need to vent

I cruising the main board just reading and stumbler across a thread about plastic surgey and I am blown away by the responses.   I am all for making your look and feel better but they are talking about I went from a C to a D and I really wish I had a DD. Alot of I wish I had a bigger chest, tigher abs, lipo, lifts tucks. etc....  What I don't get maybe its because I'm a guy. For the mst part all these people were miserible adn could barely move because they were 1-200LBS overweight. They have lost weight but seem to have taken a large dose of vanity, is this normal? its quite disheartening to me. I would thing I just lost 200Lbs and have my life back. and be relatively happy but I guess not. again I am not talking about the removal all the sagging skin but the "add ons" to that.

some people are never happy. what a pity

If there were an easy and effective penis implant, I might consider it. Scott (not that I really need it --- just saying)

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...yet another reason why the Men's board is sacred.

I think your being too hard on them.  For most of these people, it's the first time in their lives that they look "normal".   We live in a very vain society, where almost everything about a person is based on their appearance....i'm not saying it's right, I'm just saying thats the truth.   Studies done over and over again, show that better looking and thinner men/women get better jobs, make more money, are recieved better by people, and are given better job performance evaluations....a recent study showed that students give "better looking" professors, better evaluations then ones that aren't as good looking.   So, I don't think it's abnormal to want to remove excess skin, or to get a tummy tuck. In insurance circles, it's not even called plastic surgery, it's called reconstructive surgery.  Can people go overboard...sure...just look at that post several days ago about the woman who was starving herself to death.   I've lost almost 300 lbs, and yes I plan to get all the excess skin removed (as much as can be removed), because it looks abnormal.  I am grateful that I am no longer 500 lbs, and that I can move much easier, fit into cloths, movie theater seats, I can now walk more then 10 feet without breaking out into a sweat, feeling like my back will break, or have my calves start to cramp...but at the same time, this is the first time in my life that I'm a normal weight, and I want to look "normal" when I take off my cloths. Scott 

Hehe...you should see me looking at myself in the mirror after a shoulder workout. Then I work even harder next time, even pulling myself out of bed at 4:00 a.m. on a Sunday morning to do overhead presses and upright rows!

Of course, that does take a lot of work and is subject to disappearance should I take a 3 month hiatus.

Dave

Not to speak for all the crazy people out there, (just this crazy person), I can tell you; Miserable fat people make miserable skinny people, Miserable poor people make miserable rich people, Miserable (insert your adjective of choice here) people, make miserable (insert the opposing adjective here) people. Happiness has something to do with self body image, wealth, social status etc, but not much. More often, the "miserableness" is the root cause of the other problems, not the result of them. Just my two cents,.... your mileage will vary. JP

Ditto on Scott's reply for me.