will I have sagging skin if I lose 88 lbs?
I wanted to know ways to prevent sagging skin. If I lose the weight quickly or slowly won’t my skin have the same elasticity at the end of a year? Also if I lose a lot of body fat is it possible that I still have sagging skin even if my body fat is 10% or 15%?
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Since everyone is different, the precise answer to this question would be different for everyone. Determining factors include your age, height, ***, genetics, skin type, stretch marks, how long it takes to lose it, and other factors.
If you are a woman about 5′ 6", say, and you lose 88 pounds, and you are only 20, and your skin stretched well rather than making thick stretch marks, then your skin will not be tight as a drum when you lose the weight, but it will return fairly close to normal. If it takes time to lose the weight, your skin also has time to "shrink" as you go. If you lose the weight fast, it may be a bit loose at first, but the elasticity of young skin will bring it back in close.
If you are older, have been heavy for a long time, are short, do not have good skin elasticity genetically, or have large stretch mark scars, then there will be sagging. 88 pounds on a short person is different from 88 pounds on a tall person. Large scars are fixed in place and do not have much elasticity at all, so they won’t shrink much. If you have been heavy for years, your skin may be well accustomed to where it is, and may not shrink back well. If you just had a baby, usually most of the skin bounces back except for the abdomen. Even thin folks are left with a puffier-looking abdomen after a baby. Young skin is far more likely to rebound than older skin.
People have close to 100% cell regeneration up to about the age of 25. Then, a very gradual reduction takes place. Mistakes in copying happen, and less than 100% replacement is going on; this increases with age, so older skin is incapable of bouncing back the way younger skin does.
With more information, a less generalized answer could be given.
Put it this way, if you lose 88 pounds, and your skin isn’t perfect, haven’t you gained so much more by losing it, that the skin part doesn’t matter as much? You will be healthier, more comfortable physically, have more confidence, among other benefits. If you have saggy skin in the end, you might consider current options to fix that, but I hope you are so happy with your success that you accept yourself as you are.
Good Luck!
Robin