Question:
What will i look like when it is all over with?

I have been over wieght my whole life..im talkin since i was 9 years of age....how will my bosy react to this surgery? will it lose like a person that once in there life have been skinny or will my body struggle? Do i need to work 10 times harder than most people?    — Amanda G. (posted on February 22, 2002)

February 22, 2002
I have no idea, I'm not sure anyone can answer this. I do know they have digital body imaging progams for the computer. I think cosmo puts out one you put your head on one of their models...otherwise I think it's just a guess.
   — [Anonymous]

February 22, 2002
Thinner.
   — Goldilauxx B.

February 22, 2002
I, too, have been obese my entire life, since I was about 3 years old. I didn't even know what I looked like under all that fat! Now that I'm a year post-op, I'm finding that I look the same only thinner. Remember that this surgery will not make you into a super model, but it might make you feel like one, especially if you've always been obese. It will allow you to bloom!
   — Terissa R.

February 22, 2002
I heard an answer to the exact question one time...you will look like you were originally created to look like. I too have been overweight for my entire life and can't wait to see the final results!!
   — Cheri M.

February 22, 2002
No one can say for sure because everyone's body shrinks differently, I am down 80lbs and am sagging everywhere(lol) but Dana Barr has lost well over that and she is a knockout and looks wonderful and has had no cosmetic surgery at all. No matter how we look we feel pretty good after such a loss because it is so much better than we were.
   — Lynda T.

April 21, 2002
I agree with the above poster. It's fnny she said what she said about looking the way we were ment to look. I was thinking that as I am early in my loss of weight , but I thought to myself that I wll look as God had made me.
   — Dorothy G.

September 16, 2003
You'll be beautiful. And we are all happy for you. Doesn't that little voice inside tell you this already?
   — Louise W.