Pixie Dust

Major difference already! You look great! Keep up the good work!

Girl, you are looking good!!! Keep up the good work. And please feel free to post more underwear pics if you are so inspired

The majority of the solution is genetics, age and how much weight is lost. The older a person is, the less elasticity the skin has.

It really depends on your age, how long you've been overweight and genetics!
Some people have what I call "tight fat" which clearly will reduce down with little sagging. If you're like me and already have "loose fat" or already have sagging skin, it ain't going anywhere!!

For me, it really wasn't painful at all. I was expecting terrible pain but really, it was more painful having kids than this....this was nothing to me. They kept me comfy at the hospital & pain killers at home. I often wonder if I really needed the pain meds, but I just kept taking them at the appropriate time, even if I had no pain, but I didn't want to feel pain...so not sure if I would have if I had not taken the meds. The worst part for me was feeling nausea, & that was caused from the pain meds. Once I was given a prescription for anti nausea meds which I had to take prior to the pain meds, all was well in my world!
Nothing hurt to eat or drink either. So I did accuse my doc of not actually performing that surgery on me! But just go slow with everything & pray. All will be well. Good luck to you!

First, I recommend wearing bloomers...

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What do you think?

Don't make me come over there, gman...

Dude! You're in the powder room! Run quickly! **Gman backs out slowly**...Just came in to save my buddy, ladies..

OMG!! Sounds so much like what's left of my brain! I also have ADD and so does my daughter, and the last several months has been ridiculous with word retrieval and staying on topic, even just losing my train of thought in the.. what was I saying? lol... sure hope it gets better with time!

Laura, I have word retrieval issues. Like you, I can see in my minds eye the object, but I can't think of the word or some other (off the wall) word comes out?? I was thinking that maybe I had suffered a small stroke. I was never that way until the past 10-12 years? Altho, I was diagnosed with ADHD so maybe that has something to do with it? My son who has severe ADHD has the same issue as me with word retrieval problems. He's not overweight.
Sorry, didn't mean to hi-jack Innerchild's thread but I've been so concerned. I hope my memory improves but maybe I haven't lost enough weight yet? In fact, today I had yet another issue....I was trying to tell my family a story of something that happened yesterday & 4 times, while telling the story, I lost my train of thought & had to have my family coach me on what I was saying before all connection was lost! **HELP!!!**

Actually, *I* am the queen around these parts, Laura and Pat are simply my yellow, capsule shaped minions...
My input for what it is worth. That old adage about treating others as you want to be treated? You can hit Pat with sarcasm and humor, you can lob a few f-bombs at Laura, you deal out honest, solid advice, facts or opinions to either, you can disagree, debate or flat out tell them to shove it up their assticles and they can take it.
In turn, YOU should be able to take people telling you to go to hell, calling your comments b!tchy, people telling you that you are a tool and to pull your head out of your ass, etc. because that's how YOU have treated others here. It wasn't one post, it has been your pattern and that's ok. I am not putting you down for who you are, I am not saying you don't have the right to be say whatever you are feeling. I am simply telling you that you have to expect your voice to come back at you and when it does, you have no justification for whining about it.
Stay or go, it's up to you. Personally, I think you should stay. It's clear you need the support and this is a great place to get it. That said, we are all adults here and you will be treated with the same respect you dole out to others.
Good luck to you on your journey!

Women= Drama

Seela, rather than run away, PM the people in question and apologise. If the site is helping you, you need to be on it. But the lesson is - think before you post, be sure of what you say - and don't make excuses for ur actions. You may think you weren't the only one but that doesn't make what you said to someone in crisis right....
Own it and move on, you made a mistake, be more thoughtful in future. Good luck.

I'm sending positive vibes your way. I know what it's like to have no support. But my situation is different. Try calling a meeting and sitting everyone down and just again explaining that if something happens to you then the show stops for everyone. So its in their best interest to help you get through this and after another week or 2 you will feel much better. I just said a prayer for you.

WOWZA !!!! Look how tiny your waist has gotten! You look amazing for being less than 3 months out! How wonderful for you!! Congratulations! (I'm still depressed! )

The pictures show up on the ipad ap but not the full website.....don't know why. That's weird!
I'll try again:
 

My sister has always thrown it in my face that she is smaller then me..In fact she depends on me being bigger then her!.she has made some really hurtful comments over the years that I cannot forget....Being in the hospital for 5 months she knows I have lost some weight...I figure she is guessing a round 50 lbs.
I won't be seeing her this year, but I cannot wait until she passes out when she sees me..She told me a few months ago that I should continue to try to lose weight and not let anything discourage me....She has no idea that I had WLS and I know that she thinks that she can say that because she hads no fear, because I always gained the weight back +.....
I am not a mean person....But she is the one I can't wait to see.....

Wow...you look like a model in your photo! Congratulations to you & God Bless on your new precious baby growing inside of you! Such a blessing! Please keep us informed on how you're coming along! We're all going to be your little one's "Auntie's" & "Uncles!"

Wow...you look like a model in your photo! Congratulations to you & God Bless on your new precious baby growing inside of you! Such a blessing! Please keep us informed on how you're coming along! We're all going to be your little one's "Auntie's" & "Uncles!"

I just didn't tell anyone of my surgery & that saved a lot of headaches. Since I'm losing slowly too, no one is the wiser so it just looks like I'm doing it by cutting down on food intake. Plus my neighbors all see me walking around the neighborhood so they see I'm moving more too. No questions asked.
Good luck to you. If these people really love you, they'd be happy for you, not jealous or ugly towards you. That's pretty sad.