If I lose weight will my skin shrink too?

[Anonymous]

I know the title is stupid.

I'm not an idiot. But I plan on losing 100lbs and I wanted to know is my skin will shrink or is I will have to have surgery.

I'm 25 so I had one doctor say that since I'm young the elasticity of my skin is still great and will shrink when my waistband does. Another doctor said I will have to have plastic surgery and the thought of that terrifies me, but I don't want to be hideous with weird flaps or anything.

Any advice?

[martyfellow]

It depends on a lot of factors. With time, your skin will tend to adapt to your size, but initially there will be stgretch marks and loose skin. That may persist or it may disappear totally with time. Give it a lot of time, massage, ointments, before you think about having surgery.

[CrystalMinds]

That's quite a lot so I think you'll need surgery to remove excessive skin. You can do it gradually but your skin can stretch out a bit, maybe "stretch in" (you know what I mean) but for 100lbs... Have you ever had surgery?

[Asker]

That's what I was afraid of. I had a rough surgery that went bad when I had my gall bladder out so I am really terrified of going under again. I want to lose the weight either way but I just feel like it would suck to lose the weight and then have to go under for surgery. :/

[CrystalMinds]

Why would it suck? Not all surgery goes bad. A gallblatter removing isn't the same of getting rid of skin. Maybe you could go to a good surgeon (ask around or google?) and ask for some more information.

[Anonymous]

it will shrink a little bit, the skin has been stretched, but it will regenerate it self if you stay at your healthy weight... yo yo dieting causes lots of stretch marks sagging, you will probably have some of that though.

[iPood]

You will most likely have excess skin. Skin can only stretch so much, and with 100 excess pounds it has definitely lost some elasticity