SHBoss

arewethereyet

why I went to work out of course :happy: (it's my lunch time, so I work out at lunch then bring my power packed salad back to my desk to eat).

To answer your question, no, vitamin suppliments do not give you what they claim. There's something called Bio-availability. You should google it, vitamin suppliments don't digest the same way that vitamins dissolved in foods do, and the body can't absorb them as readilly. Depending on the quality of the pill, you will get anywhere from 20 to 70% of what they say.

:sad: but it would be so much easier

Fieldsy

Since you're the one that i find with the most useful knowledge that i've read( no offense to others, its just MPO that he has a lot of health knowledge) anyway sooooooo.....i had a question....since i'm losing the weight I have a little extra skin on my stomach from having 2 children...nothing real excessive but i was wondering if i were to start strength training right now and get muscle....do u think that it would tighten up and get rid of that loose skin look :ohwell:

p.s. thank u in advance :laugh: :bigsmile:

Okay, here is what I saw on Oprah...not saying it works or not, just saying I saw it. Well you remember Star Jones? She had gastric bypass and Oprah asked her what happened with all her excess skin. Star told her that it was actually pilates that helped with that. She swore that helped. Now you know that lady lost tons of weight, so I would hope that if it worked for her, it would work for me, who wants to lose 20 pounds.

I also have 2 kids, my youngest is almost 4 months and I have the loose skin syndrome. So I am going to start my Windsor Pilates videos soon, its worth a shot right? And of course, pilates is known to tone anyway, so you are getting that benefit even if does or doesnt help with the skin.

My sister and I call it the "skin roll." You gotta have a sense of humor about it! Also, I think that, for me, I would try everything I could, including time, diet, exercise etc before I considered surgery.

Good luck! Let me know if you hear of anything else...I'm always on the prowl :laugh: for anything that might help.

Pilates or any cardio workout will do minimal help to reduce excess skin. Weight lifting would be more beneficial to you, especially on a bulking phase (eating more than required to gain muscle) to fill in the excess skin.