| I sometimes get emails from folks who would | | | | energy levels and self esteem, but I wasn't going |
| very much like to have dramatic and rapid weight | | | | to take any unnecessary risks and I decided to |
| loss on the Medifast diet, but they're quite | | | | try to deal with the skin issue naturally. |
| concerned about the sagging, hanging, loose, or | | | | I found a couple of articles which maintained that |
| excess skin which they suspect will inevitably | | | | the sagging skin is really the result of losing |
| follow. One reader wrote to me and said: "I'm not | | | | muscle while you are losing fat. Basically, you are |
| sure what good losing all the weight would do if I | | | | dropping so much weight very quickly that your |
| had this girdle of sagging skin all over my body. | | | | body is not making any distinction between the |
| I'm almost afraid that this would look worse than | | | | fat and muscle. And, it is quite possible to be thin |
| how I look right now and I don't want to have to | | | | but to still have way too much fat. This is why |
| go through surgery to get rid of it." I'll tell you | | | | you can sometimes see even thin people with |
| how I responded to this email in the following | | | | sagging skin as well. |
| article. | | | | I also read that you can non surgically tighten this |
| Rapid And Dramatic Weight Loss From Medifast | | | | skin up by changing up your body composition. |
| Followed By Excess Skin: My Experience: It's | | | | Only losing weight is not enough. You must also |
| pretty common knowledge that some people do | | | | maintain or gain muscle mass if you want to avoid |
| have issues with excess skin after losing a large | | | | or to tighten up that loose skin. I had been power |
| amount of weight quickly. I strongly suspected | | | | walking through out my Medifast weight loss and |
| that this would be an issue for me, but I still felt | | | | this did help me to get faster results, but it did |
| that it was better to deal with this than to remain | | | | not give me the lean and long lines that I really |
| overweight. I braced myself for this unsightly | | | | wanted. So, I started out with resistance bands, |
| overhang and I wasn't surprised when I began to | | | | saw pretty decent results and eventually moved |
| see it after losing about 40 pounds on Medifast. I | | | | on to free weights. The results continued to |
| researched everything that I could get my hands | | | | improve and eventually I got a very small and |
| on to decide how to best deal with it. And, I even | | | | inexpensive weight bench. My goal was about |
| went and saw a plastic surgeon who assured me | | | | 10% of body fat because my research had |
| that he could easily fix the problem. Still, I knew | | | | indicated that this is what is necessary to get rid |
| that their were always risks with surgery, and | | | | of that loose skin. I have not yet reached that |
| with children, I just was not willing to risk this for | | | | level, but I can tell you that I continue to see |
| vanity. I wanted to lose the weight for my health, | | | | improvement as I get closer to this goal. |