Looking ahead- what do you guys think the best exercise are for minimizing sagging skin?

Honestly? I think genetics, amount of weight to lose, and age have a lot more to do with saggy skin than anything. You can exercise like crazy but some people just have excess skin after weight loss.

My plastic surgeon told me there was no exercise that could get rid of sagging skin, preventing it relies on slow weight loss, moisturising, keeping hydrated, keeping fit and filling some of the void with muscle tone etc and just normal good skin care. To be honest sagging skin is more a result of hormones, genetics, age and amount of weight you have to lose.

The younger you are the more chance you stand of not getting saggy skin, but its a lottery even then, I had all my saggy skin removed in a total of 28 hours surgery over 3 operations, there was nothing i could do to prevent the saggy skin so i had it removed surgically.

​Being over 60 I have saggy skin even though I use moisturizers every day for about 30+ years. I have not reached goal yet so I know there will be more. It looks gross. I think it's great you could have all the saggies removed etc. and get to a wonderful new weight. Congratulations.

Unfortunately you either will or will not have sagging skin.

When I talked to my surgeon he said I still have enough elasticity in my skin so it shouldn't be a big problem. I'm looking at 80 lbs that I want to lose. Just wondered what exercises were good- I think when I get the ok for exercise I will meet with a trainer. Lordy- thinking ahead- I'm still waiting on insurance approval.

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I was told by 4 plastic surgeons that if you lose over 50 lbs no amount of exercise with tighten up the loose skin.

I had 16 lbs of skin removed from my extended tummy tuck and 6 lbs removed from each "manboobie" but the results were WONDERFUL !!!

Tom, Toronto

Banded July 6 06

Wt. Loss: 156 lbs

My plastic surgeon told me there was no exercise that could get rid of sagging skin' date=' preventing it relies on slow weight loss, moisturising, keeping hydrated, keeping fit and filling some of the void with muscle tone etc and just normal good skin care. To be honest sagging skin is more a result of hormones, genetics, age and amount of weight you have to lose.

The younger you are the more chance you stand of not getting saggy skin, but its a lottery even then, I had all my saggy skin removed in a total of 28 hours surgery over 3 operations, there was nothing i could do to prevent the saggy skin so i had it removed surgically.[/quote']

Do you mind if I ask what you had done, how was the recovery? I am seeing a ps next week for a consult. I have lost 156 so I have lots of excess skin!

Suebee01 were you asking me?

Do you mind if I ask what you had done, how was the recovery? I am seeing a ps next week for a consult. I have lost 156 so I have lots of excess skin!

Hi Suebee

well my first operation was a 360 abdominoplasty with all the repairs to my stomach muscles i have a circumferal scar and one from my breast bone down, called an anchor or fluer de lis scar, i also had my arms done at the same time called a brachioplasty they turned out amazing. Recovery was surprisingly good for my age and an 11 hour operation, i certainly didnt have that much pain at all, I had full compression garments which help so much you really only hurt a lot if the skin moves so the compression not only prevents fluid build up it also keeps things still. I had 6 vacuum drainage bottle and a catheter for 3 days and then a further 2 days in hospital when they took them out.

6 months later i had my inner thighs lifted, now they were more painful, it took 7 hours, of surgery, again drainage tubes for 3 days then 1 day fuirther in hospital full compression garments on legs which to be honest are just like leggings, i purchased black ones too to wear after hospital, legs took longer than my body lift to heal and i got stitch abscesses as i am allergic to some surgical stuff, finally 3 weeks i had my breast lift, a maxoplasty best op yet but had some revision surgery needed doing to my legs so took 8 hours, then afterwards i had a haematoma form and down to surgery again for another 2 hours, hardly any pain with this surgery tho, am still healing . I dont want to hijack this thread so if u need/want any more info just message me i have a thread in the cosmetic surgery forum if u want to see some pics .