Skin

What is worrying me, now that I've lost over 50 lbs (with another 50 to go), is what I call flabby skin.  Searching the internet its most often referred to as excess, loose skin.  So my tummy looks like I've had a baby, but unfortunately it is due to years of obesity.  I am now embarrassed by droopy, old-looking, flying squirrel arms, and wrinkly, saggy skin on my tummy pouch.

So what can I do about it?  I mean, what can I do about it lovingly and naturally?

Well many sites explain that it just takes time, it is caused by fat, so continue to lose fat.  Here are the main tips:

* Continue to lose fat.

* Moisturize a lot.

* Detoxify every way, sweat, dry brush skin, massage, sauna, go organic.

* Drink water. Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate. 

* Feed yourself nutritiously, lots of greens, use vitamin and mineral supplements.

The more fat you lose combined with the more muscle you build, the more your skin will tighten up.  Its not loose skin, its fat under the skin that you need to lose.

Tone the muscles in your body to help lose more fat.  Weight-bearing exercise to tone, aerobic exercise to sweat. Sweat helps to eliminate toxins.  Bathe with sea salts and minerals to nourish skin.

Time and proper resistance training will tighten you up by increasing muscle strength and size.  Two to seven years is what it takes to tighten up after a weight loss of about 100 pounds.  Be patient and continue to eat a proper diet to lose fat while toning muscle.

Drink 100-200 cal. of protein before or after toning muscles with exercise while drinking lots of water to stay hydrated. Exfoliate afterwards with dry skin brushing, then moisturize with skin tightening creams that contain aloe vera, hyaluronic acid, yeast extract, soy protein, vitamin C, E and A to increase the collagen and elastin formation in skin.

p.s. 7 July 2012.  Reading about the supplement MSM as a terrific detoxifier that really restores elasticity to skin, joints, etc.  Its supposed to work like a miracle. But the key is to restore health with great nutrition and to continually detoxify with exercise, massage, etc.  19 tips (skip #20).