ARE u seriously HAPPY with YOUR NEW BODY ??????????

Be honest!!!!!!  I know that alot of people are happy and i know that sum don't like there new body.  Plz tell why u are happy/ or dislike your new body...

I am most excited about being off high blood pressure and cholesterol medications.  The big bonus is going from a size 24W to a 12 misses in nine months.   Of course, I feel and look better.   However, I will always regret gaining 145 pounds in under ten years causing the now excess skin on my stomach, thighs and upper arms that I will have to live with for life.  I'll take the excess sagging skin any day over the 290 pounds.

Before I had plastic surgery, I hated my "new" body more than I hated the old SMO (BMI of 57) body. My pannus and mons were both very large and hung WAY down, as were my "bat wings". (I even won an informal "bat wing contest" we had here, LOL.) I liked having more energy, but even after losing so much weight, I had to wear tunic length shirts and baggy pants to hide the extra skin on my belly and the large bulge of the mons (which, in addition to the extra skin and significant sagging, retained some fat). After I had the panniculectomy, but had not yet had the mons lift done) I cried almost every morning when I got dressed, trying to figure out how to hide what looked like a "package" that any man would be proud of.

Now, I like my body... in general, anyway. (It does NOT, however, look like a body that was always thin; unclothed, it looks like a body that was SMO and then underwent plastic surgery.) I still DESPISE my thighs. I have always hated them (they are very muscular and prone to excess weight, even when I was younger), so I am used to that. Between the significant amount of extra skin and some residual fat, I still cannot show my thighs in public even after losing almost 190 pounds. I wear swim shorts over the top of my swimsuit to keep them covered and wear only shorts that hit below the knee because the excess skin puddles at the knee when i stand up. My still DDD-cup boobs hang all the way to my waist (literally), but an industrial strength bra takes care of that when I am clothed, so that doesn't bother me too much. (I would like to get a reduction, but insurance won't cover it and I cannot afford it... So I will just live with them as is.)

Lora

Very large mons???  That is possibly the most troubling image I can imagine.  Yuck.

Yes... it was horrible.

 The plastic surgeon said it was the worst he had seen. Hence the daily tears until it was fixed.  I felt like a freak. 

 

Lora

Thankfully surgeons are skilled in plastics. There are issues I'd never thought of. 

 

I love seeing and feeling myself shrink! I still have a ways to go, I'm halfway there, but I'm am loving my progress! My goal finally seems within reach after years of no hope!!! 

I am happy with my body.   I won't win any swim suit contests and I don't wear shorts d/t the condition of my legs...but I look good in clothes.  I can walk into any store grab a jr size 7 and a size medium top...and it fits....and looks flattering.  Can't ask for more than that at age 51 

I look good ...  I can wear a bikini and short shorts ...  but I have had some plastics - tummy tuck and breast implants (purely for vanity).  

I was slightly overweight from the age of 30-40 but only became MO after a late pregnancy at 41 and had RNY 11 months later, so haven't really had skin problems even though I am 50.

 

Does everyone have skins issues? or is it random?