EXCESS SKIN after losing 200 pounds

Glad I could bring your some laughter.

I am so glad you posted this and I'm going to share it with my husband. He swears that if I work out hard that there will be no loose skin and I'm trying to explain to him that it may help but there will be some loose skin, it's not like the skin can just disappear. All I can say is thank you so much for sharing.

My hubby sometimes implies that a bit of exercise might make it better, but I try to tell him that all the exercise in the world isn't goign to make a difference. For folks with just little batwings it might make a difference..... but it would take gargantuan muscles to fill out my skin.

I'm 30 pounds from 200 pounds lost and I resemble this when nekkid! With clothes on I look great though! I'd rather be floppy and healthy than full and dying! 

Floppy and health is FAR preferable to full and dying.

I alwyas wonder at people who say "but there's all that extra skin".... yeah.... sure, but it's ALREADY there..... empty or full, you already have it. In the end each individual must decide for themselves if it is worth it.

I'm fairly content with who and what I am though.

I have always wished that there was some way to how my tummy and mons looked before my PS because I think it really would have helped me to see someone else (ANYONE else) whose body looked as bad as mine BEFORE my body reached that point.  At least i would have been prepared. My upper belly looked very much like yours, but my panni hung much lower... and my mons... well, the PS said ti was largest he had ever seen. :(

I knew, since I had so much weight to lose and carried so much of my weight in my torso that the extra skin would be bad (and that PS would probably be in my future), but -- unlike you -- there was no way for me to wear anythign but tunic-length shirts even after I lost 185 pounds, because I had to have some way to hide not only the bulge of the panni but -- even worse-- the huge bulge of the mons.  I had a "package" that most men I know would have killed for!  I cried almost every morning when I was getting dressed trying desperately to hide it all. Some days I was nearly suicidal because I had gone through so much to lose so much weight and then ended up with a body that was even more hideous/deformed than the one I started with.  The PS was, for me, literally life-saving.  I try to remind myself of that when I make the payment on my TT each month.

Thanks for having the courage to share your pics. I ahve been very reluctant to even send mine to people individually because it would be mortifying to find them "shared" somewhere.

Lora

My panni hangs even with the top of my pubic bone, not enough to even contemplate asking for a panniculectomy. "luckily" for me I always had a waist, and most of my weight was in my upper and lower body, not so much in my center. My skin also has rebounded more than average, I think.

I have wanted to share what I see in the mirror, felt like it might be informative. Hope I was able to share "enough" without going overboard. These are to educate, not to tittilate.

Thanks for sharing.  My batwings are about the sames as yours and butt and thighs are my biggest issue, but with fitting jeans they look OK.

I do have a consult next Friday with a bariatric plastic surgeon (3 hours away) for the arms and will have him give me ideas for butt & thights.  I will go through with the arms, but depends on the $$$ for the lower body.  At almost 62 - I just don't know if it is worth it because I can cover the lower half up and look OK.  DH says we can use tax return and some other monies for the arms.

Boobs are bad, too but I think I will just let them hang and be deflated (or defatted!!)

I feel so much better.

Thanks for all the help you give us.  Appreciate it so much.

In 2009 I saw a plastic surgeon. I had hoped to have a breast lift/reduction that the insurance would pay for since I had a lumpectomy/biopsy that went hideously wrong and the surgeon ended up removing half of one of my breasts (it was benign too)... turns out insurance doesn't have to pay to un-disfigure a woman who was disfigured by the THREAT of breast cancer, only if I really HAD brest cancer. I was also feeling quite sick when I went and saw the surgeon, thought he was a pompous penguin shaped ass, and ended up hospitalized very shortly afterwards. I had no strength to appeal the insurance turning down my repair (it was quite reasonable too, about $7K).

After my latest surgery, I honestly don't think I CAN have surgery again unless it's emergency surgery. I believe I'm developing a deep dark phobia of surgery. I spent the three weeks prior to my last surgery feeling like I was going to die. It was NOT a good feeling. Not to mention the whole pain thing, and after watching PS shows on TV? PS is freak-me-out-scary.

So I'm a weirdo.

I didn't show the "boobs, maybe I'll go take a couple of pictures and show what they look like (clothed) .... I have to be very cir****pect in my sharing..... I am a teacher after all!

Can't we get paid to donate the excess skin for burn patients or something???

I'm just saying.... :)