How to avoid sagging skin and breasts with fast, major weight loss?
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Your breasts will sag, sorry. The reason they appear full now is that breasts are made of two things, fat, and glandular tissue which makes milk. When you lose fat, you will lose it from your breasts, too and they will become smaller.\n\nIt is so very important to incorporate weight training. You will burn fat, and gain muscle which will help a lot with the sagging skin lot over your whole body. This is the slow approach. Diet and exercise. But if you do lose all that weight that fast, you skin will not contract that quickly.
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Hello, here is what you need to do, if you are serious about losing weight and keeping it off. Eat 6 small meals a day about every 4 hours. Only the size of your fist, carbs in one and protien in the other. exercise every day, Monday cardo, tues upper body, wed cardo, thurs lower body, fri cardo, sat upper. Sunday eat anything you want and dont exercising, you do this on sunday so your body doesnt freak out. if you stilck with this you will have a great body. also drink aleast 8oz of water daily!
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First, for all of the "quick and easy" weight loss diet pill suggestions, remember, if something sounds too good to be true... it probably is, particularly if you have to pay for it.\n\nDon't target losing more than about 2 lbs per week. If you try to lose faster, your body will go into "starvation mode" and get very stingy about burning calories while at the same time very efficient about storing any calories that you do provide. And it will make you feel awful. \n\nThe most effective way to lose fat is aerobic exercise in the "moderate" fat-burning range, ideally first thing in the morning before you eat. When you wake your body is ready to burn fat and your levels of growth hormone are highest at that time. Later in the day it can take up to 30 minutes just to put your body into a fat-burning mode. \n\nAnother overlooked way to burn fat is by lifting weights. Skeletal muscle has very high caloric needs... almost twice that of adipose (fat) tissue. Put on a little muscle and you will burn calories all day even at rest. Be aware that skeletal muscle weighs more, so with this approach you may see your weight increasing while your body fat is melting away. Not realizing this often stresses folks who think they should be losing weight as a measure of fitness. Forget the scale, look in the mirror and you will be happy.\n\nTo lose a pound of fat, you need to eliminate about 3500 calories. You can do this by burning more with exercise or by modifying your diet to reduce intake. If you do a Google search on say, "swimming calories" you will quickly find a website with tables of calories burned for a given exercise. You can use such lists to estimate how many calories you are burning up with your routine.\n\nFor diet, keep a diary for a couple of weeks counting calories, grams of protein, and grams of fat intake. It is easy with online sources of nutritional information (type the name of the food and calories into the Google search engine) and packaging labels. That will let you quickly figure out where the fat is coming from in your diet. \n\nFat gives you 9 calories per gram. So take the number of grams of fat, multiply by 9, then calculate what percentage the fat calories are of your total daily calories. Restricting the calories from fat to about 20% of your total intake is ideal for a maintenance diet... that isn't overly restrictive. Of note, you need some fat in your diet. For instance, the body uses fat to produce hormones. Once you have a picture of how to modify your diet, you can drop the diary and just go back to it occasionally if you are wanting to tweek things further.\n\nIf you are trying to build muscle as a way to lose fat, then you may need to increase total calories and specifically your protein intake. I target about 0.8 g of protein per pound of body weight each day when actively building. That is far more protein than most people need in their diets.\n\n\nAloha
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that is very unhealthy, you should not lose more than 1-2 pounds a week.......and not to mention if you lose 30 pounds in 30 days your skin doesn't have time to adjust and it looks gross, all saggy
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The quickest way isn't always the best way or the right way for you. Here are 3 different approaches that work:\n\n1) The quickest by far is surgery, of course. Liposuction is fast and works wonders- but actual stomach reductions (stapling, bypass etc) have not only been proven effective for weightloss but also in reducing the chances you'll develop adult onset diabetes.\n\n2) Next fastest is to eat a diet of 80% natural fats and 20% protein, in 5 small portions, with a target of 1000 calories a day. This is like eating a 2 oz bag of macadamia nuts, or 2 oz of egg salad or tuna salad as a complete meal, every meal. It works- and for any significant amount of weight it's better than starvation. More importantly the high fat content of the diet ensures that your body continues to produce the hormones you need to retain muscle tissue- so you lose fat pounds and not muscle pounds.\n\n3) Probably the best long term solution to lose weight and improve your health is to follow a light excercise routine several times per week, and to eat a diet that is high in fiber and has a low glycemic index (that is- eat foods that are low in processed sugar and grains, preferring when you eat carbohydrates to try whole grains and natural sugars).
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I have a friend who lost 100+ pounds and her doctor had told her the way to prevent the loose skin is to lose the weight slowly and exercise.  You probably aren't going to prevent it in the lower belly area though.....that's the only place she has sagging skin....and it still doesn't look THAT bad.\n\nNicole
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Usualy when women lose waight they lose in their breast first so if you over waight try dieting!
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my husband changed his diet - he cut out fried food, sweet snacks, ate frequently.....and he lost weight but not in his face or belly.  Then he got a job where he was on his feet 10 hrs a day and walked a lot.  He lost the chins, cheeks, man boobs, and fat neck.  If I were you I would eat frequent small meals w/o fried food and walk, walk often as you can!
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I lost 143 lbs over 7 years ago and have kept it off-and I did it all naturally-no medical intervention! Since I was so overweight all I could do was walk. Forget about hardcore exercise! You need to take a 30min walk every night. Walk as fast as you can handle and move those arms! As far as food, all I did was cut out all fast food, junk food (snacks), soda and juice. Drink only water and unsweetened tea but mainly water!ALOT OF IT! Eat 5-6 times per day but very small meals. For instance here is a typical day back then for me: 6am-1 pack oatmeal and cup hot green tea. 9am- fat free cottage cheese and diced apple 12pm-chicken breast with salsa on top and piece whole grain bread 3pm-very small handful of almonds and raisins 6pm-chicken breast and small side salad with only lettuce tomatoes carrots and a fat free italian dressing. DRINK WATER THRU OUT THE DAY. If your anything like me I used to HATE water but as I made myself drink it- my body craved it! Still does! I am very proud of you for wanting to do this! As you begin to lose weight and fell better you will naturally start to change up your exercise routine as well-you will want the challenge as you begin to feel healthy and strong! At 31 years old now I feel healthier, sexier, and happier than I have ever felt in my whole life and let me tell you... I LOOK GREAT! GOOD LUCK- YOU CAN DO IT!
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From a medical standpoint, patience- breasts are made up of fatty tissues, and regular diet and exercise should reduce them slightly in time- however, if that's not helping, a breast reduction surgery may be necessary.\n\nCheck with a doctor and your significant other before resorting to surgery, please.
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Losing a lot of weight in a span of a short time is dangerous. Like all physical or environmental change for a person, it should be approached gradually. Even Mt. Everest climber go to lot of length called acclimatization to reach the peak. They hike up and down below the mountainside for many times before they attempt to scale the top.\n\nThe proper way to lose weight is to undergo weight management. If you are eating lot, don't drastically eat 1/4 of the volume of what you use to eat. Eat say just 9/10 of it for two weeks, lessing the volume by 1/10 every two weeks or so. That way, your body can adjust. And the craving can be lessened since the adjustment is neglible. This is the rational way to do it without adverse effect. By say 10 weeks you have reduced your intake by half of the original volume. Choice of food is also important. Plant based food is less in calories, and they have plenty of fibers. So your stomach  doesn't feel hollow because for a given amount of calories, plant food is bigger in volume than animal based food.\n\nThe gradual approach is also applicable to exercise. Lifting a ton all of a sudden, wouldn't make you lose weight. It will make you look like a wrestler. So the rigidity and intensity of your workout should also be gradual.\n\nTrying to lose a lot of weight in two days will not make you lose weight. It will make you lose the desire to lose weight.\n\nEnjoy life. There's more to life than just eating and watching tv, and monitoring both.
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WOMEN NEED TO STRENGTH TRAIN MORE! It is true that following a sensible diet plan and doing cardio will make you lose weight, but the key to looking nice and not deflated and saggy looking is weight training. When you build muscle, that muscle in turn burn more fat and it raises your metabolism and you lose weight and keep it off better. Do not worry about getting bulky, it doesn't happen in women, you will get great looking though!!\nI have maintained a 45 pound weight loss by doing all three, diet, cardio, weights. When I trained for a marathon, 26.2 miles, I cut back on the weights, adn slowly gained weight back, despite all that running, so LADIES< LETS PUMP SOME IRON AND GET HOT!
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diet and exercise.  It won't be quick but it will work.  Fast weight loss ruins your metabolism and makes it harder to lose weight.  If you lose it too fast it will likely be gained right back also.  Good luck.
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Fast with protein shakes....but the weight will all come back and them some. \n\nLess food+ more exercise is the only way to really lose weight!
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You could cut your hair and use the restroom alot. Also wear lighter clothing. Good way to lose a pound or two REALLY fast :)
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You should drink lots of water and exercise at least 15 minutes a day. Also try and stay away from salty and greasy foods. I've done this and I've lost alot of weight. So I know what you are going thru. It's also good to eat lots of fresh vegitables and fruits. Good luck!
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Dear Marshall,\n\nYou have already done the hard part.\n\nYou can tighten your loose skin, but it does take time.\nThere is no quick way to do it healthy.\n\nYou just follow the old axioms, day by day.\n\nEat foods that are healthy for you.\nEat slowly, and stop before you feel full.\nDrink plenty of CLEAN water.  You might want to get a water distiller for the best water.\nExercise. Ideally, find a way to exercise that is enjoyable for you.\nSleep enough.  Most people don't.\nDo not smoke.\nUse alcohol not at all or in moderation.  Alcohol changes the way our bodies do a lot of internal important things.\n\nThese things will work.  It might take a year or so.\n\nHope this helps.