Hey everyone, this Friday is my two year anniversary (holy crap). I have been doing research into local plastic surgeons, and I'm just debating on whether or not I should schedule consults at this point yet. I've been stuck at the same weight for almost a year now. I hit a plateau around a year ago and in the time since hitting that plateau we have had multiple deaths in the family. This year alone I lost my 14 year old dog in January and my dad passed unexpectedly in April. I suffer from binge eating disorder and have issues with emotional eating, so these two deaths in particular have really caused me to relapse in my healthy habits.

(rambling over I promise ) Anyway, at my current weight I am around 90-100 lbs. over what I would ideally like to be at, but after speaking with both my bariatrician at my 18 month follow-up in February and my primary doctor in May, both of them have said given my history, 50 lbs. is more realistic for me to lose. So I'm just wondering if I should lose that 50 before going in for consults, or if I should just schedule them now and get them out of the way while I keep working at weight loss.

Just curious as to what others have done. I don't know how long it usually takes from consult to surgery date.

Would he combine the lower body lift with the upper body lift? Also, could you give an estimate of what that could cost. Does that also include a breast lift ? If he doesn't combine the lower and upper how much is each procedure separately?

I know that all bodies are different but Im currently losing weight and saving so i just want to know an estimate to know much I should save.

Thank you in advance,

Jaz

I don't think I noticed that I was as swollen as I was. It does get better!

I took a photo yesterday and wanted to share it because I remember thinking I wasn't terribly swollen when I was a couple of weeks post-op. Dr. Michaels told me that my results would keep getting better & better for the first 3-6 months. The below picture is somewhere around 2 weeks post-op (left) and nearly 5 months (I'll be 5 months on June 29th).

In the left picture, I was ~124lbs. In the right picture, I'm 132lbs.

You know I was thinking about the issues you have had with healing. Maybe having such extensive surgery at the same time was just too much for your body to handle? Maybe it would have been better to do the LBL alone and your thighs separately? I know most of us group as much PS together as possible to save $, but maybe it can be too much stress for the body. I wonder what surgeons would say about that... I will ask mine when I see him late this summer if I remember.