Post Ops: Am I the only one who's ever felt this way??

This is something I'm really curious about. I've noticed lately that I am paying attention to EVERY inch of what is going on with my body image. If you ever see my 272lb. picture (next to the most I've ever weighed in my life) from the 1990's up to September 2002, you might understand why I feel the way I do now. After childbirth, the more I began gaining weight, the more I hated to look at myself in the mirror. I'd see rolls, rolls, and more rolls of fat that, to me, was disgusting and to *ME* looked so nasty!! The more I saw, the more I vowed to get on another "di-et". Now, after this dramatic, exhilarating, forever life-style and life-saving WLS, I'm finding that I'm visualizing this new body image...it's like I want every part of me to be *just about perfect*. Don't miss it now, I said "just about perfect". Talking to a couple of other Christian friends and and co-workers, they said I was suffering from the "Barbie Doll Syndrome" and that I would never fit the mold, that I'd been out of shape for too long and I'm too old. I've been told that the WLS has REALLY taken YEARS off my face!! Has anyone else felt this way about they way you look now? Have you wanted to look like a Barbie Doll IN ADDITION to BEING, FEELING and LOOKING healthy? I just want to know if I'm the only one that has ever felt this way or so *involved* with how your body looks. I'm 5' 2" tall. LAP RNY 9/3/02~~265/158/115-126 Hadiyah McCutcheon, a.k.a.~~~

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