Does losing weight at a slower rate reduce the risk of having loose/excess skin?

coyote1

coyote1

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I've dropped almost 50 pounds since May but thankfully I don't seem to have any loose skin -- all the skin I have is still filled with fat haha. I purposely wanted to lose weight at a very slow rate because I thought it would reduce the risk of having loose skin... is this true? Instead of 1-2 pounds a week, I usually lose 2-3 pounds a month and I have no intentions of changing that pace.

I'm just super paranoid that by the time I reach my goal weight, I'll look worse than I do now because I'll be "skinny fat" with sheets of skin hanging off my body. I don't exercise aside from an average of 60-90 minutes of walking a day. I honestly don't have the time to work out, as much as I'd love to (I know it would help with loose skin and making everything more toned).

Thanks for your help!
 
If you loose weight fast then your skin will sag until it slowly snaps back. if you loose weight slowly then your skin snaps back as you loose weight so its less obvious.

If you were morbidly or really obese then there is always going to be saggy skin afterwards no matter how you do it.

As somebody who has done it already and lost the weight, the skin really doesn't matter. it looks ugly but you learn to live with it or get surgery to remove it. Clothes cover the worst of it, and its really much better being skinny with saggy skin than fat!
 
I wasn't ever morbidly obese, so does that mean I shouldn't have as much of a problem with excess skin? Is there a chance I won't have it at all (since I'm still pretty young)? And are there any exercises or creams that helps with tightening the skin again? I can't afford surgery...
 
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