Getting Closer to VSG & Having Second Thoughts

[ShoppGirl 3,397]

I’m almost six months out and I haven’t had any Hair loss yet, but figure if I do the only person I really care about what he thinks is my husband and he is too busy checking out my new, thinner body to notice any hair loss…Just kidding…sorta. In the whole scheme of things a short period of hair thinning (which is what it is for most, it’s not like bald spots) it will still be well worth it. But you are not alone with the doubts. My fear was excess skin and I still am hoping I do not get any, but I am still 22 pounds from my goal and even if I stopped losing now and experienced some hair loss, I would consider this surgery a huge success and very well worth it. But I am still losing, very slowly. There are always clip in extensions if your hair thins too bad. I have thin hair anyways so I have tried them just for fun and my hair looked great with them.

[ms.sss 14,704]

Further to this, RE: excess skin…

In my own experience, and sample of ONE, the “notice-ability” of excess skin for me peaked just before I got to “normal” BMI range. I did continue to lose weight after that and then the look of it went from “rolls” to just crepey-looking skin, which in my opinion looks much better on me. Though i credit this to exercise (and further weight loss of course) as the underlying flesh/muscle was more firm.

p.s. Full disclosure, i did end up getting plastics so my crepey skin is gone now (well, at least on my stomach and arms, lol. My inner thighs and a$$ are still pretty wrinkly-ish!)

[GreenTealael 24,871]

My only regret is not knowing earlier that it was an option for me. Watching shows like 600lb life really skewed my perception of obesity. I really thought you needed to be in that category to qualify.
I’m really happy I did it and can barely recognize the obese version of me. I look like the high school version of myself and that is probably the top comments I get from people in real life.

Edited September 4, 2021 by GreenTealael

[catwoman7 10,875]

4 hours ago, GreenTealael said:

My only regret is not knowing earlier that it was an option for me. Watching shows like 600lb life really skewed my perception of obesity. I really thought you needed to be in that category to qualify.
I’m really happy I did it and can barely recognize the obese version of me. I look like the high school version of myself and that is probably the top comments I get from people in real life.

I was like that, too. I thought being in the 300s that I would be one of the smallest people in my cohort. Nope - I was the biggest. Although I'm not that great at judging weight, I'd say most of the women I went through classes with were more like 250-ish, give or take.

After I lost all my weight, I was a regular speaker for the pre-op classes. I did this until the pandemic hit, so three or four years. At least once a month. So I've seen hundreds of pre-op patients. I'd say in any given class, most people are in the 200s. And there are usually a handful that look like they're probably in the 300s. Maybe a very occasional person over 400. But never anyone the size of someone on "My 600 lb Life". I don't even think my clinic would accept them - they'd have to go to a bariatric surgeon like Dr. Now who specializes in high-risk patients.