Hi, I haven't wrote on this forum for so long.
But this was a subject I was really interested in when I started dieting.
I started cambridge mid Nov 08. I'm not dieting at the moment, as they say I'm having my cake & eating it (literally, but chocolate not cake) - but it isn't as bad as it sounds as I'm not gaining any weight. The last month I've just stayed the same, even when it was that time of the month.
So far I've lost about 6 stone, I'm not exactly sure, as before I started CD for 3 weeks I literally starved myself & I think in those 3 weeks I lost alot of weight (but I don't know how much, as I wouldn't go on the scales - if I had I think I would have got really depressed & comfort ate).
Anyway I'm 27 now, I'm approx a size 8-10 (26inch waist) yes I would like to lose abit more weight but with my height & weight I my BMI is just below 20. So I don't need too. That sounds awful me saying, I would like to lose abit more weight, if someone else had wrote that & I read it 6 months ago (I think I would have had "bad" thoughts).
Anyway I haven't got any excess skin, a few silvery coloured stretch marks on my tum & arms (but fake tan covers them).
I know I'm still fairly young, so youth was on my side, but I swear by Palmer's firming butter for after pregnancy & weightloss. I bought loads when I started dieting as it was BOGOF at superdrug. I used it 3x a day, morning, when I got home from work & before i went to bed.
I also did tummy, & other toning exercises I bought an aero pilates machine (and that was amazing especially on my tum & arms) as yes I'm young, but I did notice some wrinkles forming on the bottom of my tum, thanks to exercise (aout 15 minutes of toning exercises a day) that has all gone.
The other thing the best investment of all (for my tum) I am so proud of my tum (in my opinion it looks very good) was a slendertone system abs - it cost just over £100 I think (and i have replaced the pads once) but it is incredible (obviously I advise exercising too, but this gives out body that extra help - we are losing weight quicker than normal diets, so need extra toning, so our skin can keep up with the weightloss). Bruce Lee even used electronic muscle stimulation as part of his fitness program in the 70's.
Obviously drink lots of water, once you have finished CD and are eating make sure you have enough vitamin c (for your skin, otherwise it sags, I heard that on supersize super-skinny)
GOOD LUCK