Will I have alot of excess skin?

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Hi all,

Im 79kg right now 6ft2 . My friends say I still have alot to loose. I'm on reta currently 4mg a week.

Looking at my photos. Do you think the man boobs and stomach will shrink more?

Thank you!
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Ya I went and looked, you are at a pretty healthy weight ( according to science anyway ) for your height....
 
Apart from a bit more fat and a fair bit less muscle, my gut looks pretty similar in terms of excess skin, even some on my arms and a bit of ozempic face. Personally I am ecstatic about having lost enough weight to have that problem ( 145 to 67 kg ), and at least with a t-shirt on looks a lot better.
I must admit to being a bit skeptical about the effects of any peptides or anything else fixing it as I just do not think skin really works like that. Maybe more likely the younger you are?
So congrats on having that problem? There is always surgery if you have the money and the motivation.
 
You're pretty lean now (good job) but little chance the skin will firm up or get alot better than it is now. Do your best to maintain the weight loss for a while and see how you feel about living with it, so to speak. I lost over 300lbs and had plastic surgery, regained a bunch of weight (150lbs) and lost it again and could have plastic surgery again. I'm on the extreme side of what your talking about, but I know how you feel.

Plastics would be the thing that gets rid of it and depending in the UK where you live, you could look into a teaching hospital that does it cheaper as they train new surgeons. Medical tourism in India is a thing or other countries over there. If I was younger, time, money etc, I wouldn't hesitate. Good luck!
 
They run commercials here about a company called Sono Bello. They tighten up loose skin on women by doing some non surgical stuff. Don't know if it's real but the chicks look a lot hotter after the treatment. They probably do dudes too.
 
Congratulations on the weight loss. I wouldn’t be surprised if the upper portion of your abdomen became a little tighter with time, but the lower part of the abdomen and the lower portions of your chest would need surgery to get rid of I think.

Like a previous poster said, it’s still a great problem to have compared to carrying all of that extra weight! Strong work.
 
How much did you lose over what period of time?

Have you been exercising in addition to reta?

Afaik it might take a year or so for skin to bounce back, but that depends on age, how big you were, and how long you were that big for.
 
My guess is that if the skin was going to remodel to not be loose it would happen while you are losing the weight. I cannot see any plausible mechanism that would make the subcutaneous fat containing tissue, and the stretched connective tissue fibers that support it and give it it's structure, return to the original state. Some body parts definitely remodel over time in response to stresses, bone getting stronger with stress from exercise for example, but there are no active forces compressing that tissue to try to force it back into shape, and no biological processes occurring in that tissue that would make that tissue underneath the skin contract and tighten up the skin. The loss of tissue volume from fat loss while losing weight would provide a little bit of negative pressure, but this would stop as soon as weight stabilised. Injecting compounds causing subcutaneous scarring and contraction could conceivably do this, and I would be surprised if no one was selling this process, but is very likely to lead to lumpy irregular contraction that would look worse.
Compounds like KLOW and GLOW etc are advertised to increase subcutaneous collagen production, but not scientifically tested in humans. If they were effective enough to do this on such a scale as to meaningfully help this problem, I would be terrified of their effects in promoting cancer and tissue fibrosis in other body areas.
 
How much have you lost so far? It maybe time to enter a maintenance phase where you stabilize your weight for 3 months. Let your body understand its new metabolic balance and give it time to tighten your skin back up.

Somethings to consider doing from easiest to most difficult:
1) Enter a maintenance phase for 3 months where you keep your weight 2kg +/- your current weight.
2) During maintenance add a fasting day. There is some good emerging evidence that fasting helps with loose skin. Also look into "skin brushing" using a course brush.
3) Add weight training to help build muscle underneath.
4) Add a ghrelin/growth hormone secretagogue combo. This is not HGH, but spurs your body to increase its natural HGH production. I personally love the Tesamorelin/Ipamorelin combo. Run it 5 days on / 2 days off for 12-16 weeks during your maintenance phase.
 
They run commercials here about a company called Sono Bello. They tighten up loose skin on women by doing some non surgical stuff. Don't know if it's real but the chicks look a lot hotter after the treatment. They probably do dudes too.
So many horror stories in the plastic surgery groups about Sono Bello and even some lawsuits.
 
How much did you lose over what period of time?

Have you been exercising in addition to reta?

Afaik it might take a year or so for skin to bounce back, but that depends on age, how big you were, and how long you were that big for.
The highest I ever been is 130kg. Then got down to 85kg naturally.

That's when I heard about reta. Started taking it in November 2025. Like 6kg. I'm down to 79kg.

I didn't excercise while on reta.

I'm 26 and 6ft2. I hope I'm still young for natural improvements
 

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