It can take a full 18 mths after the weight loss has finished, for your skin to shrink back. Which means a lot of women might be having surgery unnecessarily. Apparently, your skin's elasticity is largely genetic and you've got no way of knowing, just weeks or a few months down the line after your weight loss, whether the bagginess will go, or not. Give it a good 18 mths - then see how you feel. I found this research somewhere online but can't for the life of me remember where, now!
I was lucky to have little bagginess. There is a bit but I'd rather have that than the fat!
Chemical based creams, lotions and potions will do very little - they can't restructure your skin in any significant way as they have no real medical properties. You could find out more about aromatherapy - some essential oils have properties that may be more likely to help than the chemical stuff sold in most high st shops/chemists. I've found frankincense does wonders - also neroli. You have to dilute it in the right amount of base oil. Neal's Yard Remedies do a Frankincense skin cream which is just astoundingly good - I've never bother about my baggy tummy skin so can't honestly say if it works on that, but I've used it on my ageing hands with great success! People that use it rave about it.
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