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Quote From: shawn_m

I would like to point out to those of you who are complaining or are scared of having loose skin.  What is more important to you in the long run?  Do you want to lose the weight and live or stay overweight, be ridiculed, and finally die at a young age while having people gawk at your titanic coffin at your funeral?  Either way you look at it, the only benefit is to lose the weight and live.  Even if you do have loose skin, you'll be alive and you'll be thin.  Skin can also be removed!  Don't make 'appearance' an issue when it's really your LIFE that is in danger!

Also, I would like to point out something.  Weight training helps A LOT when it comes to tightening skin.  Lifting heavy weight causes your body to increase a hormone called HGH (Human Growth Hormone).  This hormone is responsible for the tightening of skin and the enlargement of muscle.  The more muscle you have, the less chance you'll ever gain back any of that weight since every pound of lean muscle you gain, your body burns approximately 50 to 100 more calories per day.  So if you lift weights you'll become stronger and have less loose skin as a result!

I know a lot of women seem to be 'scared' of weight lifting because they think they'll end up looking like a professional body builder, but this is NOT the case.  Professional female bodybuilders take steroids.  If you're not juicing, you're not going to look like that.  You'll gain some muscle tone and lose a lot of fat just by lifting weights!  Don't be afraid of the dumbbells ladies!  They ARE your friends!