any regrets due to saggy skin?

My surgery is scheduled for 4/13 and I am wondering the best way to deal with saggy skin and if there is anything I could start doing now to limit it? 

Saggy skin is just the luck of the draw. It depends on age and skin type. Nothing to stop it or fix it other than plastic surgery. Toning the muscles underneath might help a bit, but rapid weight lose does result in saggy skin.
For me however, I prefer the saggy skin to an oversized coffin.

Karen

"I prefer the saggy skin to an oversized coffin" is absolutely right!

I am starting my plastics journey now and I am so glad I am alive to do it!

Nicolle

Good luck with the plastics, Nicolle. It will be a while before we will be in a position to put some money aside for it, but that is okay. I wanted to wait until I'm two years out anyway to do it. Wanting  a lower body lift, a breast lift and aug, and brachioplasty. If it never happens, though, I will still be ecstatic to have my health back. Removing the extra skin will just be icing on the cake.

Hugs,
Karen

Just be sure to document the heck out of any little thing, even a recurring pimple. Take pictures, get your doc to enter your complaints in his office visit notes. Insurance wants these things, so do it as you go, even if today's policy does not cover it.

I am two years out, so I am willing to take the plunge. My weight has been stable for a while and I am in a decent place, headwise.

Nicolle

Thanks, Nicolle. We've been documenting panni rashes and irritations etc but my current insurance has ironclad exclusions for weight loss surgery or any procedure resulting from it or from extreme weight loss. Maybe things will change before the time comes to do it. Meanwhile, I dont mind having to self-pay but it will just take more time.

Karen

For me however, I prefer the saggy skin to an oversized coffin.

Amen to this! 

Not really.  Whenever you lose lots of weight, you'll have saggy skin.   That's because when you are very heavy, you grow extra skin to cover your larger body.  Once you grow skin, you cannot ungrow it.  All you can do is have plastic surgery to remove it if it bothers you.

Kelly

No regrets.

My tight (fat) skin was not going to save me from dying young. Neither was my great hair.

I'm shopping for spanx.

I don't know how old you are but I am 46. Things are dropping hard and fast every day. But I am wearing my droopy boobs and thinning hair like a badge of honor.

If the skin thing bugs you, start saving for plastics.

Funny I saw this.  Thirteen months out with a loss of 130 and some sagginess going on.  I don't have regrets and work out faithfully.  I am not sure how much you have to lose so I don't know how much skin you'll have.  I also am not sure what preventive things you cold do.  I do know my skin has muscle underneath so if anything it will help the surgeon know what to get rid of!  I have about 25 pounds to go to goal and am then will be counting down the days until plastic surgery, I assure you!  Don't be scared and frustrated it will be worth it and you can deal with the skin when you need to deal with it.  Best wishes.