Skin question

Hi everyone,

I am 7 and a half weeks out since my surgery.  I'll say the past 4 days (or so) I have noticed that the skin on my arm, legs and feet are so dry! I usually get dry skin in winter but never now and not like this. It's not itchy. It's flaky, almost like I had a slight sun burn, but that's not it either. I have been using lotion. I was just wondering if anyone else had this happen after surgery, too?

Your skin sheds millions of dead cells every day.  With weight loss the process speeds up and the body cannot get rid of all the extra dead cells and gets flaky. What you need to use is an exfoliating soap when you shower.  A brush and/or loofah also help.

The worst thing you can do is add lotion.  That will cause a build up to form like adding fat and flour to make pie dough.