#Surgery for Weight Loss

[fatphobiabusters]

Theres something really insidious about how gastric bypass advocates deny that essential organ mutilation is unhealthy.

"I've lost so much weight I'm so healthy" your stomach is mutilated.

"My doctor is praising my progress" your stomach is mutilated.

"I fit in so many more clothes now"

Because an essential, life sustaining organ in your body was cut up and your digestive system rerouted.

Health isn't the end all be all of value, humanity or importance but I feel like there is a huge lie here when this is "healthy" and it's just ignored.

Sorry to just bring this up out of no where but I was reminded of how little this is really talked about in bypass circles. Like, no matter what, you are now unhealthy. The spector of health continues. The Ouroboros is unbroken. Only this time it's doctor approved.

-mod squirrel

[hi-its-meg]

How much bodies can change is actually insane 🙈

[slavicafire]

once you notice the ghoulification of celebrities through uncontrolled unhealthy and obsessive drug-induced extreme weight loss you will no longer be able to miss it. faces and bodies and expressions nearly unrecognisable. and you need to see it! you must consciously see it. paired with just as extreme and uncontrolled and unhealthy plastic surgery, you need to see it as grotesque and ridiculous, you must not assume this is the new normal, you can't passively accept it as this new standard we must hold each other to.

you must see it as a cruel and oppressive capitalist tool that it is. you need to see it and point it out and remember that it is unhealthy and obsessive and that it is actively harmful as it trickles down from the rich high horse down onto the people. that it is directly and consciously created to target minorities and profit off of them. that it brings direct and tangible harm to people already endangered by the system. you need to see and understand the impact of the abuse of resources and the push for accepting a lack of ethics in genuinely useful medical fields. it is pushed as the new standard hard. push back.

[playerprophet]

This is Meredith, a friend of mine who, whenever I encounter her at parties I always ask her about her research on this stuff. She's fat-positive and doing research for her PhD on weight-loss surgery in Canada. In her tweets she says she's looking to talk to people who are "engaged in fat politics, have had negative or harmful experiences in surgery", particularly cis men, trans and non-binary people, and BIPOC.

Meredith is one of the most gentle and kind people I know and I'm sure talking to her will be a wonderful experience. It seems like she could use more fat trans voices in her research, and I am sharing this with her permission, because I know there are a lot of people on tumblr who have a lot to say. Let your voices be heard!

Contact her at besseym at uoguelph dot ca, and signal boost!

[freefolkfightorflight]

Here have my brain

1. Piper says hi. Mostly I call him ‘kitty’ or ‘kee kee’. He sleeps and lays on me all the time. It feels like I have a sweet lil baby again and it’s kinda nice yall. We think he’s 2 months old now.

2. My face has been more dry/peely/red lately. Not sure if it’s the kitten or just my lack of self care honestly. It’s not new but it is worse. I have what I think is rosacea or eccema or both. I know my skin does better under different eating conditions and was absolutely perfect when I did keto a million years ago. But lol no

3. Trying ozempic. Just got week 5’s shot. Slowly losing weight. A few pounds a week. (I’m down 21lbs total🎉 just like 80-100 to go🤣 god that’s depressing). I feel like I can tell a difference in my stomach but i said that and the next day a patient asked me if I was pregnant so maybe I’m just imagining it🤣(this is a recurring thing, people asking me if I’m pregnant since gaining weight. It’s all in the very best place to store fat. My belly😒) sometimes I lie and tell people yes I’m pregnant bc I don’t want them to feel embarrassed for me. 🤦🏻‍♀️🤣 like when it’s a patient and imma have to deal with them all night it’s sometimes easier to just say yes so they’re not all weird for 12 more hours) anyways I’m 28 weeks and it’s a girl and her name will be Polly. (Lol jk)

Pros: appetite is that of a human. Portion control is done for me. Like I don’t even want to eat more than when I feel full. I FEEL full. Haven’t felt that in years since starting depression meds 11 years ago. I’m less nauseated than before starting it, I’m guessing bc I’m prediabetic and my blood sugars were shit.

Cons: literally none for me so far. I was nervous re nausea bc I was already struggling with that before. But it’s improved it. I still get nauseas sometimes but it’s even less than prior to starting the med. I started off at the lowest ever dose (4 units- max is 45 I think). Todays dose I did 8 for the second week. Nice to know when/if things are stagnate I can move up. Im doing this in place of weight loss surgery for now.

4. Weight loss surgery. I went to my appointment last week and honestly it scared the crap out of me. They were trying to rush it and make you sign contracts stating you’ll get a cardiologist, pulmonologist, nutritionist, psych, surgeon all to meet you and then monthly until your surgery and then see psych and nutritionist and them after and if you don’t you’re off the list and have to start over. Also I have to stop vaping and they test you and lol I’m here bc I have no self control lol. Also I couldn’t afford it. The only way I can afford the ozempic bc my friend is an NP and gets it for me.

5. I straightened up some and showered today. Where’s my prize?

[fa1ryv]

Hello! not showing my face until I’m less swollen and bruised. 🥺Only 4 more weeks to go and I can eat solid food 😋 until then, it’s liquid meals

[compassionatereminders]

(cw medical transphobia and weight loss mention) adding on to the BMI is bullshit thing, I’m a trans dude who’s now being refused top surgery until I get my BMI under 30 and like… I have a similar body type to you, kat. It’s stupid and ridiculous- and my chest is part of what makes my bmi that high in the first place! These things aren’t made of bubbles and air, it’s fat! So the tldr is that I now have to lose a certain amount of weight before my next appointment in a year, which honestly sucks big time

No that's so stupid, because first of all it isn't even scientifically proven that intentional weight loss is a realistic option for most people, and on the other hand the many "health risks" associated with fatness may very well be more correlation than causation due to many doctors not taking their fat patients seriously in time. I'm so sorry you have to deal with this ❤️

[abodybuiltlikeagoddess]

It’s hard to admit that I have a hard time looking at myself in the mirror these days.

Physically I feel AMAZING. I can walk without struggling to breathe… which I didn’t realize I did when I was heavier until I realized how much easier it was to breathe. I’m enjoying being more bendy than I was when I was heavier. And I’m stronger than I have been in a while.

With all of that, I still have a difficult time looking at how my skin is changing as I lose weight. Some days are different than others. On days where I don’t hate looking at myself, I feel vein.. because I can’t stop looking. There are things I like looking at on my body…. For example, my clavicles. I haven’t been able to see those since I was a kid. I’ve always thought my upper chest was nice, especially when my clavicles protruded. So I really enjoy looking at that part of my body. When I smile, my dimples are more noticeable. My neck is so slender now… like I actually have a neck again. My shoulders look so sexy, I love looking at them. And lastly, my jawline… I don’t think I’ve ever seen a jawline on my face…. And I like the way it looks. But if you notice, the only parts of my body I enjoy looking at are from my shoulders and up.

I’m working very hard to love the way my body is changing. So I’m learning to love little bits of myself little by little. I think I need to give myself some more grace.

If you’ve gotten this far,

Thank you for reading.

PS

The pictures above,

I love them.

[jenthebug]

Update: I’ll be having two surgeries, a double mastectomy and tissue expanders, then a bilateral DIEP flap (reconstruction using fat from my belly) a couple months later when my tissue has sufficiently expanded. It’s gonna expand a lot. I’m going big.

I’m about to be sober af this summer…no weed 6 weeks before or after each surgery. So I’m getting absolutely snoop dogged tonight. 200mg. Because my surgery could be as soon as 6 weeks from now (come on let’s get this over with!). I’ll get an exact date when the surgery scheduler calls.

Dr. Plastics wants me to start losing weight in a healthy way, too; cut out sweets, fast foods, and alcohol, and cut back on simple carbs. So that’ll be something to work on this spring.

This. Is. Gonna. Suck.

These are huge surgeries.

And two of my favorite coping mechanisms are now off limits. Three, counting sweets.

[evilejfan]

What difference 2 years and 200 lbs (between us) makes... @toniaandhercats how far we've come! Never let you go kiddo!

[thedreadvampy]

Having this weird realisation that I've spent my whole life beating myself up for not having a body type I don't even find appealing????

Like this isn't to say I don't find some thin or skinny bodies attractive, but the extreme waifish-but-feminine body type that celebrities are pushed into - flat stomach thin waist bony face smooth hips - just hits my brain wrong. It reads as unnatural on an adult woman - it's the shape of a (certain type of) teenage girl. Like I look at Lady Gaga or Scarlet Johansson at this point and I don't think 'wow beautiful' I think 'jeez what's going on there?' Especially in the face and waist - idk to what degree it's things like Ozempic and buccal fat removal and to what degree it's just the body types we uphold but everything in my brain is shouting THAT DOESN'T SEEM RIGHT FOR YOUR BONE STRUCTURE.

and like this isn't a political or moral statement, attraction is a terrible metric for Moral Goodness. but it's still maddening to realise that I'm constantly comparing myself to a way of looking that I honestly find offputting. like no I don't want to look like 2024 Ariana Grande, she looks Unwell. I don't actually want my face to be as bony and drawn as half the celebrities denying their use of weight loss drugs and facial surgery.

This isn't a moral stance but at risk of body shaming I just think that super skinny Looks Bad to me unless your body is built for it. And I don't want to look that way. But also I'm a woman living in the world so of course I also do and I look at my waist and go 'god when I was 17 I had such an hourglass figure' but a) when I was 17 with a UK size 6 waist I also thought I was fat (didn't do anything about it because I had other fish to fry and also I love food, but I did beat myself up about it) and b) honestly in that case even though it was my natural figure at the time I still look pretty drawn and uncomfortably thin in some photos from them, and c) if I met someone whose body looked like mine did then I would immediately clock them as a teenager, and I don't find that attractive in a 31 year old.

End of the day I kind of think that the obsession with a specific type of thinness - again, the flat stomach, nipped waist, smooth unlumpy hips, high breasts, narrow shoulders - is about fetishizing adolescence. Cause a lot of girls under 20 look like that - not most by any means, but it's not an unusual body type - but for most women (not all), adulthood means developing more muscle, a thicker waist and broader shoulders and hips, more definition in the hips, a bit more soft tissue over the uterus, etc. And trying to turn back the clock on that by force involves working against what your body is trying to be, which to me (personal aesthetic taste) often ends up looking odd and disjointed, like you have soft features but no fat in your face, or all the protective layers over muscle are stripped off so you're weirdly wiry.

I think what I'm drawn to aesthetically in the human body is the infinite different ways that people have a coherence between their different features, and their bodies come together as a unit, and I think it's possible to maintain that through surgical intervention and major body changes but I think the body types that are almost mandatory for women in the public eye rarely have that coherence, because they're not concerned with what looks best on a singular body but with checking boxes. and so it jangles my brain I don't like it.

[hi-its-meg]

Friday is the day I meet with the plastic surgeon for a skin removal consult 🙈

[agrownupgeekgirl]

A few shots from my walk to and from Yoga today and then resting once I got home.

7 months ago when I had my Gastric Sleeve surgery I could barely walk 5 minutes in my back yard. Today I walked a total of 2 miles and did an hour and a half of yoga. I'm pretty fucking proud of myself.

[herbofgraceandpeace]

🙃

[ahappybeginning]

I just hit a major milestone: 200 lbs down. In 13 1/2 months.

I’m honestly just…crying with relief and joy and pride and so much love for myself and this journey I decided to take. 🥹🥹

At the beginning of this year, I set a series of goals for myself. Some were weight-related, some were non-scale victories I wanted to achieve. This particular milestone, based on what I was predicting my rate of continued weight loss would look like, I had put as wanting to hit by my birthday, in September. It’s exactly 3 months from my birthday today, and I’m already here.

And this puts me only 10 lbs from the lowest (recorded) weight I got to during my first weight loss attempt in 2018. So soon, I will be in completely uncharted territory with my lowest weight as an adult, and I’m so freaking excited.

I’m going to Disney this weekend to celebrate. Just got a brand new annual pass, so this trip will mark my triumphant return to my happy place that I haven’t been to since 2019. And honestly, that last trip was anything but happy for me due to some unrelated bullshit happening in my personal life at the same time, so I’m very much looking forward to reclaiming my joy and making it magical for me again. I’m gonna get a celebration button, take allllllll the professional photos, ride the new rides that have opened since I was last there…basically I’m gonna celebrate my face off because I FREAKING LOST 200 POUNDS AND I DAMN WELL DESERVE IT!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[3liza]

I've been pissed off about how flat and ugly the stomach ends up after BBLs and mommy makeovers for years now and it looks like finally FINALLY someone has figured out some nice looking abdominal contouring instead. the above example is really successful in my opinion, i think it looks nice.

i post about this stuff partially because i just find cosmetic surgery itself extremely interesting from a pure gore/human potential standpoint but also partially to inform other people what procedures are possible in a basically futile attempt to remind you and myself that these bodies are FAKE. they are not achievable through anything other than tens of thousands of dollars of life-threatening surgery, or pure genetic happenstance.

btw, the diabetes medications semaglutide and related are now accessible to celebrities and the wealthy and will knock 25 lbs off of even already-skinny people in a few months. so we are heading into another heroin chic era (the beginnings of this have been building for a while, and of course it never really leaves). television staff are already reporting cast members returning from season breaks having dropped 10-20 lbs. just put that information into your brain for later, you might need it.