Have any of you lost 3st or a bit less and NOT

retrocircles

i have 6 stone to lose, but am SO afraid of having baggy skin. i'm 24 and i'd prefer to be fat than thin with disgusting saggy skin!

i put a lot of weight on quickly (main percentage down to health problems) and have stretch marks everywhere. i don't think it's physically possible for scarred skin to retract, so i'm very worried about having saggy skin in these areas.

shykins

no u wont lose all your stretch marks tho some people have said bio oil is good for them... also u are still fairly young so it should be easier for your skin to readjust

as i said before i have lost 8stone (all in my 40's) and i dont have saggy skin, lose it slowly look after your skin, do some conditioning exercise..maybe be happy with losing 4 or 5 stone instead of 6... it can take up to a year i belive for your skin to readjust so dont give up and good luck in your weight loss

x

tinkerbell84

chika wrote: »

Oh and a note about VLCDs. I struggled with them for over a year, they work in the short term but the reason why I got so fat was because I love food. At the end of the day all a VLCD does is deny you the food that you need so I decided to stop making myself miserable and eat while loosing weight through exercise.

Utter, utter tosh. :rolleyes:

Unless you're an athlete you don't need anywhere near the level of carbs that the average person eats these days.

Jei70

tinkerbell84 wrote: »

Utter, utter tosh. :rolleyes:

Unless you're an athlete you don't need anywhere near the level of carbs that the average person eats these days.

I think that VLCD stands for Very Low Calorie Diet - completely the opposite of a healthy Low Carb way of eating!

I have shed almost 4 stone over the past 6-7 months on a healthy, low-carb diet of abundance (loads of fresh veg, fish, organic meat and eggs, fresh fruit). That brought me down from the obese BMI category to just overweight . I have another 2 st to go until I reach the healthy BMI range. At present, I have no loose skin (but that's possibly because I still have some fat under it, as well as toned muscles!). I exercise moderately, eat plenty of healthy fats (oily fish, avocadoes, nuts and seeds, olive oil) to lubricate my skin from the inside, and use body butter/massage bars/oils on my tummy skin. [I carried most of the excess weight in that area, a typical apple shape.] Oh, and I'm 38.

HTH!

chika

tinkerbell84 wrote: »

Utter, utter tosh. :rolleyes:

Unless you're an athlete you don't need anywhere near the level of carbs that the average person eats these days.

Not tosh at all - VLCD means Very Low Calorie Diet - not Very low CARB Diet. They work for some people but in general they just create a binge/starve cycle that makes 99.9% of the people who do them gain all the weight back that they lost.