"The weight is over"'s bariatric surgery spam thread

[O.Z.]

I am a married man and my wife does not ask for exchange. Sorry to hear that. 

[TheWeightsOver]

Your nipples resemble those strange little pepperoni squares mostly found on cafeteria rectangle pizzas, not healthy, normal pepperonis. It's really rather perturbing, and I am not amused.

hahaha sorry.  So you rather prefer men to have big Hershey Kiss nips? 

[Krankenstein]

I am not going to disagree with you. I have never been where you have, so I haven't had to test the strength of my willpower to the degree you have. I can say that I am impressed with what you've achieved though. Good job! Unfortunately, not everyone is as dedicated or lucky as you when it comes to that test.

My wife has fought weight issues since she was a small child. She has tried everything to lose weight over the last five decades I've known her with varying success. She has not had gastric bypass surgery. Diets work at first but don't have any sustainability with her. Eventually, old habits prevail. It has been heartbreaking at times. To suggest that she simply doesn't possess will power would be inaccurate and insulting. She did quit smoking using nothing but willpower many years ago.

With all due respect, how can you say that its not a lack of will power? 

[BigCyp]

With all due respect, how can you say that its not a lack of will power? 

Lol, I let that one go purely on respect for the elders.

[Army of One]

The surgery itself was outpatient, done in their office.  After going through it, I'm still baffled as to how they can get away with sending you home after such an invasive surgery.  In the end, I had over 2,000 stitches.  I was sent home with 2 drain tubes that had to be dumped 2x day for over 2 weeks.  The doctor admitted he should've sent me home with 3, maybe 4, because of all of the swelling and fluid I retained early on.  

I was physically immobile and couldn't move without heavy assistance (thank God I have an understand, smoking hot wife).  I actually popped a stitch trying to get up on my own and bled everywhere, for over an hour.  My house looked like a murder scene...I had to be driven back to the office and get it taken care of.  For several months my nerve endings would 'wake back up' and fire off, causing intense stabbing pain at random times, which was a big bowl of fun to deal with.

My scar is very, very low, to the point where when I wear a banana hammock on stage, you can't even see it.  I also scar very well apparently, because it's a hairline and isn't directly noticeable anyway.

I had to wear a compression garment for several weeks, followed my compression shorts (under armor bike shorts) for another several weeks.  The compression garment didn't come off for the first 2 weeks, so I never even saw the outcome until much later.

The following pics are from surgery, and the others show that even at an early age, I've wanted to be a bodybuilder...and the strange thing is, I never watched bodybuilding, I never saw a bodybuilder in real life until I met Jay Cutler when I was about 19 (9 years ago).  It was always something in me that just wanted to be hyuuuuge, and one day I hope to accomplish that last goal!

Did you keep the skin and make a lampshade?Maybe covered a cucumber with it and then pretended you were riding red rum at the 2:30 at Ascot?

[Tedim]

Do you think if you did gradual weight loss you could have avoided the loose skin and painful surgery and having gone through this ordeal would you have tried gradual weight loss instead knowing what you know now?

[TheWeightsOver]

Do you think if you did gradual weight loss you could have avoided the loose skin and painful surgery and having gone through this ordeal would you have tried gradual weight loss instead knowing what you know now?

No, it would not have mattered how slow or fast the weight loss was, my stomach was so stretched out that it was inevitable.  I had lost all of the elasticity in my skin from it being stretched out so far for so long...

I was told my stomach at the time of the initial weight loss surgery was the size of a 2 liter bottle 

I'm not trying to 'spam' or whatever, I simply think that if this approach actually WORKS for you, why not do it?  I will never regret what I did to get to where I am, and how I went about it, and I'm just 'some guy', nothing fancy, nothing special.  So if I can do it, lord knows anyone else can as well, with the proper support system and knowledge. 

[avxo]

First of all, kudos on working hard to build your physique up, after you lost the weight. Also kudos for losing the weight - I know some here argue that the surgery means you cheated, but the bottom line is you did something about your situation and improved your life dramatically.

I have to tell you that I am floored by the result your surgery - almost to the point where I doubt that this is really you. The outcome is just stellar. I had never heard of this procedure before, but googled online and this is the second image that popped up...



Now, that clearly is a clusterfuck - and I'm not sure that clusterfuck even describes this. Hell, I'm not even sure what the fuck it is that I'm looking at there.

I'm not sure if your results are typical or what, but if they aren't, you seem to have been very lucky and if they are, plastic surgery seems to have advanced tremendously.

Do you think if you did gradual weight loss you could have avoided the loose skin and painful surgery and having gone through this ordeal would you have tried gradual weight loss instead knowing what you know now?

Perhaps it might have not been as bad, but I think there's a limit beyond which the skin is just perma-fucked. I imagine its a combination of how much it was stretched and how long it was stretched for.

[Tedim]

Maybe, but I always read that if the weight loss is gradual no loose skin issues....but I don't have first hand knowledge, it's just that the surgery seems so invasive.

[Primemuscle]

First of all, kudos on working hard to build your physique up, after you lost the weight. Also kudos for losing the weight - I know some here argue that the surgery means you cheated, but the bottom line is you did something about your situation and improved your life dramatically.

I have to tell you that I am floored by the result your surgery - almost to the point where I doubt that this is really you. The outcome is just stellar. I had never heard of this procedure before, but googled online and this is the second image that popped up...



Now, that clearly is a clusterfuck - and I'm not sure that clusterfuck even describes this. Hell, I'm not even sure what the fuck it is that I'm looking at there.

I'm not sure if your results are typical or what, but if they aren't, you seem to have been very lucky and if they are, plastic surgery seems to have advanced tremendously.


Perhaps it might have not been as bad, but I think there's a limit beyond which the skin is just perma-fucked. I imagine its a combination of how much it was stretched and how long it was stretched for.

I Googled this surgery and 99% of the photos are not pretty. Scary stuff. My neighbor had this surgery following liposuction. I have no idea how it turned out since her husband might object to my asking to see her scars....LOL! She is a surgical assistant to the plastic surgeon, so I would imagine he did his best work on her.

[TheWeightsOver]

First of all, kudos on working hard to build your physique up, after you lost the weight. Also kudos for losing the weight - I know some here argue that the surgery means you cheated, but the bottom line is you did something about your situation and improved your life dramatically.

I have to tell you that I am floored by the result your surgery - almost to the point where I doubt that this is really you. The outcome is just stellar. I had never heard of this procedure before, but googled online and this is the second image that popped up...



Now, that clearly is a clusterfuck - and I'm not sure that clusterfuck even describes this. Hell, I'm not even sure what the fuck it is that I'm looking at there.

I'm not sure if your results are typical or what, but if they aren't, you seem to have been very lucky and if they are, plastic surgery seems to have advanced tremendously.


Perhaps it might have not been as bad, but I think there's a limit beyond which the skin is just perma-fucked. I imagine its a combination of how much it was stretched and how long it was stretched for.

Thanks!  I don't know if my results are typical...I know that my surgeon for the WLS as well as the skin have profited tremendously off of me (and I haven't seen a dime in it).  Sometimes it pisses me off that they've labeled me the "poster child" for WLS and the like, and people get their hopes up looking at my results then put in zero effort comparatively speaking and then they're left looking like that picture above. 

The pictures are somewhat smoke and mirrors, because you can still see I have loose skin around my gut, even with the surgery.  The surgeon equated it to stretching a shirt...when you're standing upright, it's tight, but when you lean over, the area from top to bottom has lessened, thus creating more fabric.  Does that make sense? 

You can see in this picture here that although my abs are visible, the skin still flows over them...

To clarify the difference in the typical results from gastric bypass vs going beyond, the first picture on the left in the middle row is essentially what I looked like after WLS and would've remained looking like had I not started bodybuilding (cleaned up diet, lifted 6 days per week).  It took forever, but I was able to change from that picture to now. 

I will say though, I think I have somewhat screwed myself in following the traditional 'bulking/off season' and precontest dieting because I have started to stretch the skin back out.  I don't have an HGH gut ha, but I can tell the difference by gaining and losing year after year...

[Disgusted]

Congrats you look great. So you had a weight problem since you were very young, that sucks. Genetics is a bitch and sometimes drastic measures are needed.

[Kwon_2]

The surgery itself was outpatient, done in their office.  After going through it, I'm still baffled as to how they can get away with sending you home after such an invasive surgery.  In the end, I had over 2,000 stitches.  I was sent home with 2 drain tubes that had to be dumped 2x day for over 2 weeks.  The doctor admitted he should've sent me home with 3, maybe 4, because of all of the swelling and fluid I retained early on.  

I was physically immobile and couldn't move without heavy assistance (thank God I have an understand, smoking hot wife).  I actually popped a stitch trying to get up on my own and bled everywhere, for over an hour.  My house looked like a murder scene...I had to be driven back to the office and get it taken care of.  For several months my nerve endings would 'wake back up' and fire off, causing intense stabbing pain at random times, which was a big bowl of fun to deal with.

My scar is very, very low, to the point where when I wear a banana hammock on stage, you can't even see it.  I also scar very well apparently, because it's a hairline and isn't directly noticeable anyway.

I had to wear a compression garment for several weeks, followed my compression shorts (under armor bike shorts) for another several weeks.  The compression garment didn't come off for the first 2 weeks, so I never even saw the outcome until much later.

The following pics are from surgery, and the others show that even at an early age, I've wanted to be a bodybuilder...and the strange thing is, I never watched bodybuilding, I never saw a bodybuilder in real life until I met Jay Cutler when I was about 19 (9 years ago).  It was always something in me that just wanted to be hyuuuuge, and one day I hope to accomplish that last goal!

Did a black fellow do that to you?

[Primemuscle]

Thanks!  I don't know if my results are typical...I know that my surgeon for the WLS as well as the skin have profited tremendously off of me (and I haven't seen a dime in it).  Sometimes it pisses me off that they've labeled me the "poster child" for WLS and the like, and people get their hopes up looking at my results then put in zero effort comparatively speaking and then they're left looking like that picture above. 

The pictures are somewhat smoke and mirrors, because you can still see I have loose skin around my gut, even with the surgery.  The surgeon equated it to stretching a shirt...when you're standing upright, it's tight, but when you lean over, the area from top to bottom has lessened, thus creating more fabric.  Does that make sense? 

You can see in this picture here that although my abs are visible, the skin still flows over them...

To clarify the difference in the typical results from gastric bypass vs going beyond, the first picture on the left in the middle row is essentially what I looked like after WLS and would've remained looking like had I not started bodybuilding (cleaned up diet, lifted 6 days per week).  It took forever, but I was able to change from that picture to now. 

I will say though, I think I have somewhat screwed myself in following the traditional 'bulking/off season' and precontest dieting because I have started to stretch the skin back out.  I don't have an HGH gut ha, but I can tell the difference by gaining and losing year after year...

If there is a lesson in all of this, it would be to avoid getting obese in the first place, if at all possible. I realize this isn't always something that the average person can control, but there are people who simply allow themselves to get fat by no caring. The media blames the American diet and they are right in part. Many people rely on fast food as their mainstay diet. No way can this be healthy when consumed day in and day out. Many parents need to take more responsibility for their children's health. There have always been people who are heavier than most, but today obesity is epidemic.

[Natural Man]

The seminars are for persons interested in getting WLS and are set up through a hospital in my area.  I speak about several things pertaining to diet, nutrition and exercise as it relates to post-op care.  So many people go from one extreme to the other, which takes a toll on the average person who isn't ready for it.  WLS has about a 33% true "success" rate, in that 1/3 of the people use it as a tool and get out of it what they hoped.  Another third do not lose, or gain a significant amount of weight back after the initial loss, mainly due to emotional and mental issues surrounding the obesity in the first place.  The other third are 'successful' per se with the surgery because they lose weight, but find that they are caught in that 'extreme' where they FEAR calories and fear weight gain, so much so that they become the polar opposite and yet the exact same...they're on the opposite end of the spectrum physically, and yet they're damaging themselves just as much by being so malnourished.

To answer your question, I touch on all of the above and give insight on how to live post-op, based on my own experiences.  Again, this is why I've said I've personally seen so many people come and go through WLS based on what they 'thought' would happen and utterly fail.  Nothing in life is a guarantee...

you re promoting a business it seems, somewhere, someone, needs all these fat people to come see and PAY him. Cui bono?

Shut your mouth and stop spamming the bodybuilding/fitness related messageboards with your crap. We get it, you went from obese to fit; there are millions of people who do so WITHOUT paying anything, simply applying common sense toward diet and exercise. Had you stayed natural and shut your mouth i would have somewhat supported your message, but considering you then went the steroid route just show you went from one dumb extreme to another missing the balance between the two. Just another scam artist.

[Primemuscle]

you re promoting a business it seems, somewhere, someone, needs all these fat people to come see ad PAY him. Cui bono?

Shut your mouth and stop spamming the bodybuilding/fitness related messageboards with your crap. We get it, you went from obese to fit; there are millions of people who do so WITHOUT paying anything, simply applying common sense toward diet and exercise. Had you stayed natural and shut your mouth i would have somewhat supported your message, but considering you then went the steroid route just show you went from one dumb extreme to another missing the balance between the two. Just another scam artist.

What's the scam? It's not like he is the doctor who preformed the surgery. In most scams, the scammer profits. Where would he profit from his posts?

[TheWeightsOver]

What's the scam? It's not like he is the doctor who preformed the surgery. In most scams, the scammer profits. Where would he profit from his posts?

This...

I haven't solicited for anyone?  I haven't mentioned my website once, nor my sponsors, or anyone included in my transformation.

But, as they say:

[The Idol]

This...

I haven't solicited for anyone?  I haven't mentioned my website once, nor my sponsors, or anyone included in my transformation.

But, as they say:

Dude, just in case nobody else tells you, you're a creep. Take your loose skin, your goofy posing, your morbidly obese surgery and fuck off.

[TheWeightsOver]

where the hell did that come from?  I'm a creep because I saw someone had posted my picture, so I come in and explain why I used to look a certain way, people ask me questions, I answer them, and now I get put through the wringer for that?  Awesome...

I never once boasted and I've always stayed humble in my transformation...why?  Because what I did isn't some outstanding feat, and I realize that.  I was headed to an early grave and I made a change.  I had a dream that I followed and accomplished.  I even stated before, I'm just 'some guy', nothing special, so if I can do it, anyone can.  Regardless of how you or anyone else feels, I know whole heartedly that there are people out there who are hopeless in their struggle and need the guidance, help or motivation to change their life (if they've chosen the route I did).  If I can help someone based on my own experiences, I'd be a "creep" not to... Just because YOU might not need help doesn't mean that everyone else is as successful in life as you. 

[The Idol]

where the hell did that come from?  I'm a creep because I saw someone had posted my picture, so I come in and explain why I used to look a certain way, people ask me questions, I answer them, and now I get put through the wringer for that?  Awesome...

I never once boasted and I've always stayed humble in my transformation...why?  Because what I did isn't some outstanding feat, and I realize that.  I was headed to an early grave and I made a change.  I had a dream that I followed and accomplished.  I even stated before, I'm just 'some guy', nothing special, so if I can do it, anyone can.  Regardless of how you or anyone else feels, I know whole heartedly that there are people out there who are hopeless in their struggle and need the guidance, help or motivation to change their life (if they've chosen the route I did).  If I can help someone based on my own experiences, I'd be a "creep" not to... Just because YOU might not need help doesn't mean that everyone else is as successful in life as you. 

You might have fooled some of these folks but you're not fooling me. Take your spam, and GTFO.

[TheWeightsOver]

I'm baffled... 

[Kim Jong Bob]

I'm baffled... 

dont be, this is getbig after all

[Tedim]

Realize this is getbig....gladiatorial combat forum...unless your blood is on the sands then chances are your shits on the walls  

Thick skin or GTFO is the motto...

[TheWeightsOver]

Realize this is getbig....gladiatorial combat forum...unless your blood is on the sands then chances are your shits on the walls  

Thick skin or GTFO is the motto...

Truer words were never spoken...

[Tedim]

Now make some vulgar comment about The Idols cum dumpster he calls mother and your training will be complete....

Enjoy the dark side.