Let's talk about skin!

My surgeon was all like... you are young... your skin will go back to normal... no plastics.

How true is this?

How many of you at goal had your skin go back?

Heres is the plain truth.... everyone is different and will experience different amounts of skin problems. I am 21 years old and about 4 1/2 months out and have excess skin on my arms and thighs.... I'm also still losing and have about 60lbs left to go until I'm at goal. I already know I'm going to have extra skin around my stomach and lower stomach due to be heavy for a long time and because I have major strech marks. If you have strech marks you WILL have extra skin because the skin has torn there and will not repair itself. Yes some elasticty (sp) will come back to you over time... but its just a matter of your genetics and if you will be happy with yourself and the extra skin or you feel the need for plastics. At first I was like, I'd take the extra skin over being fat any day.... now that I'm getting a lot closer to goal when I look at my self in the mirror with out clothes, I know plastics are in my future. Good luck hope that helps

hahaha my surgeron told me the same thing and to be honest there will be always some parts that u may want to get fixed. no metter if u look like a super model women are never happy with what they got so be awere of that not everything is gonna be perfect after losing all that weight.

There is a few girls who have great skin who don´t really need to have skin removal. the best way to find taht out is to look at ur skin now is it firm? i know have some extra lbs lol. but u can def tell if u have hard sking(good skin) or not.  i had kinda soft skin i stil do. and my arms were lose before surgery so i knew for sure i was soo gettin a brachio plasty
my belly is not bad bu i also getting a tummy tuck, just cuz i deserve it,and i can! althoi coulda live with my tummy looking like this. my boobs are good i just lost some but i´m not dying to have a bood job.
and my legs err they are a lil lose at the top but i´m  not sure if i wanna have surgery there i´ll think about that after the brachiplasty and the tummytuck see how it goes.

but i'm gonna tell u this "ANY LOSE SKIN WILL WORTH IT" and u can get it fixed latter
thanks good for plastics!!!

hugs.

youll have it...youll hate it..youll accept it youll eventually get it lopped off..its just how it goes

 I'm 11lbs to goal and I have extra skin on my arms, inner thighs and stomach.  My family says you can't really tell on my arms unless I point it out but it really bothers me.  My thighs bother me too but I guess since they are more out of sight than my arms, they come in second.  My stomach bothers me the least but I guess that's because I've carried a baby and had a C-section so I never expected it to be washboard flat.   All in all every part of me, extra skin or not, is WAY better than it was before.  I'd rather be my 147lbs and have a little skin than 246 and have a whole lotta fat underneath it....

I hope to one day have my arms done but for now I'm ok. It's more of a mental thing than anything else with me right now.  

Good luck!!

~Emily~

Everyone is different, but all in all I figure there's no point worrying about it. Just see what comes as it does. No matter how you lose the weight the skin will be there if it'll be there. I think stretch marks though are pretty good signs that area won't be ideal even after weight loss. They don't go away when the skin goes back, they just fade etc.