Thank you! Yikes so costly! I would love to have it removed, but the costs seems so extreme.  I have heard from some who say you can shrink the skin and some who say you can't after such extreme weight loss so I guess I will just keep working at it and if not then maybe down the road plastics may be a better option when I can afford it..lol  Thanks for the advice! :)

Good for you for losing the regain!! Plastic surgery costs can vary greatly depending on where you live. Residency programs are the most inexpensive. I had my arms done in 2009 and it cost me $3900. I have seen them run as high as $15000. For my arms, I took 2 weeks off work. I was doing pretty well by day 10. Good luck!!

Congrats on managing your regain.  I'm there now after being ridiculously fit for a few years (2part time jobs and stress have derailed me).    No amount of exercise will address your skin.  And after six years its not likely that you will experience any further natural shrinkage.   Surgery is your only recourse.  I had the big three.  Lower body lift, brachiaplasty (arms) with breast augmentation and medial thigh.  Did them all within six months.  $$30,000. I'm in the northeast....prices are higher.  

Hi,

I am new to all of this. My story sounds exactly like Cherina's except I do not have a revision planned. I didn't even know that was an option.  I am a little over 7 years out and started at 325 lbs. My lowest weight was 167 and now I am back up to 193.  I didn't make it totally to my goal weight because I got pregnant about 10 months after surgery at the ripe ole age of 40, which was a blessing considering we tried for over 12 years. But I was satisfied with the weight I had lost because I felt good. Now I'm pushing 200 lbs again and can't fit into any of my 'bigger' clothes and am just not feeling good about myself.  I have no energy, my clothes aren't fitting and I feel like I can't get enough to eat especially at night.  After surgery I did attend support group for a bit but it was a two hour drive one way and just couldn't keep doing it.  I would love to be included in this group for support.  I'm under Dawnna Filkins in Illinois on facebook.  

Hi-  

I have not posted in ages but I am four years out and up 25 lbs from my lowest (I originally lost 200lbs)  and it has me crazy. I too have gone back to a low carb diet.  My issue is not as much what I eat but lack of exercise.  My work life is crazy and I am in the last stages of my MBA.  All of this said, I reconnected with my pre-surgery bariatric therapist and see her now every two weeks.   She is helping me with the psychological aspects and how to think more positively---not to accept the gain but not beat myself up over it either.   I am increasing my water intake and trying to take stairs vs. elevators etc.  

What I find strange is that I seem to be harder on myself now than I was before surgery.  I am also working with my therapist on that as well.  I continualy have issues between what the scale says, what my clothing size says and what I SEE in the mirror---as there are large discrepancies.

I don't have any enlightening news but know you are not a lone and it is a journey.

Best-

PinkSparkles