loose skin from weight loss

Weight training has made the biggest difference for me. I met a lady who lost 100 pounds in about a year but she didn't really do any exercise besides walking and she had a crazy large amount of loose skin. Toning up, strength exercises make a big, big difference. Planks and squats, pushups, good old fashioned calisthenics.

From what I've gathered from research... it depends on a variety of factors. Age, genetics, time, and skin condition.

Strength training seems to help to an extent.
Hydration (inside out out) seems to help to an extent(LOTS of moisturizer).
The younger you are the more likely for your skin to 'snap' back.
If it's a LOT of weight loss, it can take some time for it to happen.

Some peoples skin never seems to snap back, some people have no trouble.

A wait and see game, which kind of stinks. It worries me as well, working so hard for results and you wind up looking great in clothes but like a melted candle out of them......

I lost 57lb in the past year and have had 2 kids. All I did for the first year was cardio and change my eating habits. I have no loose skin around my stomach and I can see abs which is something I am very proud of. i went from 212 to currently at 155. i'm now starting toning because while i dont have lose skin, i would like to have a little more sculpt to how i look and lose maybe another 15lb or so. Good luck!

Luckily, you're a man and all you have to do is eat enough protein while losing so you retain the muscle you have and lift weights to build so that loose skin fills in with more muscle.

I've seen this question many times. From what I've seen I think it is genetic. I've seen 100 pounds lost with minimal loose skin and I've seen 30 pound loss with excessive loose skin. I've seen similar antithetic skin results with weight loss rates.

So for me I lost it rapidly (80 lbs in 5 months/about 1/3rd of me) and had just a touch of loose skin in the love handle area. Lucky I guess.

To avoid loose skin lose weight slowly, that's the only suggestion that i can give.

What's enough protein

One gram of protein per pound of ideal body weight is what I aim for daily. I plan on maintaining weight at around 200 lbs. So I eat a minimum of 200 grams of protein per day.

The amount of loose skin you will have depends on 4 factors: How much you lose, how long you've been quite overweight , how much it was concentrated in one place and how elastic your skin is. The elastic skin part is governed mostly by genetics and age.

All of the solutions folks generally propose are myths: Losing slower doesn't help (if you lose quickly, the skin may bounce back a little after you've lost while if you lose slowly it bounces back the same amount during loss, but it's not because the bouncing back takes longer with fast loss it's because with slow loss the losing takes longer). No cream, lotion, potion or supplement has been shown to help. Either you'll have it or you won't.

One thing does help the APPEARANCE of loose skin and that's lifting. It doesn't affect the skin itself, it just fills back out the empty spaces where the fat was somewhat. Again, how much this will help depends on how much you had to lose.

With 184 lbs lost, I have sharpei arms and legs because that's where I carried my weight. I do have a little loose skin on my belly, but not the much dreaded apron that a lot of folks who lose this much weight get.

My personal opinion is that genetics play the biggest factor. Ive lost 105 lbs just from eating right and walking. My loose skin isnt bad at all, just a bit on my upper inner thighs.