Daily Post--2/28/08

I've lost 75 pounds and I still have about 61 pounds I need to lose so I'm sure as I get closer to goal I will have more and more issues with loose skin. I have known since before I had surgery that I want to have my breasts done. The poor girls are pretty bad and I'm sure I would like to get a tummy tuck once I'm at goal also but I'll have to see. I don't know if I can afford to do both at least not right away. Maybe eventually.

So far it doesn't bother me at all

OMG, the skin is just as bad as the weight! HATE IT!!!! Plastic surgery is a GOOD thing!

Yes I have a bunch of excess skin and yes it does make me very self conscious. I will probably never be able to afford plastics but thank god for push up bras and sucky in panties It's amazing what you can hide..just worry about when the time comes that I will have to bare all. Michelle

I am only 2 months out, with 38 lbs lost so I havent noticed it yet. Vivienne

Well, I've lost 62 pounds, and the skin is loose, but I don't mind it as much as I did the fat. I've still got 80 pounds to go, so who knows how I'll feel at that point. Jules

I have some excess skin but it's nothing I can't deal with. I'm lucky to not have as much as some...I refuse to get it removed as I've had enough with surgeries. I will just keep it hidden best I can.

I was 54 at the time of my wls, and after 30 yrs. of yo-yo dieting (lost 100+ lbs. twice and other amounts about a trillion times), I knew I'd have skin problems. While there is NO QUESTION that I'd rather have the ugly skin issues than the hideous obesity, I am VERY self-conscious of it. Oddly enough, my stomach (panni) is not as horrendous as I'd have thought (esp. since I definitely had a huge gut), and at least it somewhat flattens out under my clothes without too much of a visible "roll"--but my bat wings are very bad--and of course, they show with anything other than 3/4 sleeves. And my thighs are extremely wrinkled/rippley, so I am very grateful that capris continue to be in style!! I do not plan on plastics (although I would love to have several procedures--at the very least, my arms). Mine would be self-pay, as there is no medical indication in my case. Right now, I'm more concerned with getting off my re-gained weight than I am my excess skin. Jo

Yep, much better than being 166lbs. heavier!!!! I'm going in for plastics late spring/early summer if all goes well.

I do have some excess skin but so far no complications from it which would mean no plastics. I really have no one to be self conscious around. Maybe if I were to find a man and re-marry so that someone besides me would actually see it, I may feel differently, but for now, I will take the skin over the being big. Sally