Loose skin/ strech marks

I got up to 186lbs when I was having my baby. Due to water weight, in the last couple months. Since I've had my baby I've lost 81lbs. I'm currently at 105lbs. I'm only 5'2.

I'm currently fine with the shape of my body. But, I do have some excess skin that hasn't tightened and strech marks.

I keep hearing you have to lose the layer of fat beneath so you're lean enough it doesn't have anything to cling to. Then your skin will tighten naturally. All that I've read says it isn't your BMI but your body fat percentage that determines, whether or not you still have layers of fat on your stomach ect ect.  When I checked mine it was like 33%.  They say that I should lose weight down to 97lbs in order to have a healthy body fat percentage. I don't think that sounds healthy.

I wouldn't mind working out more, or eating healthy. I already do that. More would be fine. However, I'm afraid it would be unhealthy to lose more weight...

Any answers to this concern would be helpful?

Hi,

I think you have done a great job of losing weight. You go girl. In regards to the loose skin, the only thing that will firm that is exercising those areas.   Weights are good.  Strech marks,  they never go away only fade some through the years. Good luck in you endevours.

Miss K

I have 3 kids. Two are babies and beleive me, there ar products to reduce the apperance of the stretch marks. I used vitamin E oil and coco butter daily after showers and they fade. About the lose skin, unfortunatley when some women get pregnant the muscles or ligament in the lower tummy are permanently stretched. A tummy tuck or tighting of the muscles will help that, but if surgery is out of the question try some ab workouts.

Im having the same problem, I realised Im loosing weight and getting flabby skin on my tummy (which was pretty big)....although I'm happy Im loosing the weight,  Im also concerned....Im guessing abs exercise is the cheapest and natural way to recover  instead of surgery. 

the loose skin under the stretch marks will never go away...

on the low tummy?

right above the pubic bone?

just hanging...

horribly...

forever.

a tuck to remove the loose skin is all you can do.

all i can do...

( three kids... eldest 12 youngest 7)

81 pounds is a brilliant weight loss.

congratulations.

stretch marks get SO much better over time.  i never had them that bad, but give it 2 years.  i've heard that tan helps but i burn so i don't.  i've heard that clinique makes a decent product (of course, it was my friend who worked there who told me that, so grain of salt please) but it's super expensive.  i had scars on my stomach and used silicone products and it seemed like they made the stretch marks in the surrounding vicinity look better too but of course that's purely anecdotal.