Because everybody i see that lose weight slowly they still have crazy amounts of loose skin.
I’ve seen people lose weight over 5 years and still had loose skin, and others who lost 100+ pounds in 9-12 months and barely had any. I really think it’s how your body weight is stored, genetics, and many other factors more so than how slow or fast it is lost.
I lost 80 lbs in like 5 months and had none at all. I’ve had two babies and can tell I’ll probably have some when I lose the weight again. Down 60 lbs since giving birth in October and have about 80 more to go unfortunately. I am hoping it’s not as much loose skin as others I’ve seen since I carry my weight really well but I do have stretch marks now on my stomach and think it’ll be hard to avoid it there
I heard multiple times that weight loss through fasting results in minimal or no loose skin.
Might try finding sources later, but definitely research into this if skin is an issue. I remember Dr Jason Fung mentioning he was surprised that none of their patients have been sent for loose skin surgery after weightloss on his fasting program. Even when starting weight was high range e.g.300lbs. He think its because of autophagy and cell recycling.
Can’t personally comment on how true this theory is as it doesn’t apply to me. But I’ve kept come across this correlation between fasting and lack of loose skin even when I haven’t specifically been researching about loose skin.
Yes, slow or fast your skin will have been stretched quite a bit, as your skin loses it’s elasticity, the extra skin becomes permanent. Cole kept saying that dry fasting “fixes” loose skin, but I have yet to see concrete evidence of that. You usually just live with it and tuck your skin flap in your pants, or get a tummy tuck. It’s not necessarily how far it has stretched, but for how long. You’ll notice that women that were skinny and had kids, then lost the baby weight ASAP have less loose skin issues than women that take forever or just don’t lose the baby weight.
I’m not a doctor but I’m sure there is just a breaking point David Goggins claims he had no lose skin going from around 330lbs to a normal weight. He basically works out like a mad man and suggested low weight very high rep till failure to get rid of lose skin. But other then him myself included when I lost 90-120 I had lose skin on my chest and stomach after a few years it got a little less lose but it never goes away without surgery imo.
Depends on multiple factors. How overweight you are, how long you’ve been that weight, how much you lose, etc.
If you ballooned up 50lbs in a couple of months and lose it quickly you’ll be fine. If you’ve been 100lbs+ overweight for a decade then the chances are you won’t.
Fasting doesn’t prevent loose skin either, sorry to be the bearer of bad news. I don’t know if it helps at all and I’m sure some of the lucky people with either a) good genetics or b) weren’t overweight enough/for long enough to get loose skin will claim otherwise.