Will I have loose skin?

Will I have loose skin? To put it out short I'm 162cm 80kg (84kg was highest and I gained weight fast I was 73kg not so long ago). I'm 18F and I've always been overweight or on the chubby side but not to this extent.

What I'm worried about is loose skin especially because I have silver stretch marks and I tend to store fat on my midsection and legs. Now my arms as well and ive noticed some stretch marks but when i was in a lower weight i didnt have that much on my arms. I also think I have a high fat %.

I really want to go to 55kg but this is stopping me and I'm not really sure how to start weight loss (preferably lose it in 6-7 months but im not setting a strict time frame). I can't really go to the gym/strength training right now until I finish my exams in December. What should I do? Is loose skin inevitable/will be noticable?

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Stuck right before my goal weight. Gym keeps ruining my progress 🫠

Details: apple shaped body, 26F, currently 57kg (125 lbs), 1,57m (5’2)

Hey guys, I’m so close to my goal weight but every time I go back to the gym, my progress just stops completely.

I have to go to the gym because otherwise I get terrible back pain, so I need to train my back regularly. I also want to build my booty. The problem is: whenever I start lifting again, my weight loss stalls. Even when I’m tracking carefully and eating in a deficit, the scale just won’t move.

I lost my first 10kg (22lbs) without the gym, but now I look kind of skinny fat and I really want to change that. Last year I tried going to the gym for about 10 weeks and it was the same thing no progress on the scale. I was even doing cardio (5x a week, 30 min after workouts + 10k steps a day).

What can I do to keep training (for my back + glutes) and still lose fat? My gym also has classes like strength or back workouts with dumbbells instead of machines. Should I try those instead?

I’m so close to my goal weight and I feel totally stuck.

Any advice or experiences would mean a lot. 🙏

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What’s my next move?

I (23f) have lost 31lbs in the last year mainly by staying in a pretty steep calorie deficit and incorporations more movement into my day (stairs instead of elevator, an extra walk here and there). It’s been slow, sustainable, and has improved my mental health and physical wellbeing. I am still wanting to lose another 30-40lbs, but I think I’ve found myself at a kind of fork in the road. The app I was using to track all of my calories, movement, and chart my weight loss totally glitched out and I lost all of my data. When I redownloaded it, it doesn’t allow me to input or save meals, etc anymore. I’ve investigated the technology issue and have googled the problem but it seems like this is too new to have a readily available solution. Additionally, for the past 3 weeks it has been extremely difficult to continue in my caloric deficit. I find that I’ve been eating maintenance calories for the past few weeks and therefore have not continued to lose weight. (I am not gaining weight either, so I suppose it’s not a total loss).

I guess I’m just having a hard time deciding if I need to change my plan to be more efficient in my weight loss/fitness journey. Do I adjust the deficit? Do I continue with just cardio, or should I move to heavy lifting? (Up to this point I’ve avoided heavy lifting because it’s not my favorite and I find it slowed my weight loss for several months when I was doing it, although I realize it will be necessary for composition later) Do I just keep on with what I’ve been doing?

TL;DR: how do you change/adjust your weight loss plan as you progress?

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What small victory not related to weight changes made you happy on your journey?

I got a food scale. I've been trying to lose weight for months now (I've lost about 10 kilos), but it was difficult without being able to weigh my food. So, I'm writing this post to mark a small victory that will allow me to relax with the preparation of my portions :). AKA, now I'll be able to eat without feeling so anxious about whether I'm overeating and I'll be able to eat in an orderly deficit.

Related to this. What happened during your weight loss process that made you happy and that had nothing to do with looking thinner or weighing less?

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Can rapid weight loss make your face droop

I got injured when I was 26 and had to stop exercising. Over the span of 4 years I was gaining weight every year (I was 140 at 26). At 29, I weighed 180 pounds and am 5’4, F. At 30, I lost 30 pounds in 2 months. I had to go on a diet a functional medicine doctor gave me to try to help my health issues. Well I already had a droopy left eyelid and cheek from nerve damage. However, ever since the weight loss, I noticed the droopiness on my left side got way more prominent. A lot of fat went to my face when I had put on weight, so I’m wondering if it was the weight loss that may have caused this. My left side didn’t look that droopy at 26 when I was at the same weight I am now. So I’m wondering if it’s a combination of aging and weight loss. I also had to have surgery on my kidney back in July, so im not sure if that could also be a possible cause.

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Starting again, not over

F32 5’3” SW: 215 LW: 120 CW: 135lbs

In 2022, at my highest weight, I started my weight loss journey for the millionth time. But this time, I was serious. So serious that I got on weight loss medication. After 2 years of diet+meds, my weight was at its lowest it had ever been at 120lbs in October of 2024. But I hadn’t been working out, so in the process I lost a lot of muscle mass and STILL didn’t look healthy. I was somehow soft and flabby, even though my butt and boobs had completely deflated and my face was gaunt.

I knew I couldn’t lose any more weight and had to switch to maintenance. fear of regaining fat led me to start my fitness journey. As soon as I weaned off the meds, I got a trainer and started working out 2-3 days a week for about 30minutes each time. On my off days I walk. I know that’s not much, but I was aiming for consistency and just building the habit. I tried to eat at maintenance for the whole year. My hunger slowly returned. Especially now that my body needed to recover from workouts. I wouldn’t say I was ravenous, but the food noise and cravings definitely returned. In about a year I gained about 7.5lbs of fat and 7.5lbs of muscle. While I’m thrilled with the results (as it is practically impossible to build muscle without gaining some fat), I am still not happy to see my weight inching up towards the max for my height. So I’ve decided to do a “cut”. Which I’ve learned it just gymbro speak for a diet 🤣. Somehow it makes it feel cooler to call it a cut.

And just like that, after a year “off”, I’m back in the losing it camp! I do feel more equipped to make healthy choices now. I understand CICO, I am armed with a food scale and a tracking app. The addition of movement and muscle has probably given me a tiny metabolism boost (although you still can’t outrun a bad diet!!).

Even though it kinda always sucks to be in a deficit, I’m actually pretty confident doing it again. Because this time, I’m not starting over from scratch. Sure, I regained. But it was definitely worth it for the muscles. If anything, the gym has taught me that EVERYONE’S weight fluctuates. Even “fit” people. And most people have to actively work to manage it. But losing the final 15 is verrrrrry different from staring down the barrel of a 100lb weight loss journey like I was not too long ago. It just takes so long it feels like it will never be over.

Anyways just wanted to share because this is a unique case. But trying to be the rare statistic that keeps off a major weight loss permanently!

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I Miss Overeating

This is just a rant, and I feel like some of you will be able to commiserate. I'm not looking for advice.

I miss overeating and binging.

It's been almost one year since I started my weight loss journey, and I've actually been doing phenomenally. I am taking it very seriously for some personal health reasons, and I'm viewing my new habits around food as a permanent lifestyle change, not a temporary diet. I've been steadily losing weight for a year, and I've had a couple of small "breaks" where I chose to eat my maintenance calories so that I could rest and recuperate mentally and physically. During those times, I didn't even gain any weight. I am kind of in disbelief at how well I am doing.

All that to say, I still have times when I really miss eating ultraprocessed, non-nutritious foods at shockingly large quantities. A year ago, I was so used to coming home from work and DoorDashing two burgers, two orders of cheese fries, and a shake from Shake Shack, or a ton of chicken and a large fry with a gargantuan cup of ranch from Wingstop for dinner, and then finishing it off with nearly half of an entire cookie cake from the grocery store. I ate for comfort.

It feels really good to be free from my overeating, and I've worked hard to develop healthier coping mechanisms for when I am feeling overwhelmed, uncomfortable, bored, etc. I never actually want to go back to my old habits. But I still have times when I just crave the comfort of eating a ton of food that someone brings straight to my door from a restaurant. After one year, I thought this feeling would go away, but I don't think it ever will. I consciously have to choose my health every day (granted, it does get easier to do so).

Again, in reality, I am doing very well, and I'm not looking for any advice; I just wanted to share in hopes that others can relate.

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