Ways to prevent/reduce loose skin during weight loss?

fitzthecool
fitzthecool Posts: 6
edited September 25 in Health and Weight Loss
Anybody know how I can prevent or at least reduce the amount of loose skin resulting from weight loss?

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  • mochama12487
    mochama12487 Posts: 130 Member
    bump
  • rachyrach1234
    rachyrach1234 Posts: 160
    i would like to know also
  • TabiHerbalifeCoach
    TabiHerbalifeCoach Posts: 691 Member
    loose it slowly, give your body and your skin time to firm back up, if there is a drastic change in your weight QUICKLY is when you are going to get a lot of extra skin. I don't have very much, just a little actually but that is more from my c-section than the weight loss. I took about 1.5 years to loose the bulk of my weight
  • KeriA
    KeriA Posts: 3,336 Member
    Here is the link to my blog on my approach to this. So far so good.
    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/KeriA/view/no-loose-skin-my-low-impact-equation-1st-progress-report-71344
  • JennS19
    JennS19 Posts: 642 Member
    These wraps from www.itworks.net really help tighten up lose skin as your losing weight. I've tried one myself and I lost 2 1/4 inches in the first 45 minutes.
  • KeriA
    KeriA Posts: 3,336 Member
    loose it slowly, give your body and your skin time to firm back up, if there is a drastic change in your weight is when you are going to get a lot of extra skin. I don't have very much, just a little actually but that is more from my c-section than the weight loss.
    I agree with this and with exercise. So far I have gone with low impact exercise.
  • TabiHerbalifeCoach
    TabiHerbalifeCoach Posts: 691 Member
    These wraps from www.itworks.net really help tighten up lose skin as your losing weight. I've tried one myself and I lost 2 1/4 inches in the first 45 minutes.

    ok and after the 45 mins when you took them off, a day or two or a week later where the inches still gone?
  • JennS19
    JennS19 Posts: 642 Member
    Well I only did it about a week ago, but since then, yes, the inches are still gone.

    You pair the wrap with a healthy diet, exercise and drinking lots of water and the inches stay off. You don't do the wraps and then just eat what eve you want afterwards.
  • amber_hanners
    amber_hanners Posts: 388 Member
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  • michelle4271
    michelle4271 Posts: 194 Member
    its my understanding that you need to do strength training in order to firm "everything" up,,,,but ultimately its the elastin that you have in your skin that will make the final decision as to whether it goes back all the way or not. the more elastic the skin, the less noticeable it will be.

    for example, I have had 4 very large babies, and 2 pretty close in age, and i'm about to turn 40,,,,chances are, all the elasticity in my lower abdomen is gone, but with alot of strength training in my core and it should stay to a min. good luck to you
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