You ve pretty much got it - not enough exercise and too much weight loss too quickly. You can improve your skin s elasticity by exercising regularly and often, and that will minimize the amount of extra skin you have. Depending on how much you re losing it may not be an issue, or it may be completely unavoidable. Exercise (and a healthy diet!) will make the skin as resilient as it can be, and you re correct that losing weight more slowly will also help - it gives the skin time to catch up. If you re at a healthy or moderately overweight weight you should be aiming for two pounds per week (you may lose a bit more at the beginning, etc.) and if you re very overweight and/or obese you could aim to lose up to three pounds per week. Those targets aren t just for your skin either, but for the health of your heart and other organs as well.
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Both. Actually, it s caused by the fact that your skin stretched out and has lost collagen so it s having a hard time shrinking back down.But, excercising firms up the muscles, which makes the skin look tighter. And losing weight slowly allows your skin time to shrink as you lose, so the stretching isn t so obvious. I know that it ll shrink down eventually, but you may always have some extra skin--depending on genetics, your level of collagen in the skin and how much stretching the skin did. Good luck!
the key is toning your body while you lose weight. if u just lose weight then you will not look as good. you have to incorperate toning with eating healthy~
Try to keep your skin moisturized. When you are heavy and you lose weight your skin tends to hang because it lost its elasticity. You know when you blow up a balloon it is soft and smooth....but when you let the air out the rubber is now stretched and wrinkled. Same thing happens to your skin.Toning up with weights may help also...but what helped me out was always putting a good moisturizing lotion on. Do this a lot!
Actually its both. Losing too fast while not exercising causes the excess. However sometimes it can t be helped- such as if you are 300 pounds you will have some excess regardless of how much you exercise.
Hey, Celia, I, too, am losing weight but from a different reason - I have Rheumatoid Arthritis and have been on Prednisone for almost three years. Finally, I worked my way off and am losing. I hired a personal trainer to help me and am doing strengthening exercises - this also tones the body. God, I hate doing this! But, its working. I also purchased a Pilates Reformer and it is a multi-task piece of equipment. Can t say I use it all the time but when I don t go to the gym I do it for almost an hour (while I m watching Tv!) Genie (in Texas)
yes,i think so.
