Loose Skin After Weight Loss

Once The Fat Is Gone, You Are Often Confronted With An Equally Frustrating Cosmetic Problem; Loose Skin.

Loose Skin Tips, Tricks & Techniques

• Skin has the ability to expand and contract to a remarkable degree.
• Wrinkling and loss of elasticity is partly the consequence of aging (genetic factors) and also a result of environmental factors such as oxidative stress, excessive sun exposure, and nutritional deficiency. The environmental parts you can fix, the genetics and age part, you cannot.
• How much your skin will return to its former tautness depends partly on age.
• How long you carry extra weight has a lot to do with how much the skin will become taut after the weight loss.
• How much weight was carried has a lot to do with how much the skin will resume a tight appearance. Your skin can only be stretched so much and be expected to “snap back” one hundred percent.
• How fast the weight was gained also has a lot to do with how much the skin will resume a tight appearance. Your skin can only be stretched so quickly and be expected to “snap back.”
• Rapid weight loss doesn’t allow the skin time to slowly resume to normal.
• There are exceptions.
• There are many creams advertised as having the ability to restore the tightness of your skin. None are likely to work – at least not permanently and measurably – and especially if you have a lot of loose skin.
• Surgery should be left as the ABSOLUTE FINAL option in extreme cases.
• Give your skin time. Your skin will get tighter as your body fat gets lower.
• The key to getting tighter skin is to lose more body fat, (and build more muscle), up to the point where your body composition rating is BETTER than average.

Loose Skin After Losing Weight?

What do you do?

Loose sagging skin on our face, stomach, arms and other areas is very distressing to many who have lost weight.

In the past, effective skin tightening required plastic surgical procedures like face lift and tummy tuck. However, in the past few years many new non-surgical and laser skin tightening methods have been developed.  Read more...