Loose Skin - Debunking a "fact" about it?

bauerlescott

Loose skin is going to be a problem with a lot of us, to the extant is going to be all different, some of us may be able to make it almost unnoticeable through hard work and weight training, others will do our best but still be be left with the dastardly devil. Anyway, I have a friend who has lost a considerable amount of weight, 180 pounds to be exact... getting himself down to 220. I hope to be doing the same, we're the same age and have a very similar body type, I may be an inch taller than him... he definitely has some loose skin, there's no question about it... BUT it's not nearly as bad as he or I thought it would be, I was amazed with how good it looked.

We've always learned that, "The slower you lose weight the better the your experience will be with loose skin"... and I don't think that's true.

My friend lost the 180 pounds in about 7 months, now when he was first dropping the weight he said his loose skin was terrible, but it's gotten tons better. He talked to his doctor about it and he said that the rate at which you lose weight has almost no effect on how well the skin will snap back. The only effect it does have is the initial appearance when you first drop the weight. As time goes by the skin will go back no matter what, until it reaches it's final point and then it will stop. It doesn't matter if you lose 100 pounds in 18 months, or 5 months... the final result of what your skin looks like will be the same no matter what... (this is without any "added efffort").

Now, this may be a rare case, but I doubt his doctor would lie to him like that. I don't know all the factors that go into it like age and all that.. but if what his doctor said is true... could that debunk one of the biggest thing's we've always thought about when it comes to loose skin?

ALSO: He does weight training which said has helped and he also takes this CLA supplement, now I'm not entirely convinced that it works but he swears by it and says it's helped his loose skin a ton.