About 4 years ago I weighed about 245-250 pounds and am 5'11". After finding out I was diabetic I leveled down to about 225-235just by changing my eating habits over the next year and a half. But i wasn't happy so I went on a weight loss kick. Started out drinking a good amount of green tea and eating a sensible diet in November of 2006 weighing around 235 lbs By March
I was down to about 210 and started feeling good about myself. But it wasn't good enough soon I'm drinking at least six green teas a day, watching what I was eating and even skipping meals. Not doing it the safe way obviously but was then down to about 190. So I kept it up and seemed to hover around that range for a while. I enjoyed it I was getting attention from the opposite sex and my cute baby face wasn't as pudgy anymore. I really stopped looking at the scale so around this time I don't know how much I had lost. Around October of this year people started to say I didn't look healthy, apparently I had lost that much the wrong way that my face didnt look proportional and the loose skin was showing. So I started to eat more, kick back on the green tea and hope everything would catch up. This is when I started to look the best I ever had and was floating around 185-190 and everything looked right except for still a little loose skin on the face and abdomen. Lots of female attention that I didn't know how to deal with came during this time and really enjoyed it. Then I just kind of put everything away and before I knew it I tipped the scale at 200 and freaked. I vowed to never hit that mark again but I didn't really look that bad. So the unhealthy fad diet tricks came out and before I know it I'm weighing in at 175 lbs. thanks to the green tea hoodia pills. But the loose layer is still there on the face and abdomen so I'm thinking ok I did this the wrong way again maybe I need to gain some back. So I went back up to 185-190 thinking I would level back again proportionally. It didn't really happen..right now I weigh about 182 in shorts and a t-shirt. But I've been eating a lot more lately and not even really healthy. However I have been going to the gym a lot and can feel good ab muscles and see them a little under this layer. Obviously I do have a big self image issue with all of this. But the question I have to ask is because of doing this the way I did is this layer really nothing more than a layer of skin that will be there regardless of how trim I want to look. I mean if I am 5'11 and 183 lbs with these "layers" I guess you can attribute 5-10 lbs to that and really I would be about 5'11" 175 which is a healthy weight considering I do have good muscle tone. I do dumbbell presses at the gym and bicep curls on a somewhat regular basis.Tell me its flab and I need to eat better and workout more or is this layer going to prevent me from being as cut as I want to and just deal with it? Anyone else going through this?? Yes I know I'm hard on myself and this may have been an unreal expectation but damn it I had it on my mind that I would be able to look in the mirror and say "Damn!" one of these days. Tired of the droop on my face and when my face is full at a healthier weight it makes me appear bigger than I am and look somewhat out of shape.
I was down to about 210 and started feeling good about myself. But it wasn't good enough soon I'm drinking at least six green teas a day, watching what I was eating and even skipping meals. Not doing it the safe way obviously but was then down to about 190. So I kept it up and seemed to hover around that range for a while. I enjoyed it I was getting attention from the opposite sex and my cute baby face wasn't as pudgy anymore. I really stopped looking at the scale so around this time I don't know how much I had lost. Around October of this year people started to say I didn't look healthy, apparently I had lost that much the wrong way that my face didnt look proportional and the loose skin was showing. So I started to eat more, kick back on the green tea and hope everything would catch up. This is when I started to look the best I ever had and was floating around 185-190 and everything looked right except for still a little loose skin on the face and abdomen. Lots of female attention that I didn't know how to deal with came during this time and really enjoyed it. Then I just kind of put everything away and before I knew it I tipped the scale at 200 and freaked. I vowed to never hit that mark again but I didn't really look that bad. So the unhealthy fad diet tricks came out and before I know it I'm weighing in at 175 lbs. thanks to the green tea hoodia pills. But the loose layer is still there on the face and abdomen so I'm thinking ok I did this the wrong way again maybe I need to gain some back. So I went back up to 185-190 thinking I would level back again proportionally. It didn't really happen..right now I weigh about 182 in shorts and a t-shirt. But I've been eating a lot more lately and not even really healthy. However I have been going to the gym a lot and can feel good ab muscles and see them a little under this layer. Obviously I do have a big self image issue with all of this. But the question I have to ask is because of doing this the way I did is this layer really nothing more than a layer of skin that will be there regardless of how trim I want to look. I mean if I am 5'11 and 183 lbs with these "layers" I guess you can attribute 5-10 lbs to that and really I would be about 5'11" 175 which is a healthy weight considering I do have good muscle tone. I do dumbbell presses at the gym and bicep curls on a somewhat regular basis.Tell me its flab and I need to eat better and workout more or is this layer going to prevent me from being as cut as I want to and just deal with it? Anyone else going through this?? Yes I know I'm hard on myself and this may have been an unreal expectation but damn it I had it on my mind that I would be able to look in the mirror and say "Damn!" one of these days. Tired of the droop on my face and when my face is full at a healthier weight it makes me appear bigger than I am and look somewhat out of shape.