Is Loose Skin After Weight Loss Inevitable?
Having a Lot of Weight To Lose Generally speaking, the more weight you have to lose and the longer you carry the excess weight, the more likely that loose skin will be a problem. Pretty obvious really. The fatter you are, the more skin you need to cover your body. It’s not strictly true that your skin stretches. Your skin is a living organ and grows bigger through cell division. Stretching and stretch marks, however, do occur when significant weight gain occurs over a short period of time. During pregnancy for instance, during childhood growth spurts, when gaining large amounts of muscle quickly… The sooner you do something about your increasing weight, the less of a problem that loose skin will be later. As with most things, prevention is better than cure so take action now. Rapid Weight Loss In our experience, the quicker that someone loses weight, the more likely that they’ll have loose skin after weight loss. Most people want rapid weight loss, they don’t want to lose just the re