Losing weight and new wrinkles!

I've heard when you're losing weight it can take up to 2 years for the skin to start shrinking back decently. You might just have to put up with some of it for awhile. Try not to lose too fast and drink lots of water. Hang in there!

I want to know an answer to this aswell:)

Hello! I have started noticing a little of this myself (even though I still have a looong way to go to reach my goal) and just started reading up on it. One thing I have read is to take it slow - which I see you are doing. Another is to drink lots of water because hydrated skin helps with elasticity. I've also seen that weight training and (if it's in your stomach, like mine is) crunches to help tighten the skin help. Also, if you are on Pinterest, I've seen several pins lately with tips on firming things up.

Exercise, exercise, exercise. Those are the three best ways to tighten up that skin.

Strength Training, a good multivitamin if you don't have great nutrition, lotion, and stay hydrated and that helps your skin's resiliency. Age plays a HUGE part in this too.. older folks, you'll just have to work harder at it, sorry, older skin is just not as resilient.

Elastin 3 makes a good post-baby/weight loss cream that got rid of ALL my stretch marks (See avatar) It's also REALLY good for restoring collagen and firming up loose/wrinkled skin. it's not cheap, about $50/bottle, but totally worth it, IMO. If you get it, I recommend buying 2 at a time, because even though I'm small and there wasn't a ton of area to cover, when you use it as often as the label directs, you'll run out before the marks/wrinkles are as gone as they're going to be.

I've noticed that young adults often look more youthful in the after photos posted to the Success Stories forum. The middle aged and older people, not so much. I'm in my late 50s and find some comfort in the thought that my fat distribution is such that I had relatively little to lose from my face and neck. I guess I look my age, but no worse from having been overweight.

To have lost nearly 60 pounds at my age I've been fairly lucky about the impact on my skin. After a year of maintenance I still have some vertical wrinkling above my belly button, which is no longer round and probably never will be again. And I have to be careful about how bras and swimsuits fit or the thin, crepey skin left behind by my "side boobs" will bunch up above the side panels. And my girls are deflated. If I were going to have any sort of corrective surgery it would be a boob job, not a tummy tuck. Other than that, things are pretty much back to normal. I carried most of my weight between my hip bones and arm pits, so there was never a lot of excess skin to shrink elsewhere.

What to do... I ate a balanced diet with sufficient healthy fat, drank plenty of water, made sure I got my vitamin C every day, and slathered on the coconut oil after every shower. I didn't do this, but my grandma once told me that young mothers and mothers to be in her day (she had her kids in the 1920s) were advised to drink a cup of warm chicken or meat broth every evening to help their skin recover. For the collagen, I suppose.