fraggle1805
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And cheers j4ffa. I am having a miserable day today. Fed up with work, tired, not feeling well and just one of those days so staying quiet ha.
Right i am a 34 year old male always been up and down with my weight and been able to control it but this time has gone abit far and im quite disgusted with myself really. i would class myself as morbidly obese weight unknown i was in sorta shape before losing my job well the doctors classed me as obese but i was going to the gym and getting myself in shape and i have always been a big lad so carried the weight well. but after losing my job and losing my g/f a few month after and not being able to get another job i turned to food to make me feel better and it did but now im wanting to lose the weight but scared. I dont want to lose the weight and have the loose flabby skin i would rather be how i am than have the loose flabby skin i know i know my health would be so much better but that dosnt matter to me. i know its all my own doing i cant blame anybody for how i am so what ever happens will be down to me.
Someone said to me it depens on the diet and what not so the skin might not go all flabby but unsure.
currently my belly hangs abit down as well as love handles and have the moobs and chunky thighs. its more the top half of the body im worried about i just dont want to go through all the hardwork to be left with a body i hate even more than i do than when i was overweight
so any help advice would be great.
On the flabby skin front you need to lose A LOT before that becomes an issue so why not do what you can and when you start to notice and skin issues reevaluate if you want to continue? You can't be affraid of something you don't KNOW is going to happen. I myself would rather be overweight than have a lose skin issue but that didn't stop me from dieting! I'm 5 stone down and no skin issues yet...and if I start having problems with it in the final few stone (which I expect to) then I plan on slowing down the losses, work on toning and applying liberal amounts of stretch mark/firming lotions and potions. I think (might be rumor) that swimming would help as well as the water will return some of the elasticity to the skin.
I can tell that much more and my tummy fat "pouch" is going to turn into a skin "pouch" and that scares me a bit :-( but I'm going to keep going for a few more months and then decide what to do. I can honestly say that being 5 stone lighter and worried about getting lose skin is far better than being the weight I was before and worrying about getting lose skin!!!
(didn't see this thread was 5 pages long before I posted - well done all of you on sticking with it)