43 Years Old, Mom of 8 and Time for a New ME!

Hello Realselfers, stalking this site has helped me tremendously with my decision to improve all that having 8 children and excessive weight loss has done to my body. This has been a very long journey for me. My first consult was in 2014 and I was still hovering around the 200lb mark. Lets just say I wasn't ecstatic when I left my first consult. Dr. Pryor is an excellent surgeon with exceptional results but he is not one to candy coat just to make a buck. He will not tell you what you want to hear, he will tell you like it is! If you want the honest truth regardless if you like the answer then Dr. Pryor is your man. If your looking for someone to sell you rainbows and gumdrops  you'll need to keep looking. With that being said I was basically told if I wanted the most optimal results then I would have to loose more weight. WHAT???? I wanted it gone and wanted it gone now! I had already lost 25 lbs and thought it was the best I could do, I needed surgery to get me the  rest of the way. WRONG! I needed to do more than just loose the weight I needed to fix my mind and the behavior that got me to over 200 pounds. I am so glad that I listened to Dr. Pryor. If I would have done the surgery in 2014 without addressing the issues that fed my self destruction then I would have continued with the behavior that got me fat in the first place. I am scared to death but excited at the same time. I am having an extended tummy tuck with muscle repair and a breast reduction with lift. No implants.