My skin took a beating did yours?

Well this has been a intresting 6 mos and I like the new clothes and starting to like my self again tell the clothe**** the floor and oh my it's like a horror freck show the sagging belly and legs breasts to afraid to even look at my behind to see if it is that bad there LOL My skin is paying the price big time .. all I see is the wounds of the battle.. left behind from morbid obesity .. I feel so ashamed to stand nekkid next to my hubby .. he lost over 100 lbs and he has a tiny I mean tiny amount of lose skin on his tummy and the rest went back beautifully.. My future will be a total body lift as I cannot see this huge apron belly shrinking up much .. I wonder how long it takes for the skin to shrink up after weight loss I can't seem to find any info on how long to give your skin enought time to think about going back but no matter how much time I give, it's not gonna recoil 12 inches of excess skin LOL having twins and 7 children after the twinsalong with 100lbs took it's toll.. the crape looking skin is soooooooooooooooo ugly .. I want to cry .. I knew I was gonna have sagging skin but not this bad I had no idea my skin would look this bad .. and I am not done losing I am only half way there. only gonna look worse. Am I alone in dealing with this skin issue ? I am horrified the way I look ..when I am nekkid.. I am thankful for plastic surgeons . Gonna be a sagging women for halloween I suppose LOL easy costume LOL Be well all Lisa

Lisa I know EXACTLY how you feel about the skin issue.

I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU POSTED THIS! i JUST CAME BACK FROM SHOPPING AND i WAS READY TO POST THE SAME SUBJECT. nOW THAT i HAVE LOST A LITTLE OF 100 pounds, my body is uglier than ever. I was undressing with 3 way mirrors in front of me and behind me. OMG!!!!!!!!!! I couldn't believe what I looked like. My tushy looks like the skin of an elephants tushy..all crepey and wrinkled. My thighs are sooooooo gross and my stomach hangs over larger than my hips. I am disgusted. I will have surgery on my stomach.....but not for at least a year or so as I still have at least 75 more pounds to lose. Oy.when I think of what I'll look like then.......it makes me wanna puke! Seeing my totally hanging body has certainly squashed any thoughts of dating again. how do you let someone see this body? I think we should all move to Tonga, Shar

It is not only a woman problem. I have lost 165 LBS and I am a mess! I have all kinds of extra skin.

Hi Lisa, Yep, saggy skin here, but less than I had assumed, although I know it will get worse when I lose the other 91 pounds. Now, with that said, would you trade the sagging skin in for being how you were six months ago? Would you prefer to be fat and unhealthy and not sagging? All round and lumpy and bumpy and unhappy? These are the questions I ask myself when I get a glimpse of the "full inky" in the mirror. I'd never trade back my 91 pounds of plumped up fat flesh for a second - and that puts me right back in a happy place And yay for plastic surgery, I am already saving up - tummy tuck and neck first!! Shrinkin' and Saggin' Inky

Hi Everyone - Jeez, don't be so hard on yourselves!! Its only been about 6 months. The skin doesn't snap back as quickly as we lose the weight. Give it a little time. Also, don't forget: - To spend some time in the gym for toning (look at the people on Biggest Loser, 100+lb weight losses with very little excess skin) - Get in 100+ oz of water. Hydrated skin is firmer. - Lotion, lotion, lotion. Again, hydrated skin is firmer. These aren't going to prevent sagging skin, but I have to believe that they help. I am not thrilled with the skin I have, but it is definitely a lot less dramatic than I thought it would be. And I still have hope that I will not need plastics.... (of course, talk to me in another 6 months, but anyway for now I have hope)

Yeah, me too - flappy underarms, wrinkled thighs, and (this runs in the family) a turkey waddle under my chin where my double chin used to be. I'm saving up for plastics sometime next year or the year after. But, ya know, I would still rather have lost the weight, so I will live with the saggy skin. Heck. I try not to look at myself much except when I'm wearing those really cute size 12 clothes. Then I feel MUCH better. But then, I am currently without a significant other, so I don't have to worry about how I'd look to him nekkid. I can tell you if I did he'd have to really really love me. Marcia

I officially have more skin than fat and a four year old who loves to play with my droopy arms. He thinks they are his personal play toy. He loves to giggle my legs and watch the skin shake. He is such a loon and really makes me feel even more self consious. Then he advised me the other day that I have an old butt so I figure it must be just as bad from the back as it is from the front. I don't recommend watching your saggy skin in the pool either cause then it just sort of floats around. I agree thank god for plastic surgery body lift here I come.

Right now I am proud of my sagging, hanging skin. It reminds me everyday of where I came from and where I want to end up at. Yes, eventually there will be LOTS of plastic surgery. At least a body lift and boob job. I thought I would need a reduction, but come to find out, most of my boobs were fat!!! Now I just need the excess skin removed............LOL Gross I know, but it's what I deal with everyday. I wouldnt trade sagging skin for fat ever!

I look at my skin and think I need a lift NOW. Others think it's not so bad. Thank goodness for wearing jeans that smooth out the ....Hmmm... interesting lumps and bumps. The girls are not any better. Now that I've lost weight I can wear an underwire so that helps lift them into position. I will be able to get by as ong as I wear clothes like I do now. However, I would not even consider wearing shorts or a swim uit in public.