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Loose skin..
anabanana93277
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Does anyone have any suggestions on how to tone loose skin after loosing 90lbs? (Arms,lower belly and thighs) I go to the gym 5 days a week but nothing...
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I have no suggestions, but fantastic job! I think you look gorgeous regardless.4
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I'm afraid not
I'm using a firming cream along with the toning exercises... It's cocoa butter and makes me want to eat myself! 
It's not doing anything 2 -
Well done
I have the same problem. I was told by a plastic surgeon that I would need surgery because my skin lost elasticity and it wont tighten by itself. 1 -
What loose skin? You look amazing!2
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Add me as a friend. I do know body scrubs and message work. Keep skin moisturized0
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How do I add you?0
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Congrats to you. I lost over 80 pounds as well. Strength training and building muscle is the best suggestion for toning and firming loose skin. I’d take the excess skin any day to being overweight. I was very fortunate to just some in the abdomen area only. Suggestions that may help would be to increase water intake, weight resistance and strength training and moisturize. Squats and lunges and hydrants may help with lower areas. Planks and core exercises and the vacuum exercise which is an exercise which involves contracting some internal abdominal muscles, primarily the transverse abdominal muscles may help. 5
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The other thing I've heard for dealing with the loose skin is, and we hear it all the time for weight loss, patience. It may not be as elastic on the return as it was on the stretch.
I've found (only 40 pounds so far):
A. Weight work to replace mass works great
B. Moisturizer to support elasticity
C. Support of the loose skin so it doesn't end up stretching more but becomes superfluous to the coverage equation.
Then let time and the fantastic organ that is your skin work it. If there is just too much for time and patience to result in any improvement before your patience runs out, consider surgery. If your weight loss was faster, the skin doesn't have as much time to retract. (My modest weight loss so far is over about 2 years)2 -
It took me a year to lose the weight0
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Sadly, you can't get rid of loose skin. You can either fill it up with muscle or get a doctor to cut it off. Otherwise, drink lots of water to help it stay elastic and less wrinkly.4
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At my age, I did all this without surgery I don't really want to have surgery....Thank You! So much1
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I was informed by a trainer that some of the loose skin still contains stubborn fat that will eventually break down but my doctor told me some if it is genetics, age and what your body has been through during the past years - all of which is history and pretty unchangeable. I feel the same as you about surgery but a friend of mine had a tummy tuck last year and WOW. She was never overweight but after three kids .... Anyway after witnessing her experience I may rethink. Good luck on your journey. Your successes are an inspiration1
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It took about 2 years for my belly skin to tighten up after losing weight - and I lost way less than you...so, give it time, it might continue to improve some...I used coconut oil and some arbonne cream that seemed to help...let me dig up the name for you...arbonne RE9 firming body cream...it seemed to help for about 30 days, like I could see real improvement in that time period based on before/after photos...after that time it didn't seem to do much...I think a small jar was $20 on ebay, and a little goes a long way...1
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Congrats on your loss! You look amazing!1
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Thank You!1
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Loose skin retracts on it's own and how much will depend on age, genetics, how long one was overweight before losing it, and elasticity.
There's not much one can do if it hasn't retracted after a couple of years of waiting. There are NO CREAMS, TOPICALS, WRAPS, MASSAGES, DRY BRUSHING, etc. that affect reducing skin. You can TRY to fill out a little of it by adding more muscle or regain the weight (of course not desireable). The ONLY way after is to do it by having skin removal surgery or accept you will have loose skin.
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Unfortunately, spot exercising areas does nothing to the skin to tighten it.michellesz wrote: »Congrats to you. I lost over 80 pounds as well. Strength training and building muscle is the best suggestion for toning and firming loose skin. I’d take the excess skin any day to being overweight. I was very fortunate to just some in the abdomen area only. Suggestions that may help would be to increase water intake, weight resistance and strength training and moisturize. Squats and lunges and hydrants may help with lower areas. Planks and core exercises and the vacuum exercise which is an exercise which involves contracting some internal abdominal muscles, primarily the transverse abdominal muscles may help.
A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
IDEA Fitness member
Kickboxing Certified Instructor
Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition
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Unfortunately, spot exercising areas does nothing to the skin to tighten it.
A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
IDEA Fitness member
Kickboxing Certified Instructor
Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition
But it might help the appearance if loose skin by tightening up some muscle behind it, I'd think.1 -
Would the moisturizing and stuff help prevent a bit if I'm at the BEGINNING of my 100+ pound weight loss, instead of waiting until I have a big deflated skin sack?1
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No idea. I keep hearing surgery's the only way. I've been moisturizing with coconut oil. Not sure if it's helping Lol.1
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Now wondering why I am bothering , fed up of the loose flabby skin and wrinkles after 18kg loss , let alone the rest that will come with the next 18 kg loss - how depressing
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dealing with the skin sag already.. ugh but still determined to keep losing.. best sag than morbidly obese ...0
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I lost over 100 lbs and had loose skin. Over the years I tried laser tightening, creams, lotions, ice bath (not fun), waste tightener, etc to no avail. Depending on how bad your loose skin is, there is nothing out there that will fix the elasticity of loose skin if it's been overstretched for too long other than surgery.
There's two current surgeries that doctors are using for loose skin depending on your circumstance.- Panniculectomy: A surgery that removes loose/excess skin and fat from the lower stomach but no repairing of the abdominals.
- Abdominoplasty: Also known as a "tummy tuck" removes loose/excess skin and fat, usually a larger incision and also sutures the abdominal muscles back to the wall and repairs them from excess weight.
I decided to go for the abdominoplasty (tummy tuck) with Dr modifications. It cost me $6.4k and I still have some minor skin but I'd do it again in a second. If I were to do it again, I'd also have them do my muffin tops because there's a little loose skin there.
There's a surgery website called RealSelf (http://www.realself.com/) where real people who have surgeries from specific doctors post their reviews, pictures and rating of the doctors. It's an invaluable site if you're considering elective surgery.
WARNING: The site contains some nudity with pictures of people posting their surgery pictures.
Not sure if that helps at all!
2 - Panniculectomy: A surgery that removes loose/excess skin and fat from the lower stomach but no repairing of the abdominals.
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anabanana93277 wrote: »It took me a year to lose the weight
And it might take another year for your skin to recover as much as it's going to. Even in my 50's I saw improvement in my loose skin a year after my initial weight loss.
Remember just like fat you can't exercise skin and you certainly aren't going to add back 90bs of muscle.
Exercise for the health benefits and also a good "frame" to hang your skin on...
To the greatest extent you are where you are where you are with all the factors that you can't now change: age, previous size, how blessed you are genetically with good skin.
Enjoy your success and remember your body continues to change and improve at maintenance, what you see now isn't the best you are going to be.2 -
Now wondering why I am bothering , fed up of the loose flabby skin and wrinkles after 18kg loss , let alone the rest that will come with the next 18 kg loss - how depressing
It certainly is a little disappointing but given the choice, I'd rather be a healthy optimal weight with loose skin than overweight with fat filled skin.
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I do have to say, I have started a “fit class” Full body conditioning class at the gym.. and have started seeing amazing results! It may not all go away..but in a year or so I hope most will...1
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Based on your pics, you don't have much to lose. Losing 100lbs or more leaves people with much more loose skin, than from just a 20lbs loss.anabanana93277 wrote: »I do have to say, I have started a “fit class” Full body conditioning class at the gym.. and have started seeing amazing results! It may not all go away..but in a year or so I hope most will...
A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
IDEA Fitness member
Kickboxing Certified Instructor
Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition
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I am trying tone.ar this point...since I changed my “lifestyle “ and know I eat healthy...I got off the scale for now and started “toning”0
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projectsix wrote: »I lost over 100 lbs and had loose skin. Over the years I tried laser tightening, creams, lotions, ice bath (not fun), waste tightener, etc to no avail. Depending on how bad your loose skin is, there is nothing out there that will fix the elasticity of loose skin if it's been overstretched for too long other than surgery.
There's two current surgeries that doctors are using for loose skin depending on your circumstance.- Panniculectomy: A surgery that removes loose/excess skin and fat from the lower stomach but no repairing of the abdominals.
- Abdominoplasty: Also known as a "tummy tuck" removes loose/excess skin and fat, usually a larger incision and also sutures the abdominal muscles back to the wall and repairs them from excess weight.
I decided to go for the abdominoplasty (tummy tuck) with Dr modifications. It cost me $6.4k and I still have some minor skin but I'd do it again in a second. If I were to do it again, I'd also have them do my muffin tops because there's a little loose skin there.
There's a surgery website called RealSelf (http://www.realself.com/) where real people who have surgeries from specific doctors post their reviews, pictures and rating of the doctors. It's an invaluable site if you're considering elective surgery.
WARNING: The site contains some nudity with pictures of people posting their surgery pictures.
Not sure if that helps at all!
How did skin tightening go? Was it expensive and worth it by a bit? Did you ever try any abonne body cream?
1 - Panniculectomy: A surgery that removes loose/excess skin and fat from the lower stomach but no repairing of the abdominals.
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