Does having a lot of stretch marks increase my chances of having loose skin after weight loss?
I have a lot of stretch marks and I don’t know where they are from. I’m about 45 pounds over-weight (I know they are from that but I have A LOT of them for some reason) Anyway I plan on losing the extra weight and im afraid I’ll have a lot of loose/extra skin considering all the stretch marks I have. So, does having a lot of stretch marks increase my chances of having loose skin after weight loss?
There is an inherent elasticity in everyone’s skin, but once you get to a certain size, the elasticity decreases,” explains Jason Spector, M.D., assistant professor of plastic surgery at Weill Medical College of Cornell University.
The tissue expands and your body literally makes more skin by producing more skin cells. And those annoying stretch marks? “They are the artifacts of the breakdown of the normal architecture of skin,” Spector says.
“It’s far better to have extra skin than the alternative – extra weight. Sagging skin puts much less stress on your heart and metabolic system than fat.