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ecburns    0

ecburns
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realize that every situation is different, but I am wondering if anyone has had surgery who has been a similar height and weight who has needed (or has not needed skin removal surgery a year or two after surgery)

I am 300 pounds and about 5'10! / I am also relatively young and I think I have that on my side in terms of skin elasticity and stuff.

thanks in advance!

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CowgirlJane    14,261

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No way to predict it, but when I was younger i lost 85 pounds and the excess skin wasn't bad.

I am late 40s, lost over 150 and definately benefited from plastics!

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Threetimesacharm    1,400

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I think the area that may be of biggest concern is your tummy. I had a TT many years ago when I had lost weight, so I was younger but the droopy belly does not go away.

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Star1221    270

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I am 5'9" and weighed 310. I am 31 and now 170ish. (plus or minus 4 pounds). I need quite a bit of plastics. I went from a full DD to a small (sad) C lol. Sagging tummy skin, and inner thighs. But then you see people who lost more and didn't even exercise and need minimal to none. Genetics maybe? LOL.

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playlikeworldchamps    595

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I am 5-10 and started at 315 and am now 188 and wear a 12 pant and L top. I have a stretched out saggy tummy but it looks flat wearing clothes and does not hang over. Would love TT but that ain't happening since no money. I also had 4 large babies so that caused a lot of stretching not just the weight. My inner thighs are sagging as well as under my chin a bit. My boobs are now 36 L as I long. But my biggest pet peeve are my arms. I carried a lot of weight there and my batwings are enormous. I can cover the tummy and thighs even in the summer and look fine. And my chin not all that bad. But my arena just hang out there with short sleeve weather. I have built muscle but skin just lost it's elasticity (I am 48). If I could get one area done it would be arms. I have to wear a size 14 suit jacket to 12 pants just because my arms so big and would be tight in the arm pit area we all my skin.

From your picture your arms look in pretty good shape. As I said the other areas can get saggy but it depends on how long you carried the weight an luck. At least other areas can be covered,

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

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        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

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