Question:
A friend that attended Weight Watchers was told to prevent hanging skin...

from quick weight loss was to drink a lot of skim milk. What's the truth in this?    — Michelle J. (posted on November 27, 2003)

November 27, 2003
If it was as easy as that, don't you think that there'd be a lot less people asking about plastic surgery??? AFAIK, there's no way to prevent hanging skin from quick weight loss - especially if you have been MO or SMO most of your life. The skin has lost its elasticity and no amount of skim milk is going to restore it...JR
   — John Rushton

November 27, 2003
May be some truth to that... I think that perhaps the truth behind it is that in general, good nutrition helps everything and probably helps your skin stay its healthiest and best looking. That said - of course "its best" doesn't mean perfect, but as good as it gets. I'm not too worried about the skin thing... I probably will have to have it fixed, but with each day I make food choices believing that I'm trying my best to make this all come out as best as possible. Milk may help ;-) Good luck to you!
   — w8free

November 27, 2003
Have to agree with John. Plus you realize almost NOBODY thru WW is going to lose the kind of weight a MO or SMO person does after surgery, let alone nearly as fast. But maybe ... milk BATHS ... just kidding!
   — Shelly S.

November 27, 2003
The following that I am about to write is in no way, shape or form an answer to your question, but I am bored on the job on Thanksgiving...first of all, did anybody see Extreme Makeover last nite, with the guy who lost 200lbs in a year and is now getting a triple body tuck? Bless his heart, his squin was SAGGING big time. I can now see why in many instances plastic surgery is not cosmetic, but very medically necessary. Quite a fascinating and moving story, to be continued next week. Arragh! Secondly, I realized in the gym today (after the very first time in my life that I have actually MOVED my body on a holiday, let alone Thanksgiving, which I've really always viewed as a day for extreme power eating and napping, but I digress) that, much as I try to deny it, I am going to have to get a tummy tuck. I have some major Shar Pei puppy action going on in the belly area, and am completely traumatized. Why haven't I noticed it before? Talk about DE-NIAL! No amount of skim milk's gonna cure this...Happy Turkey Day, All.
   — rebeccamayhew

November 27, 2003
If this were true,I'd have the tightest skin in the world.I live on skim milk,I drink close to gallon a day.I've never heard this one before,I wonder where they get this nonsense?
   — Gussie

November 27, 2003
Count your stretch marks. If there are more than a few then plan on that skin never fully shrinking as it literally cannot. I realized looking at the photos I had my friend take for my insurance company that I have stretch marks everywhere, including around to the back. So when they cut off the skin in front and pull things around and tighter I will still have significant stretch marks as to get rid of them all would mean growing a total new skin. I'm fine with that but it just sort of put reality in my face. The excess skin will be gone but I will live forever with some remnants of my many years of being SMO. I will never be able to forget, even if I wanted to. I will be happy and fit into clothes wonderfully and be a much smaller size, but never the body of an 18 yr old that's never been overweight. I figure by the time I'm done with PS I will be a walking road map so really what's the difference. <p>If anything I would think taking butter fat and rubbing it on the skin would help keep it's elasticity. Skim milk has zero fat. Good calcium but I doubt would help hardly with anything else.
   — zoedogcbr