Is the biggest loser unsafe in terms of stretched skin?!
Question: It seems like those people that loose that weight so fast all of super flabby skin just hanging off them. Doesn't it seem unnatural to lose all that weight that fast. I wonder if many of them get excess skin removal surgery.
Answers: It seems like those people that loose that weight so fast all of super flabby skin just hanging off them. Doesn't it seem unnatural to lose all that weight that fast. I wonder if many of them get excess skin removal surgery.
This all depends on your own skin and genetics. I weighed 405 in the year 1999. I took my physicians advice and had bariatric surgery. I now weight 235 (and have been this since 2001). I honestly tell people I am half the man I used to be. I also am a spokesperson for my physician for people thinking of having this operation. The point I am making here is I have no chicken wings, sagging areas or baggy skin. I used Vitamin E oil/lotion during the loss, but I have to attribute most of my elasticity to genetics. I was just fortunate. And yes,,,I have personally known people who had to go back for "cosmetic" sugery to have excess skin removed also. The door does swing both ways. For me, at least, it turned my life around and I have no regrets getting it done.
They have to. I have a guy a work that was on Jenny C. and much skin...never got it off and it is sick. Got it get it off
I am sure many do need surgery, but whether the weight is lost rapidly or slowly once your skin has been that stretched for that long it will not recover ( depending on age and ethnicity as well ) so after losing over 100lbs most adults would have sagging skin
Of the two, I think it's more unsafe to have all the excess weight and unhealthy diet and lifestyle. Skin might not be pretty, but I don't think it'll kill you.
More of a concern for me is that do the people eventually lapse and return to their unhealthy lifestyles. So much concern with the numbers on the scale and not so much with their psychological state, which is what got them there in the first place.
Yeah it probably isn't wise to lose weight that fast but if you are already morbidly obeses and having health problems you really need to get the weight off and flabby skin will not kill you plus you have an option of surgery later.