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Depends on genetics, nutrition, how long you were overweight, how much weight you were carrying, where the weight was stored, your age, level of physical activity, and overall body composition once you reach a "normal" weight.
Women get pregnant and seem to not have loose skin very often, and that involves gaining and losing a large amount of weight in a very short period of time. Your skin is a very adaptive organ...if it lost elasticity easily, you'd have TONS of loose skin just from losing 10 pounds or so. Generally, the physiology behind "loose skin" is that your fat cells detach themselves from your skin to try to make room for new fat cells if you are severely overweight, and then the skin can become saggy because the fat cells aren't directly attached to it anymore from the inside, so it lacks support. Couple this fact with fast weight loss and you have a recipe for disaster because your skin can not keep up with the volume of shrinking fat cells.
Also, if you DO have loose skin, it will tighten up over time. The thing here is to worry about getting to your normal weight first, because it's hard to predict if you'll have loose skin while you're still actually overweight. If you get to a normal weight and have loose skin, you should wait a year and see how it bounces back...that's actually a bit of a requirement for a tummy tuck surgery because it's often not necessary to go to surgery since it can fix itself in time. Furthermore, what people often perceive to be loose skin is generally just fat that still needs to be burned off. Skin is EXTREMELY thin...all seven layers make up less than 1/16th of an inch, so if you can grab on to a part of flesh and it feels thick inside, it's probably still fat. On top of all of this, don't neglect that you need a proper body composition at your normal weight, you might hit 150 or whatever and still be 25% body fat.
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