Hello all
Ive got a question, I was 254 and now im about 177, and i have alot of loose skin at the bottom of my waist line, has any had this problem before? and does the skin go back in time?
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Thread: Loose Skin
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01-21-2012, 05:44 PM #1
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01-21-2012, 06:08 PM #2
It will snap back some over the course of the next six or so months. What you should do now (and should have been doing while losing the weight) is buy a scrub bush and scrub yourself fairly hard 2-4X a week in the shower in the areas with loose skin. This will remove the top layer of skin and then when you exit the shower rub a mixture of vitamin E oil and Extra Virgin Olive Oil on your skin. I did this while losing over 100 lbs and had no loose skin.
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01-21-2012, 06:42 PM #3
skin loses a lot of elasticity when we start getting older. Hopefully you're young enough where it will tighten back up over time. I have no experience with excessive tight skin, but know a lot of people who have tried a lot of remedies. Most with no success. So my best guess is that the topical solutions will do very little in helping your skin tighten up... I think it will mostly depend on your age and if your skin still hasn't lost its elasticity. My best guess is, you'll be fine. You weren't that heavy to begin with and 77 pounds is a lot, but it's not an insane amount. Usually people who can't get their skin to tighten have lost 100+ pounds. good luck.
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01-21-2012, 06:49 PM #4
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Having lost 100 lbs myself, I can relate to the loose skin. I didn't use any topicals or scrub the shti out of the skin. Over time it has slowly gone away while I continue to lift heavy. I guess the only "broscience" I bought into was to drink plenty of water and green tea. I can't say if that worked or not. So basically keep
lifting and wait it out and you should be ok judging from your AVI.
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01-21-2012, 07:40 PM #5
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01-21-2012, 07:48 PM #8
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Genetics will play the biggest role in determining if your skin will bounce back. Some extremely obese people can have perfect skin after losing significant weight, while others may experience sag with very modest weight loss.
Dermabrasion, lotions, vitamins etc may or may not help, but trying couldn't hurt.
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01-21-2012, 08:08 PM #9
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01-22-2012, 08:38 AM #10
I have the same problem. From my heaviest to my lightest, I lost 119 lbs. The loose skin isn't going away. My approach is trying to fill it up with muscle. I'm about 40 lbs heavier than I was at my lightest weight, and there is still some hanging skin around my gut.
It sucks working so hard and still looking like a chewed up piece of bubble gum when I take my shirt off. But it beats the heck out of being obese.Last edited by jdtemple; 01-24-2012 at 05:57 AM.
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01-22-2012, 03:10 PM #11
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01-23-2012, 03:09 AM #12
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01-23-2012, 05:40 AM #13
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01-23-2012, 05:43 AM #14
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01-23-2012, 06:58 AM #15
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Man, I totally and utterly relate to every damn word in that post.
I've got a load around my belly and back after losing 100lbs and I'm using an oil that women use after they've given birth and want to get rid of stretch marks. I figured the same thing as you though - that building muscle is going to be the best way to tighten it.
I'm gonna try green tea as well.
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01-25-2012, 10:13 AM #16
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