So my husbands biggest worry is me having a ton of extra skin. I dont think this will be an issue for the following reasons im 26 i have been large for 8 years my weight is spread out not all in one area ...... Im 5'4 and weigh 265 right now .. Post surgery (december) i plan to tone as much as i can ...... Please know he is super supportive of this and honstly he could car less how i look he thinks it will bother me ..... Help ladies ....

Thanks

Please understand that this is a huge possibility after weight loss. I was 25 when I had surgery - no children - took care of myself and skin very well - and I'm a gym rat... But my skin is very saggy & wrinkled on my belly as well as under my arms and my inner thighs.

I'm following this! I have the same stats. I was sleeved on October 13. Plus it looks like we have the same body shape.

Edited November 3, 201411 yr by stephh

I'm in my Early 30's and also wasn't morbidly obese my whole life. I had struggled with my weight yo-yoing through my teenage years, and was a steady slender person from about 18 through my early 20's until I became very depressed and put on at one point over 100 lbs in a 2 month period. Then, there my weight stayed and continued to go up until I had ballooned to my height at 265. I was morbidly obese for about 10 years before I had surgery, but still most of my adult life. I also was worried about loose skin. They say age, genetics, etc are what loose skin depends on. I do have loose skin, but not the gobs and gobs I would imagine I might have after having lost half of myself. Mostly only I can tell the loose skin I have. I am more self concious about it than people actually notice. I have loose upper arms and thighs, where my butt used to be I have some sad wrinkles and my ladys are deflated. I have some turkey neck and a wrinkly pooch which used to be my bloated belly. It sounds WAY worse than it actually is. I can tell you for a fact the best remedy is time. As time has gotten farther out (today is my 2 year surgiversary exactly), my skin has toned and gotten better without me doing anything. I am a firm beleiver in waiting for a period of time after you're at a stable weight to do plastics. Honestly you can't even tell I have loose skin in clothes, and my hubby doesn't mind me naked. I don't look like a super model, but it's certainly not embarrasingly gross. I have a few galleries up, you can see what I look like. I'd tell your hubby not to worry, he can always help you to slather your skin with coconut oil (that's what I use) and skin firming creams if he'd like Loose skin is way more of a scare than it is a realtiy. You'll be fine and look great!!

I know he dont really "care " i,mean look what i look like now lol he married me like this and we have 3 children ( one is his stepson) i was just kind od wondering what other peoples experience was with this. .... Im not jumping into plastics thats for sure ... I will just hope i got the good genes in mybfamily skin wise and if not ohh well lol

No way to predict. I lost alot of weight, say 60-80# when i was in my 20s and had no loose skin - I wore a bikini and looked pretty okay. It was a different story being late 40s and losing over 150# this time, but even then the skin wasn't as bad as i have seen some pictures of.

I am guessing your worst problem area will be the belly, but after childbirth, mine did tighten up considerably and yours probably will too.

I have to tell you... I looked ALOT better with a bit of extra skin than I did morbidly obese...

@@920amy Happy Surgeversary!

Yeah, there's some saggy skin. But it sure beats the alternative! As you say, you're young and, presumably, still elastic enough to bounce back quickly. The best way to keep your skin elastic is fluids, fluids, fluids! And the best way to stay healthy and satisfied is Protein, protein, protein! Now repeat those last two phrases over and over again throughout your journey. And if your husband is as supportive as you say (as my wife was/is) your husband will be so thrilled that he won't even care about the skin.Good luck!

@@CowgirlJane i completly agree .... I had 3 csections so i know i wont be perfecrt nor is that my desire .... Thanks for all the support ladies ! Love this group

I plan on tons of fluids i have been looking up different things to eat so i dont get board with one thing protein needs to be in everything entering my mouth .... Lol.

With the exception of veggies

you will have skin I went to the gym and every thing I have lost over 200 pounds I am bones and skin.

Question...my stomach looks like yours. I dont have a date yet doing all the preoperative. Does the "PANIS" go away?

@@hollisrn76 i am still doing preop but i know i will be scheduled in december .... I hope it does !!

You already have excess skin. It is just not loose. In my 20s I lost a bunch of weight and did not have the loose skin issue I have now. (I'm 37 now). And I've been fat most all my life. So you may bounce back. This time around, I'm not bouncing back as fast. (Also I've not had kids). So who knows. Either way, I will take my saggy ass over diabetes. I lift weights and work my muscles as much as I can. Hopefully I still have some bounce left in my skin.

@@hollisrn76 I had a HUGE belly, similar to the OP. I don't have nearly as big of a panis 'flap' that I'd imagined I'd have. I do still have one, though, but it's getting smaller still also.