Miserable. If I gain the weight back, will this skin go away?

Someday you'll find a man that will love you regardless of skin or no skin, fat or no fat. Think of it this way, the surgery has allowed you to get to a healthy weight where you can live a better quality life. You'll be healthy and around longer for your daughters than you would have been when you were 297. 

Good luck to you, and even though you're feeling down- Congratulations on your weight loss accomplishment!

What about your health? I guess your loser boyfriend left you with a loser attitude.

Anyway, it will get better. Just give it time. Happy birthday, celebrate with those who you love...

At least I have an excuse for my attitude, what's yours? Lame. 

Just calling it like I see it. I don't have a loser attitude. I know how blessed I am to not only be alive but also have WLS. "Gratitude changes what you have into enough, and more". You are beyond blessed to have awakened from your surgery, to have awakened every day since, and to have a community on here that supports and loves you--to the tune of 20-something replies. We've all had rough days. I've had plastics and STILL do not have a great body image. There are days I wish I had never begun this never-ending self loathing cycle. But you just gotta move on, knowing it will get better. 

Being fat did not make every aspect of my pre-WLS life bad.  Similarly, being thin doesn't make all of your post-WLS life better.  There are days that I feel every bit as poorly about my body image and my self-confidence in general as before.  In fact, sometimes I think I feel worse because at least when I was fat I could blame everything on that--126lbs., 2 plastic surgeries later, I have nothing else to blame, really.  

I couldn't wear shorts before, my thighs were an ungodly sight.  And huge legs frayed the inner thighs of all my pants.  My arms hang now but they were huge fat-filled chubs before.  

You're in an emotional state right now.  What's done is done and I think it would be unadvisable to try and gain weight back.  You never know where you'll add weight back on.  It may fill in some skin, but along with it comes higher health risks.  And there's no guarantee it will make your ex love you again (and besides, his love sounds highly conditional anyway).  Gaining weight back is not a real fix.