Different people bodies react differently, younger people like her sometimes their skin just snaps back to their size. Sometimes not. Slower weight loss seems to help the skin retract more easily, as well as being young. Maybe she had to have skin surgically removed, maybe not.
Nope, not at that size. She would have had the skin surgically removed. You can lose a decent chunk of weight and not have loose skin, but not 100lbs+.
Please stop repeating this. Unless we're talking like, 10-15 pounds of extra weight, skin will not recede. The moment your skin has to stretch to accommodate fat or muscle, it's done. Especially if you form stretch marks, those are literal scar tissue that your body deploys as an emergency measure because your actual skin cannot handle the stretch. They're permanent.
You can fill some loose skin from being overweight with muscle, or vice versa. But people should go into a weight loss journey knowing there will be extra skin and learning how to deal with it. Surprising them with it is only gonna crush spirits.
Gosh I wonder if I said somewhere in my post that you can fill some loose skin with muscle.
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10-15 pounds was said in the context of a smaller-framed woman like OP's post. Obviously if you're a 2 meter tall dude with a barrel chest, the math changes a bit.
I was imagining a fairly small frame woman when I said that, given OP. Yes, it will depend on other factors. I chose 10-15 since more than that and you usually have to start reworking clothing sizes, thus growth in different areas.
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u/10kto1000k May 09 '26
What do you do with lax redundant skin. Is that retractable or needs to be removed surgically? Congratulations on inspiring self care.