r/GLP1_loss100plus

Life is so much easier when you aren't carrying a recliner everywhere.

A few months ago I posted here after losing 165+ lbs and said I’d update when I knew more about skin removal surgery.

Well, I’m now 170+ lbs down and IT’S HAPPENING!!

My surgery is officially scheduled for September 17th! I’ll be having a panniculectomy + Fleur-de-Lis abdominoplasty with mons repair and muscle repair. No lipo. I have an estimated 15 lbs or more that will be removed in skin and residual tissue.

When I made my original post, I had just gotten to the BMI requirement to start having surgical consults and had absolutely no idea what would happen from there. Now I’m less than a month away, which feels completely surreal.

HW: ~390–400 lbs
Starting Zep weight: 320 lbs
Current weight: ~217 lbs

At this point, surgery isn’t really about getting smaller. The loose abdominal skin causes hygiene issues, irritation, rashes and skin breakdown, and I’m SO ready to see what life is like without it.
I’m nervous because major surgery is, well, major surgery and it’s my first ever surgery, so double whammy, but mostly I’m incredibly excited.

A lot of people had questions about loose skin and surgery on my original post, so AMA again! I’m happy to talk about the consult process, insurance, costs, surgery prep (pre-op isn’t until 9/3 but I still have some idea of what’s ahead), GLP-1s, weight maintenance, or whatever else.

I’m not quite brave enough for public belly/loose-skin pictures yet, so clothed progress pics will have to do for now. 😂 But I’m documenting everything and plan to come back after surgery with the actual before/afters and recovery update.

Top weight was 360+. F, 5’2”.
I’ve lost half my weight. (Rollercoaster, a lifetime’s worth!) The most recent 50ish # have been on tirz.

60# remain to goal. In six days, i become a cyborg; the first of three joint replacements at age 58. First up, a hip that has degraded so badly that leg is 2” shorter and has contributed to new scoliosis in adulthood (along with MS’s own contributions, ugh).

Would truly appreciate some good juju from y’all as the next 9-12 months are going to be full-on ‘embrace the suck’ time. May be a little more daunted by this than i am admitting to my in-person support system.

Appreciate you all!!!!

1.6lbs until I’m in ONEderland!!! Needs some motivation from you guys!

Any tips to possibly reach that by tonight?

I'm a year into Zepbound and have lost 73lbs, I'm 5ft tall and started Zep at 298lbs and am currently at 225lbs.  Now this is not me saying that I am not happy and grateful for it, I am!  Especially as a 44 year old woman who's hypothyroid, insulin resistant and in perimenopause... weightloss is so friggin hard

Where I get frustrated is when I talk about it in other groups that people act as if my life has been transformed and now I wear all new clothes, my life has changed drastically.  But the truth is that it hasn't changed in those sorts of ways.  I am still wearing all the same clothes, I am still feeling and 'am' really big.  Yes I can walk a bit more distance with a bit less trouble now but I am nowhere near the stamina of a normal weight person.  I am still morbidly obese and probably still have another 100lbs to go.  I am making great moderate progress but 73lbs on my small frame with my starting weight has and is not a transformative amount of weightloss and that's okay.  Sometimes I just feel a bit pressured to feel all these things about it that I am not feeling.  Anyways some progress pics so far!

In December of ‘24 I had had enough. (We’ve all been there) I worked hard for three solid months, tracking, measuring and moving. Being in menopause certainly wasn’t helping. In March of ‘25 I was finally able to add tirz. When I see the before picture now, I almost don’t recognize myself. Today I’m down 122 pounds and officially 12 pounds under goal. So if you’re out there discouraged thinking it’s not possible- it definitely is- keep your eye on the prize!

So this happened this morning… a mattress!!??!!!! 😱🤯

I still have a long ways to go, but I am more than halfway there! I am so grateful for Tirz.

I Can’t fully express how grateful I am to finally feel comfortable in my body again. I haven’t been this smaller size in 20 years and I’m so happy that I started taking this medication. The first two larger photos of me popped up on Facebook earlier this week and I could not believe how big I was without even realizing it. I never want to go back to that size and I’m so so proud of myself for putting in the hard work every day and taking this medication. 🎉🎉 The body dysmorphia struggle is still real and I now have a clothes shopping addiction but I’ll take that any day over being morbidly obese 🥹🥹

I've always wanted a Mustang GT, since my late teens /early 20s years. But between raising kids and gaining allloot of weight between early teens to my 40s that was not a possibility AT ALL . My youngest kiddo will get her license in 5 months and after losing 240 lbs I can finally fit comfortably in a sports car vs a SUV /full size car, so my hubs bought me a Mustang GT Premium convertible yesterday!! I am over the moon ecstatic! Best NSV eveerrrrrr!! 🥹❤️🐎

In 8 months, I've lost 66 pounds, and am officially halfway to my goal! 🎉 I *finally* bought new jeans today because I had been wearing the same ones from 300 pounds down to 225, and they were comically oversized. I went from a (snug) Torrid size 22 pants and size 2 shirt to a (comfortable) size 16 pants and size 0 shirt. I know I've got a long way to go and am not gonna take my foot off the gas now, but damn if I'm not proud of how far I've already come.

I've still got a fair amount to lose so I know this won't be my final clothing swap, but the jeans I got today are perfect, and even as I continue to lose, I'll be able to wear them for quite a while. Ideally, I'll be able to wear these until I get close to goal (the last pairs lasted me 75 pounds), and then do one final replacement when I get there.

I truly didn't think I'd ever see this size again (this is what I weighed in 2018), and I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir, but this med has truly changed my life.

I’ve been bouncing around between 304 & 302 the past 5/6 weeks. Getting frustrated, my NP is bumping me up to 10mg but I can’t get it until I finish my 7.5 mg pen because of the way my insurance is. Well, I’ve just kept going at 7.5mg until then trying to maintain until I get 10mg. I have finally dropped down to 300.10! I’m so close to getting in the 200s! Maybe I should stick at 7.5mg? So confused. But either way, progress today! 299 is close! I gained and hit 300 during the pandemic and just kept blowing up to 345 after that, so this feels great today.