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Old January 5th, 2004, 02:55 AM
jumbles
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Default Is saggy/extra skin inevitable?

I'm getting ready to lose a chunk of weight, about 50-65 lbs (notice the
positive attitude)--will likely ease into Atkins after establishing an
exercise routine over 2-3 weeks and slowly weeding out sweets to make
induction easier (this worked for me in the past--but I fell off the
exercise wagon a year later and gained back 15 lbs). Anyway, one thing
that scares me is losing the weight and then having excess skin which
will not go away. Am I wrong that not everyone will be left with huge
flaps--I know some people who have lost 50, 60, 70 lbs and didn't have
excess flaps (or so they say). So can it be avoided??? I realize
some/most of it has to do with skin elasticity, but come on folks, any
of you "big losers" out there who didn't have to follow-up with cosmetic
surgery to remove the skin?? I don't have a problem with cosmetic
surgery and might have the boobs lifted if they are too saggy
afterwards, but I just dread the other.

Will post stats when I actually start....in about 2 weeks.

jumbles

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Old January 5th, 2004, 03:11 AM
Andrea Bostrom
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Default Is saggy/extra skin inevitable?

Try taking fish oil capsules and biotin --- don't know about the saggy
skin but both will do wonders for your hair and general skin condition (but
beware the fish oil burps!).

Andrea

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Old January 5th, 2004, 03:48 AM
Robyn Rosenthal
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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
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Old January 5th, 2004, 03:53 AM
Cyndi
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Default Is saggy/extra skin inevitable?

What types of exercise have you done to help tighten your belly? I will do
them!!!



"Robyn Rosenthal" wrote in message
...
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



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Old January 5th, 2004, 04:10 AM
Sprgtime
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Default Is saggy/extra skin inevitable? ----> No

Okay, I am answering the question about saggy/extra skin inevitable as a
"No"

Unfortunately, I don't really have any hidden wisdom to share.

Am I wrong that not everyone will be left with huge
flaps--I know some people who have lost 50, 60, 70 lbs and didn't have
excess flaps (or so they say). So can it be avoided???


It must be avoidable, because... the first year I was married, my husband
lost 70 pounds.
He has absolutely NO flappy skin. The only place we noticed were his
elbows were really stretchy for a little while... if he would pull on his
elbow skin, you could stretch it wayyy out, but that somehow shrunk back
with time because he looks completely normal everywhere. And very cute.

During that year, he did NO exercise (well, as little as a newlywed can get
away with, hee hee)
He worked at a desk computer job, sitting all day, would come home and watch
tv / sit at the computer for the majority of the time left. The most
walking he did was the 4 porch steps you have to take to get up to our
house.

So maybe he was blessed with great elasticity, I don't know. I'm still a
little jealous that he was able to lose 70 lbs without any effort on his
part, although I'm happy I get to enjoy the end results.

So, my point is, obviously not everybody ends up with baggy skin.
Oh, and his stats... he was 28, his start weight was 300, after a year he
was 230. During the year after the weight loss his skin really
toned/tightened for some unknown reason. He is now (4 years later) 220, and
we are both starting Atkins to slim down.

Good luck!

Spring


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Old January 5th, 2004, 04:20 AM
Cyndi
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Default Is saggy/extra skin inevitable? ----> No

If anything, the elbow skin pulling sounds sorta fun! LOL


"Sprgtime" wrote in message
news
Okay, I am answering the question about saggy/extra skin inevitable as a
"No"

Unfortunately, I don't really have any hidden wisdom to share.

Am I wrong that not everyone will be left with huge
flaps--I know some people who have lost 50, 60, 70 lbs and didn't have
excess flaps (or so they say). So can it be avoided???


It must be avoidable, because... the first year I was married, my husband
lost 70 pounds.
He has absolutely NO flappy skin. The only place we noticed were his
elbows were really stretchy for a little while... if he would pull on his
elbow skin, you could stretch it wayyy out, but that somehow shrunk back
with time because he looks completely normal everywhere. And very cute.


During that year, he did NO exercise (well, as little as a newlywed can

get
away with, hee hee)
He worked at a desk computer job, sitting all day, would come home and

watch
tv / sit at the computer for the majority of the time left. The most
walking he did was the 4 porch steps you have to take to get up to our
house.

So maybe he was blessed with great elasticity, I don't know. I'm still a
little jealous that he was able to lose 70 lbs without any effort on his
part, although I'm happy I get to enjoy the end results.

So, my point is, obviously not everybody ends up with baggy skin.
Oh, and his stats... he was 28, his start weight was 300, after a year he
was 230. During the year after the weight loss his skin really
toned/tightened for some unknown reason. He is now (4 years later) 220,

and
we are both starting Atkins to slim down.

Good luck!

Spring




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Old January 5th, 2004, 12:12 PM
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!
--
Jean B.
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Old January 5th, 2004, 03:22 PM
Beemie
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your stomach exercises do not sound stupid, I do that at every red light !


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Old January 5th, 2004, 03:53 PM
Taffy Stoker
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On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 02:51:38 GMT, "Cyndi" wrote:

. I will not have any time of surgery to
remove it if I do end up with a great big fold under my belly


I would in a heartbeat. :-)
 




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