Worried about excess skin after loss

SW: 270, CW: 256, GW: 180, 6’, ~36% BF

I’m doing pretty well on my journey, I have more energy and I’ve been able to be consistent for about 2 months. That said, I’ve sort of spooked myself by looking into excess skin on the body, especially the stomach, that can result from weight loss.

Every image of it I’ve seen looks horrendous (no offense to those here who have it, but I cannot stand the idea of my body looking like that). I think if I were to hit my goal weight and have this excess skin I would hate my body even more than I do now. I think being fat looks a lot better than that honestly. Not only that, but people online say that the excess skin is incredibly painful. I know surgery is an option but it’s surely expensive and I would probably have to wait months or even a year+ to get it.

Can anything be done to prevent this? Does anyone have experience with this?

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Phentermine. Depression. Insomnia.

Did you experience depression and insomnia while taking Phentermine?

I took the drug in 2020 to excellent weight loss and disastrous mental health results. I experienced an intense depression that I wish upon no one.

In 2022, my wife is trying to lose weight so that we can have children. While seeing a therapist for ADHD, my PCP warned me that Adderall is much like Phentermine as I have been looking for my own healing stemming from my experience with the drug.

Considering my present anger toward my wife, I’m not willing to speak immediately. But I do love her, and I’m obviously concerned for her health and want her to stop the drug if it’s causing her pain. In 2020, she was the one who made the link between the drug and my declining mental health.

Additionally: is there a better forum for this question?

I thank you.

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Everything I try doesn’t work

My dad died last year and I put on 40 pounds since then. It was quite a shock when I stepped on the scale and saw that. I was pretty active before my dad died and I’ve struggled to get back into it mainly because it feels like I’d be resuming my “normal” life when it’ll never be normal again for me. (FYI I go to weekly therapy to work through this)

So I’ve mainly just been focusing on diet rather than movement. I started with a nutritionist 3 months after dads passing and honestly the plan was so confusing - it was a numbers system but not in a WW way but in a “you need a math degree” way. Couldn’t stick with it because I was confused as hell.

Then I started Atkins which worked really well for me before in life. Except this time around I developed gallbladder issues within 3 weeks of the diet and now I have to get my gallbladder out.

I don’t know what to do, I feel defeated. Most days now I don’t really eat much but when I do I watch portion size and always make sure theres a veggie involved. What’s a no fuss easy way of eating people who have been successful with weight loss recommend?

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Went on a 5 day vacation and terrified to step on the scale… whats the damage youve done from a vacation?

What has your damage been from a vacation? How did you recover? How long did it take?

We were super active, but also drank alot of white claws and ate outside of my normal meals.

Whenever I eat outside my normal meals I seem to gain a bunch of water weight as is, and this was multiple days of eating outside my normal. I tried to make good choices but still allowed myself the scoop of mac and cheese and dessert.

We were active though, no formal exercise but walked alot and got an average of 15,000 steps a day. I can feel the bloat and gain on me, so think ill stay off the scale for awhile 😣

AND WE HAVE ANOTHER TRIP IN TWO WEEKS. Weight loss during summer is hard with all the events :/

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Day 9 into a maintenance break and it feels amazing!

Me: F28 5'6, SW: 218lbs, CW: 168, GW: 154lbs. 50lbs lost!

Reminder to take your maintenance breaks when you need!

I'm now one year into my weight loss journey (50lbs / 23kg lost) and my last maintenance break was 6 months ago over the Christmas and New Year period so this is my first 'normal day to day' maintenance break. And it feels amazing! I'd had 5 weeks of little to no progress on the scale (bouncing up and down the same 1kg) and I was beginning to feel hungry all the time. So I decided to take a 2 week maintenance break where I still kept up my logging and exercise. And boy, I've been feeling an increase in energy, been feeling wonderfully full and sated, and to my surprise I even dropped 1.6kg (3.5lbs) over the last nine days! I got my whoosh!

It's also nice to think about how this is what maintenance might feel like when I hit my goal weight

I'm fully committing to taking maintenance breaks more frequently in the future as I work on the last 14 or so pounds!

Have you taken a maintenance break recently? What was your experience?

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Tattoos after weight loss?

I'm looking to get some tattoos done on quite chubby parts of my body. The main one being my upper arm, which would form part of a sleeve

Later I'd quite like to get my thighs done and an under boob piece.

Of course all I can think about it worrying about what might happen to the tattoo as I lose weight! I'm about double my ideal weight right now..

I don't mind waiting for thigh/under boob tats but I'm pretty desperate for the arm one and can't bear to wait another year or two while I slim down!

Has anyone here had tattoos (especially upper arm) and then lost a lot of weight? What happened to your tats?

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At what point in weight loss journey should I consider getting skin removal surgery?

F24, HW: 398lb, CW: 242lb, GW: 175-185( after skin removal surgery)

For those of you who lost 150lb-200lb, at what point did u get ur skin removal surgery? I had a phone convo with a surgeon who said they generally like to do the surgery about 25lb away from the goal weight (so that would be around 205lb).

I also talked to 2 other surgeons who said they dont consider surgery until 6 months of stabilized weight loss. (someone said this is only required for insurance to approve if they do pay for it).

Ive lost almost 160lb so far and I still have some weight to lose but I was really hoping I could get my surgeries done around December or January (in the next 5-6 months from now).

Im just so tired of putting in the hard work to get to where I am but when I look in the mirror all I see is hanging skin and a melted version of myself.

Advice? experience?

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