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Originally Posted by nik-
I'm trying to think of a polite way to say this. Going from 350 to 170 in a year is an incredible amount of weight loss .... where did all the skin go?
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It's funny. I have been asked to go on speaking tours to tell people how I lost the weight and that inevitably comes up as a question. It used to irk me. It seemed some people were using that as an excuse not to lose the weight. "I'll have bags of ugly loose skin hanging off me".
The other reason I don't like that question is that my answer is "I don't know". Maybe I was just lucky. I do see the loose skin. But I am looking for it. I saw there was lots of loose skin around my tummy area and went as far as pricing a tummy tuck ($7000). Then I went to the public pool one day and me, my friend Gary and 6 other guys were waiting to get into the pool. We were in the locker room, in our swim suits waiting for the lifeguards to unlock the door out to the pool area. We were chatting amongst ourselves and Gary happened to mention how much weight I had lost. The other guys were like "Really? You don't have an inch of loose skin on ya. You could never tell.". If they couldn't see the loose skin, I wasn't about to pay someone $7000.
So why some people have rolls of loose skin and other have it tighten up like mine did, it's a complete mystery. Some have said maybe it was because I was in boot camps and kickboxing classes that concentrated on core exercises and rebuilding the gut area. Others have said that maybe someone in their mid thirties has more flexible skin than someone in their mid-fifties. I don't rightly know what the answer is, except I'm happy to still have my seven grand.
