What to do with flabby skin?

777Gemma888

Ok, I lost the weight I want using MFP. Now I've been maintaining for 2 months (without counting calories, YAY!). Another problem now crops up - flabby skin.......what to do about that? Asking for help here.
I've tried and still am trying, going to the local gym and doing workouts 2x a week and exercising at home when I can. It just doesn't go away. All I get is a decrease in cm of thigh, butt and waist where I want them, but its covered over with hideous fatty skin. How do I go about tightening that. I need help and advice here.

My sister answered this thread with an interesting excerpted article you might also find helpful@52 years battling flabby skin: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1450855-should-of-done-the-weight-training

888sisters_weight888:

Adpalangi: I'm at 113 - 115 now, thought I needed 109, but I'm happy where I am. If I continue to loose I will probable look aged and frail. I have loose skin everywhere, lately I've been wondering if I looked better with the weight on instead of now. I started the weight training, but can't help to wonder how hard it will be to tone. I wonder if I can still get that lean strong body now while in maintenance. Am I too late?

With your loose skin, kindly consider seeing a Dermatologist for options@loss of collagen issues.

However, with your weight training, I recommend that you have a thorough read of the attached to determine with confidence that as long as you commit to the upgrade of your health, your beauty and your quality of life, you won't be left behind, for you still have more than a decade's time yet, to remedy the errs as best you can => http://www.acsm.org/docs/current-comments/resistancetrainingandtheoa.pdf








:flowerforyou: I wish you well!

I would have to agree with previous posters@surgery >> A consultation with a dermatological surgeon might prove to be helpful, if your weight training and other options do not pan out for you.

Autumngolds

I don't think there's any need for surgery, unless it's loose skin (very thin) rather than fat, which can also be very loose. I have the same problem with loose fat and I'm losing the last few pounds, then going into maintenance too. I plan on starting progressive bodyweight strength training, but if you're already going to the gym then focusing on progressive lifting should be really helpful, and is probably the fastest way to see results. But it's only been two months, and people say body recomposition at maintenance can be very slow. If you're impatient you could try eating slightly above maintenance and continuing with weight training. People seem to lose a lot of fat recomping at maintenance or bulking and cutting.

Francl27

kit_liu wrote: »

After much inspection, the flab is really fatty skin around the abdominal area. So it's more dieting and trying to fill it with muscles. Oh, the work we have to do to get a nice body. Trouble is, I don't want to loose any more weight. Maybe I can loose the weight and then fill it with water, which I have to have.

You can't 'fill' loose skin with muscle. The muscle will be underneath..

nxd10

I'm over 55 and lost a tad more weight than you did (though I'm 5'10" and height matters a lot). I had some sagging in breasts and definitely a bit of extra skin where my 'apron fat' (hate that term) used to be. You saw it on my arms as well.

Over the first year after I hit maintenance it slowly went away. Breasts firmed up. All other lose skin essentially gone. The skin is an organ. You haven't given it a lot of time to turn over all those old cells for new ones. I wouldn't even think about surgery until you've given yourself at least a year.

I also remember what my midwife told me after I had my first child - where I had gained 50 pounds. Flexible, pliable skin is much more elastic and will move back into shape faster than dry skin. And massaging in oil feels good.