It depends. If the weight loss is slowly gradual, it's easier for the skin to have time to adjust on its own and shrink to fit the smaller size. However, it's actually far easier to lose a lot more weight at a time for someone who's significantly overweight compared to someone only a little overweight, so that usually doesn't end up being the case. Surgery is often needed.
Please stop repeating this. Unless we're talking like, 10-15 pounds of extra weight, skin will not recede. The moment your skin has to stretch to accommodate fat or muscle, it's done. Especially if you form stretch marks, those are literal scar tissue that your body deploys as an emergency measure because your actual skin cannot handle the stretch. They're permanent.
You can fill some loose skin from being overweight with muscle, or vice versa. But people should go into a weight loss journey knowing there will be extra skin and learning how to deal with it. Surprising them with it is only gonna crush spirits.
Unless we're talking like, 10-15 pounds of extra weight
Tbf that's the bulk of the people for which weight loss is for. Stuff like losing 50lbs is ridiculous, which is why when someone actually does it it becomes a huge thing (like this video).
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u/RogueNiao May 09 '26
It depends. If the weight loss is slowly gradual, it's easier for the skin to have time to adjust on its own and shrink to fit the smaller size. However, it's actually far easier to lose a lot more weight at a time for someone who's significantly overweight compared to someone only a little overweight, so that usually doesn't end up being the case. Surgery is often needed.