**This sharepost is part of a series about total body contouring plastic surgery that My Bariatric Life underwent following massive weight loss. **
my bariatric life, dr. joseph f. cappella
My Bariatric Life "before" and "after" plastic surgery, 50 inches and 40 pounds gone forever!
I had been contemplatingbody contouring plastic surgeryafter having lost more than 100 pounds from gastric bypass surgery in 2003. I expected my flesh would shrink with the weight loss as it had done in the past. But after massive weight loss, myloose skin, excessive fat, and relaxed muscles did not respond well to diet and exerciseand instead hung on me like an ill-fitted suit.
我会见我的整形外科医生2006 and from that initial meeting I knew he was the one whom I wanted to perform my surgery.
I had met with several plastic surgeons but this doctor stood head and shoulders above the rest. He had thesurgical skills and expertise to produce optimal results on massive weight loss patients, as evidenced by his extensive online gallery of before and after photos. I still recall the photo that I fell in love with all those years ago. I thought, if he could do that for her, imagine what he could do for me!
还有在他似乎激动照顾我，我马上感到舒服他交谈一些特别的东西。这不仅漂亮，而且它的important that I be able to talk to him about my concerns, like I would a friend, and not hold anything back. Little did I know how vital a role that would come to play in our relationship.
But I am getting ahead of myself. The one thing that I remember from our conversation during that long ago consultation is this: I told him about the body I wanted to achieve with plastic surgery but said I knew I'd never get be able to wear a bikini. And he giggled and asked me "why not?" That must have been meaningful to me because I distinctly remember the details of the encounter to this day.
Years after that fateful encounter,I had a tummy tuck(abdominoplasty) and mons lift on April 18, 2013. And that Summer I wore a bikini at the beach. I had been about twenty years old that last time I did that. Truly, my tummy looked like it was that of a twenty year old woman. It was wonderful.
但我注意到有一个不匹配。当我转过身来我的背部看起来像一个49年老女人谁曾经是病态肥胖的背部。由于做了我的大腿，我的屁股，我的手臂，我的乳房。而且，很坦白，所以我做了一次漂亮的脸蛋。
I imagined how nice it would be if my thighs did not rub together when I walked. I would not get a wedgie when wearing shorts. I thought how wonderful it would be to wear sleeveless tops and shorter dresses. And I fantasized about looking good in a bikini from the frontandthe back.
The rear torso and buttocks are not contoured during an abdominoplasty.
所以高兴是我the results of my tummy tuckthat I moved forward with my long-held dream to do a total body transformation. This decision was made at a time in my life when I had come to the keenly painful awareness that life is short and precious. And since we never know when our last day on Earth will be, I had better stop procrastinating and do the things I wanted to do. On October 10, 2013, I underwent surgery that combined an upper body lift, lower body lift, and medial thigh lift.
It was not on a whim that I committed to spend $19,000.00 to have my body incised in multiple places around my torso and on each and every appendage, and leave permanent scars. To arrive at this decision was an emotional rollercoaster that I rode from mid-Summer when I did my first consult up to the night before my surgery.
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