...well in 6 years time anyway! My cousin just informed me that she wants to Celebrate her 40th in Fiji, so she's given the family plenty of notice to save up.

At least I'll have a hot bikini body to show off this time (after removal of the excess skin of course), instead of hiding in boardies and t-shirts as I have in the past.

Fiji sounds amazing!! Lucky, I wish I was going!!

Looks like I may get to show off my body earlier, as my sister and I are planning to go to Hawaii next September. Although the body may not be ideal, I hopefully won't need to cover up.

So excited!!!

My partner and I were planning to go somewhere tropical at the end of the year but I decided I want to have a sexy bikini body before I go haha. My surgery is next month so I should be able to go in a year or so I hope

Fiji would be awesome!

I'm aiming to be at goal by one year post op (reasonable time frame?) and hopefully have surgery either end of 2013 or early 2014.

I want to reach my goal in one year too. It's a reasonable timeframe depending on how much you have to lose. Do you mean surgery to remove excess skin? My doc said I don't have to worry about that because I'm only 20 but if I had excess skin I would get it removed

Yeah excess skin. Unless it bounces back just that little bit (which I can't see it doing), I will need it removed. I've lost close to 55lb in just under 3 months.