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What nobody tells you about losing weight

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  • Posts: 1,302 Member
    @buddharivet
    I'm talking about the upper ribs just below your collar bone. Skin removal surgery doesn't affect that high of the area.
  • Posts: 41 Member
    swimmom_1 wrote: »
    @buddharivet
    I'm talking about the upper ribs just below your collar bone. Skin removal surgery doesn't affect that high of the area.

    @swimmom_1 I didn’t realize those were ribs! I can see the first one, a little bit. The second one I can feel, but that one and the third one start running into my “kittens”, so I don’t think I’ll ever end up being able to see them.
  • Posts: 1,302 Member
    edited November 2021
    @buddharivet
    I'm talking about the upper ribs just below your collar bone. Skin removal surgery doesn't affect that high of the area.

    @swimmom_1 I didn’t realize those were ribs! I can see the first one, a little bit. The second one I can feel, but that one and the third one start running into my “kittens”, so I don’t think I’ll ever end up being able to see them.

    Yep you should have 12 pairs of ribs! They make up your rib cage.

  • Posts: 41 Member
    swimmom_1 wrote: »

    @swimmom_1 OK, technically, I knew that. I was a pre-med major in college. But I also didn’t really “realize” I had a sternum until I could actually feel it either. Or collarbones. Because you don’t *feel* them the way you do, say, your tibias. So you forget that they are even there, if you have spent your entire youth and adult life unable to see them.
  • Posts: 398 Member

    You WILL eventually feel good about yourself! The fact that you have achieved over 2/3rd’s of your intended weight loss shows that you have the strength to make it through. I started with less weight to lose than you have (only 275 pounds to my goal weight), but probably took a lot longer losing it than you have (12 years). I have had a huge roll of skin on my abdomen for most of the 12 years, and it wasn’t until I have gotten within 20 pounds of being ready for skin removal surgery that it’s gotten “thin” enough that I’m willing to wear jeans, because they hold it in. It was my constant, waddling companion for over a decade and I thought I would never get rid of it. But finally, sometime around the end of January, it will be gone. AND the skin on my arms too! Your time will come. Patience and persistence will get you through. Never give up.

    I am not where I want to be, but can I ask how much the surgery will cost?

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