Can you ever get to your healthy BMI if you have the excess skin etc after weightloss

I am just wondering since I will never have surgery to take off the excess skin after my weight loss is it possible to ever get to a normal BMI?  I am thinking I would be too thin everywhere else but my stomach???  Any thoughts ?

   I don't know, but I think its possible.   Today I weigh 139 pounds and am 5 foot 1, so my BMI is like 26 something, which is still considered overweight.   I just have to get down to 132 to get into the normal range and I think its possible without removing my stomach skin.

I'm not certain but I do know many reach their goal and do obtain a healthy BMI range for their height, prior to having a body lift. Were you considering having the skin removal surgery? I know many insurances cover this procedure as well...

Considering the excess skin doesn't actually weigh much I'm going to venture to say it is possible. Everyone's different though. 

Contrary to what you often read (usually from people who are not finished losing yet), excess skin and the underlying layer of tissue weighs very little unless it still has fat attached to it. So, yes, unless someone started out VERY large and has a tremendous amount of excess skin, it is possible to have a normal BMI even without plastic surgery.

I carried a LOT of my excess 200 pounds in my belly and when I lost the weight, the extra skin below my waist hung way down onto my thighs and several inches below the pubic area.  The plastic surgeon estimated it would be about 12 pounds of excess skin just based on how far down it hung.  It was only six pounds!  

Lora

I did. I started at 274 and weighed 143 this morning, giving me a normal BMI. I have excess skin and haven't had surgery yet.

I had a BMI of 21.6 BEFORE my plastic surgery - I doubt the skin I had removed weighed llb ...  It was literally skin with little to no fat attached!

I thought my plastic surgeon was joking when he said the large piece of skin he removed was only 6 pounds since he had estimated double that based on the droop factor.  It was kind of discouraging at the time (I had "dreams" of losing 15-20 pounds between my belly and arms, and it was less than 8!), but it also reinforced that all but a couple of pounds of the weight I lost was fat, not skin... So in a way it was also encouraging, of that makes sense.

(It also gives me a frame of reference so that when someone says they lost 20 pounds with a tummy tuck, I know that there was still a fair amount of residual fat. Don't mean that to sound critical, because I still have some residual fat on my thighs, so if I were to get my thighs done, they would probably weigh more than my tummy skin did.)

Lora

Don't forget added bone density. If you had previously been very overweight over a long period of time, your bones are more dense and therefore heavier. I'm considered overweight by BMI standards but come out well when I do the pinch test for body composition.

Normal BMI here - plenty of excess skin.