YOUNG VSGers! Extra skin question!

VSGers UNDER 25! I'm curious to know what your experience has been with the extra skin issue? I've read a lot of posts about extra skin, but most people on this board are a lot older than me...I think (I'm 20) so if you are UNDER 25 pleeease tell me your experience with weightloss/extra skin! thank youu!!

Good question but for a lot of people skin types are different some peoples skin is more elastic than others and then the amount of weight also makes a differences because the more you have the more srrech marks don't really go away wthout some sort of intervention

 by "intervention", do you mean surgery? 

I can tell you my experience from the first time I lost 100+lbs (see my ticker for my high/low), when I was 22-23 years old.. I had the skin issues bad :( arms, inner thighs, belly..

It was a shocker, after all that work to see the damage- and though it got a little better over the 5 years or so that I maintained- only plastics was going to make it look normal. Eh, I ended up regaining almost all of it, so I kinda defeated myself on that one... Just know you do look a lot better thinner with extra skin vs big, with no extra skin!

Some get really lucky, genetics plays a huge role.. how fast you put on the weight, how long you've been large.. yo-yoing.. For me, the roadmap of stretchmarks should have been the give-away that I was going to have to deal with the skin issues.. but I was young, doing it on my own with no support, and had never achieved a normal weight, so I wasn't aware of what things were going to be like.

Keeping things moisturized helps the appearance, but nothing really will solve the skin issue if you have it. Time does help, skin- especially young skin my have more elasticity and rebound better.. and by time, I mean a year or two.. Things re-distribute and tend to look better a year out. Good luck! Building a great foundation of nice muscles really helps everything look better- that would be my biggest recommendation! 

 See for me, the last time I lost >100 lbs, I had no skin issues, that was when I was 17 ... When I got pregnant with my triplets & turned into a whale last year, I gained it all back, so now i'm scared that this time around I'm going to have the dreaed extra skin problem 

You won't know till you get there.. but no point in worrying about it, you will be looking a hell of a lot better after the weight comes off regardless of a little skin! There's been a few ladies that looked GREAT after pregnancies and WLS- Still Fawn being one of them.. she just had a tummy tuck to address a little belly skin- she looks wonderful and did before the plastics, seriously- check her out. 

It's is a sorry thing to see, but.. a couple things that help me through it- #1, all but my arms I can hide! (could never have hidden my size 26 ass though) #2, plastic surgery is not out of the question, if finances and guts allow.. until then, I plan on using compression garments to make me feel better in my clothes.. and I want to live in my skin at least for a year or two at goal before I consider plastics.. things do change up a bit. 

 hahaha true! 'bigger' (lol) things to worry about ... like ... protein -.-

thanks!

I'm a little older -28- and the skin thing is bad....Ive only lost 115, exercise religiously during the time i've been losing (over a year now) incl cardio and strength training, and I'm already jiggly and saggy. And, ive still got a ways to go. (but ive got some muscle definition starting to show :D)

Depends on how much you have to lose - the more you have to lose, the more skin  you'll likely have.


It's an almost inevitable consequence of being obese and losing weight. But my opinion is - if I'm going to have the skin either way, Id rather be saggy and all that than have it filled with fat (at least I tell myself that everyday - the more i lose the less i believe it, but I know plastics will be an option)

Not that I do not empathize with anyone, regardless of age on excess skin, because even though I'm old, like 34, and married to a hot as hell man that worships the ground I walk on, excess skin is just a trade off, and I'm not a huge fan of it, but I got it, AND I OWN IT.

I would much rather be a little flabby with wrinkly skin than have back fat rolls that make me look like a can of Grands biscuits opened along the seam, or have my thighs rubbing together with every step I take.

You're young, and it might bounce back, it might not, but what's worse, a little excess skin or dying early or taking a handful of pills per day to ward of symptoms of co-morbidities ?  ?  ?

haha your posts always make me laugh.