OCTOBER 2014

[Glyndalin 80]

@@smiley922 That's wonderful! Dance away, girl. You deserve it.

[Beni 1,484]

Congrats Shadow on the 75 lbs

and Smiley on the 100 lbs.

Well done. Now we all know it's possible. One little step at a time.

[Beni 1,484]

Just updated my ticker and realized I too have lost 75 lbs

I have decided my new wight goal is 170 lbs which happens to be the expected weight loss from gastric bypass for my starting weight and my height. This means I am only 25 lbs away from my goal. This is looking so real. I feel great again! Yes, things are sagging big time and I do need a breast lift like no other (must wait a while for that) but Spring is coming. This winter has been so long and depressing, I can't wait to get out and about outside.

[Lrckey0610 39]

Just updated my ticker and realized I too have lost 75 lbs

I have decided my new wight goal is 170 lbs which happens to be the expected weight loss from gastric bypass for my starting weight and my height. This means I am only 25 lbs away from my goal. This is looking so real. I feel great again! Yes, things are sagging big time and I do need a breast lift like no other (must wait a while for that) but Spring is coming. This winter has been so long and depressing, I can't wait to get out and about outside.

Congrats on your weight loss! Can't wait to be there. What is this ticker everyone is talking about?

[amylynns 802]

@smiley922-Whoohoo!!!! Nice job!!

@Beni--That's so awesome Beni!! Oh my--I am with you on the breast lift. WOW, mine are just deflated blobs. But yes, that'll be a while away for me too. I won't even think about it until I get the rest of me toned up as much as possible. Another surgery just doesn't sound too appealing right now, LOL!

I need to find some time to get on here and catch up! It's been crazy around here.

I'm at 181, holding steady there for several days. We're finally seeing some warmer temps this week, so hopefully I'll find an evening that's not full of kids activities so I can get out and walk!

I started physical therapy for my hip/back. Has anyone else had issues with theirs since weight loss? I came across a thread on here a while back where people were. Not sure if it's weight related, but heck, mine has never been this bad. Even at my highest pregnancy weight.

They said my tail bone was twisted and tilted/curved. All messed up! I'm wondering if it's from so much sitting after surgery. (and a weight shift/new center of gravity?) It started bothering me about a month after surgery. I finally decided to start PT because it was waking me SO many times at night. And I'm usually a pretty solid sleeper. It's forcing me to become a back sleeper because that's the only position that I don't have pain.

But the PT is working, just slower progress than I'd like!

Ok, back to work I must go!

[dc0520 263]

Hi ladies! I third the breast lift thing...but I'm actually moving forward with that now. Friday I have a plastics consultation I'm pretty excited about. I'm a 36G now and it's a terrible sight bc mine are pure tissue so they just hang lower and give me horrid back pain. Praying for lift and reduction. I'll fill everyone in on how that goes. Then after a year mark I'll be talking about a Tummy Tuck. Time is moving fast. 25 lbs away from goal of 150!

[amylynns 802]

@dc0520--Anxious to hear how your consultation goes!

I was a 40DDD and now am about a 34/36, but still a DDD. I still have a lot of breast tissue I just tuck into my bra. UGH. They're not so bad looking in a bra, but wowzers, bra comes off and they're just gone! My biggest issue is my shoulders. I have permanent marks from my bra straps. I'm always scrubbing at them because it's discolored---thinking it's just dirt, LOL--but of course it doesn't come off! It's like they're bruised permanently.

Wishing insurance would cover it, but I doubt in my case it would.

[Shadow427 272]

At Beni and Smiley! WOOOOO HOOOOO! Way to go!

[PinkPolkadot619 337]

Yeah mine look like very small balloons that get deflated after being blown up for a month....my bra is so padded it is not even funny!! I really want to wait until after I have children to get implants but......man these bras are expensive too!!! I even have a padded sports bra so I don't feel like a little boy. . :-(

[smiley922 447]

@dc0520--Anxious to hear how your consultation goes!

I was a 40DDD and now am about a 34/36, but still a DDD. I still have a lot of breast tissue I just tuck into my bra. UGH. They're not so bad looking in a bra, but wowzers, bra comes off and they're just gone! My biggest issue is my shoulders. I have permanent marks from my bra straps. I'm always scrubbing at them because it's discolored---thinking it's just dirt, LOL--but of course it doesn't come off! It's like they're bruised permanently.

Wishing insurance would cover it, but I doubt in my case it would.

amylynns, if you get sweaty rashes under your boobs, insurance should cover, also with back problems, another reason, I had a reduction from dd to c back in 1995, insurance covered it, best part was having the dents in the shoulders go away.

[smiley922 447]

And if don't get rashes, usw a scrub brush on your skin so it appears you have one, and that tip is from a nurse at the doctors office.

[Beni 1,484]

A plastic surgeon told me that you have to document skin rashes and use prescription strength creams on them. Don't just use free samples the GP or dermatologist gives you. Actually fill the prescription because all the documentation is how you get insurance approval for both breast and tummy plastic surgeries. If you have skin overlapping creating an area where moisture develops and stays you are at a greater risk of developing skin infections not only now but later as we age. It's not even a wanting to look good. It's a, you will have a lot of trouble in the nursing home. At that point, plastic surgery won't be in your mind, right? I was also told insurance approves outright if if your tummy skin overlaps your pubic area. For some of us with higher amounts of weight lost this will be true.

Not that I am advising anyone to have plastics but we have a history of not taking great care of ourselves. After all, didn't we get dangerously heavy and lived with it for way too long. I can see us as a group living with the skin complications and putting off doing anything about because that's how it is.

[amylynns 802]

@smiley922---I have gotten rashes in the past, but can't honestly say I've had one recently. The shoulder dents and dis-coloration are my biggest complaints. And of course just the weight of carrying these big saggy girls around!

Sometimes I'll have my honey just like, come up behind me and hold them up---it's like a 10 pound weight lifted on my chest and back, LOL!! "Aaahhhhhh....."

Ok--I have a maybe silly question though. If I just wanted a reduction and lift--do they "have" to put implants in? I don't want implants! I just want them smaller and not sagging into my armpits when I lay down, LOL.

My belly isn't so bad, no over hang at all, although I'd still love to have it tightened up. After 4 babies, ALOT of up and down weight, it's not like it's pretty by any means. But then again---I don't intend on ever wearing a bikini either, so it's not like anyone but my man is going to see it. And he doesn't have an issue with it.

[PinkPolkadot619 337]

I am 3.6 pounds from being a "healthy weight on the BMI chart!!! oh I am so excited!!! Also am 3.8 pounds from the big 100 lbs lost mark!!

enough celebrations, I also have still been getting dizzy, I have upped my Fluid intake, my Protein intake is perfect, I get veggies, and take all my Vitamins. I take the Bariatric Advantage multi and Calcium. My only idea is Iron, but the multi has extra Iron I thought...... I am out of ideas, any one have more ideas?

[smiley922 447]

@@amylynns, when I had my reduction in 1994, it was reduction and lift no implants. Now after this weight loss I have sad saggie little b's and am toying with the idea of implants. Make your decision when you have finished losing weight, you might be fine with just reduction and lift.