For awhile now I've wondered if I had loose skin, or if I was a skinny-fat person.I lost 100 pounds in 5 months, 2 years ago. Sense then I've been around the same weight, just more lean mass less fat, before, I was truely a skinny-fat person with loose skin, couldn't see any muscle at all.

Loose skin! I was doing jumping jacks in front of one of my mirrors and it has very good lighting around it, I looked into the mirror and guess what? Each time I hit the floor I saw my abs. Wow that sucks omg.

No more small cheats around the week, Totally clean.
2 gallons of water a day.
Lots of good fats
Lots of DDR! Gonna sweat this skin and tell it to go back to normal!

It is time to get this skin back to normal!

Any other ideas to get my skin to go back to normal?

I just read an article (a day or two ago, as a matter of fact) that said skin is very resilient and the loose skin will tighten up, but you'll have to lower your body fat further before it does. The article also mentioned something about a lot of people mistakenly believing that surgery is necessary to remove the skin, but apparently that's not the case.

So, just press on. It sounds like you're doing all the right things. :tu:

Loose skin is paper-thin and bunches and wrinkles. If you pull at it, it should pull away like cellophane; if you can "pinch" any thickness of it at all (more than two or three milimeters), it's not loose skin, it's subcutaneous fat.

I could sometimes see my abs when I did jumping jacks back when I was at 30% body fat. Those were some monster jumping jacks, let me tell you! That doesn't really prove anything.

Part of the internal transformation that goes along with most external transformations is taking control and responsibility over your body. A lot of people use the "loose skin" thing as a way of regressing mentally, of going back to that helpless feeling (It's too late; even if it's my fault, I can't do anything about it. I'm useless and powerless.) that was so familiar back before you got started. Thankfully, it's usually a momentary sort of backlash, and it passes. (And I can see you kicked right back into the empowerment by making a plan).

You're under a lot of stress this week, Larry, give yourself a break. You've made a ton of great progress, and probably there's nothing wrong with you that needs surgery.

Remember that each of our bodies is unique, and that we don't exactly know what we're going to look like when we reach our goals. If we find we aren't satisfied, we set new ones. That's why concrete goals are better than abstract ones (lose X amount of fat by Y date, rather than "get cut."), because complete satisfaction is elusive, and we at least want to know when we've succeded.

We can succeed and fail and succeed and fail a thousand times and have many, many victories - we probably won't ever be truly satisfied. Being unsatisfied is not failure.

Woe to the satisfied - it must be boring to be satisfied. I know it's apocryphal, but there is some resonance to the idea of Alexander weeping because he had no more worlds to conquer.

But we, we have so many! Starting with jumping jacks! :claphigh:

I did the skin fold - pinch thing and I do still have some fat left, so I'll reduce my fat as much as possible to see how lose my skin is :D

Loose skin is paper-thin and bunches and wrinkles. If you pull at it, it should pull away like cellophane; if you can "pinch" any thickness of it at all (more than two or three milimeters), it's not loose skin, it's subcutaneous fat.

I could sometimes see my abs when I did jumping jacks back when I was at 30% body fat. Those were some monster jumping jacks, let me tell you! That doesn't really prove anything.

Part of the internal transformation that goes along with most external transformations is taking control and responsibility over your body. A lot of people use the "loose skin" thing as a way of regressing mentally, of going back to that helpless feeling (It's too late; even if it's my fault, I can't do anything about it. I'm useless and powerless.) that was so familiar back before you got started. Thankfully, it's usually a momentary sort of backlash, and it passes. (And I can see you kicked right back into the empowerment by making a plan).

You're under a lot of stress this week, Larry, give yourself a break. You've made a ton of great progress, and probably there's nothing wrong with you that needs surgery.

Remember that each of our bodies is unique, and that we don't exactly know what we're going to look like when we reach our goals. If we find we aren't satisfied, we set new ones. That's why concrete goals are better than abstract ones (lose X amount of fat by Y date, rather than "get cut."), because complete satisfaction is elusive, and we at least want to know when we've succeded.

We can succeed and fail and succeed and fail a thousand times and have many, many victories - we probably won't ever be truly satisfied. Being unsatisfied is not failure.

Woe to the satisfied - it must be boring to be satisfied. I know it's apocryphal, but there is some resonance to the idea of Alexander weeping because he had no more worlds to conquer.

But we, we have so many! Starting with jumping jacks! :claphigh:

Good post :tu:

Good post :tu:
Agreed!

BTW, what's DDR?

Dance Dance Revolution, high intensity dancing video game (when you are experienced)

Dance Dance Revolution, high intensity dancing video game (when you are experienced)
haha, yeah I have it for my xbox and damn do you get a workout..but I suck at it :/ I miss pretty much every double beat <-- -->

haha, yeah I have it for my xbox and damn do you get a workout..but I suck at it :/ I miss pretty much every double beat <-- -->

just keep playing, its like walking when your a little kid, the more you do the better you get! I'm on standard at the mall currently. I remember when light songs were hard as heck.