Good Morning!

So i have been getting a lot of compliments about my weight loss. And i did go down from size 22 to 18 but i wanted to see what others were seeing. So i took a picture just of my face and compared to it before the surgery. I cant believe what a 35 lbs loss can do to my face- I can't even imagine what I will look like when i get to my goal weight.

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Congratulations on your milestones... I have yet to lose my second chin but hey, I just lost the third one... My milestones will mostly be in my arms which are disproportionately larger... I have always hated my arms more than anything and truely think 1/3 of my body wieght was right there... I always have to but blouses that are technically 1 or 2 sizes larger than my body calls for just to squeeze these arms in... A lot of people are commenting on my weight loss, Currently I am down 21 pounds since Dec. 4th however I think my arms are the first to grow and the last to go.... I'm wearing smaller jeans down from 18 to 14 but I still have to squeeze these arms into 18/20... I'm so disgusted in my arms... Over the years I have tried really hard to work them good at the gym and such and nothing helps... Only 3 people know I have had WLS and one of those people, when I told her I was having it done, the first thing she said to me was "that's fantastic and when you lose the weight you should go have arm surgery" That broke my heart becasue I like to pretend that I am the only one who notices... What really burns me up is that I personally know people who are 100 pounds or more heavier than me overweight and they still only have arms half the size of mine... My mother had the SAME arms so I'm guessing its genetics... How else to explain why some heavy people have big arms and some don't.... Hopefully someday, I can quit wearing 3/4 sleeve tops in the oppressing heat of summer!

Anyhow, Like most of you, I have gotten so used to taking just the right angle photos of my face, I have forgotten what its like to take a normal picture and look forward to doing so in a few more pounds... (Still waiting for the 2nd chin to be a little less puffy and noticable... )

Keep up the good work everyone and if anyone has any tried and true Arm excercises please share with me...

Congratulations on your milestones... I have yet to lose my second chin but hey, I just lost the third one... My milestones will mostly be in my arms which are disproportionately larger... I have always hated my arms more than anything and truely think 1/3 of my body wieght was right there... I always have to but blouses that are technically 1 or 2 sizes larger than my body calls for just to squeeze these arms in... A lot of people are commenting on my weight loss, Currently I am down 21 pounds since Dec. 4th however I think my arms are the first to grow and the last to go.... I'm wearing smaller jeans down from 18 to 14 but I still have to squeeze these arms into 18/20... I'm so disgusted in my arms... Over the years I have tried really hard to work them good at the gym and such and nothing helps... Only 3 people know I have had WLS and one of those people, when I told her I was having it done, the first thing she said to me was "that's fantastic and when you lose the weight you should go have arm surgery" That broke my heart becasue I like to pretend that I am the only one who notices... What really burns me up is that I personally know people who are 100 pounds or more heavier than me overweight and they still only have arms half the size of mine... My mother had the SAME arms so I'm guessing its genetics... How else to explain why some heavy people have big arms and some don't.... Hopefully someday, I can quit wearing 3/4 sleeve tops in the oppressing heat of summer!

Anyhow, Like most of you, I have gotten so used to taking just the right angle photos of my face, I have forgotten what its like to take a normal picture and look forward to doing so in a few more pounds... (Still waiting for the 2nd chin to be a little less puffy and noticable... )

Keep up the good work everyone and if anyone has any tried and true Arm excercises please share with me...

My daughter feels the same way about her arms. She has lost about 95lbs but still hates her arms! I don't notice them near as much as she does. She says she is going to get them reduced when she can afford it. I still don't notice them but if she holds them up just right, I can see that they have extra skin hanging down. Now that I have lost 31lbs, I notice that my skin on my whole arm and back of my hands looks crepey.. Like an old womans skin. That is the hardest for me. I am almost 59 so I guess I need to just grow up!!! LOL!!!