Wasted Ink
Full Member
Just out of curiosity - there are so many threads on here about loose skin, ways of preventing it, emotional problems linked to it. I’m one of those that still worries about it (often daily) and have spent quite a lot of money trying to prevent it happening. You name it, I do it. Creams, body bruising, tons of exercise and toning, slow weight loss etc. By the time I finish losing weight, I’ll probably have lost at least 86lb. Having loose, granny-like skin at eighteen is my absolute worst fear. I’ve often seen programs where people have lost weight and their skin hangs like curtains - it looks like an eighty-year-olds skin on 30-year-olds.
Anyway, I was wondering whether anyone on here has lost a lot of weight (60lb or more) and had very little or no loose skin. I know this is largely a genetic thing - probably combined with pot luck! So are there any success stories out there - all I ever seem to read is how people have SO much skin following weight loss. I have read it can shrink, however, if you get your body fat percentage below 20% (although that would be very difficult, I imagine.)
Anyway, I was wondering whether anyone on here has lost a lot of weight (60lb or more) and had very little or no loose skin. I know this is largely a genetic thing - probably combined with pot luck! So are there any success stories out there - all I ever seem to read is how people have SO much skin following weight loss. I have read it can shrink, however, if you get your body fat percentage below 20% (although that would be very difficult, I imagine.)