what about loose skin?

My Mom was 5' 2" tall and 205 pounds at her heaviest. She got down to 130 pounds by her earlie 30's and looked great in a bathing suit. I think the younger you lose the weight the better off you are. More collagene in the skin. Good luck in your weight loss journey : )

When I went to Weight Watchers there was a lady there in her 40's. She had lost over 100 lbs. She looked great, and I ask her the same thing. What happens to the apron. She said when she was about 50 lbs down she started drinking lots of water, where before she didn't drink enough, and she started exercising, mostly walking.

I alwways think of her and wonder if I can do that too. I have lost 114 lbs, and noticed with time the loose skin under the chin is going away, but the arms are what gets me. The apron and the little bit of stomach that hangs over the belly button gets covered up with clothes, but the arms... I'm a work in progress at 48 yrs old!!

Well I think you could do as much as you can to build muscle under the skin, so that when the fat does come off, the muscle could maybe fill out the skin a little more. BUT....from my experience, once the skin is stretched, like with stretch marks to where it's permanently damaged, that wont go away. It can significantly be reduced, but you cant make stretched out skin tight again. I have gone from 205 to 150 and have some of that stretched out skin on my lower belly. Im SO self conscious about it, but Ive done all I can do. It was severely stretched out, especially when I was pregnant. Stretch marks were BAD. Its just damaged and no amount of fat loss or muscle building will put it back. I think it just depends on how bad it is, or maybe genetics with your skin (how well your skin will spring back).

I lost 70lbs when I was 15. My ab skin was very forgiving and is pretty tight, all things considered. I did have lots of loose skin and cellulite on my thighs and tired every lotion and potion in the world and tried weight training but I was doing it all wrong. I was doing the typical chick low weights, high reps, which was building great endurance but not building me any muscle. Then I started ChaLEAN Extreme, which focuses on heavy weights and low reps and I finally found my answer. I'm finally building muscle and after 90 days of ChaLEAN I've noticed a 50% improvement in my legs and I'm hoping to build on that with P90X. I really wish I knew back in 1987 do add weight lifting then, but that info wasn't as readily available in the 80s as it is now (yes I'm dating myself here lol). so my answer? LIFT WEIGHTS! GO HEAVY OR GO HOME!! lol

I have the same problem with my arms I've been using weights but it made my arms bigger,so now I'm just trying to tone them,good luck to you all

There is an online book called active-passive diet he talks about when lossing weight and hitting a plateau, stuff is going on in your body and one thingthat is hapening is your skin is tightening up, so don't get discouraged by the plateau. I goes in reverse as well when gaining weight the body doesn't allow you to gain to much at one time. The body needs to build stronger bones to allow you to hold up the weight. You can go along in life eating badly for sometime and suddenly you are up 10- 15 pounds overnight.

Skin can adapt, the main thing is not to lose weight too quickly as your skin may not be as quick to 'catch up'

Other things that help: Skin brushing, exercise - cardio to make you sweat (sweating is great for the skin) and strength training so there is something to hold the skin in place, moisturising daily after shower or bath, massage, drinking plenty of water and eating plenty of good fats (fish, avocado, nuts, seeds etc).