So, I'm down about 73 lbs & I've started checking out those full body shapers. I ordered one that lets you wear your own bra, so the front doesn't cover the girls. It has extended legs, too. When it arrived, I realized it is also crotchless. OK...a little weird, but could be helpful, right? I tried it on to see if it fit & I didn't bother with a bra. Well, it squeezed me in all over & made me look like this smooth, featureless, beige mannequin woman. With the crotchless-ness going on, I ended up feeling like some kind of creepy blow up doll!!! I felt like I should walk around with my lips pursed open, too. Ick...not sure I can wear that again.

BAHAHAHA!!!!! The first time my husband attempted to take off my bra for our "first time" was like some kind of pre-pubescent boy's nightmare of elbows and grunting and knocking me in head....and he was 40 years old at the time!! I'm still somewhat stunned I actually had sex with him after that. I adore my guy' date=' but he is not the smoothest operator around. If he tried to take a shaper off my body, he might choke me to death. [/quote']

Hahahahaha! Poor guy.

OMG!! HaHaHa LOL! Y'all got to stop!

Edited October 26, 201312 yr by Sweetpee

Oh that hubby story made me laugh so hard. good thing my industrial strength "body shaper" has the potty opener. actually it is post plastics compression gaments. the bra is actually a matador jacket and the bottoms come all they way up under the boobs. Where they overlap... I swear my rib .bones are compressed. My first shower post op it took 2 nurses forever to get it back on- i was swollen, there were drains etc. Those two nurses were sweating by the time they were done.

I didnt wear heavy duty shapers prior though because of the discomfort. I tended to wear lighter control tanks. key is always to take them on and off down the body, not over your head.

I didnt wear heavy duty shapers prior though because of the discomfort. I tended to wear lighter control tanks. key is always to take them on and off down the body, not over your head.

NOW she tells us! This is cool, how could we not know this? Perhaps it's because we aren't victorian ladies.

On my FB, i just posted a link from buzzfeed that said 21 signs that being ladylike is not your forte. Maybe that's why I didn't know about stepping into control garments either.

Is it weird is it that I almost never wore shapers before?? I guess I just figured that I was already so big that a shaper wasn't going to make much of a difference. Did anybody else start with the shapers after some weight loss, rather than before?

At the weight I am now, roughly halfway to my tentative goal, I am much more open to the idea of wearing them. At least I thought I was, so that's why I started buying them. I just bought a size 14 dress that is still a bit too snug, but the blow up doll shaper might make the difference. I'm going to check out the tank top thingies, too.

I'd never thought of it, but it wasn't until I lost some weight that I started to wear them a while ago. I don't know, it's not like I let myself go when I'm putting on weight, but I....despair perhaps. I think nothing will help, I'm just going to look like crap. Isn't that such a defeatist attitude??

If i could sleep in my spanx, i would!!! Lol. One of the questions i asked at surgeon at my first appt with him was "when can i wear my spanx again?"...

It is a mission getting in and out of them and I live by myself, but they make a world of difference for me when wearing dresses.

I was just going to post about bodyshapers; I have a lower belly flab issue' date=' VERY lower belly, and I have yet to find the shaper that gets rid of the panni. I'm not expecting for fabric to give me a board flat stomach but at least it should be able to keep my gut skin from the worst case of front-butt! Even with a shaper I have to keep my pants loose and my shirt hems long to keep people from staring. So my question is, does anyone know of some serious nuclear strength shapewear for the lower gut/panni? I've even looked on post-partum online stores.[/quote']

I prefer the WYOB (Wear Your Own Bra) Flexees Romper by Maidenform. It fastens between the legs like a onesie so using the restroom is easier. I bought mine at Kohls when they are buy one get one 50% off. They do this often. I like Kohls cause you can try it on. I was surprised that I could go down a size (most effective for holding the panni up).

I used to have a very low hanging panni and this one was the most effective for keeping it up above my pubic bone.

Hope this is helpful.

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Kristie, my bulgy pubis is my constant embarrassment, I'm about ready to enlist a 19th century style corset if it will work. The Flexees you showed is great, but for me with my thighs, I would have prominent and unsightly flesh-poofing, out of the leg holes. I need something that goes all the way down the thigh, with serious lower gut hoisting v_v

Heeeey, this is relevant to my recent frustration.

Can any of you recommend knee to boob shapewear for tall people?

Kristie' date=' my bulgy pubis is my constant embarrassment, I'm about ready to enlist a 19th century style corset if it will work. The Flexees you showed is great, but for me with my thighs, I would have prominent and unsightly flesh-poofing, out of the leg holes. I need something that goes all the way down the thigh, with serious lower gut hoisting v_v[/quote']

Try slimpressions.com

Kristie, my bulgy pubis is my constant embarrassment, I'm about ready to enlist a 19th century style corset if it will work. The Flexees you showed is great, but for me with my thighs, I would have prominent and unsightly flesh-poofing, out of the leg holes. I need something that goes all the way down the thigh, with serious lower gut hoisting v_v

Globetrotter, this is the one I bought that made me feel like a blow up doll. I don't have the panni issue, but I also wanted one that went down my legs. I can tell you it definitely sucked me in all over!

http://www.onestopplus.com/clothing/Allinone-shaper-girdle-with-long-legs-power-control-by-Comfort-Choice.aspx?PfId=389764&DeptId=11780&ProductTypeId=1&ppos=11#.UnHQmeKgagk

Is it weird is it that I almost never wore shapers before?? I guess I just figured that I was already so big that a shaper wasn't going to make much of a difference. Did anybody else start with the shapers after some weight loss' date=' rather than before?

At the weight I am now, roughly halfway to my tentative goal, I am much more open to the idea of wearing them. At least I thought I was, so that's why I started buying them. I just bought a size 14 dress that is still a bit too snug, but the blow up doll shaper might make the difference. I'm going to check out the tank top thingies, too.[/quote']

When I was a 3x, no way would I wear a shaper. I was probably xl or 1x before I started wearing them.

When I was a 3x' date=' no way would I wear a shaper. I was probably xl or 1x before I started wearing them.[/quote']

When I was a 3X there was no way I would even attempt to get in a shaper, let along try to get out of if. Can you imagine the sweat, the heavy breathing, sitting on the edge of the bed to catch your breath, then try it again! Trying to push in the fat and to suck in the gut which does no good either.

After I lost my weight, oh yeah I started wearing very tight shapers garments and I loved them. I needed something for that hanging stomach. I guess I got so use to them, I was comfortable transferring to a compression garment after my LBL. I might be the only person to say this, but I love my compression garment. LOL!

I've always worn shapers, but only with dresses. I have HHHHHIIIIIIPPPPPPSSSSSS that need to be smoothed. I also have these thunderous thighs that rub together at the slightest movement causing an unbearable friction commonly known as "chub rub".

I learned from that Friends episode (Ross and the leather pants) to powder up before shapewear, as it decreases moisture (as a fattie, I hate hate hate the word moist, but it is what it is) and helps shapewear removal. I've never seen crotchless shapewear but that sounds like heaven! I have taught myself never to consume liquids before or while wearing shapewear because bathroom stall gymnastics usually muss my hair horrifically, along with inducing a very unattractive sweat and lather trying to pull them back up. And if the handicapped stall is in use? HELL'S BELLS! There is no way to contortion myself back into them if I am in a skinny stall.

I'm thrilled to say that I have lost enough weight that I can now wear the light control biker shorts looking shapewear. My skin has shrunk back for the most part SO FAR and I really only need the smoothing on the sides because I have a tiny waist with my big hips. I do agree that shapewear rounds out the figure so I look slightly more capsule shaped than without, but it's totally worth it.

Question. With the crotchless kind, I assume you wear no underpants? Do your bits ever come in contact with surfaces??? (I just gagged typing that.)