EXCESS SKIN after losing 200 pounds

When I sit on the toilet and my droopy yucky thighs are right there in front of me, about consuming the entire seat, I feel like I'm still a very fat girl. That's why skinny pictures like my "skinny jeans" picture here always amaze me, because that girl sure doesnt' exist in reality!

I'd probably be a size 6 if I had all the skin lopped off, which after dropping from a 26/28 TIGHT is incomprehensible. But I'm happy enough with my size 10 and occasional 8

Lady, how did you get pictures of me naked????  LOL

I'm sneaky that way!

I have tears in my eyes because I look almost the same way unclothed.  Thank you for being so open with your photos.  I will never be able to afford plastics.  I hate looking in the mirror when I get out of the shower.   I am thankful to be more healthy. but mentally body imagine is eating away at my brain.  I know I know....counceling.

Jennifer, it's a tough thing to face, but coming to grips with what you have, especially when you have something that looks good in clothing, is a huge step in the direction of self-acceptance and personal happiness.

Most of the time I'm okay with what I have....unless I'm bra shopping because there isn't a non-custom made bra in the world that fits me properly, and then there's the under-arm muffin-top over the edgeof the bra that grosses me out. I try not to do much bra shopping because I'm always reduced to tears. Partly because of the trauma of losing half of oen of my breasts in a breast biopsy only to find that it was benign and nothing was wrong.... I was mutilated for nothing.

Can i asked if you exercised at all? They say it helps with the excess skin but can it really help that much. This is the part I am dreading. but I will get a boob job and plastic surgery if i find i really can not deal with it. At least I will have lost  the weight. 4 months out  only down 86 lbs stall again. I am getting frustrated at all the stalls when i am eating right and excercising etc.  Congrats to you.!!

The only way exercise helps excess skin is to build up the muscle a little bit underneath it so it fills out more of the skin. When you are talking about huge amounts of excess skin like this, exercise will not help at all since exercise will NOT help the skin become more elastic or shrink or ungrow it.

Lora

Exercise would give me a moer solid body with more defined muscles but won't get rid of the excess skin.

But No.... I'm not into exercise.... normally I'm on my feet and VERY active for six hours a day five days a week, that's all the exercise I want/need. In the summer I do a lot of adventurous things, kayaking, hiking, etc. But again, no "exercise"

Thanks for posting that. It is interesting to me to see how the skin works out for different people. My SIL lost 144 lbs and her belly looks amazing - a little wrinkly skin and that is it. But her butt is crazy sagging and her arms are bad. I have about 100 pounds total to lose and I am really going to try to exercise and weight train as much as I can but I know the reality is skin is where its at and its not going to dissolve or anything.

I expect to have this problem, but I am at the "I will cross that bridge when I get there." I have no idea whether or not my insurance will pay for plastics and after seeing two friends go through upper body lifts and breast lifts and implants, I don't know if I have any desire at all to go through that.

I have to say, its nice to see you kept your boobs! So many have told me I can kiss mine goodbye. We shall see.

thats all i have is arms and butt saggage....  belly looks wrinkly thats all.. thank goodness