Observations: Parts of me zig while the rest is zagging

Lately, I've noticed more and more frequently that my skin is starting to go in opposite directions of most of my body. When I turn quickly, I get some recoil action from my panni, or my thighs. If I walk quickly enough, I get some slapping going on. It entertains my 3-year-old.

Sigh. My better health, extra energy and the ability to do so many more things is great and worth it all. But I think within a couple more months I'm going to have to be squeezing myself into a full body wet suit-like shaper just to protect people in close proximity from getting whacked with my extra skin.

When I take a bath (which is amazing that i can do that in itself -- couldn't do it when I started) my panni floats to the surface, just like oil on water. It's very fluid.

I'm so glad I have BMI >50 to share these awful but true things.

It's amazing what putting on all that extra weight can do to your body. And with my loss, I'm starting so see more and more of it -- like when the tide's real low and old shipwrecks start sticking out of the mud.

I'm so glad I have a sense of humor to deal with it.

Take care everybody!!

Thanks for the laugh this morning!!  I can so totally relate.
Sometimes, I get naked, get in the full length mirror and do the twist!!..just to see it swing.  It's quite comical.  And althought spanx are going to become a wardrobe staple, its all worth it when I fit behind the steering wheel, in a rest. booth, when my partner can get her arms alllll the way around me, when I can clean the house and not have to take so many breaks, walk a mile.....the list goes on.
You're so right about what extra weight does to a body.  I just never realized.  Yesterday I was absent-mindedly feeling my forearm.  Did you know you have a bone there?  Amazing, huh?
April

Oh, this is PRICELESS. I'm glad you are enjoying your fat flapping, Patti. I'm ready to have some flapping going on as I'm still in the FULLY INFLATED stage. I'm SO TIRED of that feeling of having my belly rest on my legs. EEWWWW.

I had this ugly black looking lesion on my back, but I couldn't GET to it to really see it. I felt like a woman encased in a fat suit, only it wasn't a suit. Fortunately I have a good doctor and she looked at it for me and told me to quit obsessing. It's something benign.

April, I can tell I'm BEGINNING to lose weight because I can feel ankle bones. I find bones to be fascinating too. How cool.

I once taught 2 yr olds Vacation Bible school in the evening. They were too young to be separated from their parents; it was past their bedtime. We were all frazzled. One little girl comforted herself by rubbing the hair stubble on my unshaven legs as I read them a story. Fat slapping, leg stubble, anything to entertain a small child. :)

I get great entertainment from how my thighs and panni flap in the pool. Now if I could just turn that wave action into propulsive force....

It's a fat flap tidal wave, save the small children!!! Shall we all dress as bats next Halloween and flap our wings??

I know what you mean Patti--when I shower in the morning, I hear noise from the fat flapping which serves to wake me up in the morning and that is before coffee.

Keep your sense of humor--I know some days that saves me too.

Sylvia

I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN, JUST CALL ME SHAR PEI!  WHEN I WAS FAT I LOOKED LIKE THE MICHELIN TIRE MAN  BUT AT LEAST NOW  I LOOK DAM GOOD WITH MY CLOTHES ON...................

Ha, I'm dying over here, laughing & relating! My last 20 lbs I've lost (I've lost over 130 at my 7-month surgiversary yesterday, yay!)is when I started hearing & feeling the arm flaps beat their wings! I look around to see if anyone else has noticed--not yet!

And talking about bones emerging--all of a sudden I'm continually nicking the front of my shin when shaving cuz now there's actually a shinbone uncovered from years of helpful padding, ha! Definitely tricky shaving the loose-skin fatsuit that covers my thighs now! I was delighted to feel and see the emerging collarbone that's just started to show! These changes are bad in a very good way, I guess!

~Linda in S FL
(who successfully survived her 1st post-op Halloween!

SOOOO funny!  I ran (yes, ran) up over the stairs the other morning in my pj's and my panni was slapping on my legs.  It sounded so funny.  And for everyone here, there not "batwings" their "angelwings"!!!  Right? We should try to put a positive twist on our new emerging parts.

But its all worth the better health.

 i love the ladies of this board.. an how we can totally relate to our ever so changing bodies... an be able to laugh an comfort each others worries....  its crazy.. all the lil things under-average size ppl  over look being able to do.. that once we can do its like woohoo....  just soakin in the tub an shaving my legs was impossible last yr this time...  strange how other women complain... ugh i have to go shave my legs... an all i can think IM GONA GO SHAVE MY LEGS!!! lol  and get this.... all those yrs on so many meds... 22 pills a day for last 8 yrs... only thing in my pill caddy's now  is vitamins an calcium now WOOOOOT~ hows that for getting healthier... CRAZZZZZZY! im still having some dizzy/ fainting spells doc is sending me to a specialist endocronologist. spellin? to find out why my bp is droppin so low an see if thats the reason im  having the spells... also seeing kidney specialist for family history reasons... an psych to deal with all the changes... and anxiety of actually going out in public again  eventually.. anyhow... much  and  to all.... i luv my "angel wings"  least they can fit in a 2X top LOL  an eventually  something smaller..