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Excess skin, hmh

i'm not banded yet, and i haven't gotten my date yet(most likely will get it on july 8th). but im kind of concerned about the excess skin. i was told that since im still quite young, i wont have as much. I only need to lose 113-116 pounds to get to my final goal weight, should i still be fine? i dont care if i have a little, but i want my tummy to be flat, and i want to be able to wear a bikini with confidence next year, and i want to beable to get the tattoo i want without the skin hanging over it (i want it on my hip bones) i dont want to have to worry about getting a tummy tuck or anything like that, just keep doing cardio :redface:

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Erin18

LAP-BAND Patients

i'm not banded yet, and i haven't gotten my date yet(most likely will get it on july 8th). but im kind of concerned about the excess skin. i was told that since im still quite young, i wont have as much. I only need to lose 113-116 pounds to get to my final goal weight, should i still be fine? i dont care if i have a little, but i want my tummy to be flat, and i want to be able to wear a bikini with confidence next year, and i want to beable to get the tattoo i want without the skin hanging over it (i want it on my hip bones) i dont want to have to worry about getting a tummy tuck or anything like that, just keep doing cardio :thumbup:

xavier

LAP-BAND Patients

If your excess weight is evenly distributed everywhere you may be ok without bags of skin. But if you have most of it in one place like tummy (apple) or hips/butt/thighs (pear) then since its in one place it will have stretched skin more. You look very young so thats a plus....also places that have stretch marks are a clue that they may not snap back very well. Also the same # of pounds over weight is obviously worse if you are shorter (more stretch) and better if you are tall! Good luck, dont focus on that too much!

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