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Do You Have Loose Skin After Dropping 300 pounds of fat?

-----Original Message-----
From: Guy La Rue [mailto:guy***@videotron.ca]
Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 2:28 PM
To: Rob
Subject: Question about loose skin....


Hi Rob!! I'm from Sherbrooke Quebec,Canada.
I weight 320 at 5'10'' I'm morbidly obese acording to the establishment but with a fair amount of muscle.I am down from 380lbs a year ago. I do cardio,I eat clean,and most of all I weight train 3 times a week.

Question: I know you are in pretty good shape now,by looking at your most recent pictures,one could never guess that you were a former obese person.

do you have 'loose' skin at the midsection or under the chest and arms? I am concern that if I get in shape (210 lbs) I will still have loose skin? any guess what to expect?

Thanks!!

from a fellow Canadian who want' to stay in Canada....wink wink..

Guy;-)


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A: First of all, congratulations on the 60 pound fat loss, awesome job Guy! (pronounced Gee, for all you non Quebec'ers).

I will be honest with you, and I'm ok saying this because my life is an open book.

I am covered in stretch marks! They are scar tissue and have yet to go away, but they have improved.

I do not have any loose skin.

I have never had any surgery.

... let me explain.

When I first made my decision back in 1990 to do something about my health, I knew absolutely nothing about health, nutrition or fitness other than what I saw on TV or had read in muscle magazines from when I was a kid (grade 7ish).

I began a very rapid fat loss program doing the food combining and walking programs and dropped a total of 287 pounds before I hit my lightest weight of 187. I figure now that I was about 30% BF even at that weight as I had no muscle to speak of.

It was at about the 285 mark when I was introduced to this company than manufactures "System Specific Organic Whole Foods". It completely changed my life and going on 15 years now, it will always be the foundation of my eating, my nutrition and my way of life. The company has very specific legal issues around what can and can't be said on a web site, so I will only refer to the company and program as S_R.

So I learned that the Chinese believe that our body is a complex unit of systems that all rely on each other. For example, the immune system, the circulatory system, endocrine system, digestive system and respiratory system.

Mom taught that carrots were good for our eyes, while the Chinese take that to the extreme by saying that each system can be nourished with food.

Well, I thought "hey, the skin is an organ, what do I eat to nourish it?" and the solution presented itself.

Turns out that the endocrine system is directly responsible for our skin. As well, our hair, our mood, our stress levels, our fingernails too.

I targeted my skin with food.

What I found was that my stretch marks which were as wide as my pinky finger and beet red before I began "eating for my skin" turned back to skin tone. That is the redness faded away and they started to blend together. Then as this was happening, over the course of a few months, my skin tightened up too. It was dramatic to watch.

I do not have any loose skin anywhere on my body at this time.

I do still have stretch marks, but you have to work to see them. People even ask to see them, so I have to show them where they are. Not too bad. And as far as I'm concerned, I am a "Former Fat Guy" and always will be, so they're like my battle scars. I'm much healthier, I exercise twice a day, I am going to live longer than I would have if I hadn't made any changes, so all things considered, for what I've ended up with, a few stretch marks are no big deal. On another note, NOBODY has ever mentioned them to me. Women, friends, anyone. Other than asking that "surely you must have them", nobody who has seen me has ever mentioned it, so they must be hard to see.

I don't know what would have happened had I not found S_R and began to nourish my body this way and I'm glad I didn't have to find out.

Your last comment was about a concern that if I get into shape at 210, you'll have loose skin.

You keep eating clean, keep doing both cardio and weight training and keep learning everything there is to learn about fitness, health and nutrition and then put it into practice.

Keep your goal foremost in your mind and "Never Give Up!".

We can talk about what S_R has to offer for you as a solution for your overall health and your skin concerns privately.

Good job on "eating clean". Sure wish someone would define that for me.

Rob

Do You Have Loose Skin After Dropping 300 pounds of fat?
was posted by Rob @ 9:39 PM