Flabby Arms...

You can do some strength training that will help build the muscle underneath and may let the skin appear more firm but it will not get rid of excess skin cells regardless.

so you may wish to choose to have plastics or you may choose to make peace with your skin. I chose the latter.

at the beginning the skin really bothered me and then I challenged myself to go sleeveless in the summer and you know what it wasn't so bad. I was comfortable and no one pointed or a laughed and ever since I happily go sleeveless. Now that i am now at peace with my flabby arms i wear them like a badge of honor lol

Now that i am now at peace with my flabby arms i wear them like a badge of honor lol

Excellent and healthy philosophy! Love it!

ps - deleted post was my attempt at edit..... sorry....

 I totally agree with strength training.. I go to the gym everyday and work different areas of my body on certain days. My arms are looking fab and toned, I do have a little chicken skin as my 7 yr old calls it, but I work very hard lifting heavy weights with less reps.. 

Keeping well hydrated (outside and in) probably helps an inch, but there's a lot to that mile that nothing will cure. It's pretty much plastics.

After 160+ plus pounds, I am getting tons of loose skin. My thighs, my arms, my stomach, my shrunken elongated boobs, even kinda jiggly in the back of the calves.

But I knew when I started out that this surgery wasn't about looking better, it was about getting back to the ability to live again. Looking better was just a great side effect. I look so much better in clothes. Out of clothes, well, I guess it's debatable. I didn't feel so body sexy with all that fat, and I don't feel so body sexy with all this skin, but I feel sexier because I am able to be more energetic in bed, and have a higher sex drive.

Take pictures of before, lots of them.  I have the skin and if I don't think about where  I was before surgery, it really brings me down.  It is part of life and it is such a small price to pay.  The long weekend I went on a long walk in the bush with my whole family and to wonderland, I couldn't do that before, so a little arm jiggle is nothing.  Really think about why your having the surgery, looking great is a side effect for me, not the reason.  Having said all that, if I had the money I would get them done, but they aren't high on the list of things to spend money on. Good Luck, you in for the ride of a life time and it is so worht all the bumps.

Take Care of You
Freakie

Thank you all for your thoughts, experience and laughs! This is about taking back life and enjoying every minute of it. I will live with what ever the outcome is! But it's nice to know that there might be some things that I can start doing now that will help me overall!

Only the BEST for everyone!

I was 294lbs ,41 years old when I had surgery. I've lost almost 120 lbs so far.
I was terrified of the loose skin before surgery. I have it also. When I'm naked you can't really notice it - it's when I move that it's there.
 I don't care anymore. I have decided that yes I will have surgery. You know why I don't care? My life has changed dramatically. 120 pounds!!!!! 
I  feel great, I have tripled my energy! I feel attractive I feel even sexy!! My life is better in every aspect. F**K- the loose skin. Seriously it can be dealt with! Lsoing this weight is a miracle.

after consulting with the plastic surgeon a couple of weeks ago she told me that she has had patients that have had success with toning exercises + a bit of liposuction....

so now that's news to me....but an alternative to jumping the gun to surgery(brachioplasty)

...but again may not be feasible for everyone or performed by every plastic surgeon.

I only deal with it by wearing short sleeve shirts..not quite compfortable to them flapping around