What can I do about loose skin after losing weight?
Give it time first — skin continues retracting for up to a year or two after weight stabilises, particularly in younger people and after moderate losses. Building muscle fills the envelope. Energy-based tightening helps mild to moderate laxity. Significant excess skin after a large loss is a surgical problem.
Wait before you judge it
Skin retraction continues well after the weight has stopped moving — often twelve to twenty-four months. Judging the final result at the moment you hit your goal weight will lead you to intervene on something that was still improving.
How much comes back depends on age, how large and how fast the loss was, how long the skin was stretched, genetics, sun damage and smoking. Younger skin after a moderate, gradual loss does best.
What helps
Resistance training, first and most. Muscle underneath fills the skin envelope and changes the appearance more than anything topical. This is also why losing weight slowly while training beats losing it fast.
Adequate protein supports the tissue repair involved. Hydration, sun protection and not smoking all matter for skin quality. Energy-based tightening treatments help with mild to moderate laxity over a course.
When it is a surgical question
After a very large loss, skin that hangs in a fold will not retract, and no non-surgical treatment will remove it. Body-contouring surgery — abdominoplasty, brachioplasty, thigh lift — is what addresses that, and a plastic surgeon is the right consultation.
We would rather tell you that than sell you a course that cannot do it. For mild to moderate laxity, which is far more common, T-Shape 2 is a reasonable place to start.
General information, not medical advice, and not a substitute for seeing a clinician who can assess you. Cryohealthcare Marina del Rey is a wellness practice; our treatments are not medical treatments and do not treat medical disease. We do not sell peptides or prescription medication from this website.
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