I do have some significant skin. Someone informed me that it was being discussed here. I am going to see how it repairs naturally for one year of maintenance. After that if it bothers me I may have skin removal surgery.

Congratulations Nathan! What an amazing success story. Isn't your new life totally awesome? So many people with a lot to lose as so worried about the loose skin. After seeing the end results on those "biggest loser" shows, I have to admin that I was too. But now that I have shed most of the weight and actually have some loose skin issues I wouldn't trade places with my morbidly obese self for the world. I can deal with the loose skin that I have.

about eating fat, apparently getting too many calories from any source can cause a stall if you're struggling with those "last ten" pounds!

Just sent that above article/testimonial to my doctor brother who's trying to lose 10 on the Dean Ornish plan. He once told me in response to my diet "Atkins was overweight and he died of a heart attack."

I did count calories. In fact I counted everything. My normal macros were 145p/85f/20c sometimes my fat would go to 90.

About the loose skin. The following is only an idea, not how it actually works.

OK, so we got fat tissue that grows in a permanent fashion from what's called insulin-induced lipohypertrophy. Maybe skin grows in a similar fashion through some similar means, so we can't really do much about it. However, for fat tissue there's a drug called Adipotide or prohibitin-targeting peptide 1 (PTP-1) which acts on blood vessel cells to trigger apoptosis which then leads to adipocyte apoptosis from asphyxia. Maybe skin tissue can be shrunk in a similar fashion. I'm not aware of such a drug or mechanism, I'm just looking at a precedent for it in fat tissue and PTP-1.

Everybody knows about that glow pregnant mothers get. What's the cause? Growth hormone, no doubt. It's the most potent growth agent, it's also essential for repair maintenance and regeneration, so obviously that glow comes from a tremendous regeneration of skin cells. Basically, baby skin.

Growth occurs at a rate that could be much slower than fat loss, years instead of months. It's kind of paradoxical that growth would end up as the skin shrinking, but let's see where this leads anyways. OK, if skin growth and fat loss are significantly out of sync, we're gonna see more loose skin the quicker the fat loss. Also, before there's fat loss, there's obviously been lack of skin growth from lack of growth hormone, so that's something to consider. For pregnancy, we're not dealing with fat loss, but with some fat accumulation from the various hormones invoked for the baby's growth, so that problem wouldn't exist there, so we'd only see the skin improvement.

Anyways, the point is I see growth hormone as a potential help with loose skin to some degree. If not to shrink it, at least to make it look a bit better, healthier, that glow I'm talking about. Not saying to go the unapproved route, but for those who can afford it (it's ridiculously expensive), there's "rejuvenation" clinics who deal with that kind of thing, so at least it's one place to ask about that.

Regardless, the story reminds me of a story right here about Mike (and his friend, Lee) I think his name is. It's very inspiring to say the least.

Welcome Nathan
DietDoctor picked up your story from The Daily Mail, and two cute photos!
https://www.dietdoctor.com/keto-cou...pounds-together

Awesome thanks for letting me know. I probably won't should fill out some information on here when I get a chance chance.

Do stick around Nathan, I'm sure you can inspire an help a bunch of folks here, myself first of all!

I think two more Success Stories on this forum would be AWESOME. Yep - Thud. I think that the world is ready for your story, too. It may seem somewhat self-serving, but the reality is that those stories can be tremendously helpful for others looking for a solution that works. I know I spent hours reading dozens of success stories when I first started out. Just knowing what was possible was highly motivating. Learning their secrets to success were often helpful. If we can inspire others to heal themselves as we were inspired, then we are paying it forward.

Here is the link to the Success Stories

http://forum.lowcarber.org/forumdisplay.php?f=86

Yes! Yes! Yes! The success stories have an incredible effect on me. Thank you to Nathan, Ken, and everyone else who has shared.