Quite a lot to be honest so I’m not a great example here.
i work out 5-6 days a week as said . I do about 15 mins in the morning, in the house before I do anything else.ma mix of planks, squats, core etc, then I tend to go 30 -45 mins in the gym, I have a home one. Running made ghe biggest difference to my core. I tend to run fast on the treadmill for ten to twenty mins, I then do things like 10 mins on rower, ten on bike, eliptical or climber, all max resistance, then every other day I do full upper body weights.
no one needs to do this much, I enjoy it, but muscle is key. I’d say make sure you move and try to exercise most days, even if only for 20 mins, and focus on strength.
one thing id say is losing weight is just a part of the story, you really do need to work out snd do strength training, as you lose weight, and eat your protein. Min 1g per kg of body weight.
Becaude sadly I can promise if you don’t, lose skin will be the least of your issues when you hit goal, your body will look like a melted candle,
protecting muscle at all costs during the weight loss phase is critical. It’s impossible or nearly impossible to build muscle in a defecit, but you want to lose fat and not muscle, as much as possible, then when you hit goal go into body recomp maintaning your weight, losing any remaining fat you have in excess and replacing it with muscle. Up your protein to a min of 1,5g per kg of body weight, take 5g of creatine daily.
i also moisturise daily, all over, I dint know if it’s the product or the massage motion, but it hugely improves skin tone and I drink 3 litres of water, hydrated skin always looks better.
muscle is active, it burns a lot more cals than fat when at rest.. So the more you have the more you can eat when at goal. And it’s key for core stability. Ie being able to get up out a chair when we are older, without help.
A lot of loose skin is due to poor muscle tone, particularly bingo wings, under backside, stomachs and thighs,
ive lost count of the amount of posts and images I’ve seen from people who have not done it, their focus was on the number on the scales, and then when they hit goal don’t like what they see, with saggy empty boobs, flabby loose tummies and flat backsides, thighs with fat sort of drooping down, people who can’t even do a squat or hold a plank for a few seconds they’ve lost so much muscle. People think it’s the meds which make you lose muscle, it isn’t. It’s how you lose the weight.
Sure you can hide it with clothes, and it might not be relevant to you, but if you want to like whay you see naked or in swimwear,then this focus is just as important as the number on the scales. If you want to look toned it doesn’t happen without work.
now some people simply can’t avoid it, it’s genetics, how long you were overweight, how stretched the skin is, but it sure as hell helps everyone, even if not doing much for appearance.
for me, I had some light crepy skin when I hit goal, on my arms, some on my tummy, and some under my backside, which was gone within six months, when I hit goal you could, see I’d lost weight when you saw me naked or in swimwear, even though it was minor, now you’d never know. I have muscle definition all over snd my skin is tight. Just the normal texture of someone my age.
and I’m in my 50s. My daughter who is always brutally honest, when I hit goal told me you could see it in parts of me, and I looked a bit thin due to it, and a few months ago, said you jist look a normal healthy weight now and very fit, like you’ve always been like that.
I was the same weight at both points of these comments.
And when she made the comment that I looked a healthy weight, I was a size smaller than when she said you could tell, at a size 8 rather than a 10, due to dropping more body fat and increasing muscle mass, skin tightening as it does anyway, and being filled with muscle.
genuinely it’s really important,losing weight at a pound a week isn’t what’s going to stop lose skin, it really isn’t. Protecting muscle, throughout weight loss with consistent exercise and protein consumption, then going into body recomp when at goal is what will do it for you if you are able to avoid it.