Actual experience with skin bouncing back after 100+ # loss?

If you use tightening creams and body suits underneath your clothes I've heard it helps with loose skin overtime.. I'm at -80 and haven't had any real skin issue except stretch marks.

I've been more or less at target for about a year now. Maintaining requires I still track intake vs expenditure. Also, I'm still trying to get the sugar down (doing well an everything else, even salt).

After this one year, I do see significant tightening of the loose skin. As I understand it, you have to wait for the microscopic cells to die, replacements will be fewer and smaller. Don't know if this is true, but it makes some sense (I have a life science degree including cellular physiology). I only had to drop 40lbs, so your skin tightening recovery may take much longer. I'm guessing it will take another year before my tummy skin is not loose anymore. I purposely didn't say tight.....'cause I'm getting old ...and that's a different issue all together (skin collagen etc).

So......I'd say the future looks bright for you. Save the money.....or buy a new wardrobe.

Hello.
Any major weight loss will result in loose skin and creams or so called "remedies" will not cure this or tighten it up. The only tightening up it will help with is small amounts of loose skin.
But if you’ve carried a hundred or more extra pounds for many years, you may be a candidate for plastic surgery to tighten and lift loose skin. This fix should only be used in extreme cases, and I should warn you: people who have undergone this operation have actually gained more fat afterwards while they were rehabilitating from surgery!
Rather than letting this stress you out, you should focus on the things over which you have control—like exercising and eating right—and you’ll find that you will always look good. Your skin is more elastic than loose. And it can be tightened up dramatically with the proper diet and continued weight loss.

I am on the other side of the coin and knew before I even started that there was no way in hell that I would not need some kind of intervention down the road but I was also at 560 lbs. so with the loss I was facing it was inevitable. I was at this for 39 months (42 months now) when I finally had my circumferential body lift. I was at 250 lbs. down 310 lbs. and was pretty much with in 20 lbs. of my ultimate goal weight range of 230 lbs. so I went through with it. They removed 17 lbs. of skin in that surgery. My neck and arms (for the most part) did return to normal with the aid of weight lifting but my torso and inner thigh's was a totally different story. I still have the inner thigh problem (the body lift did not address the inner thigh just the outer... You can check out my blog if you would like to see or compare lose skin... www.gettingfit4life.com Best of Luck to you.....

Not 100, but I lost 75 lb in my initial loss and have lost about 6 more lbs of fat since (also gaining muscle weight, I'm only 62 lbs below my starting weight now but a good bit leaner than I was at my goal weight).

The best loose skin remedy there is period is to get very lean. Layers of fat are attached to the skin. A lot of this fat was deposited when you were at a much larger circumference, preventing your skin from shrinking. It isn't a problem with your skin, there is still fat in the way. True loose skin should be no thicker than the skin on the back of your hand when pinched. The absolute best remedy for loose skin is to go well beyond typical "goal weight". For both men and women this means readily visible abs. 8% or so BF for men, 17% or so BF for women. This will get virtually all of the excess fat off your skin. From there your skin should shrink quite rapidly (will make huge progress in a few months), and after a bit when you regain back up to more normal BF levels (assuming you don't want to maintain super leanness), your skin will be much more normal, the loose skin problem pretty much gone.

It will gradually over time go down even if you are at a higher BF, however the more fat you have left, the slower the process. At a higher BF, much more typical BF levels for people who hit their goal weight when trying to lose weight (high teens for men and mid-20's for women), this process can take many years.

I was sorta like a deflated balloon when I hit my goal weight, and was at about 13% BF. Within a few months that had mostly disappeared. But there were still remnants, and I dropped to 11% BF, and it has noticably declined again since. Later this spring I'm going to drop into the 8-9% area to eliminate all traces. I'm not in a huge rush though, the most visible effects were gone within 3-4 months of reaching my goal weight and holding that BF%.

It will gradually over time go down even if you are at a higher BF, however the more fat you have left, the slower the process. At a higher BF, much more typical BF levels for people who hit their goal weight when trying to lose weight (high teens for men and mid-20's for women), this process can take many years.

This fits me. It's taking a few years for me to loose the fat cells under my tummy (omentum....and sides). I'm in upper teens BF.

...what Waldo said.