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Before and after 1:10pm on 10 Jul 2009 I'm really interested in this story because I think about it a lot and used to be really worried until I did some more research! I was 25stone... Now 23stone and am not planning on stopping until I'm at least 16stone...

I'm a little concerned that this will happen to me and have talked to many people about it (from doctors to skin specialists). Most are in agreement that I will probably suffer from some loose skin but the amount depends on lots of things... Mainly height/skeletal frame of the person... Also the fact that I'm not doing it the exteme way using a gastric band will help minimise it... I agree with greenwaterfairy about the problems of losing so much weight so quickly... Your body doesn't have time to adjust... I'm taking my time and losing 1-2lbs a week... I think it's by far the more sensible solution than asking the already stretched NHS for help on something that they shouldn't need to help people with.

We spend too much of our lives living in a "I want it now" society... It took me 25yrs to put on 25 stone... I'm not saying I'm going to take another 25yrs to get it off again but I'm happy in the knowledge that it'll probably take 1.5years (which is nothing really in the whole scheme of things).

Paul clearly has a small skeletal frame and, by the looks of the video, isn't particularly tall? (could be wrong though obviously)... I've been told that because I'm 6'2'' and have a large frame, the loose skin won't be as bad and, in theory, I should be able to cure it with toning exercises (something which I'm looking forward to!)... We'll see anyway... I just wanted to make a point that everyone losing weight shouldn't be too concerned and take things as they come...

Having said all that stuff about NHS, I still say well done Paul... Even though you decided to go down the gastric band route and not standard weightloss route, it's still a massive achievement...

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