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Please Help Me Remove Excess Skin from Weight Loss

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Hello my name is Angie. My entire life I struggled with my weight. When I say my entire life, I really mean it. See, when I was born, I weighed over 10lbs. My father and his side of the family are almost all morbidly obese. So, my weight was more genetic then it was my eating habits. Even though I've tried losing weight, diet after diet, nothing seemed to ever work. I was 327lbs at my heaviest 2.5 years ago, when I decided something had to give or I wouldn't live long enough to see my beautiful great niece grow up. See, I've never been fortunate enough to have kids of my own, so I've always spoiled my sisters kids and now my great niece. For the past 2.5 years, I have worked hard to loss weight and maintain a healthy diet and during this time I've lost over 130 pounds, which included losing my breast and a lot of excess skin on my upper arms, legs and stomach. I never realized that losing weight would have my body looking this way with all the loose skin. Even though I'm extremely proud of myself for my weight loss, I've been really depressed and very emotional because of the lost of my breast and all the excess skin. I feel less of a woman because of this. I've been trying to shake this feeling, but nothing seems to help. I'm having pain and discomfort from the excess skin. My thighs hurt when walking because the excess skin shakes so much. I've started developing rashes where the excess skin folds down on my stomach and my back hurts constantly because of the unnecessary weight in the front that is weighing me down.. My upper arms are hurting and causing me pains because of the weight of the excess skin. I've actually been wearing a long sleeve shirt every single day for the past 1.5 yrs, because my arms are disgusting and I'm completely embarrassed by them. I exercise every single day. I walk 3 miles every night and workout trying to tone up but nothing seems to be helping. I stopped eating beef 2.5 years ago when I started my journey. Then gave up all meats 1 year ago. So for the past year, I have been following a vegetarian diet. I never thought that I would ever need plastic surgery but here I am. I've had a few consultations with plastic surgeons to see where I'm needing to start. They suggested I start from the top and work my way down. So, the first step is actually a 2 step process. The first step will be a breast lift, because my breast have fallen so much that instead of my nipples pointing forward, they point straight down. After healing the 6 weeks from step 1 they will then do step 2. Step 2 will be the Brachioplasty for my arms and the breast augmentation. The money will be spent on the cost of both procedures (Step 1 & Step 2). I turn 40 years old in August and even though I feel like I'm in my twenties, my body looks way older because of all the loose wrinkled skin and saggy flat breast. Please, any help means that I'm one step closer to becoming a woman again.

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Angie Pierce
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Plano, TX

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