EXCESS SKIN after losing 200 pounds

Yup, we could be twins, except you have a waist and I don't seem to. Maybe once the hernia is repaired I will. Truth is, I've never been without a belly, fatty or lose skin, so once I have plastics, it will be really strange to just see a flat stomach.

Part of me wishes to know just how AWESOME I could be without all this excess, but a BIGGER part of me doesn't think the pain is worth having my curiousity satisfied.

If I wasn't going in for a hernia repair, I wouldn't bother either.  I'm really too old to care, have no problems (except for how much it jiggles when I do my tap dancing class), and it doesn't bother DH.  But since I have to go under the knife anyway...  That's why I'm putting off the hernia/LBL as long as I can because I don't want to deal with the pain and recovery again.  Especially since I feel so good right now, except for the occasional hernia flareup.  LOL

Jan

Your AMAZING! Very brave! Thank you so much for sharing!!

Well it was nearly 3 am, I'd been gradin papers for two hours and discovered how much pain standing for two hours was....so I took another pain pill....and so I might have had fewer inhibitiions.... but I do feel it is an important if sensitive message.

Hey Lady where did you get my pics I swear this is me

My secret is out.... I just trolled the 'net looking for pictures LIKE me.

You look a lot smaller than a size 12.  My whole tummy is covered in lovely stretch marks, so I fear that mine will look awful, and not even a panni/tt will fix it.  I wear tank tops all the time, so I worry about the bat wing arms as well.  I can't wear long sleeve shirts.  Hell, I hate wearing jackets.  I'm trying to keep in mind that if being healthy means I'll have a bunch of saggy skin, then I'm OK with that and I'll never have that perfect model body.  But there is always that small part that wishes...

I tried to add you as a friend, but it's not letting me.

A friend sent me those jeans, and I think they are from earlier in the vanity sizing craze, because I didn't fit into them until I fit in a size 10 off-the-rack..... I'm wearing a size 10 comfortably, but those are my favorite jeans because I just feel tiny in them.

I remember when hubby was doing the laundry, he said "I think we found a pair of my daughter's jeans when we did the laundry, because there's a pair of jeans here that are too small" and I smiled and said "nope, those are mine"..... he can't get over how tiny my clothing is now! 

I live in Arizona... and the picture I posted at the end of the thread is the type of shirt I wear all the time in teh warmer months....which are, you might guess, quite plentiful here. I am a teacher too, exposed to the cruelty of fashion-conscious teenagers..... but I still wear my batwings with pride. I am what I am, and I truthfully don't think that people think much about it. I think they might kind of go "eww" but they get used to it, and get over it because I don't make a big deal about it.

One thing that helped me was a lot of people watching prior to surgery..... I saw batwings and flubber thighs and thin people and fat people and I realized that the majority of humanity aren't really going to give a flip about what I look like, and I have to OWN it and who I am, rather than be frightened or hide who I am.

I think this has helped me a great deal!

I had a bunch of friend requests but didn't look to see if yours was there.... there should be an "add friend" button right beneath my posst that you can click.

Love you more with every post.  Thanks for sharing something so personal.  I have a lot of the same look happening. 

And thanks for making me literally LOL (in my office) at the phrase "hippopotamus sized vagina lips".  Too funny.  And sadly true.  :-P