What is worse: Being obese OR having so much loose skin after their weight loss?

[anitak1982]

Cover up the loose skin with pretty clothing, she still looks amazing. Compression garments help too. But the alternative of preferring being overweight vs loose skin to me is sad. Your getting healthy, that should be your goal.

[klmrocks]

Originally Posted by AprilFlowers17

I was browsing through the Yahoo homepage and I came across this article:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/woman-sha...190537852.html

This young woman did a VERY brave thing by sharing pictures of the results of her weight loss with her followers. However, I feel SO bad for her though!

After all that she went through with the surgery and everything she's doing to eat healthier and exercise, she still has so much excess skin and lax muscle tissue to contend with. According to the article, most (if not all) types of health insurance do NOT cover skin removal surgery because they consider it to be a "cosmetic" surgery.





But, I would think that the excess skin that almost everyone winds up with after a large amount of weight loss could hamper their overall health! What about sores, bacterial infections, etc. that occur as a result of a person having large amounts of excess hanging skin? What about someone trying to stay active and exercise but it's difficult for them because of the excess skin flapping around and hindering their progress?

Why don't insurance companies take these things into consideration?

After reading this woman's story, I'm starting to wonder if this is the reason why so many people don't want to lose weight.....because this is what they're going to have to live with forever if they can't afford to have skin removal surgery...

She still had a long way to go until being in her ideal body weight range if this is in fact her goal. I was hearing not everyone has as much of a problem with excess skin. Pretty amazing weight loss. I always wonder how people can end up that much over weight. You really need to consume a really large amount of food to gain and maintain a weight of 300 lbs plus a day.