How to prevent extra skin on breast while loosing weight (weight loss, pregnancy)
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Hi, I'm 19 and I just started my weight loss journey.I'm going to lose 65 pounds. I have huge breast no matter how small or big I am and I'm really concerned that will will have a lot of excess skin and that they will sag. I will do weight training especially for that specific area and I will lose the weight slowly. Do you think this is enough. What is your experience.
You already have "extra" skin. It's currently stretched and filled with breast tissue, fat, glands, and muscle. When you lose weight, it will be less filled, and -might- sag.
However, since you're only 19, it's very possible the skin will tighten to continue "fitting" whatever it's holding inside it. If you lose the weight slowly, the skin will have a better chance of "snapping into place" than if you try those crash or fad diets where you lose a lot of weight in a short period of time.
1-3 pounds per week would be a modest rate, if you're hoping to preserve the proportion of skin to everything that's under the skin.
At 19 I think you have a pretty good chance of retaining SOME elasticity, however you will have some sag. That said, a little sag is better than skin covering fat.
Great news on your journey! Keep us posted on your progress.
I am much older and lost a lot without sag.
My list:
- wear spanks or something like it on the shrinking areas. It will help support the skin as it shrinks.
- eat healthy - healthy skin heals nicely
- lose slowly - crashing off pounds leads to saggy skin and stretch marks
- pause your weightloss when you notice any extra skin - I stopped cardio except for minimum and focused more on strength training until it tightened up
- have a lower body fat percentage. Mine is 14-20%
- buy the proper sports bra for workouts. Large breasts need encapsulation style sports bras.
Don't do impact aerobics, like jogging--some docs warn that it's not good for breast tissue or female organs. I never have done that and when I was 49 and lost 20 lbs I got no breast sag at all, but I don't like the way my upper arms look. Weightlifting is helping some of that. However, asking other people isn't all that helpful b/c everyone is different. My dd has stretch marks from growing, but I never got any at all, even from pregnancy so we're all very different.
My dd has stretch marks from growing, but I never got any at all, even from pregnancy so we're all very different.
Me too, I got them with puberty.
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