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Originally Posted by cdnmomof2
I've heard with rapid weight lose that only surgery can get rid of excess skin...
So much depends on age, your skin's ability to bounce back, and just how stretched out it was before you lost the weight.
Toning exercises can firm up the muscles UNDER the skin, but won't do anything to correct the actual extra skin. For some, that may be all they actually need - to reshape and tighten the muscles under the skin. Your body will reabsorb/slough off some of that loose skin on its own, which takes about 8 months. Once you've hit about a year after you have reached your goal and maintained, you will know for sure whether your body could take care of that loose skin on its own, or whether some cosmetic surgery (if you want it) would be necessary.
I have a little bit of loose skin around my abdomen (thank you, my beautiful children), my breasts and my rear. I lost 70lbs total, so a significant amount of weight but not as much as many who have succeeded on IP. I am taking this year to get maintenance down, and see what my body does with those saggy areas. But at almost 40 years old, with a couple of kids, I am not expecting to have the body I had at 25, and I can deal with a little sagginess in trade off for being healthier and no longer obese