Here’s a picture of me before & after getting the excess skin on my stomach removed aka “abdominalplasty” or “tummy tuck” you can see I had a lot of skin bulging inside my undies and how now it’s all flat. Of course that’s me posing. My inner thighs on my legs still sag and I’m still swollen and bloated, and if I pulled that sports bra just a little bit up you can see the empty saggy skin bags I have under my chest.However you can already see the amazing changes. I wish nobody would have to go through all these excess skin removal surgeries after weightloss :( weightloss is already very mentally and physically challenging and I wish you could all be happy in your own skin after kicking ass and putting in all that effort, but unfortunately it’s not the way it works when you lose more than half the person you were. My surgeon told me to see it this way “it’s like you were wearing a large dress and “you” the person inside it changes, but the dress stays the same size, and that dress is your excess skin” I did not gain all that weight in a day, I definitely did not lose all that weight in a day, and I know I can’t get rid of all that excess skin in a day either. I’m not where I want to be yet, but I’m not where I used to be and I remember how much I looked forward to this moment of getting that excess skin on my stomach removed.. but instead of enjoying the moment and appreciating that it’s gone, I’m so busy focusing on the little details that are still pending. I used to look forward to this moment I will try to embrace it. 💗 I must learn to embrace and have patience for things that I can’t control.
