Any big lads? 300lb+

Loose skin seems to be a crap shoot. I started about about 345 and am now down to 232. I've got a bout 40 pounds to go. I lost this weight slowly over a two year period. So far, no loose skin as far as I can tell but won't know for certain until I drop the rest of my weight.

330, down to 201 as of this morning. I doubt this stomach is going to spring back to perfect shape, but I'm ok with that. Not being sweaty and tired walking for 30 minutes, shopping at normal clothes stores, not worrying about fitting into a restaurant booth, feeling better than I have in 10 years...all are worth having some wrinkly skin.

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started @ 432lbs almost this time last year and currently 245lbs.

Damn! You are awesome!

Started at 290, now down to ~240. Feel a lot better, and have more energy as a whole.

I went from about 305 max down to 175 now and I have a fair amount of loose skin but that is to be expected as I did this almost all with cardio and no weight work. I am going to be working on that side more now that I have gotten into my target zone and hopefully some of this will clear up, but if not I am not all that phased by it. I figure it took me 40+ years to get to where I was, if it takes me a good 5 years to get to where I need to go that is fine. If it takes 40 years oh well, we pay for the mistakes of our youth :happy:

You're only 28 meaning that there is a lot of elasticity still in your makeup. Most of you should go back into shape. The older you get the less it will return to normal. Good luck.

I was around 330lb when I started and I'm now down to 178(ish). I didn't really notice any loose skin until I got under about 210lb but it is a bit frustrating. I have it around my belly, the inside of the top of my thighs and my bum cheeks. There's also a little looseness on my back but that's not noticeable, I'm just aware of it as I roll over at night.

At my age and lack of skin elasticity, it's to be expected really.

I started at 330, today i was at 302, still pretty fat but i like all the stories here. I just want to get at 250, i think that loose,skin wont be an issue at that weight

Well maybe this will help you maybe it wont.



In the top pic I had already lost about 40 lbs and as you can see in the bottom pic I am a total and absolute failure. I failed so bad in every way. Maybe I hit all my weight lifting goals and diet goals 5 or 6 days during the whole year and few months it took me. I would eat to little some days or to much others and looking at all the other people and how they did it, my god I did everything all wrong.


This is another pic of how bad I failed to build any muscle. All the gurus on here will tell you how you cant lose fat and build muscle at the same time. I should have listened to them. Oh boy do I have egg on my face, I should have listened to them, I feel so bad now. I would be so much farther ahead if I would have just taken their advice. Just look at my tiny arms, do I even lift!


Also because I should have taken longer then a year and a half to lose the weight, didn't drink a single drop of water or lift any weights at all, I ended up with lose skin. Oh no, I am sure it had nothing at all to do with the fact I have been overweight from about the 4th grade, and over 100 lbs overweight almost my whole adult life. No no no, it came from the fact I didn't listen to the great advice from random people on the internet, telling me I should drink water.


This is a pic of me from a few days ago being the only thing I know how to be, a total failure. Now every so often people will tell me how great I have done but I don't let that fool me for one second. Not when everyone on the other parts of this forum will always tell me how badly I have done.

So my advice to you is, don't ever try and live up to what others expectations of you are, because if you do you will always fail to meet them. I wont lie sometimes it can be real hard, having put in all the work, not gotten the results you were hoping for, and then have others throw it in your face because of their hangups. Success is something you are going to have to achieve on your own terms, you shouldn't let little things like some extra skin keep you from it. Yes the journey will be a tough one but I wouldn't trade mine because in the end it wasn't about some numbers on a scale but I became a better person for it.

Well maybe this will help you maybe it wont.



In the top pic I had already lost about 40 lbs and as you can see in the bottom pic I am a total and absolute failure. I failed so bad in every way. Maybe I hit all my weight lifting goals and diet goals 5 or 6 days during the whole year and few months it took me. I would eat to little some days or to much others and looking at all the other people and how they did it, my god I did everything all wrong.


This is another pic of how bad I failed to build any muscle. All the gurus on here will tell you how you cant lose fat and build muscle at the same time. I should have listened to them. Oh boy do I have egg on my face, I should have listened to them, I feel so bad now. I would be so much farther ahead if I would have just taken their advice. Just look at my tiny arms, do I even lift!


Also because I should have taken longer then a year and a half to lose the weight, didn't drink a single drop of water or lift any weights at all, I ended up with lose skin. Oh no, I am sure it had nothing at all to do with the fact I have been overweight from about the 4th grade, and over 100 lbs overweight almost my whole adult life. No no no, it came from the fact I didn't listen to the great advice from random people on the internet, telling me I should drink water.


This is a pic of me from a few days ago being the only thing I know how to be, a total failure. Now every so often people will tell me how great I have done but I don't let that fool me for one second. Not when everyone on the other parts of this forum will always tell me how badly I have done.

So my advice to you is, don't ever try and live up to what others expectations of you are, because if you do you will always fail to meet them. I wont lie sometimes it can be real hard, having put in all the work, not gotten the results you were hoping for, and then have others throw it in your face because of their hangups. Success is something you are going to have to achieve on your own terms, you shouldn't let little things like some extra skin keep you from it. Yes the journey will be a tough one but I wouldn't trade mine because in the end it wasn't about some numbers on a scale but I became a better person for it.

Sexy!!!!! :flowerforyou: :blushing: you are one beautiful man! Amazing job!

I am not a lad but I started at 400 plus and am down to 250. THere is lose skin for me but no where what I thought it would be and I will take it any day over what I was As far as back pain I used to have it now I don't

I'm interested in seeing some successful transformations from some big guys, I started at just under 300lb myself although at my heaviest I was probably closer to 320lbs. The thing that scares me most about losing weight is being left with lots of extra skin which I can't afford to have removed.

I've got loose skin on my chest, stomach and legs--some on my arms too. It's a fair trade-off for a 250 pound loss. As I slowly introduce resistance training I'll get it to a minimum.

Another question for you big guys, did you suffer with back pain? I have awful backache right now which prevents me from standing or sitting for extended periods without extreme pain. I was wondering how much the weight loss helped reduce your aches and pains?

Used to. Aside from eating too much and moving too little, in my early 20's I messed up my back pretty bad from a nasty fall. Sitting and laying down I had no problems but any kind of moving hurt. Nothing unbearable that required meds but it just hurt. So I avoided physical activity when I could. I was like this for most of my 20's. When I began at 29 it sucked. It really, really sucked. Walking 1 mile would take me a little over 1 hr to complete because of the soreness I felt and needing to sit down and rest. My doctor reassured me it would get better and as I dropped the weight and became more active, it did. After losing a little over 110 lbs the aches and pain I had went away. Hasn't returned since.