Hello everyone!

I'm new to this forum. I just recently started my WLS journey and find myself having more and more questions each day. My name is Kiley. I'm 29 (soon to be 30 in August), and hail from Ohio.

This coming week I attend my first support group but would like to get a head start on speaking with those who've already had the surgery or like myself, are in the pre-op period.

You know, it's a funny thing. I'm feeling pretty confident about the surgery itself, but the aftermath is what I'm concerned about. For instance, loose skin, saggy breasts and hair loss. Has anyone ever experienced any of these and if so, how did you deal with it? Is there anyway at all to prevent these things from happening? I really don't want to spend the rest of my life going under the knife. Any help is appreciated!

I hate to sound vain by asking these questions but alas, I can't help it, lol. :/

Hello everyone. I’m a little over 3 months post surgery. Can you plateau this soon?

All three - hair loss - it is coming back on nicely but was a rat tail for months and months, saggy boobs - you bet, loose skin - yep. But we are all going to end up old someday with all of that and more - and YAY for us because NOT getting old would be horrid.

Childbirth is another badge of honor that will give you all those things as well.... and no one would think twice about not having children based on those results. So go for it and forge ahead with grace.

On 06/23/2019 at 12:39, dark_chai said:

Hello everyone. I’m a little over 3 months post surgery. Can you plateau this soon?

Yep. I went over 5 weeks at the same weight from month 3-4.
Now I’ve started losing again, but maybe at the rate of 1.5 pounds weekly.

I’m slightly disappointed, but gonna keep on pushing forward as going back isn’t an option