My Bariatric Life from 24W to 2 - Thanks to Plastic Surgery 10-yrs After Gastric Bypass I'm Living Larger Than Ever!

I grew from a fit teenager to a fat 22 year old and became a processed food junkie and couch potato. I later developed diabetes, celiac disease, depression, acid reflux, asthma, and hypertension. I was in my 30s, morbidly obese and on ~10 prescription medications. Since 2003 I've maintained massive weight loss from gastric bypass surgery and remain free from 9 of the 10 prescriptions.

Gastric bypass surely saved my life. But I felt gypped. My weight remained pretty steady at 185-200 pounds and was not the thin body I had expected to achieve. Add to that, my skin did not shrink as I thought it would with weight loss but rather hung on my body like an ill-fitted suit. I remained shamed of my body even after a 100 pound weight loss.

Then in 2013 I underwent body contouring plastic surgeries and facial plastic surgery to remove the last traces of my former obesity. It was the best thing I ever did for myself. I love love love my body now! It is a wonderful feeling to be proud of one's own body.

Nowadays I am committed to supporting the online patient community with outstanding resources and by sharing my long-term success in defeating obesity and obesity-related illnesses. Today, I'm a size 2 (down from a size 24W) and living larger than ever!

I will post more about my experience at a later date. In the meantime, please click through to my profile and access my many reviews and photos on my plastic surgeries.

Having gone through my transformation, I think that I now know how people feel having hit the lottery after decades of living in poverty. My results from body contouring plastic surgery with Dr. Joseph F. Capella and facial rejuvenation with Dr. Catherine Winslow are so good, that it is sometimes surreal. After a decade of not having achieved the body and face I wanted to achieve from weight loss surgery, there are times when I feel as if this is just a wonderful dream. And I might awaken from this wonderful dream, lying in my bed in my former puddle of flesh, and not caring much about how I looked.

The "after" photos were taken this year, just months after my body contouring plastic surgery with Dr. Capella and facial plastic surgery with Dr. Winslow.

I now have the body that weight loss surgery could not give me. It has been decades since I looked this good. As of this writing, I have lost 50-inches and 45-pounds. I went from a size 14 jeans being tight to size 2 jeans in less than a year since my tummy tuck (my first plastic surgery). Never did I imagine that a simple tummy tuck would lead to this.

If it can happen to me, then it can happen to you. And it's a whole lot more possible than your chances of winning the lottery! It really can and does happen. Just checkout the ~thousand photos on Dr. Capella's website. As for Dr. Winslow, if you think her website gallery is impressive, just wait until you see the before and after photos in her practice.

I hit the lottery alright!