Skin Tightening Tips, Pls?

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gi concerns are real but you can manage them. stay at the lowest dose longer — don't stack side effects by moving up fast. ginger chews, smaller meals, hydration all help the first few weeks. if your gi is already handled, the med usually doesn't make it worse long-term.
 
Making the switch from cardio to lifting is the right call at this stage - the excess skin is mostly a composition problem at this point, not a weight problem. Resistance work doesn't make skin disappear but it fills in what's underneath and changes how it looks significantly.
 
65 lbs and the skin changes coming with it is the part nobody really prepares you for. Walking daily is one of the better low-impact things you can do for loose skin alongside the weight loss - it keeps circulation up and helps the underlying muscle tone that gives skin something to contract against. The mindset of the skin as a reminder rather than a problem is worth holding onto.
 
Months to years is the honest timeline for skin changes - the tissue is adapting on a biological clock that exercise can support but not dramatically accelerate. The 'starting to tighten' experience at your current point is real confirmation that time and movement do work.
 
Might be worth trying daily facial creams, gentle massage, or scraping tools and seeing if that provides even a little help, though staying consistent with it matters a lot.
 
That's not slow at all honestly. Losing around 0.5 weekly myself, and from what I understand that pace is genuinely healthy, better for avoiding loose skin and a prematurely aged look since the body actually has time to catch up.
 
Going slow at that age genuinely pays off, the skin concern is legitimate. Waistline's already tightening after just four weeks in, solid sign muscle is being preserved through the process.
 
What's your actual collagen dose, and how many times daily? That's a real concern for me too, especially around the face and stomach area.
 
My parents keep telling me not to overdo it and similar warnings, but I brush that off since my own family's never actually dealt with their own weight-related health issues, so why would their opinion carry any weight here?

On the loose skin front, the advice I keep seeing most is that staying at a stable weight helps the most, I've got sagging spots from my own loss and surgery just isn't something I'm considering. That said, hitting the gym and lifting heavy adds muscle underneath, giving the skin something more to sit on.

Good luck, you've got this, you did this for yourself, now it's about learning to embrace who you've become, anyone who has a problem with that can move along.
 
Have you tried strength training to see if that firms things up for you at all? I work out pretty regularly and still ended up with sag up top, ha.
 
Loose skin really comes down to a mix of factors, how fast the weight comes off, age, and genetics. Strength training helps combat it, but skip spending money on lotions or anything non-surgical claiming it'll tighten skin.

Lost well over a hundred pounds myself, and I'm looking into a tummy tuck. That's just how it goes.
 
Losing weight slowly is among the strongest ways to dodge loose skin, though every body reacts differently. I've been on GHK since November and lost 30 pounds, and I've got somewhat loose skin, and I can't say how much GHK helped, if at all. My belief is that had I managed to train through that period and hold onto or gain muscle as I lost, I wouldn't have loose skin. Skin at your age still bounces back nicely. A bit of added muscle helps fill you out and stops extra loose skin from forming to begin with!
 
age 73 here, 40 pounds down over the last six months. back when i dropped 80 pounds at 43, three decades back, a daily diet pill revved up my metabolism enough that it burned through fat without leaving loose skin behind. this time there's loose skin on my arms, my legs, and under my chin. i can hide most of it fine except that neck area, and people tell me i look great though they can't see what i see. at my age dating's off the table entirely, so most of this i can live with easily. but this turkey neck situation genuinely gets me down. any real advice on fixing it? already doing exercises, an infrared mask, plus a chin strap gadget ordered online. nothing's making a dent so far.
 
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