Ponderings on Excess Skin

I feel exactly the same!  Dressed in clothes - I feel like wonder woman I am so proud of all I've accomplished - but unwrapped, I am once again not quite right.  I think it is awesome that some of you can feel good about your bodies during your transformation, but I think the more we loose and the closer to goal we get (and the more skin is literally hanging off the muscle and bone, it is a bit disheartening and hard to love.  But that is just me :)

I was doing the same thing the other day.  I think part of being MORE critical about my body now, even when it is in a much better condition than before, is that now I am putting energy into making it better.  Before, I just ignored/blocked out everything about it! Now I am losing weight, exercising, etc and that makes me acknowledge my body- that is scary since it is the one thing that has always let me down! My fiancee even talks about how I was more insecure in the past when I was thin than I am now.  It is going to take me work to change those thoughts into positive thoughts about the great things my body can do for me now, despite the flabby skin everywhere! 

In life, "progress, not perfection" seems to work better for me - but is so damn hard sometimes!

This is so true!  I spent so many years ignoring my body and now that I'm done with that, I feel like I'm hyper-aware of everything about it!  

I saw this Gwen and thought of you!!! this may help in some way or another!!!!! (((hugs))))

Sweet :D

So . . . plastics scare the **** out of me. I have about the same amount to lose as you do (309-->125-135, so 175-85-ish), and I can see now at 50 pounds down, that the skin will be there. I have thought in the past that the only thing that would make me go for surgery is if the extra skin was uncomfortable or a health problem for some reason (rashes?).

But I am, too, a vain person, so I'm not certain how I'll feel about it in the end. Even at 56 it might strike me as an absolute necessity two years down the line. Fortunately, there is a lot of time before I am even able to make that decision.

I totally waffle on the idea of plastics, so I get where you're coming from!  And I agree, I'm glad I've got a LOT of time.