Fat or Saggy Skin??

LadyBoss_1989

Is this Fat, Saggy Skin or Both??

First photo is be standing up relaxed and second photo is slightly bent over.
it gets even worse when on all fours..

SkepticalOwl

It looks like a lot of the issue is fat. As rough as that sounds, it is actually a good thing, since you can lose fat, but can't do much about saggy skin. Depending on a lot of variables (your age, how fast the weight went on, how fast it comes off, skin elasticity,...) you may or may not have a lot of saggy skin after you lose the fat, at which point you can decide what you want to do about it.

Good luck!

Liftng4Lis

Looks like fat, thank goodness, cuz you can get rid of that. You're young enough that loose skin shouldn't be a problem.

47Jacqueline

Yes, me three. Definitely fat. That's doable.

LadyBoss_1989

But if I bend all the way over, like on all fours, my gut sags even more than in the picture and the skin starts to look really wrinkled, so Im starting to think its a mixture of both..I did lose weight a little fast and I also have alot of stomach fat, most of I havent lost much of yet. im worried the more stomach fat i try to lose the more saggy it will become. I heard planks help ?

auddii

LadyBoss_1989 wrote: »

But if I bend all the way over, like on all fours, my gut sags even more than in the picture and the skin starts to look really wrinkled, so Im starting to think its a mixture of both..I did lose weight a little fast and I also have alot of stomach fat, most of I havent lost much of yet. im worried the more stomach fat i try to lose the more saggy it will become. I heard planks help ?

You can't spot reduce, and if there's fat on it, the only way to make it smaller is to continue to lose fat. Here's a great post to read:
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1161603/so-you-want-a-nice-stomach

LadyBoss_1989

This is NOT my photo but this is what It looks like

Sued0nim

It's Fat

Skin is papery and lifts away

Eat at a defecit you can reduce that if you want

Liftng4Lis

LadyBoss_1989 wrote: »

But if I bend all the way over, like on all fours, my gut sags even more than in the picture and the skin starts to look really wrinkled, so Im starting to think its a mixture of both..I did lose weight a little fast and I also have alot of stomach fat, most of I havent lost much of yet. im worried the more stomach fat i try to lose the more saggy it will become. I heard planks help ?

Lift weights

jemhh

Your body is not going to lose fat and shrink skin at the same rate. Right now your skin is stretched out due to the fat that was and still is there. So it's not really and either/or thing. It can/will take up to a couple of years for your skin to shrink up to its eventual state. So yes, you may very well have some sag for awhile. It's up to you whether the tradeoff (less fat) is worth it.

Strength training generally helps your appearance because muscles always look nice. But I don't believe that planks have any effect on the actual stretched/unstretched status of your skin.

auddii

LadyBoss_1989 wrote: »

This is NOT my photo but this is what It looks like

That's basically what mine is like as well. I definitely have loose skin, but there's still a lot of fat under it. I know I still need to lose the fat.

The first post in this thread is a good example of how you may have some loose skin, but losing the fat underneath it really helps:
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/977538/halp-heavy-lifting-made-me-supah-bulky

dakotababy

Yeah I have the same thing going on now too...I just dont go on all 4's anymore!

HereLieWe

Omg I have that too. I'm 5'2" and 140 lb.

Francl27

LadyBoss_1989 wrote: »

This is NOT my photo but this is what It looks like

That's me but it looks much more 'wrinkled' than yours when I'm standing, and you can pull off the skin. Yours seem more fat than skin. The issue I think is detached fat stuck to the extra skin, and it's a real pain to get rid of, from what I hear. Lifting/core exercises haven't done anything to mine.

Kalikel

When you have loose skin, you will know it. I promise.

Lifting weights is great if you want to tone those muscles. If you build muscle, it will take up some space under the skin...but it will not create more elasticity in your skin. You can't fix skin my lifting weights.

Francl27

The reason I think yours is more fat than skin, compared to that other picture of the plank lady, is that it doesn't hang at all when you're standing. Mine hangs all over, heck even my belly button is half hidden in the folds (think 'sharpei').

Christine_72

My tummy looks like the plank lady when I'm on all fours. Is hers fat or skin? I only had to lose 22lbs all up. So I wasn't massively overweight.

Christine_72

Bump

mommy2626

mine looks like the plank lady too, I want to fix it!! any ideas???

Christine_72

Mommy2626, what do you reckon it is.... skin or fat? I've still got around 10lbs to lose, so I'm hoping that tummy hang will be gone when I get to my goal weight??

Kate7294

Judging by the original pictures I believe you have mainly some fat to loose. As a 42 yr. old Mother of two ( 10 pounds from gw) I have sagging skin which overhangs a couple inches your's doesn't seem to.
I've heard it can take up to 2 yrs. for skin/stomach to recover. Personally I wouldn't take pictures bending over. Unless your watching porno's women don't usually get on all fours anyway. << Not trying to be mean just honest. How often do we see women at the beach get on all fours? unless it's just to get up though most just turn over.

Christine_72

Yeah but is that plank ladies tummy fat or excess skin?

mommy2626

Im sure I have some of both, I am 5 ft 1.5 and 119 lbs. I have given birth 7 times. Lots of stretch!! but I dont know how to get rid of it!!

amusedmonkey

christinev297 wrote: »

Yeah but is that plank ladies tummy fat or excess skin?

It's both. When skin is papery and wrinkled, pulls away from the body, and hangs in a way that looks like a slightly deflated water balloon where it forms a heavier mass in the bottom and pulls away at the top, it's loose skin with fat underneath. If it's just papery and wrinkled, feels light and hangs like a deflated balloon (without the mass part) it's just loose skin. If it just protrudes or hangs without any of the above, it's fat.

That said, even something that looks like just fat (simply because fat still fills the skin enough not to let it wrinkle) can still produce loose skin as weight drops, but a smaller amount of it.

My guess OP will have very minimal loose skin, if any, at goal weight.

Christine_72

Thankyou amusedmonkey

LadyBoss_1989

I'am at my goal weight. I was 156lbs and now I'am 115lb. I could still lose more if I wanted, but Im pretty petite everywhere else (legs, arms face) everything else seemed to have shrinked but im still carrying around all of this fat on my stomach. I could prolly lose 10lbs just in stomach fat ive also never had kids.