FOR ALL YOU DARING BANDTERS

WE ALL DREAM OF ONE DAY WEARING A SWIMSUIT WITHOUT FEELING LIKE RUNNING FOR COVER.

BATHING BEAUTYS AND HUNKS LET IT SHOW!!

POST YOUR PICTURES

The picture is of me 9 years ago, before I stopped wearing shorts and swimsuits.

Current BMI - 39

Body fat @ approx 44%

Muscle mass @ 110 lbs.

Current Weight 198

Band Surgery Date Set for August.

Edited July 9, 200818 yr by GDC
Adding pictures

so where is your bathing suit pic? :smile: I don't have one. I don't know how to swim.. When I get to goal I am joining the Y and taking lessons. :biggrin2:

I'm not trying to be rude but I'm a little confused as to why your only posts have been requesting to see scars and now people in swimsuits :smile:

It just seems a little strange that these are your first posts. Are you concerned with the scarring THAT much?

I'm not trying to be rude but I'm a little confused as to why your only posts have been requesting to see scars and now people in swimsuits :smile:

It just seems a little strange that these are your first posts. Are you concerned with the scarring THAT much?

im rather curious as well.

Thank you for your replies. I have posted the one picture I could find of myself in a swimsuit. After that, shorts were the norm... or avoiding the beach all together.

Thank you for your replies. I have posted the one picture I could find of myself in a swimsuit. After that, shorts were the norm... or avoiding the beach all together.

If that's you - why the band - you sure don't look obese in that picture

OK, I understand your curiosity.

Let me give you some background.

I have been plump all my life. I have tried everything I could to lose the weight, needless to say nothing has worked. Then in 2007 I was finally diagnosed with PCOS and told I may be infertile. I have tried to lose the weight since then, because I would like to give myself and my boyfriend a chance to have children. He says he loves me regardless.

He has asked me to marry him and would like to have our wedding and honey moon in Hawaii!!!! I am paranoid to say yes, because I WILL HAVE TO FACE THE SWIMSUIT ISSUE!!!

I want to give my baby want he wants and look great for him that day and always. He loves me no matterhow I look, but I want to give him the best of me.

Your pictures will encourage me to keep going. I will be banded next month, and I keep a picture of the bathing suit I want to wear on my honey moon...

This is the swimsuit I want to wear.

Did I mentioned that all my family and friends are twigy and that they will all wear a two piece swimsuit! Can you imagine the bride wrapped arouns a towel trying to hide behind a palm tree?? :smile:

Ok, no one is looking to be the model in the picture, but I would love to not feel insecure in on my honey moon!!!

Since I have shown you my swimsuit aspirations... I will also show you my dress...

Edited July 9, 200818 yr by GDC

So now I'm curious; do you look the same now as you did 9 years ago? Or is this a before picture?

Sorry, a new before picture

No, I stopped wearing a bathing suit around that time. Since then, I have gained 70 pounds or so... I am trying to look for a picture of me in at least shorts... but I can't even remember when wa the last time I [/url] wore any... I will try to get a picture of me now...

When I first met my baby about eight years ago, I started using DepoVera and in a years time the weight kept piling on!! So quickly that I became very flabby and the ever so loved cellulite came home to stay.

If I put on a bathing suit now I look like Popeye with a bear belly!

FOR ALL YOU DARING BANDTERS

WE ALL DREAM OF ONE DAY WEARING A SWIMSUIT WITHOUT FEELING LIKE RUNNING FOR COVER.

BATHING BEAUTYS AND HUNKS LET IT SHOW!!

POST YOUR PICTURES

The picture is of me 9 years ago, before I stopped wearing shorts and swimsuits.

Current BMI - 39

Body fat @ approx 44%

Muscle mass @ 110 lbs.

Current Weight 198

Band Surgery Date Set for August.

I have to say thos os the oddest thread i've seen thus far. :confused2:

I have to say thos os the oddest thread i've seen thus far. :confused2:

miss typed that one didn't I? it should say this is the oddest :confused2: once again

I don't understand why so many find it odd or are suspicious of me asking other bandsters that have reached a goal and feel comfortable enough with themselves to wear a swimsuit to encourage me by posting their success pictures? Or that I am concerned with scarring?

Yesterday someone graciously sent me a link to a posting on scarring stages, and I found several postings of bandsters that were kind enough to show how great they look, unfortunately most are from incisions right after surgery... only a couple are from a year or more...

Is it because I'm not posting a boohoo story of how I'm trying to lose weight because I have a list of maladies and are honest enough to say that what keeps my drive going is to someday wear a swimsuit without wanting the earth to swallow me?

I have all those maladies that come along with being obese... but I have several years to cry about and work on those.... I only have a couple to work on having children with the man I love and I only have one chance at pleasing that wonderful man that accepts me exactly as I am with a wedding in a wonderful place.

How many of you remember what it's like to feel 100% comfortable with your body, so much so that it is not even on your mind...? Well that is what I want for my wedding. I want to enjoy the moment and the love of my husband without letting my complexes get in the way.

When my doctor said you need to lose weight ... it went in one ear out the other.

When my family said you need to lose weight... I thought, "your twiggy butt does not know what you are talking about".

When I was told I could not have children I was shocked, and almost accepted it..

... but

When I think of all the summer swims I've missed because of the shame of how I look...

When I think of the lakes, rivers and pools I will not get near for fear of showing my bump and lumps...

When I think I am denying the man that loves me so many wonderful thing simply because I won't wear a bathing suit... including seating by a pool with our adopted child on a summer get away...

it makes me angry enough to want to settle things with my weight once and for all... and a swimmsuit is a reminder of that anger...

For all those of you that are more interested in hearing about my list of aches, pains and medical problems please e-mail me privately.

But for those that also understand that there is a, should I say, more naive side of being obese,

...one that simply wants to feel the warmth of sand ...

the bathing of the sun ...

the caress of Water on a warm summer month...

the pleasure of feeling at ease without the preocupation on body image... Please post your pictures or stories and encourage me...

Thank you.

What a beautiful dress! Petty bikini. Good luck with your journey. Congrats on your upcommong wedding.

I dont find it odd, I wanted to SEE results when I was researching. I'm sorry I dont have any befores, all my before pics are non-digital and I dont have a scanner.

Here's my avatar pic in bigger size.

For reference, I was probably just a tad bigger than you are in your swimsuit shot that you've posted. I had a BMI of about 36, I was pudgy, wobbly and well rounded but not massively obese.

I dont find it odd, I wanted to SEE results when I was researching. I'm sorry I dont have any befores, all my before pics are non-digital and I dont have a scanner.

Here's my avatar pic in bigger size.

For reference, I was probably just a tad bigger than you are in your swimsuit shot that you've posted. I had a BMI of about 36, I was pudgy, wobbly and well rounded but not massively obese.

*whistles and makes several chauvinist comments*

LOL