I have also gotten the "you don't look like you weigh that much" from others my whole life! And in all honesty I think that is true, I am larger boned and muscular as well, on my dad's side of the family obesity runs ramped! I am tall too at 5" 8" and I am solid! When I weighed about 240 lb's my best friend was shocked when I told her I weighed that much, she said she would have guessed about 175ish.... now I weigh a little over 200 and I really don't know what I look like I weigh?? The PS I am wanting to work with says he would like his patients to be about 20 lb's away from goal because that gives him more to work with, he takes excess haning fat from other areas and uses it to reshape the butt and breasts!  I looked at your pic's, you look great! Congrats to you! Do you think you will be putting any before and afters of your PS? I plan to do that myself (and set it to private so only those I give a password to can see them). Honestly my arms bother me so much, I think that is one of the very first things I will have done, I know it is not an ideal situation but I would rather hide the scars then hide the flab, I am very self conscious about  raising my arms in front of people or wearing tank tops without a sweater over it etc...  I think I will add my story today, just need to get some stuff done around the house first!

Safe drive! Let us know how the PS appt goes. Hope you are getting lots of rest. Take Care

Ice cream is our biggest down fall. Last few nights we have been eating a lot of raspberries. He likes apple crisp too. That I can do low sugar. Any ideas would be helpful. Thanks

I saw my small town medical internist today. I just love him! He is older gent and very "old school". Got results of my colonoscopy and everything is fine. I have been ping ponged around to a number of specialists lately and quite frankly getting tired of it. As a Canadian I am very grateful for our health care coverage, but see a lot of over lapping and waste of resources. I digress... Anyway I have been polling the different specialists I have seen about WLS. Today I asked old Dr F what he thought and he said Debbie dear you are not big enough. At 250 lbs not Big Enough! Did I mention that I love Lovelove this old guy! Seriously though we did chat about it. He feels that it should be the procedure of last resort for the super obese. Told me that his patients that have gone that route are unhappy and have many serious after affects. Problems almost always develop with the bowels, stomach and endocrine systems. He is going to continue to treat me and my co-morbids. Not big enough! Priceless! Made my day. Awesome NSV!

Thanks for the tip! I am pretty close to goal, my goal is not concrete though, and I fluctuate in my weight by 4 or 5 lb's up and down, the last 20 something pounds have been the hardest and slowest to come off, however I continue to lose size. I always carried most of my weight in my hips thighs and butt, at my largest I was wearing a sz 28 in pants today I am wearing a sz 14 in pants, in Shirts I was in a 3xl and today most of my shirts are M or L in dresses before I was in like a 24 and now I am in a 12.... How do your thighs feel? that is where I really need the most work done, however that is where I am dreading recover the most!