BS: Dieting and 'flabby skin'

Subject: BS: Dieting and 'flabby skin'
From: gnu
Date: 22 Jul 10 - 03:28 PM

As I approach a fairly large amount of weight loss after my doc said, "Tabarnak! Is not good the pressure eh?", I find myself seeing my granfather. I got a bell like a moose, I am barely starting to get jowl creases and when I get dressed after a shower, I don't look in the mirror.

Soooo, I googled "How do I get rid of flabby skin."

Found this.

Whaddya think? Billowing smoke up my flabby ass?

Subject: RE: BS: Dieting and 'flabby skin'
From: katlaughing
Date: 22 Jul 10 - 04:27 PM

Makes sense to me from what I quickly scanned. I do that with Weight Watchers at least one day per week and they have extra points built into each week so that you can do that.

Also, two of my docs have told me the skin will go back to skinnier times as I lose it. I know I need to exercise more, though. I have a friend who lost about 120 lbs. and has no fat folds, extra skin hanging about. She eats very sensibly and used to do Pilates, but now just walks, gardens, etc. She looks great!

It stands to reason, the skin is a living organ, the largest we have and it does return, for most women, to its original shape after childbirth.

Much food for thought (pun intended.):-?

Subject: RE: BS: Dieting and 'flabby skin'
From: gnu
Date: 22 Jul 10 - 05:06 PM

Pilates... hmmm... I used to be more like Pirates. Suppose that's why I had to change my diet.

Subject: RE: BS: Dieting and 'flabby skin'
From: katlaughing
Date: 22 Jul 10 - 06:47 PM

I suppose it was pronounced Pee-rah-tays, eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Dieting and 'flabby skin'
From: wysiwyg
Date: 22 Jul 10 - 06:57 PM

The older we get the less effectively our skin responds by shrinking, in weight loss. And the faster we lose, the less skin response as well.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Dieting and 'flabby skin'
From: mack/misophist
Date: 22 Jul 10 - 09:20 PM

What WysisyG said. I lost 170 lbs after the age of 50 and the extra skin never really went away. I know a lot of people with similar histories and surgery seems to be the standard option for those wh0o care.

Subject: RE: BS: Dieting and 'flabby skin'
From: Ebbie
Date: 23 Jul 10 - 02:38 AM

Interesting article, gnu.

Subject: RE: BS: Dieting and 'flabby skin'
From: gnu
Date: 23 Jul 10 - 05:35 AM

I thought so, Ebbie. I was not aware of the idea of a loss of 100 pounds of fat requiring a loss of approximately 120 pounds overall.

I have experienced muscle loss which concerned me. When I discussed it with my doc he said, "Ahhh, atrophy... if you find a pill for aging, I would like some too." (discussed = I ask a question and he shrugs his shoulders and talks in broken English while making notes)

Subject: RE: BS: Dieting and 'flabby skin'
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 23 Jul 10 - 03:40 PM

I understood that the skin loses elasticity with age. So the older you are when you lose weight the less likely the skin is to "unstretch".

For optimum skin health drink plenty of water to keep skin supple and detoxified. Yes do exercises that target and tone muscles beneath the saggy skin areas. But I don't think you can or should build up muscle mass to fill up the stretched skin.

I know someone who is in 20's who has lost a lot of weight sensibly under medical supervision with, medication, diet and exercise. This person has remarkably beautiful healthy looking skin on face However the skin on thighs, belly and upper arms has marked sagging. This person is planing to save for surgery, because the daily toning exercises are not reducing the sag.

Subject: RE: BS: Dieting and 'flabby skin'
From: katlaughing
Date: 23 Jul 10 - 04:38 PM

Well, gnu, Ill ask one of my docs about it, again, next week. He told me positively, based on what he sees and what a physio also confirmed to him, that it will adjust. But, hey, what do they know?:-)

There are some things listed HERE which you can do to help nourish your skin.

Subject: RE: BS: Dieting and 'flabby skin'
From: gnu
Date: 23 Jul 10 - 04:50 PM

I really don't care about the flabby skin... I was intrigued by the muscle loss being 20%.

I admire and have been a student of moose since I was nine years old. I wear my bell with pride. RRRRrrrrruuhhhh.

Subject: RE: BS: Dieting and 'flabby skin'
From: Ed T
Date: 23 Jul 10 - 06:09 PM

I would be concerned if my doctor said "Tabarnak!

Subject: RE: BS: Dieting and 'flabby skin'
From: Ed T
Date: 23 Jul 10 - 06:18 PM

Neware of flabby foreskin and zippers.

Subject: RE: BS: Dieting and 'flabby skin'
From: Ed T
Date: 23 Jul 10 - 06:20 PM

If you are an older male, beware of "teabagging" during sit-down toilet time. I suuspect flabby skin does not help the cause.

Subject: RE: BS: Dieting and 'flabby skin'
From: Penny S.
Date: 24 Jul 10 - 05:42 AM

While I was on holiday recently, my feet swelled up with the heat. Now they've returned to normal outline, and I can see the tendons and the veins again, the skin is a bit puckered like crepe paper. I'm waiting to see if it adjusts again.