love the weight loss, hate my new flabby, deflated, wrinkly body

NIXMOMMIE
on 9/16/11 3:04 pm - NC

I recall someone saying something about when we were fat everything had a place. Well now that i am 7lbs away from one-derland, EVERYTHING DOES NOT HAVE A PLACE. I looked a photo of me today and I look like a completely different person. I mean really different person. Like I would not recognize me in a line up. Ok the hair would give it away. I haven't been this size in 21 years and all this is really new for me. I hate that I look really decent in a size 16 or 14, but when I am naked I look like a 24 that someone popped with a pin. PLASTICS coming my way.

(deactivated member)
on 9/16/11 3:06 pm - Santa Cruz, CA

RNY on 06/20/05

Yeah, that's a phenomenon we all have to come to grips with.

Best wishes,

poet_kelly
on 9/16/11 3:08 pm - OH

RNY on 11/04/08

I think it's kinda like, you know how if you put on a sweater that was several sizes too big? It would be baggy and hang down in places and stuff like that. That's like our skin after we lose a bunch of weight. When we are really heavy, we grow extra skin to cover our large bodies. Then our bodies shrink, but the skin is still a size large.

Kelly

Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.

sjweiser
on 9/16/11 6:02 pm

RNY on 02/25/11

Well we all now we have to excersize to take care of the problems from the weight lose.

Price S.
on 9/16/11 9:03 pm - Mills River, NC

RNY on 09/09/10

Exercise can build muscle but it can't reduce skin size. We can certainly make what it covers look better but not do away with it. Being young and having good genes helps.

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mrslatch
on 9/16/11 10:36 pm - Fort Campbell, KY

RNY on 01/05/10

If exercize completley eliminated any saggy skin, I'd be a Victoria's Secret modle. lol

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poet_kelly
on 9/17/11 12:54 am - OH

RNY on 11/04/08

Actually, exercise won't get rid of extra skin. When we are very overweight, we grow more skin. You cannot ungrow skin by exercising.

Kelly

Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.

Price S.
on 9/16/11 9:04 pm - Mills River, NC

RNY on 09/09/10

Agreed about the skin. I look really hot in clothes and thank goodness hubby loves me because at 62, I'm not getting plastics. Melted candle seems an apt description. but I will chose it over the fat.

66 yrs young, 4'11" hw 220, goal 120 met at 12 months, cw 129 learning Maintainance

Between 35-40 BMI? join us on the Lightweight board. the Lightweight Board

Pitoune
on 9/16/11 9:17 pm - Montréal, Canada

RNY on 09/14/06

Be proud of what you've accomplished, exercise to tone up your body and the extra skin is there to remind you from where you came from...

*~*Pitoune*~*

Michelle E.
on 9/16/11 10:59 pm

RNY on 06/28/10

Gosh.. I know how you feel.. in clothes and the appropriate suppoertive garments I look awesome.. I love my new atheltic body type.. I run and exercise.. that feels great.. Now naked.. OMG.. feel like a mess.. especially my boobs.. As soon as I get my iron levels up (hopefully by next year), I am getting plastics.. This dislike of my extra skin thing affects my intimacy for sure.. The more you lose the bigger the sack seems to get..

Good luck to you!

Michelle

love the weight loss, hate my new flabby, deflated, wrinkly body

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