My wife is starting to worry about my weight loss,
due to the way the fatty skin over my stomach area seems
to be sagging,

I have lost almost 3 and a half stone in just over 6 months
and still have probably 2 more to go.

will this go away, is there anything i can do to help it go away.

Three and a half stone in six months shouldn't be too much for the skin to cope with and it should have shrunk back on its own really? Did you have loose skin before you put on the weight you're currently losing? Had you been large, then thin and then large again? That happened to a friend of mine and he had the same problem.

The Charles Clark book does talk about not losing too much too fast because of the problem of not giving your skin time to shrink back naturally. Did you lose a lot very, very quickly in the early stages?

I've been doing my new WOE for about six and a half months now and have just about reached the five stones lost mark and while I don't have loose saggy skin it is clear that I am going to have to do some proper exercises to 'tone up' my abdominal area. Perhaps you need to do something similar?

Once you have reached a certain size, excess skin is likely to remain, even if you lose weight carefully and slowly. The degree to which skin will shrink back is limited (excuse me, I´ve got to go and cry into my pillow for at least an hour now... )

There are numerous other factors determining what your skin looks like after a diet. Eg. not only how quickly you loose weight but even more so how quickly you have gained it. Your age is an important factor, too. The younger the better.

HOWEVER, even more important than the period in which you loose weight is HOW you loose it. Low-protein diets keep the body from building new collagen (what from???), which adds to the surplus of skin you will have to face when you look into a mirror at the end of your diet. High-protein diets do just the opposite. Protein doesn´t work miracles, but it supports your body in adapting to the new size/skin situation and helps you look better in the end (and in the process, I find ).

These things help if the excess skin is somewhere between okay-ish to quite bad even:

hot-cold showers, loofa massage, sports (eg. weights, pilates (to form nice, long, supple muscles instead of big ugly ones...THAT will give your body a totally new shape!!!) and low-impact running/walking), Dead Sea Salt baths.

Many people say that excess skin is something you can do nothing about. But it does make big differnece if you do some of the above things and stay on a high protein diet!!!

Katie

thanks guys,

i think it it going away, its just the odd way that fat disappears,
its not symetrical..

a while ago it looked like my stomach was pointing off to one side
as the fat was going from one side but not the other,...

they have evened up now,, but will just have to see once my excess
weight has gone.

What exercises (if any) are you doing? I noticed flabby/baggy skin around the middle area as well and after commencing swimming again (3 weeks now) I've noticed an improvement. If you can't make it to the pool try some sit-ups for a week and see if they'll help. Barring that there's always the surgeon's knife!! Good luck.

From what I've heard, doing crunches and drinking lots of water can help, Some doctors believe that up to a point it takes loose skin about 8-12 months to go but that all depends on how much it has been stretched.