lose skin

I am almost at 150 pound lost. I have done this in under a year with working out and clean eating. I have lose skin. But it is nothing that I worry about. I lift now and do weights and understand that it is just part of the process. I would probably be at my goal weight without the skin. But it is a badge of honor to me. I see it changing as I am doing more weights. Arms are hard keep lifting and working on it. It will come in time. Like I have always told people. I would rather be healthy with flabby arms then unhealthy with flabby arms.

do you need to lose "a lot" of weight? i've lost just over 70 pounds so far, and yes - i have loose skin. but there are only 2 options:

1. stay very overweight with all the related health problems, clothing not fitting, etc, but have tight skin
or
2. lose weight and feel much better and look better in clothes but have loose skin.

those being my only options, i chose 2. some of the extra skin will go away with time, btw.

If you are young there is hope for you. I got really really fat when I was 36 and lost the weight fast-- over 80 pounds, and had no loose skin. It snapped back. Unfortunately, after menopause, skin becomes thin and loses elasticity. I went on a diet and lost 27 pounds because menopause redistributed my "normal" weight to where I suddenly had a fat waist. And I ended up with alarming wrinkled upper arms, seersucker puckering on my midsection, and worst of all the butt wrinkles. So I gained some weight, hoping my skin had shrunk enough to smooth out the wrinkles. And it worked on my arms but not my butt. So I plan to lose some weight and see what happens to my arms this time. Good luck to you.