Will I have extra skin after weight loss?

[Anonymous]

I'm 16 years old and I weigh about 167 pounds. I am going away over the summer with my friend and we are going on a diet together. No bread , no sugar diet. I will not starve myself but I will keep my calorie intake at about 1000 to 1200 calories. I will also be swimming, playing tennis, lifting weights, and doing some cardio. I am hoping to lose around 30 pounds in the 2 months I will be spending with her. I am wondering how much extra skin will I have. I have an apple body shape right now and I'm 5'4. Apple body shape meaning I carry most if not all my fat in my mid section. . How excessive will this extra skin be ? Will I be able to get rid of it without surgery? In a way I am afraid to lose the weight because I don't want to have to deal with the extra skin.

Help me please!

[WeaponZero]

low calorie diets typically are only for dieting alone. when you combine it with intense exercise you need to up your calorie intake significantly to keep the "fuel" in your body.

i've lost 78 lbs so far. feel free to ask me anything you want in private.

also, you shouldn't have extra skin at your age and after that small amount of weight loss.

[Asker]

I have actually lost 10 pounds eating 1000 calories and intense workout for 2 weeks but I had to stop due to a sprained ankle. I'm just afraid that if I lose all this weight so fast I'm terrified that I will have all this extra skin. Since I'm in highschool image is everything and I don't want to be flabby anymore. When you see girls walking around the school weighing 100 pounds it makes you feel really inferior. How did you lose the weight and how long did it take you?

[WeaponZero]

Ok then...

It started summer of last year. This is what I looked like.

https://www.Facebook.com/photo.php?pid=31113573&l=25ccf960c1&id=1155401194

I weighed 335 lbs and yeah, I was a fat slob. The big motivator for me though was that I wanted to become a better motorcycle rider and my weight made the bikes too top heavy to be able to handle well. So I started trying to lose weight. In the beginning it was just diet alone and over the course of August to December I dropped to 290 even.

[WeaponZero]

Then progress started slowing down a lot and I began losing at a rate of only about 5 lbs per month or so, so I decided to start adding exercise to the regime. I tried a few different exercise programs but what worked best for me in the beginning was following a dumbbell complex and chasing it down with a GNC Pro Performance AMP 60 Protein shake after every workout. I was still seeing results but after doing research I found out that in order to really see results I needed to up my calorie

[WeaponZero]

Intake from about 1500 calories a day (what I had been doing before I started working out) to about 2500 a day. The thing is, you NEED to have a minimum of about 1000 unburned calories left in your system when you go to bed at night to optimize burning of fat. Also eat high proteins such as poultry, fish, egg whites.

[WeaponZero]

Then I started a Beachbody workout program called ChaLEAN Extreme which I am currently doing and here I am at 257 lbs (so far).

Now about excess skin: It's generally not a concern unless you lose a HUGE amount of weight (like upwards of a hundred pounds) and are over 30 or so. Your skin at your age still has a lot of elasticity to it and will conform to however much (or little) stress is being put on it.

[Asker]

Congrats on all your success :) and thanks for all the info it really helped

[Cathrine]

colagene it's what keeps your skin elasticity in order, so eat jelly, proteines (meat, tuna fish, beans, etc). Also, exercise