To get rid of any loose skin you have…

In 2003 I had gastric bypass and my starting weight was 320lbs. I am now 132lbs and do not have the surgery restriction any longer (since 2005 due to severe complications). However, I have had the tummy and thighs done to take off extra skin I had complications on the tummy surgery and had severe swelling and it stretched out my stomach some and my legs have fallen. They look so bad that I can not wear shorts and the skin just swings per say. I hate the way I look except when I am fully clothed in pants and of course at least a 3/4 sleeve length. I am 46 and need someone to tell me what I can do now if anything besides having more surgery. I know I should actually loose a few more pounds since I am 5"3.5 and my BMI is 23.2. Please help. Thanks in advance.

Jennifer

May 20, 2013

hello. i have alot of loose skin around my pectoral area a.k.a known as man boobs. i also have alot of it around my belly. in about a year i went from 285 down to 198 right now. I ran alot and work out alot and i am in track. It is very embarassing and im only 15 years old aroun 6"1 and i was wantting to know how i could like tighten them up or make it look not so saggy? is there a way to do this without surgery?

April 16, 2013

Heyy, I'm Oisue. Okay let's see... I'm 15 and weigh around 80-85 pounds maybe less and yes I'm seriously overly skinny an under weight but I do eat alot and yet I can't gain anything but I do eat my daily servings of fruits and veggies. Oh and im around 5'1-5'2 in height and still growing. Okay so the problem is I'm really self conscious about the amount of excess skin under my chin, I know it's not fat because I can pull it out to about 1 and a half inches and that's also around my neck and I just started being self conscious about it when my friends said they have nice defined jaw lines with no excess skin and fat but I did... How can I get rid of the excess skin with out plastic surgery or if I even can? Please help! Thank you :)

March 11, 2013

Hi!
I am 5ft nothing and had weighed 160 lbs. Through diet and exercise I managed to get down to 110. I lost weight and inches everywhere except my stomach. My back has trimmed down but my belly is still huge, preventing me from wearing tight shirts, dresses, bathing suits.... I continue to do cardio 5 days a week, lift weights 3 days a week and throw in pirates (1-3 days whatever I can manage) I continue to diet but am getting nowhere. Any suggestions?

March 05, 2013

Adrian I really need your help... I lost about 80 pounds through diet alone and now im left with a body i hate more then the ome I had before. I'm 5"3 115 pounds but I look Like I'm 150 pounds...my thighs are the worst part they are so flabby and I can literally pull fat up and off my leg...everything is so loose and jiggles. People say I'm skinny but it's all crap, I know I'm skinny fat to the Max. I've had alot of plastic surgery thinking that it was loose skin because no one told me that I was losing all my muscle and turning into a flab blob..I honestly feel so hopeless at this point. I worked so hard to lose that weight and all I have to show for it is flab everywhere and the saggiest boobs you've ever seen on a 24 year old...Is exercise what will help or did i just ruin my body beyond repair?

February 16, 2013

hi, good morning adrian, im in a crisis problem right now. i feel my body is worse off than me being 12.5 stones almost 4months ago. i done some of the insanity workout and took acai berries supplements and totally changed my diet and am now 11stone or evn less, however my legs are slim but i carry all my weight still in my upper body especially my belly area i am basically a skinny- fat person. my belly constantly hangs over my jeans and i look so unhealthy with skinny bottom half and big flabby belly ( i wouldnt mind sending you a pic to see how bad it is). i really miss my curves so much but now my shape has gone so bad, ive lost my bottom and my hips and i now look like flatpack with a big flabby-belly (no shape). this has made me so insecure that i avoid going out much with friends and constantly wearing baggy clothes and tummy girdles at 25 years old which is so bad and i havent even had no kids yet. i would love to get my curves and confident back and loose this flabby belly and get toned again. unfortunately i know if i go on diet and use my treadmill ill loose more weight on my bottom half and look more terrible. please can i have advice on how to loose this belly fat and gain back weight via lean muscles instead of fat, so i can look more sexy and toned.

my sis recommends kettle training and weight classes but unsure how ill benefit from it.

i would really appreciate your help and advice.
nicola (crisis)

February 14, 2013

Hey,I had my second and last baby 3.5 months ago. My first pregnancy wrecked my body because I had to be on bedrest for three weeks and I had a since deficiency. My babies are exactly 2 years apart. They were c sections, too. My stomach looks sad, saggy, and angry. The stretch.arks are super red, dry, and flaky all the time even with me using rosemary olive oil and coconut oil twice a day. I cannot do surgery for a while because I breastfeed, but I'm looking into thermage instead.

I am currently 5'3" and I'm guessing 135-140(I'm a size 5/6 but my boobs are a very large 34ddd). I am a dancer, I dance five days a week, pilates every day, and hiit three to four days a week. I still have a bit of weight to lose and this is the most intense I've ever worked out ever. How long should I wait to see if my skin will look better after more toning and clean eating? Or should I be looking now to get this fixed around the time my daughter turns 6 months?

February 12, 2013

I have lost a lot of weight I still have saggy skin exercise everyday and just can't seem to tone it I know what else to do I try to save money and just can't have to feed my family in a bills don't know what surgery is so hot when people do I can and losing weight and you still don't feel good about yourself I don't forget about myself I want to feel great I lost all this weight and I still look good hello what is wake and I still have saggy skin on my stomach legs and butt and breast I looked everywhere for him and no one's around I pray everyday that I could help please is someone out there can help me please write me back thank you

February 05, 2013

5 years ago I was talked into doing a cleanse - I had never done one before.
I stayed on this for over 2 weeks and suffered light headedness. I then began to develop deep, severe stretch marks and eventually loose skin. Which hung from my stomach like a nearly empty stretched out bag ! When I lean forward - it is needless to say disgusting. My inner thighs are just as bad.
At the time of doing this cleanse I was a start weight of 170 lbs. I lost nearly 20 lbs on this cleanse - Clearly most of it was water, and lean muscle needed to support the subcotaneous fat. My skin wasn't able to retract and developed stretch marks very suddenly, from my belly button down, all over my hips, crotch groin and down to my inner thighs. All of the areas that we then affected by loose skin. Previous to this, I did not have any loose skin, or any stretch marks whatsoever on my stomach or legs.

While, I can feel that there is a significant amount of fat beneath some areas of this skin as I pinch it - Alot of it has also thinned out.

I regained weight as a result of pregnancy and am now 200 lbs. The thought of embarking on weight loss now is very petrifying because I fear getting loose skin again, or exacerbating the appearance of what I already have now which looks horrific.

I went to a plastic surgeon several years ago do discuss the loose skin, he wished for me to loose more weight before undergoing a procedure in order to have the best result possible.

Prior to getting pregnant - I was working with a personal trainer to develop lean muscle to hopefully tighten my stomach and thighs - to no real avail - But I realize now that I should have been doing more cardio at that time, for me to have potentially seen results in loose skin reduction.

I got very very few stretch marks during my pregnancy for my daughter, and surprisingly the skin retracted well - But is still loose from the previous condition of the skin - Which gave me some hope that despite the skin being stretch marked it may be able to retract some with weight loss ...

However the skin on my thighs seems very damaged, and I am concerned that with further weight loss that skin will not be able to retract !

I have read your article, as well as Ron Brown's "the myth of loose skin" and I have decided that I am going to embark on the weight loss journey and make an effort to acheive a low body fat percentage - If this does not make my loose skin look better, then I would at least be in the best shape possible in order to have it removed for the best surgical results.

This loose skin issue has been very distressing for me, as I am only 25 years old !!!

I would love to hear of someone who has actually had success in reducing some legitimate loose skin.

January 02, 2013

Thank you, this was very insightful. I was 260 I am now 230. I lost 30 lbs very quick by crash dieting. I got scared because I am very flabby in some areas. It's good to know I can sculpt those areas back to normal!

December 21, 2012

hello Adrian,

i stay in uganda and we have no states but i would like to get da free DVD, how can i get it?

December 05, 2012

hi, i have been working since the last one year and as a result my back hand lost its glory. I could see the nerves passing through the hands* i used to have a smootha nd soft back hands, not it has the look of 40 plus years where i am actually 30 years, is there any way i get back my beautiful back hands? please help

November 23, 2012

i herd once your skin is hanging by stomach it will never go away? also the mid section will not go either. many diets promise this, but it never works? i would love to know your foods an advice. i need this also for health issue of blood pressure. i would appreciate help.

thank you
donna

November 15, 2012

Hey, my name is lamaa, i'm 16 years old and i 'm 49 kg , i'm fit from all the parts of my body unless my arms and shoulders as they contain more fat that they should. is there any way i could lose the fat without growing muscles instead? If yes is there a way to lose the fats in about 20 days from today? thanks a lot.

September 29, 2012

Hi my name is the lovely Heather..okay I'm 230 pounds as of right now I'm trying to get to 150 by march lets say april of next year but I'm trying to loose 30 pounds by Dec is it possible to drop that fast nd if so please please tell me what should I do because I'm not feeling this weight it feels like I'm carrying potato sacks Adrian HELPPP!!!

September 23, 2012

I am 31 years old, and I had the gastric sleeve on May 7, 2012, I have currently lost 97 lbs. ( 40 lbs was lost before surgery) I now have hanging skin under my arms,my chin, and of course my belly ( not to mention my thighs look like cascading waterfalls) Is there anything I can do to try to loose some of this skin. I want to feel good about my weight loss, and I can't when this is what I see. Any tips would be much appreciated =)

September 21, 2012

I am 43, 5'5" and 111lbs....I have never been over 100lbs unless pregnant. I now have boobs ( i love) and a butt (I love) however I have some tummy fat... I do not want to lose weight i want to tighten. I realize from what I have read that i have to losen fat under my skin and sculpt my muscles. I am doing 20 sit ups a day sometimes twice a aday...How many should i be doing to be successful?

September 21, 2012

Hi Im 37 5'3 172lbs. I only want to lose my stomach and tone my arms (but over all body). Ive been using a hula hoop for a couple of weeks. what else should I do. thanks in advance!

September 07, 2012

hi,
i'm bulwark 21 years old 5'10'' by height and weigh 80 kg (176lbs).
actually i had 125kg (275lbs) like a year ago i lost 45kg (99lbs) by eating low carb diet ,walking and jogging.never been to gym for weight training while the weight loss period,
now i have saggy skin problem on chest, lower abdominal region and underarms, which is extremely embarrassing for me :(
now am going to gym regularly for weight training from last 29 days.
kindly tell me some exercises to get rid on saggy skin and time it gonna take to get ripped.

thanks you.

September 06, 2012

great site .... i lost around 20 kg ... 10 more to go ... am going slow but steady ... and i educate my self mean while ... and yes am starting look great in swim suits .... am planing to hit 2202 bmi by the end of oct

August 23, 2012

Hi I'm 25 years old and am 5' 10. I have started to lose weight again recently after hitting 25 stone but my doctor is saying that I'm loseing it to fast. I go swimming 6 times a week and swim 1.5 miles each time. On average I'm loseing 7/8 pounds a week but I'm worried about getting lose skin. I can't help loseing so much as doing excercise improves my mood and stops me from over eating. I either don't lose any or gain if I stop swimming. Is swimming good though to help with lose skin or should I be doing something else as well?

August 15, 2012

What can i do to get rid of excess skin on my stomach. The skin looks like it has folds and has lots of stretch marks. I believe this is due to my pregnancies, is there anything i can do to make it look better, its been 6 years since my last baby was born. I am 32 yrs old, 5'6 and weigh 124 I like by body but cant stand looking at my belly

August 01, 2012

Hi my name is saleena and i am 14yrs old I have never been over weight and I'm still not im 5'3 and weigh 110 but i'm in competitive dance and provincal v-ball but i have extra skin on my stomach if i didnt have the skin i'd have a 6 pack lol its true though but I have no extra skin anywhere else do u have any tips how I can get rid of it

July 21, 2012