Skin question

[VTliftVT]

There was a thread below that had a similar question but I am wondering if there is anything I can do about my situation.

1) when I was younger, middle school and early high school, i was quite over weight. I got up to about 225lbs at 5'10'' and a 38 inch weight when i was 14-15 years old. I was a real fatty. Well I got into football and started lifting some weights and decided i didnt want to deal with the being fat and lost down to 160lbs in about 4-5 months or so. I lost a lot of muscle but hell i didnt know i had it anyway. So now I am a lot older, 24 yo, and at 240lbs or so at 6'1''. My skin has NEVER returned to the way I see most bodybuilders look. I am so self conscious bc if I am not at around 8% or so I look fat...well to me I do. I dont have the definition that most people do at 12% bf when I am at 8%. My skin just does not have a tight attatchment to my muscle. Now I am focusing on putting on some quality weight but over the years I have been so held back bc once I started to eat enough to put on weight, I started to feel fat and ate less. It was an endless cycle. I have now gotten over this fear of adding a little BF but still bothers me. Is there ANYTHING I can do outside of some surgery to get my skin to tighten up a little? I mean its been almost 10 years! ha

2) last question, sorry for the book. I had dieted down to 5% or so which was my goal to reach. Afterwards i ate whatever I wanted, that weekend i mean. I woke up the following morning with an extremely swollen face and mouth and all the definition in my face had gone (obviously due to the swelling). Well now its 1.5 years later and my face has still not returned to its defined state. Any ideas?

BTW: i was using 100mg EOD test prop and 75mg/EOD of tren ace when on this diet.

Thanks a lot for your thoughts,

VT

 

[abadseal]

Former fat boy syndrome. Surgery is usually the only answer, GH might help a little but probably gonna have to go under the knife.

 

[VTliftVT]

Former fat boy syndrome. Surgery is usually the only answer, GH might help a little but probably gonna have to go under the knife.

That sounds promising....i mean i dont have skin hanging off or anything haha, just not tight....but yea...surgery....damn.

 

[VTliftVT]

bump for question #2....any thoughts? ideas? similar experiences?

 

[bdp]

In answer to question #2, I doubt your face is permantnatly changed because of your one day of bingeing. If your face was/did swell its water weight from the test and the sodium you took in that day.

Regards to your skin, try gh. Honestly shred down to below 5% and if you dont feel that your skin has tightened, surgery is your only answer. Do a dunktank to test your bf% because I think your numbers are probably off, no disrespect to you or the person testing you. But the water tank is the most accurate measurement of bf%.

Keep up the good work. Losing that much weight is an awesome feat!

 

[VTliftVT]

In answer to question #2, I doubt your face is permantnatly changed because of your one day of bingeing. If your face was/did swell its water weight from the test and the sodium you took in that day.

Regards to your skin, try gh. Honestly shred down to below 5% and if you dont feel that your skin has tightened, surgery is your only answer. Do a dunktank to test your bf% because I think your numbers are probably off, no disrespect to you or the person testing you. But the water tank is the most accurate measurement of bf%.

Keep up the good work. Losing that much weight is an awesome feat!

i really appreciate the reply. i do agree about the water tank, next time i diet down i will use that.

outside of the facial swelling (which i could post pics up to show the difference that is still there which is fairly large) my mouth also started getting blood blisters occasionally. I had bloodwork of all sorts done and tests (such as std, hiv, and mumps etc) and nothing came back (this was over the past year). The closest blood test that was done to the time of the swelling i had low white and red bloodcell count. They contributed it to the hard dieting which i cut too much fat out of when going low carb. The later tests when I added more fat came back normal. I still dieted and lost a few lbs after this happened so it apparently wasn't "estro fat" from the cycle. Anyway, just throwing a few more things out there about this. We have thought it maygic to gluten or having a gluten intolerance but that hasn't been proven yet.

 

[VTliftVT]

one last little bump...sorry guys. just sucks having this for 1.5 years and not having any idea as of why haha.

 

[davidbb]

The facial swelling could be an allergy, sometimes allergies seem to develop from nothing, so the facial swelling may just be a coincidence.

Do you have asthma? this could be another possibility if you are using a steroid inhaler. Many people get puffy using them.

As for the possible allergy, try visiting the pharmacist and getting some anti-histamine tablets, if you have an allergy that you don't know of these will reduce the reaction and thus the swelling will go down. You could also ask your doctor for a full allergy screen, however the anti-histamine method is a cheap way of finding out if there is a possibility of an allergy (although it won't always prevent some allergies)

 

[VTliftVT]

The facial swelling could be an allergy, sometimes allergies seem to develop from nothing, so the facial swelling may just be a coincidence.

Do you have asthma? this could be another possibility if you are using a steroid inhaler. Many people get puffy using them.

As for the possible allergy, try visiting the pharmacist and getting some anti-histamine tablets, if you have an allergy that you don't know of these will reduce the reaction and thus the swelling will go down. You could also ask your doctor for a full allergy screen, however the anti-histamine method is a cheap way of finding out if there is a possibility of an allergy (although it won't always prevent some allergies)

i havent taken any sort of steroid inhaler and do not have asthma thank God. I have a prescription to all sorts of allergy meds that i will pick up tonight. I feel that i will be going to get an allergy screen soon if the meds dont work.

Thanks for your help!