Help - old lady skin

[JustWalkingTheDogs]

I’ve just reached my goal weight and lost 20% of my body weight. It’s been a long slog of about 12 months, so about a max of 1lb a week loss. I’ve been overweight for about 8 years after various life challenges (so wasn’t over weight for the first 40 odd years), and I’ve been taking collagen tablets to reduce skin sagging which seems to have worked.

But, I now see my 80 year old Mum’s skin on my arms. Especially my forearms. When I twist my arm, my skin sort of wrinkles / crinkles all the way up. I am 52 so don’t expect to have a youthful glow, but I’ve always used body moisturiser, all sorts of makes as I would usually use what I’ve been bought for Mother’s Day, Birthday's etc.

Do you have any recommendations on what I could use?

Are you exfoliating your arms?

Saw this yesterday and anticipated countless knowledgeable replies …

What I’d suggest is that you start from the inside. Quadruple your intake of fruit and vegetables, wholefoods and fish (if you eat it).

If you have a bath, buy huge sacks of magnesium salts and add several fistfuls to the water as often as you like. (Dainty little pots are useless.) In between times, exfoliate regularly either with a shop bought liquid (relatively expensive) or with a homemade salt or sugar scrub. (Olive oil, sugar, few drops of preferred essential oil.) Then massage your skin generously with a pure, unperfumed body oil, every day if possible. (It’s likely some of your birthday gift moisturisers contain ingredients that really aren’t helping your skin.) It may take a while to see sustained improvement but it will be effective eventually.

It might also be a good idea to get hold of some weights and follow an exercise regime for your arms.

49 and have also lost weight. About six months in realised my arms had gone all wrinkly - have used those exfoliating gloves in the shower with normal shower cream every other day, and the wrinkling has reduced. Might just be time though, and my skin catching up with the rest of me.