How can I tighten skin after losing weight
NYCDutchess
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I've lost some weight doing Keto, but now I feel like my skin is all mushy...any tips on getting the skin to tighten up? It's not ALOT...but I'd love some tips.
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I've had the same problem and have been using a variety of products -
A good gritty sugar scrub in the shower every day around the belly, bum, and anyplace else there's lose skin. I've been using Nerium on those areas after my shower and before bedtime, it def works but is sort of expensive. Don't laugh but Preparation-H works too... drys/tightens the skin nicely! During my workouts I use Sweet Sweat with the waist trainer and sometimes I use Vasoburn. Both work well but Vasoburn gets super hot! The whole key to all of this is to be consistent... Hope this helps!1 -
It's mainly effected by genetics and age.
Time is also a factor. It can take over a year.4 -
RuNaRoUnDaFiEld wrote: »It's mainly effected by genetics and age.
Time is also a factor. It can take over a year.
I'm fn screwed then
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cushman5279 wrote: »I've had the same problem and have been using a variety of products -
A good gritty sugar scrub in the shower every day around the belly, bum, and anyplace else there's lose skin. I've been using Nerium on those areas after my shower and before bedtime, it def works but is sort of expensive. Don't laugh but Preparation-H works too... drys/tightens the skin nicely! During my workouts I use Sweet Sweat with the waist trainer and sometimes I use Vasoburn. Both work well but Vasoburn gets super hot! The whole key to all of this is to be consistent... Hope this helps!
Great, THANKS! This is all good advice!! I have a friend that suggests a gallon of water daily as well...She's a body builder, she also suggested Nivea Skin Firming Cream...cheaper than Nerium. I bought a Faciablaster...I just don't use it... lol...
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Nothing you add topically will have a permanent effect. You can build some muscle to fill out the skin a bit but as said, it's genetics and time. Or if very bad surgery is another option.
But no cream in the world can tighten loose skin.5 -
I would start building some muscle, https://bodybuilding.com/exercises3
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Add some muscle, if that fails then tummy tuck. sorry3
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There are 3 options:
1) don't get fat to start with
2) build some muscle to fill it out
3) wait
2&3 go hand in hand are about all you can do.4 -
I would start building some muscle, https://bodybuilding.com/exercises
This is what I've been thinking... have to start getting it in. 0 -
thatdesertgirl777 wrote: »Add some muscle, if that fails then tummy tuck. sorry
Yes... I don't think they would do a tummy tuck on me... it's not enough...0 -
Also remember that it takes time. With my initial weightloss, my skin was kind of loose and skwishy, but over time and losing a little more subdermal fat, it starts tightening. How much it will tighten up is mostly genetic, how much you lost and how quickly.0
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DancingMoosie wrote: »Also remember that it takes time. With my initial weightloss, my skin was kind of loose and skwishy, but over time and losing a little more subdermal fat, it starts tightening. How much it will tighten up is mostly genetic, how much you lost and how quickly.
Yes, I'm trying to keep this in mind 0 -
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WayTooHonest wrote: »
No intent of being inspirational, just stating the facts. Sometimes it's hard to hear but it may help others who may read this thread and are going down the wrong path.4 -
Definitely start building muscle. Get toned; it will help fill out your loose skin. Also, over the years, your skin will slowly retract as well.... another option for assisting the tummy area for women, is to invest in a good quality corset. It actually helps substancially. Look up Waist Training 101 on facebook. They are amazing. Don't buy a corset without proper research. There are a lot of fake ones out there and latex company falsely advertising that their products are corsets, when in fact, they aren't.0
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Waist trainers, creams, wraps, scrubbing, dry brushing, topicals, etc. are all just temporary fixes on very short term (like a day or less). Skin is an organ is if you have loose skin from weight loss your MAIN approach would be TIME. Age, genetics and how much you have to lose will affect how long (if at all) skin will retract. If it's just slight, then the next approach would be to try to fill in that gap with a little more muscle.
Understand that there will many many people that will give anecdotal evidence of how they did it, but in most cases the above is true. Don't get scammed by promises from sales people who have NO EXPERTISE in actual physiology or biology.
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Waist training isn't a great approach and does nothing to reduce loose skin since it does nothing to the skin itself. You can "look" better with it on so things don't hang out or bulge, but it's not a cure for loose skin (actually nothing is short of surgery).prpeterson2016 wrote: »Definitely start building muscle. Get toned; it will help fill out your loose skin. Also, over the years, your skin will slowly retract as well.... another option for assisting the tummy area for women, is to invest in a good quality corset. It actually helps substancially. Look up Waist Training 101 on facebook. They are amazing. Don't buy a corset without proper research. There are a lot of fake ones out there and latex company falsely advertising that their products are corsets, when in fact, they aren't.
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IDEA Fitness member
Kickboxing Certified Instructor
Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition
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prpeterson2016 wrote: »Definitely start building muscle. Get toned; it will help fill out your loose skin. Also, over the years, your skin will slowly retract as well.... another option for assisting the tummy area for women, is to invest in a good quality corset. It actually helps substancially. Look up Waist Training 101 on facebook. They are amazing. Don't buy a corset without proper research. There are a lot of fake ones out there and latex company falsely advertising that their products are corsets, when in fact, they aren't.
Nope. And waist training 101, if advising it can do anything other than be awesome shapewear (excepting for a subset of serious waist trainers who use custom made, very expensive, steel boned waist training corsets like Mr Pearl who wears a corset from the moment he wakes to the moment he sleeps. In fact, he may even sleep in it) is an exercise in massive misinformation. Man this shiznit cheeses me off. They absolutely cannot defy human physiology and tighten skin.0 -
You could always just get fat again.
(To be fair, you didn't say that you were looking for good or solid advice.)0
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