Hiya beautiful, let me tell you , there's not a cat in hell's chance of me ever wanting to wear a crop top nor of having a belly button (new or otherwise) pierced! lol I just want rid of this nasty horrid depressing stuff.
Extremely pleased to hear it .... crop tops so not a good look on women of a 'certain' age...... also I think I'd better write here that Jennie and I have been good friends for over a year and these comments are fully understood and in no way meant as flippant or offensive - in case any newbies reading this think I'm a flippant beetch!!)....
I felt it important to show the photo for a number of reasons - firstly because I know that there are many who simply do not / did not believe that I have a real problem with excess skin because it isn't obvious when people see me - I'm exceptionally good at hiding it! Secondly, I know too that it isn't a cheap operation nor one that is considered lightly either and I realise that there will be those who feel it is a waste of valuable NHS resources too. I won't necessarily be able to convince them otherwise but hopefully they might understand better why it affects me so so deeply.
Having seen your tum in the flesh (no pun intended) I do not for one minute think you should not have this done and it is a problem that faces lots of us when we loose weight - for some of us who have had years and years of being overweight (plus having kids thrown in the mix) there is just no way the skin will spring back.... and whilst it is a costly operation just think in the long term how much you will be SAVING the NHS because of all the other problems you may have got related to being larger..
Also, it's a way of continuing the openness of my diary. I have tried to not shy away from the harsh realities of life and my weight loss journey, I view myself as still only part way through that journey, possibly not even half way yet as I need to maintain for a significant amount of time to believe I have finished. Plus, until this skin is gone, the scales do not show an accurate picture of my true weight.
I wonder how much it'll weigh?..... You will once it's gone truly be 'at target' - how exciting... you've worked so hard and fully deserve to have this journey completed 'properly'.....
At my heaviest I stretched my skin over a body in excess of 25 stone... the photo shows what that can leave you with when you lose the fat... if this even stops just ONE person from getting up to that kind of size and therefore stops them having to cope with it after their weight loss then it will have been worth posting the picture. Also, it may help prepare some folk for what they might have to deal with. I don't want it to put them off losing, God forbid! It is far better, I feel, to be slim with skin than fat and facing a premature appointment with the grim reaper on a daily basis! But it is very hard too.
Absolutely...... me being one of them people.... come the New Year.... for me I am going to sort myself out hun (we'll speak about that another time)..... this has been a bit of a annus horriblus for me but 2008 see's a new me emerging - well physicaly anyway - I think I'm OK as a person just the packaging is a bit naff!!!
Can't wait to see you again in the New Year.
Look forward to seeing you in the New Year - you gonna come to BHam? I've not put my name down but could be persuaded!!!
Loads of love xxxxxx
Back at ya chick.....
MERRY CHRISTMAS XXX
