"Doug Freyburger" wrote in message
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A recent thread on ASD asked why losing faster isn't better. Here's
yet another reason why - Lose slowly enough and your skin should be
able to shrink as your stored fat does. Lose too fast and you could
end up with extra skin.

Usually skin is elastic enough to adapt to a new configuration if it is ever
going to. I suspect the main point of losing slowly is that you usually do
that through a reasonnable diet, not a crash one. Thus, you are less likely
to suffer from nutritional deficiencies. The skin is very sensitive to lack
of vitamins and proper essential fatty acids. Especially during a diet,
where you're asking your skin to do some extra work to shrink to your new
body configuration. Losing weight very quickly through a powder diet with no
fats and bad quality proteins and low quality vitamins *is* going to hurt
your skin. Especially if you add dehydratation to that, which is common in
many diets...