Loose skin & international travel (ie India) after 200lb weight loss?
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Laura in Texas
53 years old; 5'7" tall; HW: 339 (BMI=53); GW: 140 CW: 170 (BMI=27)
RNY: 09-17-08 Dr. Garth Davis
brachioplasty: 12-18-09 Dr. Wainwright; lbl/bl: 06-28-11 Dr. LoMonaco
"May your choices reflect your hopes and not your fears."
I've lost over 200 lbs and I don't even feel a need for shape wear. I am pretty lucky in that my excess skin really isn't much worse than many of my normie friends who had multiple pregnancies. I have traveled extensively and never have felt any need to make accommodations for my excess skin.
For my upper arms, I use http://www.sleeveywonders.com - they are by far my favorite upper arm solution.
"What you eat in private, you wear in public." --- Kat
I'm like Kat - I've lost over 200 lbs, and my excess skin is not nearly as bad as I was afraid it would be. I don't wear shapewear - I just tuck it into my jeans or "tummy control" leggings. And I wear a good bra. Otherwise, besides it slapping up against my body occasionally while exercising, it hasn't limited me in any way.
RNY 06/03/15 by Michael Garren (Madison, WI)
HW: 373 SW: 316 GW: 150 LW: 138 CW: 163
I lost over 200 lbs. and have a lot of excess/floppy skin in my legs and hips. I am currently in Italy--a 36 hours of travel time for my home in the US--and it has not been an issue at all. I wear compression socks on the flights as I tend towards leg and feet swelling, but I don't wear any shaper type garment otherwise on such a long flight. I have for shorter flights, but after I go through TSA. Because as others have said, the scanners tend to light up where I have any surgery scars or where the fat is denser. So I figure I should just add more time, be ready for it, make it easy on them, and smile that I now can travel and fit in the seats. All minor inconveniences for being able to get out and about.
No reason to be fearful.
Sally
Your 2017 questions on coping with excess skin are valid today. I just wish that ObesityHelp had seen fit then and now to edit your post. You might have done even better at the start had you stuck to questions on how to navigate your own neighborhood. That is, it will have been a good thing had you cancelled plans to travel rather than venture into the larger world with the attitude that other countries and their people are "...'difficult,' not fully developed." It is always better not to humiliate one's self, one's homeland and the world.
