I'm afraid of excess skin... Any opinions....

Better to have excess skin and be at a healthy weight than to be fat and have no "excess" skin.

Exactly ...

I'm afraid of being morbidly obese. I KNOW that will kill me.

If you stop and think about it, even if you don't lose the weight, you will still have a lot of skin that is filled with fat! You won't be able to buy those cute smaller size clothing where styles are cuter, you will have many health issues to boot! Now I perfer the excess skin because the worse case scenario is that I'll have to get plastics if it bothers me too much. This is quite a dilemma. By the way, I'm deathly afraid of the side affects of being diabetic and suffering from the complications and even death. So excess skin, here I am.

Kim, I think the point to understand is, while there may be excess skin after weightloss, it's much better than the excess weight. It's certainly better than all the other health problems caused by obesity.

it reminds me where ive been and where I don't want to return. One day far away when I have reached goal and maintained... I might say goodbye to my extra skin but if I never do.. its my success story

Hmm...I'll take the excessive skin over the morbid obesity any day. .I can always have that chopped off! Scars don't bother me either.. You can always make up some very interesting story of how you got them...espionage...saving the US from danger...whatever war story you wanna tell..it can be your little secret...but that is way, WAY better than being morbidly obese and living a half life.