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Old January 5th, 2004, 11:12 AM
Jean B.
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Default Is saggy/extra skin inevitable?

Robyn Rosenthal wrote:

I can't tell you what will work for you, but I can tell you what worked for me.

EXERCISE, eating good fats (lots of extra virgin olive oil and sufficient
protein and drinking lots of water.

I lost approx 1/3 of my bodyweight in about a year and have less saggy skin
than I had before the weight loss.

I gained a lot of weight very fast when I was pregnant with my son and had
GHASTLY, disfiguring stretchmarks and saggy skin on my belly.

My son is 23, so I had this nasty baggy skin and stretch marks for a long
time

And two different plastic surgeons told me that my overall skin-tone and
elasticity was so bad that they would not touch the project because it would
leave such ugly scars that I wouldn't be happy with the results.

My stomach is not bikini-worthy (yet) but the wrinky skin is about 99% smoothed
out and the stretchmarks have faded enough to be invisible unless you are
looking for them.

Thanks to LC, the sags that were there when my waist was 8" larger are gone.

I do have a little boob sag, but it is about the same as it was before the
weight loss.

Olive oil might not be the "fountain of youth" for everyone, but all of those
little wrinkles that I used to have on my face & my neck are gone and no one
(except my boyfriend) believes that I didn't have any "work" done on my face.

Now, if we could find something other than bleach to hide the gray hair......

Robyn


How old are you, Robyn? I am almost 54. (I also spent ca 10
years sunbathing in my foolish teens and early 20s.) My skin,
which looked young, suddenly looks very old. I hate it!
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Jean B.