14KG down but feel dangerously close to relapsing.

Hi all

I'm a 30M standing at 177cm and my current weight is 138KG. At my heaviest in Oct 2019, I was 152.2KG standing naked on my scale in the morning. My goal weight is 100KG then take my time to get to 90KG where I want to spend the rest of my life at.

I've been doing very low carb, very low sugar (under 20G a day) and find that it has been working for me. I love roast chicken, brocolli, boiled eggs, salmon etc.. so I was happy losing a little bit day by day according to my digital scale and doing an occasional cheat day. I recently joined a gym and have been enjoying going.

I have only lost 14KG so far but it has gotten to the point where people have now been commenting that I look slimmer. I've been riding this high but eventually, people always ask "how are you going to deal with all the loose skin leftover?"

This has led me into a tailspin the past couple of days knowing that even if I lose 50KG over the next 365 days, I'll most likely have to deal with a mountain of loose skin. People who have lost a lot always say the weight trade-off is worth it but I can't help but stress out how I'll look even worse except have to deal with chafing, compression clothing etc...

My questions are (and I know genetics plays a good part):

1. How reliable is the conventional advice of lose a couple of KG (or less) a week max, do weights instead of cardio to build and tone muscle, moisturise every single day, set plateau periods of just maintaining for a week or two so your body can catch up?
2. How many of you have had a lot of skin leftover since 50KG is the size of a small human but I have also heard people who have done it slowly don't have as much?
3. Has anyone here done the surgery to remove excess skin? When did you bring it up with your doctor/GP and when did you know that your skin just wasn't going to 'bounce back'?

I dunno guys, I felt like I was on a massive high this past couple of months especially being very disciplined over the holidays but now I'm not even wanting to get out of bed knowing, dreading, what is to come.

Maybe I am being too dramatic. I have an overseas trip in exactly a year which I was looking forward to having a new body for but now I don't even know...

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