Worries about loose skin after drastic weight loss?

according to the weight loss doctor I talk to I am young enough that if I do tone training and keep my skin slathered in Vitamin E lotion then It shouldnt leave stretchmarks to bad and My skin should snap back. He said its kinda like a rubber band and the longer its stretched out the less likely it is to some back to size. I have not lost all of mine but so far I don't have a whole lot of loose skin because I have been doing a lot of Core training to keep firm while I loose hope this helps maybe someone has actual experience with this!

I lost 100 pounds in 9 months back when I was 28 and you would have never known I was 235 pounds at one time. Work out, drink lots of water and you shouldn't have any problems.

I will say this, unfortunately I gained it back, lost it doing atkins with NO working out and I look like a deflated balloon, saggy!

Gained it back and I'm on my 3rd time around, working out even more than I did when I was 28, hoping that it won't be saggy but I am 44 now and well, we will see. I have a feeling it's going to be a little saggy.

Good luck! Once you do all this hard work, all I can say is don't gain it back like I did. It's not worth the year or more of effort you are putting into this for a freaking doughnut or blizzard or whatever crap food you end up craving.

Lose weight slowly, drink a lot of water, work out, take care of your skin moisturizing it and take some supplements.


Good luck.

He described the muscle as a bonding agent that keeps the skin attached to the body - so the more you have, the less the skin will hang. The less actual fat you have, the less space between your skin and your muscles.

This is what I heard on an HBO documentary, too! I'm glad to see someone else post this because in all the posts I've read on here about the importance of building muscle to prevent loose skin, it's never been explained that way.

There is a lot that has to do with loose skin, age, how much of a loss you have, genetic genes, how quickly you lose it.

I've lost 130 lbs, I took it slow, I wasn't steady at it though. I could have probably lost the full 130 lbs in a year but 70 of those pounds were lost in pregnancy, 25.5 lbs I gained after having her. But I've lost it all over the course of nearly 2 years. The only loose skin I have is the pregnancy mommy pooch. That pouch at the bottom that a lot of women have a tummy tuck to remove, yeah that. I don't want surgery so I am trying hard to get rid of it, I know I can get rid of it, it's all starting to tighten up a little at a time it's taken a long time but it's getting there.

I think it depends on a lot of factors. Genetics, age, etc...

For me personally, I do have saggy skin in certain places- under my arms by my armpits, my upper thighs, my lower belly (although I have fat there to lose too, before I can really tell how much is skin.) Generally all the places my stretchmarks are the worst, I am having trouble tightening. (my stomach is the worst, I have some stretch marks that are an inch wide above my pelvis, and the ones on my belly go all the way around my love handles evenly spaced one finger width apart.) However, strength training is definitely helping and although the skin still has that wrinkly look, my inner thighs and under my arms are firming up and not quite as saggy (I have built those muscles up more so I guess they are filling the skin in now?) Also, my lower belly is getting better day by day and I am losing the fat there, too. So I got to my goal weight over a year ago, and have still been unhappy due to the way these body parts look, now I am wishing I had done the strength training earlier-- but better late than never! (I lost the weight over approximately year and a half time frame.

Losing the weight slowly and lifting weights will help but we just never know until we actually lose the weight. I've been as high as 215 and I'm 172 now. My tummy is still a little iffy because of stretch marks. Definitely no reason to stop working on losing weight and getting fit, though. My husband has no complaints about how things are changing. He has nothing but compliments for me.

i started at a recorded 223.. i must have been more because i bought a scale about two weeks after beginning to workout, so i never got my first initial weight.. but i am about 138 right now. i have SOME lose skin on my inner thighs and belly.. more so my belly is what bothers me.. its not as bad if im not holding my core in, THATS what i notice it and hate it so much.. but if i relax my belly, the skin is fine.. if i suck in, all lower belly around my belly button, i look like i've had a baby.. and i havent. my moms carried two babies and my belly looks like hers when i hold it in. i havent had a baby, but ive had 85 extra lbs, so its bound to happen i guess? but im hoping as i begin to lift heavier weights, the muscle under the skin will help fill it out

The old lady speaks. . . .I've lost 58 pounds,and since I'm 63 I ended up with saggybaggy skin. I have to wear sleeves to cover my upper arms, my thighs are pretty wrinkled, my stomach is wrinkled and my boobs -- well, never mind. I'm lifting heavy things to try to firm back up but at my age it may not happen. I figure I'm healthier anyway. My darling husband thinks I'm the sexiest thing ever! (He doesn't see what I see.)

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It's possible you'll snap back, it's equally possible that you won't.


Either way, it's better to have loose skin than fat, as loose skin isn't going to reduce your lifespan and activities/quality of life in the same way.


Personally, I've got some bits that got a bit loose and are already firming up, and some that I suspect will always be with me.

Whatever. It's not I didn't do it to myself, so I try to think of it in the same way as the scar on my leg gained from falling through glass, or the wonky broken finger that wasn't set properly, or the scar on my hand from rockclimbing on a cliff overhanging the sea with waves crashing over me. Or the thick stretchmarks on my side from my first child. It's part of my life story.

I like you.

My stretch marks are not from having children or from gaining weight quickly, unless you count puberty. They showed up at puberty and I figure I'll have them the rest of my life. I kind of like them because I like my big hips and thighs. That said, after losing weight, my boobs are saggier than I'd like them - but I would never go back! SO still likes them and they still look good with a good push-up bra ;-)

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Thank you!