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Category: excess skin

  • The Ways We Change! Post Weight Loss Surgery

    If I had known myself six years ago, I would have witnessed a completely different version of me. I had reached a point where hope was scarce, and I had given up on myself and my future. Frustration and bitterness consumed me, as I endured daily pain, yearning desperately for a change. I watched my…

  • Managing Expectations

    Can we talk about managing our expectations? In my mind I hoped to look “normal” I don’t know what that was exactly but that was what I wanted post WLS! I think I wanted to be stretch mark free, able to see my own vag and I hoped to have boobs that vaguely pointed forwards…

  • Healing well after my recent arm revision

  • The Long Game

    I vividly recall sitting down right before my weight loss surgery thinking, “I am very sure there is no way that this is going to actually work in the long term.” I had been morbidly obese for most of my 41 years at that point. I could not fathom what it would be like to…

  • Shutting up the inner meanie!

    I thought I loved this pic then I realised that I could see my excess back skin creeping around and I started to pick at every single other fault and flaw I could see. I did that for about 5 minutes until I made myself nearly cry and then I just stopped! I just made…

  • Puffy Muffy

    Can we talk about something for a minute?? I wanna discuss post weight loss surgery Puffy Muffy! If you are easily offended this is probably a good blog to avoid 😳 Not sure if I am the only one who had dreams of a nice looking below the belt region? Well I guess when I…

  • Body Positivity and Weight Loss Surgery – just my thoughts

    I think I always had a bit of angst with my body. Things that happened to me when I was a child caused me to believe that my body wasn’t really mine and that I had little control over it. From that broken place a really poor view of myself and my body grew. It…

  • The Cost

    Let’s talk for a minute about the Cost of Bariatric Surgery. Many of us pay quite a sum just to have our surgery in the first place. But the costs that are ongoing are something that we don’t really talk about a lot. That’s not to say that WLS isn’t one of the best descisions…

  • 6th of May 2020 🌟🌟Warning GRAPHIC SURGICAL PIC🌟🌟

    We are approaching the 2 year mark! On the 18th of June, it will be 2 years since I had RNY – Gastric Bypass. It has been a strange time. The changing, the growing, the turning into a different version of me. Dealing with the demons in my past and letting go of things and…

  • POST WLS BOOBS

    Let’s talk about post WLS boobies for a minute. In my pre WLS life I sure didn’t take a lot of pics of my chest. It was gigantic, I breastfed 5 kids and they were just the big ole saggy fun bags! Heavy as lead and because of their sheer weight I lived with migraines,…