Many happy returns, RJ!

SGT RJ -

daaaaaaaaamn

It's as though RJ is the complete antithesis of MeSurveilYouLongTime!

Oh you must mean Hacker Alias: Lunchables.

Yes and that's why RJ is constantly bullying MLYLT, being mean to her and is secretly very envious.

My jealousy really needs to be contained.

Neil,

Not very secret imo, RJ is just a typical screaming bitch.

RJ,

Way to go, amazing transformation. Now just power through to the end of this bet!

I knew the last page of this thread was reminding me of something. Starts around :45.

Thank you all for your kind words.

I'm really embarrassed I got as fat as I did, and I'm going to pay the price with some loose skin issues, but getting this under some type of control is something I'm glad I finally did, and something I want to have a concrete plan to deal with for the rest of my life so I never go back to being a fat, lazy slob.

This is something I'm really struggling with psychologically. I don't want to have elective surgery and a hip to hip scar, but I also don't want to lose 100 pounds and still not like the way I look. I know it's narcissistic. Goddamn I wish there were another way.

RJ can't help it though. MLY is a VERY intimidating woman.

Well, my loose skin isn't on my stomach, so there is at least that.

Like many women, a lot of my excess fat went straight into my ass/hips/thighs, so that is where the majority of my loose skin is. I assume this is why god invented pants. The back of my legs and the interior of my thighs look kinda funky.

My upper arms are effected to a lesser extent, I hoping putting on some muscle will help. Ditto hoping some squatting will help my legs.

Ultimately there's not enough for it to ever be a health problem, I don't think, and it is the lesser of two evils (the worse being staying an enormous fat ass). But this is the reason I tend to laugh my ass off when Lunchables suggests she can lose upwards of 150 lbs without any loose skin issues. Within the next year or so I want to settle around 125, which would be around 90-105 lbs lost, depending on how high my worst actually was (I really don't know - I didn't step on a scale until I'd already been trying to lose weight for a couple of weeks, so I assume my high was 5-15 lbs worse than the 115 I finally saw). My mom also lost a significant amount of weight and has kept it off for well over a decade now, she has loose skin as well. When you are talking about dropping high two figures or over three figures worth of weight, it's just not possible to do so without some sort of loose skin, unless you NEED to lose like 500 and only lose 100, then yeah, sure, you might not really have any loose skin because you are still bursting with fat.

But she's young, so doesn't have to deal with it

I could easily see MLYLT having no loose skin trouble at all.

Seeing as she's probably more likely to hit 300 than 200 I agree

ICWUDT

Do you always explain jokes?

Ah my bad. I'm too tired and stupid to be posting just now.

Typical abysmal posting. Or not.

I'm going to have the 'Hi Edna's as well. Either that or I better develop some massive triceps.

Fro,

Someone here prob knows about this, but I wonder how much of an issue that is if you lose very slowly.

Like, if you lose 20lb/yr over 5 years, I wonder if skin "shrinks" back some each year and it's not much of an issue.

Or if once it reaches a certain point, like when you have enough skin for a 350lb guy, there's a limit it can bounce back. So no matter what you'll have loose skin once you go under 250 or something.

Masked Man,

Only if you're not an old.

A fair bit of reading recently has told me that lots of lay people contend that it helps, but that doctors mostly contend that it doesn't, largely attributing excess skin or the lack thereof to genetics, age related elasticity or inelasticity, and length of time you kept it stretched out. I've been carrying around a lot of weight for a long time. Also, as pu by an authority on all such matters, MLYLT, I'm "an old", so I'm probably relatively screwed.

It does seem to be generally accepted that things will get better with the passage of time, and that after a year or two, assuming that one gets to a pretty low percentage of body fat and gets rid of most of the subcutaneous fat, the skin should rebound to some degree.

I actually feel pretty fortunate about how I look presently considering how big I was (topped out over 260 at only 5'8"), and how long I stayed pretty fat (it's been about 20 years since I got over 220), and I'm hoping to be able to come to terms with the reality of things, like RJ seems to have.

Unfortunately, even if a long slow weight loss would help, I've dropped around 65 pounds in about 5-ish months, and about of 80-85lbs from the high point, so I've long since passed those exits on this road. At this point I'm not all that close to what I considered a goal weight (155), but as I sit at around 180 today I'm much more concerned the way I feel, with transforming the composition of my body, converting some of this remaining fat to some muscle mass, and ensuring that I don't end up diabetic, than I am looking at a "satisfactory" number on the scale.