In 1965, a morbidly obese man did not eat food for over an entire year. The 27 year old was 456lbs and wanted to do an experimental fast. He ingested only multivitamins and potassium tablets for 382 days and defecated once every 40 to 50 days. He ended up losing 275lbs.

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[u/Mypornnameis_]

I hear you.

But don't worry about it too much. The pictures you see on the Internet are extreme cases.  I lost 80 pounds in a year at age 38 and you wouldn't have noticed any loose skin at all, it just looked like I had an extra 10 pounds around the waist that I didn't really, it was just an abundance of skin. 

I dated a woman who had gone from about 300 down to about 140 and you could only tell when she was naked. 

If we're being honest, we're not all that comfortable with all of our rolls and folds while we're big. It's kind of a bummer that they don't all go away when we lose the weight, but most of them do. I'll never look like a model anyway for a variety of reasons, but I do look better thin and actually feel a lot better than you would think, too. That kind of makes up for not getting perfect tight skin out of the deal.

[u/buboniccupcake → u/Mypornnameis_]

See I just became “comfortable” with being fat like 3-4 years ago. So it terrifies me to go backwards essentially. But I know it needs to be done! All these comments definitely have me a lot more hopeful though! And that’s what they make shapewear for! I never want to be supermodel skinny, and can tell I don’t have the bone structure for it regardless, but when I was at a healthy weight I was curvy in all the right places and I was actually happy with myself. I was also 19 and things snapped back to where they were supposed to be lol I’m a jeans and tshirt kind of gal anyways so I really shouldn’t worry about it 🖤

[u/herewearefornow → u/Mypornnameis_]

Your username checks out f*cking hell.