Hi everyone, I'm having the lap band surgery early feb and I'm feeling very confident about everything except for extra skin.... Does anyone have any tips on how to limit extra skin?

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If you put enough effort into this and lose slow and steady, at your age, I'd be surprised if you have any excess

skin. Get enough excercise and follow your dietitian's instructions, all you'll put on is muscle. Good luck.

Like you, I'm terrified of loose skin as well. What I'm doing is exercising a LOT right now doing Walk Away The Pounds with Leslie Sansone DVDs. Its walking in place, and I highly recommend it! I do between 2-5 miles everyday and my skin keeps getting tighter and tighter... I'm 24 so I'm hoping I have age by my side. I also hope that I will loose the weight slowly, I do not want it all to come off at once by any means.

As soon as I'm ready after the surgery I will be exercising like crazy, that's my advice! Maybe we could keep in touch

Whether or not you have loose skin has nothing to do with how much effort you put in. It has to do with many factors including, but not limited to, genetics, length of time obese, stretch marks, skin elasticity, exercise, circulation, etc.

I know someone who took a year to lose her weight (over 100 pounds) and was 23. She ended up with a lower body lift with a circumferential incision. I will too but I've been overweight for 30 years.

It all depends on your skin's elasticity. Our skin has a limit to which is can be stretched and if yours has been stretched for awhile, it will be hard for it to bounce back. Think of a rubber band and how eventually they can no longer stretch. With that being said, I have lost a decent amount of weight fairly quickly and am not seeing much extra skin at all. My arms have a little as well as my thighs, but I am doing specific exercises to tone those areas up and muscle will fill some of the void left from the fat.

I cannot stress it enough, ladies please don't be afraid of strength training. The weights will not make you bulk up!!! I lift 4-5 days a week on top of my cardio which is 5-6 days a week. Heavy weights. People ask me all the time why I lose quickly and I'm not pudgy. I have genetics on my side too. So far I've technically lost 57lbs since feb of this year. I use to be 317 and now I'm 260. I have no lose skin as of yet!