Skin texture woes

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Hello. I'm on my 4th week of 5mg. Did 4 weeks on 2.5mg. Have been steadily losing weight since Jan 2nd (not sure how much as didn't weigh then), but I'm guessing about 1.5st in total. 2 months on jabs. I've got about 2st to go.

I take collagen everyday. Have done for about 1 month. I am vegetarian so it's not ideal, however I'm really noticing my skin going crepey. It's like I've aged over night and I hate how I'm looking (face, arms, neck etc).

I could understand it if I was losing quickly but I'm not.

I'm fair skinned, freckly and mid 40s.

Never really done a lot with my skin. Regret that now.

Always moisturise - face and body.

Please help!

You could try drinking more water and eating more seeds, nuts, avocados, EVOO etc. Would you eat oily fish?

Do you smoke? Do you use spf every day?

Honestly if you lose weight even only a couple of stone you are going to end up with some loose skin. The skin is like a balloon, when you inflate it, it will be smooth and taut. When you let the air out it will shrink but there will be wrinkles, skin can only bounce back so far. I’m only 31 and lost about 10kg in my mid twenties, I have loose skin on my stomach and breasts, not really noticeable but it’s there. I’ll take the flat tummy with a little loose skin over the gut I used to have. I wouldn’t worry too much about it, have a good skin care routine and eat enough protein and you will be fine

I eat lots of nuts and seeds. I drink 2-3l water per day (since being on mj) and I wear factor 15 daily moisturiser (upped to F50 suncream nowadays). I've also tried to stay out of the sun and in the shade all my life (obvs walking around I can't avoid it but I would never sit with my face in it).

It feels so sudden (and disproportionate to the amount of weight I've lost) and it is not skin in places that have shrunk a lot iykwim.

You've lost around twenty pounds in eight weeks. You are losing weight quickly and that's going to have an impact.

As others said - crepey skin is the downside of losing weight. I would suggest from my experience the best ways to deal with it are to make sure you are strength training so build muscle and to moisturise a lot. I use oils and body butter/moisturiser twice a day. Also body brushing.

This is also why losing the weight slowly is so much better for your skin.

My weight loss really sped up my ageing. I’m late 40s and was so fat the skin was stretched well enough to hide crepe skin and the majority of wrinkles. Once I dropped a few stone I suddenly looked my age. I’m not bothered about it though, I understand that’s what happen as we age and I have lost 5 stone which has given me so much more in other areas that the skin is, well it’s just age related changes.

It feels so sudden (and disproportionate to the amount of weight I've lost) and it is not skin in places that have shrunk a lot iykwim.

That sounds tough and something I too would struggle with. Do you have a skincare routine now? I'm sure Style & Beauty would offer a critique(!) if you listed there what you are using.

Just wanted to add my loss has been 1-2lb a week so not fast, just average I think.

You age quicker in your 40’s anyway. Wait til you get to 50! I believe it is not as noticeable in your 60’s. The only way to rectify loose crepey skin is plastic surgery skin removal.

You want to increase the turnover of skin cells. Get some Korean Italy towels, some Cerave with hyaluronic acid, a big bottle of glycolic acid (The Ordinary do one for about ten quid), and if you can spring for it, a prescription tretinoin from a dermatologist (Skin + Me or Dermatica online). And the mandatory tub of blue Nivea.

Don't use them all on the same day! Soak and scrub with the towels a couple of times a week. Glycolic 3x a week. Moisturise every single day and on damp skin after showering. Build the tret up slowly to daily or your skin will dry out.

Time does help a little, I’ve lost 5 stone now and initially my neck/jowls got a bit flappy but it does seem to be improving with time and moisturiser and collagen (no idea which is the most effective). Ultimately saggy skin is a cost I’m willing to deal with because it’s still better than being morbidly obese. At my highest I was around 21 stone, I was 16st when I started this time. I’ve lost weight and regained it many times over the last 30 years. I have used and abused my skin stretching it beyond its capacity to cope and I will never have taut toned anything without surgery but I look a hundred times better now that I did and I feel fantastic. So it’s worth it.

Thanks all. The regime advice is really helpful. I'll also invest in a body brush.

Ftr it's been 1st in 2 months and about 0.5st in the 4 months before that. The texture is not in flabby places, it's my face, neck, shoulders, chest. TBH, where I've always caught the sun over the years (despite trying not to catch it).

I shower daily and put an almond oil/body butter on wet skin every day.

I'm exactly the same. Suddenly a wrinkly tummy, crepey boobs and even the forearms. Really just since the weight off. I'm like you, very surprised and don't get it!
I use almond oil too. Wondering whether I need 'more' will play about with a different moisturiser. I'm a spf50 fan most of the year too.

Yep to the forearms. 😔

Yep, me too, haven't lost a great deal just over two stones in about 3 months, I wasn't that overweight to start with, and I have lost a similar amount in the past, without this effect, but honestly the skin, uegh. Am taking collagen and applying bio oil and clarins moisturiser but it looks disgusting.