My before/after/in-between PreOp

you look great..but i am so afraid of this as well. I started at 280..currently at about 240. Im trying to get down to about 180-190 but im sooooooooooo afraid of loose skin. Any tips you have for me? Do you think you would had less loose skin if you were taken more slowly?
 
you look great..but i am so afraid of this as well. I started at 280..currently at about 240. Im trying to get down to about 180-190 but im sooooooooooo afraid of loose skin. Any tips you have for me? Do you think you would had less loose skin if you were taken more slowly?
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actually, yeah... I do. there were a couple times in my weight loss that I took the diet and excersice too far to the extreme. I'm sure if I had put a heavy concentration on maintaining muscle to help fill the skin out I wouldn't have so much of a problem. Also I lost on average 2.5 pounds per week, but that doesn't factor in the month long plateaus I would go through... when I was actually losing weight, I would lose upwards of 3-3.5 pounds per week, which is well above the cautionary 1-2 pounds given by most professionals.

But then again, I also lost about 140 lbs. Most professionals say that you won't have much lose skin if you only have enough about 100 pounds to lose, so I had my shear amount of fat playing against my favor.

So yeah, take my tale as a cautionary one if it helps. If I could do things over again, I would have concentrated more on bf%, then the number on the scale. However, I have no regrets. Taking into account the mental state I was at the time, I wanted to get that fat off as soon as possible. I did it, but I have to pay for it as well.
 
Miller Time said:
actually, yeah... I do. there were a couple times in my weight loss that I took the diet and excersice too far to the extreme. I'm sure if I had put a heavy concentration on maintaining muscle to help fill the skin out I wouldn't have so much of a problem. Also I lost on average 2.5 pounds per week, but that doesn't factor in the month long plateaus I would go through... when I was actually losing weight, I would lose upwards of 3-3.5 pounds per week, which is well above the cautionary 1-2 pounds given by most professionals.

But then again, I also lost about 140 lbs. Most professionals say that you won't have much lose skin if you only have enough about 100 pounds to lose, so I had my shear amount of fat playing against my favor.

So yeah, take my tale as a cautionary one if it helps. If I could do things over again, I would have concentrated more on bf%, then the number on the scale. However, I have no regrets. Taking into account the mental state I was at the time, I wanted to get that fat off as soon as possible. I did it, but I have to pay for it as well.
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Great job!

Any idea what your BF% is now? What are your plans before your surgery? Are you going to keep working towards fat loss? muscle gain?
 
RJAZ520 said:
Great job!

Any idea what your BF% is now? What are your plans before your surgery? Are you going to keep working towards fat loss? muscle gain?
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no idea... I have one of those BF% weight scales and it says I'm at 13-14%... but I can see my upper abs, so I'm not so sure about that... I actually want to try getting one of those hydrostatic body fat tests done just for my reference, but I wonder if the excess skin will interfere with that any... I'm tempted just to not care about any of that stuff until after I have the surgery.
 
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