Are your results better than expected

Thanks Michelle...You are so right about this site.  Everyone's input truly helps put everything into perspective.  Unless someone has been where we have all been weight wise, etc., it is hard to relate.  I know by shifting my concept to "improvement" I will be happy with the results whatever they are.  I have great confidence in Dr. L.

 My opinion is do your face and your stomach and you will feel all new.

That is definitely an option.  During my first face lift consult the doctor wanted to do a body evaluation, but I had already decided I would probably not use him, so it made no sense to me to have him bother.  I have a consult on the 8th, and that surgeon may want to do the same.  I might consider that.

Yes. My results are definitely better than expected. I would have never thought in a million years at the age of 45 and after losing 200 pounds I could wear a bikini, but my tummy is definitely bikini-ready. 

Laura

You look great...there is no doubt about that.  This is going to be a great summer for you.  I hope once shcool is out you go someplace spectacular and enjoy all your hard work.

Although not quite your age, I can totally relate to your post and others *****sponded.

I desperately want to "complete" my journey as others talk about and have the PS. But in my case, I don't have the money at all or the good credit. I also worry about the scars and whether or not I would be happy anyway, if I could get the PS. My husband says I'm never happy with myself and doesn't want me to have PS.

Several years ago, at age 30, I had dieted down to about 175 and went to a PS for a consult for BL/BR and TT. He literally almost made me cried because he said he would operate but that "I would never be a beach bunny" or have a nice body and that I had to be realistic. I was very offended and upset and so I never got another consult. At the time, I had the $$ to do the surgery....Instead I went to another PS and got lip augmentation to make myself feel better and I looked like Daisy Duck for quite awhile, kind of a disaster and waste of $$ for sure, since it was temporary anyway...

So here I am, smaller than I have been pre-marriage and pre-kids, looking fantastic in clothes...but very saggy naked and it sometimes depresses me when I think about it too much...it's like I've dreamed of being this size for decades and now it's kind of bittersweet, since my skin can only bounce back so much and I'm still wishing for perfection that won't come....and I'm pissed cause I want to be that beach bunny! Is that too much to ask? LOL.....

Oh well....my advice to you is since you actually have the $$, go for it! It will be a big improvement, I'm sure...and still worth it, I think....I know I would take the shot, if I could, despite my concerns.

I can't imagine a surgeon being so callous and saying what he said.  He would be the last person I would let touch my body with an attitude like that.  My feelings get hurt too easily (wish they didn't), and it would have taken me a while to process that comment out of my brain.

I'll never be a beach bunny either and don't want to be.  I'm too old for that....that is for the younger women.  Like one poster said, that opportunity is gone.  I really wasn't looking for perfection - I think I just mistakenly assumed too much regarding the outcomes for these surgeries.  During my consult the surgeon explained the limitations on the procedure from a medical standpoint and how it impacts the body versus my personal defects.  It was actually informative.

Don't give up on having PS somewhere in your future.  Life is very unpredictable, and you never know what might happen around the corner for you.  Some totally unexpected events happened for me that is allowing me to do this.  Even so, I will use one of the financing companies more than likely.  I am focused on saving for retirement too at this time.  Compromised credit is not forever.  I have friends/family who have filed for bankruptcy who now own new homes, cars and a lot of other stuff their credit now allows them to finance.  Credit can be repaired...it just takes a little time.

Like you and whatever I do or don't end up doing I am definitely enjoying being the most active and smallest I have been in 28 years.  I am very grateful for where I am right now.

I have not had my LBL yet, but your description of your bottom sounds like mine, deflated and lean. Ask you PS about Pursestring Gluteoplasty.

What is that?  Are you having that done?

It is enhancement of the buttocks when they are basicly flat developed by http://www.hunstadcenter.com and many PS are using the same technique.


There is a video on youtube showing the procedure. Yes, I'm planning on having it done in conjuction with the LBL.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8IdaQXeUdY