Did you?

How many of us sported a fair amount of facial hair and didn't know what your actual face looked like prior to surgery?

After losing a fair amount of weight did you decide to shave?  Why and were you satisfied?



I ask because I remember a while ago someone commenting on how some people shave after losing a lot of weight.  I know I did for no other reason than i wanted to see what my face looked like.  I shaved all but my mustache.  I felt I looked like a bigger dork and much older than I did with my facial hair.  Needless to say I am growing mine back.

 I mad that original post but I don't know if I shaved after surgery.  I've had a beard most of my adult life even when I was thin before becoming super morbidly obese.  Yes, I grew up as a skinny person and became merely thin in HS and college.  I grow a beard very quickly.  If I shave in the morning, I look like I need a shave by 4:00pm.  I'll never forget when I took my girlfriend (now my wife) to see my Mom for the first time and my Mom said, "Don't you think he looks better without a beard?"  My wife said that she had never seen me without a beard.  The same exact thing happened a week later when I saw one of my aunts (using the exact same words as my Mom) .  We had been going to see my wife's girlfriend in a different State who lived near my aunt.  I wasn't just taking her around to see my relatives.

Goatee b4 and got the rny sick sucken in face about a year out and grew a beard to make my face look fuller.

I shaved my beard off, had just enough gray in it to make me look older.  Wife says I lost 10 years.  Ugly is ugly, with or with-out hair.

I grew my beard in high school, shaved it while in the Army, and grew it back immediately afterward.  Shaved it when I went to work for IBM, grew it back when I became a consultant. 

The wife says not to shave now.  Surprized me, because I never knew if she liked the beard or not...  She says the gray makes me more "approachable" and looks "distinguised".  Of course, she also wants me to grow my hair long and wear it in a pony tail...  So her judgement is suspect at best...  After all, she married ME!  LOL

Well with long hair you would fit the IT nerd look.

I've been rocking the goatee for 20 years and am just starting to think about shaving it off for the same reason as you did.

I know I grew it so people could tell I had a chin. My kids are wierded out by the thought of a dad with no beard.

I've sported a goatee for almost 12 years and only recently decided to grow a full beard. It was part curiousity (my 1st beard), part to not have to shave in the winter, and part to try to make an ever expanding double chin not so obvious. But I would definitely shave it off once the weight came off. 

Have not sported a beard in long, long time and with the exception of a few days here and there have sported a mustache for majority of last 30 years.  All I know is that till I got used to it I had a booger of a time getting used to shaving a bit of a "turkey neck" and around cheek bones.  Scrapped the hell out of the cheek bones more than once!

 I was clean shaven when I was pre-op and obese.  When I hit my goal in December I decided to try the beard and let it grow.  Of course it came in very gray.  I also let my hair grow.  Just last weekend, as I passed the mirror, I looked at myself and thought "you look like crap!"  Went to the barber on Sunday afternoon...got a haircut and straight razor shave (hot towels,etc) very nice!

I got more complements this week on how much better I looked.  That with the beard I was looking gaunt and ill.  My wife likes the clean shaven shorter hair...If mama aint happy aint nobody happy!

Oh well...some guys can sport a beard or stash and some of us can't.