This past year I lost 50 pounds and I have some extra skin on my body because I was big for so long. It's been tightening up slowly because I'm still young.
But can I speed it up? I already work out cardio every other day. Kenkel, M. According to Dr. Jacobs, here are some options for tightening your skin after weight loss:. On top of surgical excision, options include liposuction which uses a suction technique to remove fat, and, for patients with mild skin and fat excess, non-invasive procedures usually in the form of ultrasound or radiofrequency procedures that heat up the skin and cause contraction by triggering collagen production, explains Jacobs.
You might have micro-needling with radio frequency energy done, for example, which makes thousands of tiny punctures in your skin and delivers radiofrequency energy during treatment, explains Zuckerman. Patients can also turn to contouring procedures such as BodyTite and FaceTite which can be used in conjunction with liposuction to remove fat and tighten skin, but for all but mild cases of excess skin, these treatments may not fully address the problem, he notes. Building muscle—by way of a solid exercise regimen with strength training work—is always a good idea.
Plus, it can make your skin look tauter, says Holly Wyatt, M. You've done all this work, you've made this big, massive change that you see on the scale, but you don't necessarily see it in your clothing, or the way you feel about yourself. The most effective way to remove the excess skin is through cosmetic surgery, in one or more of an array of procedures known as body contouring.
People who had weight-loss surgery, and subsequently had the excess skin removed, were less likely to gain weight back than those who had the surgery but did not undergo a body contouring procedure, according to a recent study published in the journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Those who did not have any cosmetic procedures to remove the resulting excess skin ended up gaining back about 50 pounds, but those who did have body contouring done only gained back about 13 pounds.
About , bariatric procedures are performed each year in the U. Ali Modarressi of the University of Geneva in Switzerland, go so far as to argue that body contouring should be a routine part of bariatric surgery. About 21 percent of bariatric surgery patients undergo at least one kind of body contouring procedure. Those who choose to have body contouring done usually pick the circumferential body lift: Doctors make an incision across the back, then around the flanks and abdomen, cutting away some of the excess skin and tightening the rest of it by suturing the incision back together.
After the body contouring is done, patients routinely lose another 10 to 15 pounds of loose skin alone. Jessie James Decker jessiejamesdecker. Rachel Graham losinggravity. Brittanie Price pinksankofa. Ruzele meltingzele. At SELF, Lindsey has specialized in culture, love, and sex, but also written about health, food, fitness, and beauty. Read more. Topics news body positivity body image loose skin weight loss.
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