Help Please pictures included maybe considered graphic.

I need help. I had surgery 11/2004 and to date i lost over 100 pounds Im trying to lose my last 20 because my surgeon does not expect me to get any smaller than that and neither do I because I am what they call big boned but the help i need is with my nasty stomach. I have pcos so I always had a big pooch on my lower stomach but I swear over the past few months it has gotten worse. Click on the links to see the pcitures. I feel worse than I did before I had surgery because at least them it had fat to hod it up. I have to wear a girldle with everything and this just upsets me. I look at my early pictures from after surgery and it was fine but now everything has dropped and I know I still have some fat in there but most of it looks to be excess skin the way it hangs. Please take a look at this picture and tell me if it is normal. I keep going back and forth between a few pounds and with the stomach looking like this it has made my clothes a little tighter. I have started doing abs but do they help for bigger people? My next appt my doctor is going to discuss Plastic surgery which I thought I would never have to have but I see now that I do. I know you guys are follow Weight Loss Surgery members so please help anyway you can because I am getting really depressed over this. These are the two pics I took yesterday: http://images.kodakgallery.com/photos1768/7/24/48/39/58/0/58394824709_0_ALB.jpg http://images.kodakgallery.com/photos1768/7/24/48/39/78/0/78394824709_0_ALB.jpg Please help

I am not that far post op, so I can't say that I am in that place (although I wish I could say I was), but I have seen people in your place (friends and family) and a panniculectomy was their solution = plastic surgery. I mean, it's not going to make you look like Halle Berry, but it will take off the excess saggy skin and some of the fat in there and give you a flatter stomach line. There are two ways to go about it the panniculectomy and abdominoplasty (tummy tuck) or the entire body lift where they work on your hips and butt too. I think you should talk to the plastic surgeon about your options, but that's probably the way to go. It's a personal decision for everyone whether they get it done or not, but exercise can only do so much, then there comes the surgical blade. and you are not gross or disgusting... Jen

Hey Girl, Don't let it make you crazy. Excersize will help a bit but in the end for most of us a bit of plastic surgery will be needed. I'm down about 160 pounds and haven't decided to go for the tummy tuck or have them line my tummy pouch and use it for carying stuff. I will be having the same discussion as you will be having with my doctor as well. Just want to make sure I lose all I can before i go under the knife as it would be the pits if I lost another 20 pounds after getting it done. Keep up the good work and rest easy. Take Care, Julio

Hey Chocolate: Hang in there and wait till you talk it over with your dr. Congratulations on the weight loss. Joe