Opinion on tummy tuck?

pilatemom
pilatemom Posts: 111
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I think I'm going to get one. I hear a lot of good things but also some bad. What do you think other than the bill I'd be paying back for years?

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  • melbatoast917
    melbatoast917 Posts: 370 Member
    You are kidding right? You are 18? I'm 30 and have had two kids and have lost 91 pounds. Your skin WILL rebound.
  • pilatemom
    pilatemom Posts: 111
    I just had a baby, have a ton of stretchmarks really deep on my entire stomach and it's saggy. And yes, I know the stretchmarks don't go completely away with a tummy tuck but they improve a lot.
  • melbatoast917
    melbatoast917 Posts: 370 Member
    Relax. You are young. There are plenty of creams on the market that work well.
  • keeponkickin
    keeponkickin Posts: 1,520 Member
    You're so young and you just had a baby. Give yourself some time. Your skin will go back, you'll lose the baby weight and stretch marks fad. What if you have more kids? You don't want to have a tummy tuck and have more kids after. Also, after seeing my husband go through a life threatening infection (mrsa, staph) I would seriously think about having unneeded surgery and risking a nasty infection. We heard stories from his home health nurse about people getting infections after plastic surgery.
  • MsNewBootyLish
    MsNewBootyLish Posts: 5
    Yea truly not worth the $$$ and DEFINITELY not the debt that comes along with it! A tummy tuck is just a lazy fast i.e shortcut to your goal if you gain ANY weight your stomach will start to go back to that unattractive form that you are selling your soul to pay for. Trust me, I'm someone who has had a very difficult time considering plastic surgery as well... I want a bootylicious booty so bad that I tried to figure out any way possible for me to be able to get a butt augmentation I even seriously looked into undergoing the dangerous and painful process of underground injections BUT I got smart and have been putting all my effort into weight training to gain my curves the honest, proud, and best of all permanent results with personal upkeep that's VIRTUALLY FREE! Yes it takes hard work yes it takes commitment, yes it takes dedicating yourself to some **** you don't want to do sometimes, but keep a positive attitude and seek motivation and know that you are benefiting yourself in the long run yes fitness is about looking better, but feeling better, and being healthier and by doing it the "Good ol' fashioned" way and working out and eating right you are giving yourself a learning experience and a gift to your body that you will ALWAYS have! Not a surgery that will hold until you gain weight (which you will because you haven't learned how to achieve and properly maintain your desired weight). And then you can't afford to have another surgery because you're STILL paying off the 1st one. Trust me chica I'm not trying to be a downer or put down your likes or anything I'm just trying to help you out when I say, DON'T DO IT!
  • kindleworm99
    kindleworm99 Posts: 40 Member
    My sister is a person who is major against surgery but wants to get one after have 2 kids, because she is very uncomfortable with wearing her clothes. I know a lot of women get them after pregnancy
  • Sarauk2sf
    Sarauk2sf Posts: 28,072 Member
    Lose the weight by eating at a deficit, strength train to maintain LBM, hit your goal weight, give it a couple of years to let your skin shrink as much as it will, then decide.

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