Is saggy/extra skin inevitable?

"FOB" wrote in
gy.com:

Home hair coloring is very easy these days.

FOB, A Garnier Nutrisse Pomegranate

I don't mean you can't color it. I suppose I was thinking of my 79-year-
old mother, who has used Clairol for as long as I can remember, and looks
unbelievably silly with Honey Blonde hair around her wrinkled, wizened
face.

To me, colored hair just doesn't look right.

Chakolate

Chakolate wrote:

(Robyn Rosenthal) wrote in
:

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


Don't hide it - that never works. Flaunt it!

amen. i'm not hiding mine ... and i'm not cutting it, either. i wanna
look like emmylou harris when i grow up.

Well, I'm only 68, think it looks pretty good.
http://pic2.picturetrail.com/VOL39/1...7/42030295.jpg

In .4,
Chakolate stated
| "FOB" wrote in
| gy.com:
|
|| Home hair coloring is very easy these days.
||
|| FOB, A Garnier Nutrisse Pomegranate
|
| I don't mean you can't color it. I suppose I was thinking of my
| 79-year- old mother, who has used Clairol for as long as I can
| remember, and looks unbelievably silly with Honey Blonde hair around
| her wrinkled, wizened face.
|
| To me, colored hair just doesn't look right.
|
| Chakolate

I've lost 125 pounds off my 5'4" frame and I have terrible sagging skin on
my tummy, thighs and I won't get into the details -- however if the "pinch
test" were really valid for everyone I shouldn't have any --- just my
experience.

I jokingly tell my hubby I'm really a Shari pei (wrinkle dog).

My health insurance has agreed to pay for all my reconstructive surgeries
(tummy tuck, thighplasty and breast reconstruction) --- now if I can only
build up the nerve to go through with it -- hopefully sometime this year...

~K

Low carbing with Hubby 01/05/04

The scales:
~K 265/148/130 (had WLS 03/05/02)
~J 238/238/200

My website:



I remember reading somewhere that you can test your skin elasticity by
pinching the back of your hand. If the skin snaps right back, then
you have good elasticity, and therefore less likelihood of having
baggy skin. I don't know how scientific this is. I've lost 40ish
pounds with another 20 or 30 to go, and I have no saggy skin yet.


Could you define 'right back' in terms of seconds? Mine goes back in less
that one second, but it hardly snaps back. And do you mean when your hand
is flat, or closed?

Chakolate

--
Hear and you forget; see and you remember; do and you understand.
--Confucius

~K wrote:

I've lost 125 pounds off my 5'4" frame and I have terrible sagging skin on
my tummy, thighs and I won't get into the details -- however if the "pinch
test" were really valid for everyone I shouldn't have any --- just my
experience.

I jokingly tell my hubby I'm really a Shari pei (wrinkle dog).

My health insurance has agreed to pay for all my reconstructive surgeries
(tummy tuck, thighplasty and breast reconstruction) --- now if I can only
build up the nerve to go through with it -- hopefully sometime this year...

~K

Low carbing with Hubby 01/05/04

The scales:
~K 265/148/130 (had WLS 03/05/02)
~J 238/238/200

My website:

~K, your letter to your insurance company made me cry. congratulations
on your success. you look wonderful.

Sorry to have made you cry queen -- it was just an honest letter from the
heart & soul...


--
~K

Low carbing with Hubby 01/05/04

The scales:
~K 265/148/130 (had WLS 03/05/02)
~J 238/238/200

My website:

"The Queen of Cans and Jars" wrote in message
.. .
~K wrote:

I've lost 125 pounds off my 5'4" frame and I have terrible sagging skin
on
my tummy, thighs and I won't get into the details -- however if the
"pinch
test" were really valid for everyone I shouldn't have any --- just my
experience.

I jokingly tell my hubby I'm really a Shari pei (wrinkle dog).

My health insurance has agreed to pay for all my reconstructive
surgeries
(tummy tuck, thighplasty and breast reconstruction) --- now if I can
only
build up the nerve to go through with it -- hopefully sometime this
year...

~K

Low carbing with Hubby 01/05/04

The scales:
~K 265/148/130 (had WLS 03/05/02)
~J 238/238/200

My website:

~K, your letter to your insurance company made me cry. congratulations
on your success. you look wonderful.

FOB wrote:
Well, I'm only 68, think it looks pretty good.
http://pic2.picturetrail.com/VOL39/1...7/42030295.jpg

In .4,
Chakolate stated
| "FOB" wrote in
| gy.com:
|
|| Home hair coloring is very easy these days.
||
|| FOB, A Garnier Nutrisse Pomegranate
|
|

You are not 68...I bet you add 15+ years to your real age so people will
tell you how great you look! ;-)

Seriously, though, you look great. I'm with you, I'll probably never
stop coloring my hair. Some people may not like the way I look, but who
cares?

Tracy in ID

Thank you, but I am telling the truth. I always had oily skin, was still
going to the dermatologist for acne in my 30s. He told me that the upside
was that I wouldn't get wrinkles as fast as those with dry skin. It's only
been about ten years since I stopped using acne soap. Now I have to use
moisturizer, particularly in the winter, and I have a hard time remembering
to do it all the time. I was down 30 lbs in that picture, have lost 6 more
now and have a long way to go so the skin will probably get wrinklier as it
loses the underlying fat but I have been surprised at how much I have lost
in the double chin area.

I agree with who cares, you have to like what you see in the mirror. I
think actual looks influence others less than the confidence that you
project.

In ,
Tracy stated
|
| You are not 68...I bet you add 15+ years to your real age so people
| will tell you how great you look! ;-)
|
| Seriously, though, you look great. I'm with you, I'll probably never
| stop coloring my hair. Some people may not like the way I look, but
| who cares?
|
| Tracy in ID

On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 17:15:17 GMT, Luna
wrote:


True. It seems to vary from person to person though. My sister has saggy
wrinkly skin on her tummy after two pregnancies, my cousin doesn't. Neither
one of them had a C-section though. I hope I AM a mom someday, I would
gladly accept saggy skin and (more) stretchmarks in exchange for the
priviledge of being a mom. I'm almost out of time though, so I may just
have to settle for a cat.

You're still young enough and I have a friend who just had a perfectly
healthy daughter at the age of 41.

In article ,
Taffy Stoker wrote:

On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 17:15:17 GMT, Luna
wrote:


True. It seems to vary from person to person though. My sister has saggy
wrinkly skin on her tummy after two pregnancies, my cousin doesn't. Neither
one of them had a C-section though. I hope I AM a mom someday, I would
gladly accept saggy skin and (more) stretchmarks in exchange for the
priviledge of being a mom. I'm almost out of time though, so I may just
have to settle for a cat.

You're still young enough and I have a friend who just had a perfectly
healthy daughter at the age of 41.


Cool. I don't think that's the norm though, but good for her! I just
think of myself as running out of time because I'm not dating anyone right
now, and I'd want to date someone for at least 2 years before getting
married, and then be married at least 2 more years before having a baby.
And I've heard that if you're a woman and you're not married by age 30 then
statistically, you probably won't get married. I'm 28, so . . . oh well.

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