Slowly excercising and building down diet over like 1-2 years as opposed to going full diet and full excercise prevents a lot of loose skin I read.
A year of patience prevents potential surgery/self image issues.
look wise more and more guys like fit/muscled girls
[spoiler]sex wise-read somewhere it's like fucking a brick wall though[/spoiler]
i personally couldn't give a shit about body types. (As long as they're not life endangering body types)