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@@jane13 It's opening! I have a picture. Sorry I know it's not pretty but that's why I'm fixing it! The funny thing is you can't even tell my teeth are messed up unless I open my mouth, throw my head back and show people. It's another one of those things I'm doing for myself. All of this is for me. Not for anyone else's. It's all things that I want fixed for my own peace of mind. The picture is (left) one months progress and the (right) was the day I had it put on. I'm pretty excited about it since I had about a 10% chance of it working.

@@*Lexie* It's amazing what clothes can do. I have so VS bras. The best one I have is the new spanxs bra. It's expensive, I think I paid 76 bucks for it but it's really good! The problem is the gap on the inside where there's no skin. It doesn't fill the cup out anymore. I need that volume back. Thigh lift is out for me. The scars are huge from what I've seen so if I had them I wouldn't show my legs anyway. Same with the TT. I'm still not going to show my stomach more than likely. I'm still debating on that. I guess it will come down to cost.

@@*Lexie* wonderful! I'm going to ask that. I'm more excited about the boobs than anything. I'm not sure about the TT. I want it, I think but it depends on how much the two will cost together. My stomach doesn't bother me as much as my boobs being gone though. Well you can't tell in a shirt as pictured from yesterday but that's just a good bra. I want that but with out having all that. Under there is not pretty. My husband is on board but he doesn't see why I want them so bad. It's a girl thing I guess

I finally have a consult set up for next Wednesday with a plastic surgeon. I'm going in for a lift with implants and possible tummy tuck. I need all the information I can get before I go. I want DD implants. I've always had big boobs and I want those puppies back! Soooo if you've had them done tell me how it went. How painful was it? Are you happy with the results? Did you go under the muscle or on top? Cost? Anything I should ask the surgeon? Did you have a combo like what I'm considering? I've read through some post but it's easier to just make my own. Thank you for any knowledge you could share. I'm excited and beyond ready!

Looking good! Congratulations!

I found this one. I had already lost 45 lbs in the picture on the right but this is the only one I could find. I was 220-ish there. I wasn't fond of taking pictures of myself. I took that one because I actually thought I looked good

First thing I ever did was call my health insurance company (BCBS -FED) and spoke to a live representative. We went over all my questions that I had hand written before calling. I checked each one off as I went through to make sure I asked everything I wanted to know in one phone call. I'm not the most patient person so multiple phone calls was not in the plan. After I got all of my answers I had them email me everything too so there would be no issues down the road. I knew exactly what I had to do to get qualified and I did that. My surgeons office had things wrong more than once. How long I had to do the pre-op NUT visits. What numbers I needed to qualify seeing as I had no comorbids. Luckily I knew so I was able to correct them and keep thing moving at a fast pace. No going back, no submitting paper work at the wrong time, no wrong numbers ect....I was persistent and armed with the information I needed from the jump. 3 months and not one day longer than what I needed to do and I was approved.

People say stupid shit all the time. It's almost like they don't understand that not filling the air with their voice would be perfectly acceptable. Apparently they haven't heard the saying " It's Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than speak and remove all doubt." Just say a prayer for them and keep it moving.

@@frankenstein Let me just say 99% of what your worried about is Bullshit. The only thing true about that is the permanent part. Honestly you can do all of that after surgery, once your healed I'd say by 6 months out you will be shocked. They tell you all of that to scare you into taking the surgery serious. I couldn't guzzle water after surgery but today I just drank a whole 16.9 fl oz bottle of water in 3 minutes. I can eat and drink at the same time. I don't because I don't want to make the food go through my stomach faster but I can. You can defiantly drink beer. Now, you won't be able to "guzzle" beer because it's full of carbonation so that will not feel good. There's is NOTHING I can't do that I did before. You're going to find it more trying NOT to fall back into old habits. Thank god I can't eat as much!

You're not eating enough. If you're exercising that much and eat so little you are putting your body into starvation mode so it's going to hang on to whatever it has. Might sound crazy but try to eat a high carb, fat day. See if you don't drop weight. Not high sodium!

Dang! I wish I would have sat down with a drink tonight while reading these post. You guys are entertaining! I have a drink every once in awhile, well anytime I choose really seeing as how I'm over 3x7 so it's legal! Alcohol effects everyone differently. Period. I would assume everyone here is within drinking age sooooooo you'll figure out your limit. You should live a little. It doesn't matter if it's drinking or having a bite of cake. You still have to live and enjoy life. I haven't restricted my self from ANYTHING yet. Everything in moderation. If you do lose weight after drinking it's a good possibility that your dehydrated seeing as alcohol will do that, hints the reason why you're so thirsty in the morning! Drink lots of fluids. Don't drink yourself stupid everyday, take a Girlfriend to the bathroom with you when you're out. That's when all the good convo happens anyway. Duh!! And to some of the others on these threads getting all worked up..skip the alcohol and drink some smooth move tea to help loosen whatever it is you have stuck up your butt laughing!

Do I need to pull out the butt hurt papers?! Don't make me pull out THE papers! Some of you will spend all night filling it out.

@@Salinagetssleeved Hey I watched your video! Nice lipstick! And all the other stuff too! Good luck with everything!

@@ANewMe16 Ummm if you're going to leave can I have all the stuff you just won from this site!!! It's only fair! It can be like a "give me" account. Not even "Gofundme" just " giveme" it's much easier that way! I kid! You guys make me laugh this morning though! So much trauma happening in the world and this is not it! Turn the news on. That will give you plenty to be upset about and fight for. This lovely lady will get her surgery one way or another. If she wants it bad enough. PS people: No one can offend you without your permission. Keep that in mind.

Awww love! Congratulations!

I won't! I'm still pissed at the lottery winners!

Oh and I don't want to hear any of that "We're all winners here" crap either! ^^^ I hope that's not the winning post! Embarrassing!!

I don't even know what we're winning anymore I just want to strut around with my homemade "winner" sash on to annoy the family.

Me!

@@Fatty McFatster Ummm excuse me....shouldn't you be baking a chicken or something?

@@Babbs He's a blue pitbull. @@tera1982 I don't know if there's a tracker or not. I don't see one?

Winner winner (baked) chicken dinner!!!

Ok, I'm beginning to think he meant the 4 millionth comment on THIS thread?!

He's very squish-able, I just like to rub him, he's silky soft.