Loose skin.....

wimberleybonnette737

I have loose skin on my tummy from losing about 40 lbs. I do intermittent fasting and read that over time IF should help with getting rid of excess skin from cellular autophagy. I hope that works, but not holding my breath. Trying to build muscle and focus more on that and see how my stomach looks later on as recoming on maintenance takes time and my lower belly and thighs are also where the majority of my body fat store is located.

sophiekhan510

Hi,
Depends on genetics, how much you lose & how fast you lost the weight! I myself had to get a tummy tuck done after losing over a 100 pounds (I'm 25 now)

Syneea

I'm 50 lbs down with loose skin on my lower abdomen. When my pants are hiked to my belly button, you'd never know, even doing planks!! Lol Four kids and extra weight can do that to you! I'm hoping it becomes a bit less noticeable over time as it looks like crinkly paper and the rest of me looks pretty fit! I actually have a four pack above the wrinkly paper skin. lol I think if I ever lose more weight in my arms, they will have loose skin as well. I stiff have some fat there. I'm progressively weight training with lots of water and hoping for the best. My hard work has paid off though overall so I'm happy. :-)

nowine4me

Speaking for myself, the loose "skin" from my 70# loss is really covering loose flab. The weight of those fat deposits drag the skin down on my belly and thighs. I'm 50 and look and feel way better than I did when I was heavier, but feel like 10-15 more pounds would get rid of those last fatty, droopy bits and would be a significant improvement.

CoachJen71

Sumiblue wrote: »

I didn't think I had any loose skin. Until I was doing a plank and looked down toward my belly! But, I'm 48 and had a baby at 42.
I don't think my skin is going to snap back anymore. In general, I'm happy with my weight loss & fitness & I try to not look when I plank

Yeah. I've got a freaking udder when I do planks. *annoyed sigh* Still, loose skin is better than fatty rolls!

BeeerRunner

CoachJen71 wrote: »

Sumiblue wrote: »

I didn't think I had any loose skin. Until I was doing a plank and looked down toward my belly! But, I'm 48 and had a baby at 42.
I don't think my skin is going to snap back anymore. In general, I'm happy with my weight loss & fitness & I try to not look when I plank

Yeah. I've got a freaking udder when I do planks. *annoyed sigh* Still, loose skin is better than fatty rolls!

Omg...I laughed so hard when I read this. I've learned I just can't look. Ha ha!!

icemom011

BeeerRunner wrote: »

CoachJen71 wrote: »

Sumiblue wrote: »

I didn't think I had any loose skin. Until I was doing a plank and looked down toward my belly! But, I'm 48 and had a baby at 42.
I don't think my skin is going to snap back anymore. In general, I'm happy with my weight loss & fitness & I try to not look when I plank

Yeah. I've got a freaking udder when I do planks. *annoyed sigh* Still, loose skin is better than fatty rolls!

Omg...I laughed so hard when I read this. I've learned I just can't look. Ha ha!!

Lol, or in the shower, when you wash your toes. Don't look at your belly

niyra17

Gosh the dreaded skin..I was hoping if i can start swimming maybe that will help, have you tried exercise? and how much have you lost if you dont mind me asking ?
I have been a yoyo dieter most of my life and need to lose 3 stone, God knows how i will look.. but this is something i have been wondering about too. Good luck ...

Lillymoo01

niyra17 wrote: »

Gosh the dreaded skin..I was hoping if i can start swimming maybe that will help, have you tried exercise? and how much have you lost if you dont mind me asking ?
I have been a yoyo dieter most of my life and need to lose 3 stone, God knows how i will look.. but this is something i have been wondering about too. Good luck ...

I am not quite sure how much I have lost because I don't know what my start weight was but my guess is at least 35 kgs over 9 months. Not really been a yoyo dieter, just the weight steadily increasing with age. I do a lot of walking for exercise with a little strength training on the side. Unfortunately a bad knee means I can't do much more than walking for cardio. Loose skin is much better than the excess weight and with luck it will improve a bit over time.

stationlouisa

This being the 3rd time in 20yrs I have lost approx 20kg, I expected the loose flabby skin. I have always said I would rather be thin and flabby than fat and firm. Lack of enough hydration when young and length of time the skin was stretched makes a big difference to the skins elasticity. I can always hide the skin under clothes not like the fat. I also believe in bulking up the muscle as much as possible to fill the void especially on upper arms.

rainbow198

Give it time. When I hit my goal in 2013 (I lost 80+ pounds) I didn't have much loose skin, but I did have some wobbly/deflated bits here and there which was annoying, but I accepted it. I worked hard!

However, with each passing year it got better and better and now my body is tight and I have a flat belly (except when I do planks or push ups). I'm still floored about this because of my age and that I was overweight for most of my life.

But it was important to me to look good in clothes and naked as well, so I made sure to hit those weights hard.

I'm not sure if it's genetic or not as I was the only overweight person in my family, but now I'm very happy with my body, but it took years of maintenance to get to this point.

jeepinshawn

I'm fairly happy with the way I look now until I put on some swim trunks. Then my empty saggy man boobs and loose tummy skin are visible. Nothing u can do but accept the loose skin, go back to being fat, or very the surgery. Sometimes when I am down I feel like with the loose skin I may as well be fat again. Then I look at an old picture and I'm like yeah Never mind lol. Although I get it, it sucks to work so hard and still be disappointed at the finish line.

sgt1372

I'm 66 and lost 36# in 6 months and have been maintaining at 160# for 4 months.

Developed a 6 pack and muscle dfn but there's still a lot of loose skin in my lower abs. Not sure if it was the result of wt loss or old age. Probably both.

No changes noted with the passage of time yet. Tried using Vit A (retinol) cream also w/no apparent result.

Funny thing is the loose skin is most evident when I tighten my abs. Less so when I don't.

Have a similar problem w/my butt. No loose skin noticeable when relaxed, only when contracted.

Seems really odd.

Needless to I try to keep my muscles relaxed when looking at myself in the mirror or standing in front of my GF naked.

Look pretty good, if I say so myself, when I do that.

LOL!

cheryldumais

Lost 73 pounds so far and have lots of loose skin. I have wings and no red bull needed, lol. Still in clothes it's not noticable and I would rather be where I am than where I was. Even at 233 pounds I had a flabby hanging stomach with tons of stretch marks from two 9+ pound babies so I don't expect it to magically disappear. I am saving for skin surgery (tummy tuck, breast lift) when I lose the last 25 pounds. I'm hoping my arms and thighs will improve with time as I can only manage one surgery. Hang in there OP either way the loss is worth it flabby skin or not.

Theo166

watched a program on fasting where they implied fasting could lead to reducing saggy skin after weight loss.

alifamily1130

IT has been the most difficlut thing to face and i feel like i have more then i should left of skin the only alternative for me seems to be to have it cut and removed I lost over 90lbs within a year i didnt do any real strengnth training and as a result my stomach is a horrible mess however if i cut back on sugar i think it would help me but the problem is cutting back on the sugar