Hi this is my first post. Im 16 and I'm preparing for gastric sleeve in late November or early December. Yes i know that i am young but if you've went threw what i went threw you'd understand and I'm sure most of you do. I just had a couple of questions. So my surgeon was explaining to me that a lot of weight loss surgery patients end up having to have plastic surgery to take care of the flabby skin do to the quick weight loss or something like that. He said that i shouldn't even worry about flabby skin because the younger you are the less flabby skin you'll have and i shouldn't have any at all. Is their anyone out there who didn't get the flabby skin problem? Anyone around my age? And to help the skin problem ive been exercising here and there just to tone up so that after surgery i can already be in the habit of working out and toneing my body. Any advice on that?

Your surgeon is correct, younger patients are less likely to have the loose skin issues, mostly because their skin still has some elasticity (sp?). I am 26 and I am close to my goal weight, but I don't see myself wanting to have plastic surgery because I am not having much of a problem with loose skin. I mean, I have alot in my belly area, but it looks about the same as it did before surgery, just that now it is loose skin instead of fat. Toning is also a great way to make sure that doesn't happen.