Loose Skin - Does it happen to everyone?

Cortneyrenee04

I'm 30 pounds down with about 40 to go and I'm noticing loose skin now. I'm worried about how it'll look- kind of deflated looking my mom previously lost 40ish pounds and my body is reacting like hers did (not good ) so at least I know what's coming.

Juju1970

I've lost 130 and the skin bounced back everywhere but my arms. When I look at my mother who has always been pretty thin, she has saggy arms too. I finally decided to get brachioplasty because I wanted to put my new body in some sexy outfits.

LAWoman72

It happens to some people and not to others. My best friend, who gained 100 lbs. during her first pregnancy, had NOTHING extra except a few stretch marks on her rear afterward, and had no loose skin at all. I, who gained 80 lbs. during my first pregnancy at the "bounce-back" age of 19, had a huge hanging flap afterward even down to 105 lbs. with working out, and 17 years later, when I got pregnant with my second, that flap was still there, so I think I gave it a fair trial to determine that it was (is) permanent.

But I'd rather be thin with an ugly flap than fat with an ugly flap. I can say with absolute assurance, even looking back with an objective eye years later, that my ugly flap was invisible when I was wearing jeans, and without them, I never actually had a complaint. (Even now, at my comparatively quite gigantic weight, when I put on my clothes, it simply doesn't show. Well-fitting underwear - not Spanx or anything crazy, normal underwear - and well-fitting jeans, and it just doesn't show.)

MamaRiss

I've lost 53 pounds so far, with a fe more to go. I'm happy to say that I don't have much in the way of loose skin. My only problem is my stomach, and I think that has more to do with pregnancies. Stating weight was 186, and I'm at 133 now, and I'm 29