How to tighten your skin after losing weight

Summer is here, and girls all like to wear beautiful skirts. They feel that they are too fat and the clothes they wear don’t look good, so they start a crazy weight loss plan. In the end, they live up to everyone’s expectations and lose weight. They can also wear their beautiful skirts and go out for dates and travel. However, they find that their skin becomes very loose after losing weight, and the whole person looks not very healthy and energetic. So how to tighten the skin after losing weight?

Why does your skin become loose when you lose weight? It may be due to the following three reasons:

1. Excessive loss of subcutaneous fat

Excessive loss of subcutaneous fat can cause skin sagging, because the skin that was stretched by fat has long lost its elasticity. So when it is no longer supported by subcutaneous fat, the sagging skin will become wrinkled and loose.

2. Low muscle content

When it comes to the causes of obesity, they are nothing more than these two: love of eating and lack of exercise. The most direct impact of such lifestyle habits on the body is the pitifully low muscle content. During the weight loss process, many people will choose unhealthy weight loss methods such as dieting at the beginning, or the nutrition cannot keep up with the consumption during the weight loss process, which will cause a large loss of muscle. Without the support of fat, the skin cannot wait for the strong support from its comrade-in-arms, muscles, so it is reasonable that the skin becomes loose and wrinkled.

3. Loss of collagen

Female friends must be familiar with the name collagen. As a nutrient that the human body must supplement to delay aging, an adult's body contains about 3 kilograms of collagen. It is widely present in the human body's skin, bones, muscles, cartilage, joints, and hair tissues, playing a triple anti-aging role of supporting, repairing, and protecting. People who are losing weight have a faster overall metabolism and lose collagen at a much faster rate, so their skin is more prone to aging and sagging.

Loose skin may sound scary, but it is actually not difficult to detect the signs of loose skin in the early stages. You can use the following methods to help yourself lose weight and get your skin back in shape!

What to do if your skin becomes loose after losing weight?

1. Supplementing vitamin C can protect cells from UV damage and neutralize free radicals, help synthesize collagen, and improve skin wrinkles and sagging.

2. Supplement collagen. By using collagen-supplementing cream, the skin's supporting ability can be significantly enhanced, or eating more foods rich in collagen such as pig's trotters and white fungus can also achieve improvement effects.

3. Eat a balanced diet and consume more fruits and vegetables containing antioxidants, such as carrots, tomatoes, grapes, etc., and drink more red wine and tea, which can protect the collagen in the skin. Avoid eating high-fat foods to prevent the production of free radicals and accelerate aging.

4. Apply some vitamin E oil or essential oil and massage to improve the phenomenon of sagging skin after weight loss.

5. Sticking to aerobic exercise is an effective way to enhance skin elasticity and shrink loose sebum. Sit-ups can effectively help firm the abdominal muscles. You can do sit-ups every day according to your tolerance level, which has a very good effect.