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you look fantastic!! you had a great shape at 260 and you still have it now! what an inspiration. have you had an plastic surgery? you don't seem to have loose skin. you are an inspiration. thank you so much for this post!

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you look fantastic!! you had a great shape at 260 and you still have it now! what an inspiration. have you had an plastic surgery? you don't seem to have loose skin. you are an inspiration. thank you so much for this post!

Yeah, if you read back through this thread a little, I explained more in detail about my plastic surgery. I had lost 90 pounds "on my own" back in 2010/2011 and had plastic surgery in August of 2011. I had an extended Tummy Tuck and breast lift with augmentation. Over the years since my plastics, I had regained 80 if the original 90 pounds I lost, so I then decided to have VSG in September 2014. So the "before" photos in my original post were post plastics, but pre-VSG, thus my flat stomach and perky boobs! Somewhere in this thread I posted the "before" pictures from 2010, before I lost the 90 pounds on my own and my shape was much less pleasing at 270 back then!

Luckily, my tummy tuck held up incredibly well through my weight re-gain and re-loss, so my stomach looks amazing now. I do have significant amounts of loose skin on my thighs and hope to have a thigh lift at some point. I also have a little loose skin on my upper arms, but not bad enough to justify an arm lift.

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Congrats. You look wonderful.

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Amazing progress.

You have done really well !!!!!!

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Great job! Thanks so much for sharing!

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@@donnag53 @Dub @sherabear @bibleajosc Thanks guys! So far so good with maintenance over the past month. I've lost a little more weight and I hope to slow that down or stop it completely. It's trickier than you might think to stop losing weight after a full year of losing!

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