be applied to stretch mark-laden skin, no matter which body part it's covering.

If you've incurred stretch marks due to weight gain, you don't have to live with them forever. Take back your beautiful skin with Dermaclara's Silicone Fusion™ Treatment. Our medical-grade silicone pads will love your delicate skin tissue, nourishing it back to health with each second that passes beneath the microclimate. Start erasing your weight gain stretch marks today with our non-invasive, pain-free stretch-mark removal solution! Visit www.Dermaclara.com to order!