In recent years, it has become fashionable to combine the concepts of “maintaining a figure in order” and “losing weight”. Lose weight all. However, there are indeed cases of the need for weight loss. If a person has significantly exceeded the weight due to overeating or other reasons, then, of course, he needs weight loss.
A problem that concerns everyone who wants to quickly lose weight
If the weight before its reduction was too large, then often at the end of the process there is an unpleasant picture of sagging skin. How to be?
Sagging skin after losing weight is the number one problem. Because it’s very difficult to call such a figure tidy.
Today, almost every lady has knowledge on how to lose weight, what is right and what is not. Therefore, those who really need to lose weight are diligently taken to work. And here is the long-awaited result. Scales showed the desired number. But the next trouble came, even more complicated than the first, - sagging skin after losing weight.
What to do? Turning to friends for advice, you can try various ways of how to tighten saggy skin. But if the result is not happy, the body is covered with ugly friability, then it is worth thinking about the correctness of the methods of its tightening.
Causes of excess skin
What to do if sagging skin after losing weight? What to do? These questions are asked by everyone who has encountered such a problem.
Of course, if a woman is young, overweight is uncritical, then after losing 5-10 kilograms, the skin will not become sagging. She will quickly acquire the necessary tone and will come in line with the figure. In young people, metabolic processes occur quite quickly, so the kilograms will leave soon and imperceptibly, and there will be no consequences for the health and appearance of the body. And women of mature age, from forty and above, the task of weight loss is very difficult. Metabolic processes slow down, fat is deposited in the most problematic places, and it is extremely difficult to drive it out.
That is why many people, in order to accelerate this process, which in the normal course may not give negative results for appearance and health, try to force things and resort to enhanced measures of weight loss. The result of this usually is that excess skin appears. Folds appear on the body. Since often on diets tissue dehydration occurs and the subcutaneous fat layer disappears.
The fact is that when losing weight, especially independently thought out, the body loses a lot of the substances necessary for its normal activity. Among them, there are those that just help maintain the necessary firmness and elasticity in the skin. Also disproportionate and improperly organized physical activity. The result of these rash methods will be extra skin.
It most often appears in such cases on the abdomen, hips and forearms. Human skin is quite soft and, if necessary, stretches well. But, unfortunately, the reverse process is very difficult for her, and sometimes this is impossible without the use of special measures.
Recommendations
If sagging skin has formed after losing weight, then corrective measures should be taken. Although, of course, it is best to prevent sagging during the process of weight loss. After all, everyone knows that any problem, including health, is much easier to prevent than treat the consequences.
So that the skin does not become saggy after losing weight, you need to follow a few simple rules:
1. Do not lose weight quickly and immediately by many kilograms. This is extremely harmful to health, and loose skin will certainly become. Normal weight loss is allowed no more than one and a half kilograms per week.
2. In the
process of losing weight, adhering to the diet, it is necessary to take vitamin and mineral complexes, choose a diet with the most balanced nutrient content. And by all means drink plenty of water or other liquid, up to two liters per day. For women over forty, fluid intake should be concentrated in the first thirds of the day. This is not worth doing at night. Otherwise, there will be swelling, which does not contribute to the elasticity of the cover, but on the contrary, loose skin will appear.
3. You should also use additional means to nourish the skin. Wraps, saunas, the use of nourishing masks. All this will help maintain balance in the skin and subcutaneous fat.
4. And it is also imperative to pick up moderate physical loads that are moderate in age and strength. Swimming, walking, playing ball, morning and afternoon warm-up are very good.
But if the moment of prevention is missed and saggy skin appears after losing weight, then you will have to get rid of the consequences by special methods. How to act? Now let's figure it out.
Sagging skin after weight loss. What to do?
If in the process of losing weight, the weight decreased not by a large number of kilograms, then it is quite possible to use massage, body wraps. Underwater massage is very good. When the body is immersed in water, it is necessary to make massaging movements not only through the body, but also along the inner layer of water. This will help to make the skin more elastic and supple painlessly and gently.
Beauty salons offer mesotherapy. That is, injecting injecting tightening substances under the skin, which will help saturate the skin with smoothing elements. Such sessions usually require a little, about five to six. But some ladies do not accept the discomfort from injections and subsequent small bruises. But if there is saggy skin on the hands, mainly on the forearms on the inside, then perhaps this temporary defect should be ignored.
Vacuum massage
Vacuum massage can also help . The skin retracts under the influence of vacuum, is massaged in this state, very quickly becomes elastic and toned. The only place where it is problematic to do is saggy skin on the face. Here the Tri Lipo Body method will be applicable, that is, exposure to radio frequencies that affect muscle contraction and also tighten the skin. This procedure is painless and does not leave any marks on the body, which is very important for carrying it on the face.
Sauna
It is also worth resorting to an infrared sauna. It will help both in eliminating the consequences of losing weight, and as a preventive measure during the weight loss process. It is also used by those who are desperately fighting cellulite. Of course, you should not give up the usual sauna.
Bathhouse
The bath is generally useful for the skin, saturating its composition with vapors and correcting the water balance. In addition, a large amount of sweat is released from the body in the steam room, without causing dehydration of the body, which also contributes to weight loss. But there are health restrictions. In the presence of diseases of the heart, blood vessels, this method should be used very carefully. It is also prohibited to visit the baths and saunas during menstruation and in the treatment of inflammatory gynecological diseases.
Wraps
You can also carry out independent wraps. They can be made with honey, mustard, chocolate and pepper - these are hot wraps. Cold procedures include algae clay, mud, oils.
You just need to apply the composition to the body, wrap these places with cling film and wrap yourself in a warm blanket. So hold for several minutes (30-40), after which everything is washed off the skin with warm water. These procedures are definitely not suitable for women who have saggy skin after childbirth. It’s worth taking such measures soon after the problem is discovered, and at first the young mother is still breastfeeding the baby and she is still quite weakened. Therefore, in this case, underwater massage is highly recommended. It can be carried out in the bathroom or while visiting the pool, which is not forbidden to nursing mothers.
Food
Also, do not forget about good nutrition, even despite diets. Be sure to eat foods rich in vitamins and minerals. It will not prevent weight loss, but will help saturate the body with the necessary substances for speedy recovery and the absence of the consequences of losing weight.
Citruses, berries, rich in vitamin C, B, vegetables containing potassium will help the skin become elastic, increase immunity, which also affects the restoration of water-fat balance. Oatmeal, liver dishes are also rich in B vitamins, which are important for the nervous system. After all, it is she who regulates the state of the body and increases its tone.
Meat, fish, and legumes contain a lot of protein. And this is the "building material" for the cells of the body.
Dairy products will saturate the cells with vitamin PP, which is very important for the skin itself, its composition and tone. This is milk, and cheeses, and dairy products. It also contains vitamin E, the so-called vitamin of youth. It is also used for the manufacture of cosmetic anti-aging agents.
Physical exercise
And, of course, you should never forget about the benefits of exercise. Perfectly helps to tone the skin strengthening muscles. Abdominal exercises will be required if there is a problem with the skin on the stomach. It is not necessary to download the press to exhaustion. You can just do deep torso in different directions.
The muscles around the torso will tighten and tighten the skin. You can also do tilts in the sitting position. To tighten the skin on the legs and arms are good exercises "scissors". They can also be done in different directions to engage various muscle groups in these areas. When the second chin is formed, circular deep rotations with the head and neck will do. Squats, walking and small jogging will help tone the entire body, saturate it with oxygen, which is very useful for muscle tone, and it is they that strengthen the skin.
Face exercises
There are exercises for the face, if traces of sagging and sagging are noticeable on it. The most effective is massage. But not quite in the usual sense of the word. Massage with facial expressions. You can build the most terrible and unthinkable faces, facial muscles will strengthen and tighten the skin. Facial expressions should be strengthened in the mouth and eyes. Intense blinking, squinting and maximum eye opening. You can make similar movements with your mouth. And you can take a pencil in your mouth and actively move it with your lips in various directions. This will train the muscles of the cheeks and around the mouth and nose. The skin will be smoothed, which means it will become more youthful. Well, a direct facial massage can also be done by patting, stroking the entire surface. To soften this procedure, it is good to use a cream saturated with vitamins C and E.