Best skin tightening treatments for body after 50 pound weight loss? (Photos)

Hi, AnnS2023,
Thank you for your question. There are many options for "skin tightening," but generally your return on these "minimally invasive" interventions will be mild at best. As you noted, the best solution would likely be surgical, which will give you the best result and help you avoid wasting money on multiple treatments that won't give the results you are looking for. Many patients end up trying multiple different modalities only end up dissatisfied and eventually do undergo surgery.As always, please reach out to a board certified plastic surgeon for an in person consultation and to determine what options would be best to address your specific concerns.
Hope this helps!

This is a very common problem we are seeing now with everybody losing weight from either weight loss surgery, medications, or life changes. Patients who have lost a lot of weight tend to have excess skin in several areas, in your situation that includes the leg and abdomen as you have noted, but the back and buttock may also be involved as well. I bring that up because an extended abdominoplasty or a circumferential body lift may also address some of the outer upper thigh laxity and the abdominoplasty component would adequately treat the front of your abdomen. The thighs may be amenable to a vertical incisions thighplasty, where excess skin is removed from the thigh to remove redundant skin. This involves making an incision along the inner side of the leg. I would not necessarily recommend having those surgeries performed together though just because they are competing forces on the skin near the incision and may lead to unnecessary wound after surgery. But if your arms or breasts were areas that were concerning you, those may be able to be addressed at the surgery for your trunk.