I weighted in last Wed. I wasn't really expecting to have lost much if anything because I didn't get all my walking in this last week, so I was very suprised to have lost 2.6 pounds!! Woo hoo! Not long till reaching my goal now! I have alot of loose skin. My dh thinks that if I exersize that the loose skin will shrink. Hmmm..... I don't think so. It may seems like it is shrinking if I am building muscle. But in my opinion it's not going to go away fully just with exersize. Anyone have an opinion about that? I went to the Dr the other day, the nurse who checked me asked me to step on the scale. I did.... He looked at my chart, then at me and said are you Shelly _____ I said, yes? He said wow you have lost ALOT of weight since you were here last. I asked how much I weighed the last time I was in, he said "220 lbs" and that was Dec of 2005. I don't think he believed that I was actually the person listed on the chart!! lol That is a good feeling!! I did the most stupidest thing last week, but I am sure I am not the only one and I won't be the last!! I was at work, on my first break I used the rest room just as I was about to open the stall door my cell phone slipped out of my jacket and into the toliet!! Now mind you as my phone fell into the toliet the toliet was in the middle of it's turbo flush, I only saw my phone for a split second as it made it's exit. I stood there with my mouth hanging open, for one I was in shock that my phone just vanished before my eyes down a toliet and second I was shocked that it didn't plug the toliet.
Posted By: Krazyfrazzledmom
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12/03/2006 05:31
Oh my!
First, BIG HUGE CONGRATS on being so close to your goal! I am so amazed at your progress. I am definitely going slower than you are, but I have wondered if speed of weight loss has anything to do with loose skin. Because having loose skin is one of my biggest worries too, only because I would prefer NOT to have to consider any kind of surgery to remove it. I've seen pictures and the scars scare me. So I have heard people say if you lose it slow you won't have as much loose skin. I have no idea whether or not that is true. I'm no where near close enough to my goal to say, with 67 pounds remaining.
As to your phone ... OH MY, how awful! LOL I'm not sure even if you HAD been tempted (or able) to pull it out that it would have been salvageable. What better excuse to get a new one! :)
Shelly, I tried to email a reply to you but my emails are bouncing back - it says your ISP is blocking me! So then I tried using the "Contact Me" on your Extrapounds blog and that won't work either!
Anyway, I have no trouble adding friends ... I can't add myself to check my name, so I had my husband create a dummy account and he added me as a friend just fine ... hmm. He did use "Anna down under" as the name, and it worked. I am not sure what to tell you! Can you add anyone else?
when I read about your cell phone's aquatic plunge! Sounds exactly like something that would happen to me. And how do you explain it to your cell phone company??? They probably hear lots of crazy stories like that, you reckon?
As for your skin . . . it depends on your age. The younger your are, the more likely it'll tighten back up some. As you age, your skin looses collegen and gets actually thinner. Once it's stretched out, it doesn't shrink back. Building muscle underneath does help alot, but you don't want to fill up the skin with as much bulk muscle as there was with fat. There are cosmetic surgeries to remove the excess skin. I have a friend that removed over 25 lbs of excess skin from her arms, legs, belly and chest. This was done in 3 separate surgeries. She looks great, but there are scars. She lost over 200 lbs. in 2 1/2 years. Do your research on cosmetic surgeons if you decide to go this route. A bad surgeon can really mess you up if he takes off too much skin or too much at one time. My friend used a surgeon in Shreveport, LA. Can't remember his name.
