DEAR DR. GOTT:
Over the past 18 months, my 28-year-old granddaughter has been on your no flour, no sugar diet. She has lost 170 pounds and uses a treadmill for one hour every day. Her only problem now is getting rid of the extra skin on her arms and belly. Do you know what sort of exercises she can do that will make this skin shrink?
DEAR READER:
First, I would like to congratulate your granddaughter on her astonishing weight loss.
Skin is very stretchy and often reshapes as weight is lost. This, however, doesn’t always happen. The longer the skin remains stretched out, the less likely it will return to normal. Your granddaughter has discovered this the hard way.
To the best of my knowledge there is no way to tighten the skin other than surgical removal of the excess. [Read more...]