Plastic Surgery...good, bad, or ugly?

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With the exception of corrective and restorative, the practicality behind most plastic surgery is 90% elective and vanity.


Agree.

I really can't figure out why so many hate their bodies, faces, noses - what ever :confused:. I will NEVER let someone cut me just for vanity.
 

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Agree.

I really can't figure out why so many hate their bodies, faces, noses - what ever :confused:. I will NEVER let someone cut me just for vanity.

I'm not posting a pic, but from my pregnancy I have a lot of stretch marks and a little piece of skin that just hangs down above my c-section scar. It's the way the doc sewed me up, and many women who have had c-sections have the same thing. I feel deformed, and I feel like I was somehow cheated of ever having the chance of having a nice body again because my OB elected to cut me (even though it was probably the best thing to do). Sure, it is about vanity, but my stomach isn't just a little big or a variation of a normal shape anymore. It's fucked up. All I want to do is fix that part that's fucked up-- and I'm 100% willing to work to get to 18- 22% body fat so that I'm on optimal phyiscal shape before I get something that makes me look good for cosmetic reasons. I just hate feeling deformed.
 

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I'm not posting a pic, but from my pregnancy I have a lot of stretch marks and a little piece of skin that just hangs down above my c-section scar. It's the way the doc sewed me up, and many women who have had c-sections have the same thing. I feel deformed, and I feel like I was somehow cheated of ever having the chance of having a nice body again because my OB elected to cut me (even though it was probably the best thing to do). Sure, it is about vanity, but my stomach isn't just a little big or a variation of a normal shape anymore. It's fucked up. All I want to do is fix that part that's fucked up-- and I'm 100% willing to work to get to 18- 22% body fat so that I'm on optimal phyiscal shape before I get something that makes me look good for cosmetic reasons. I just hate feeling deformed.
Then you needn't justify it with anyone there, Snoozie. If your doc did a real number on you with the c-section, then your surgery is corrective, and as such will build up your self esteem. I vote do it if the surgery has any potential towards building up your self esteem again.:wink:
 

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I have no intention of aging gracefully I intend to fight it every step of the way. I moisturize and wear sunscreen religiously. When the time comes I intend to have everything lifted, tucked and/or snipped. My mom had a tummy tuck at 67.

The women of my family believe God gave us doctors and medicines for a reason. It would be unchristianly to not utilize the Lord's gifts. :cool::tongue:
 

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I've seen some awesomely great outcomes of surgery to improve women's abdomens and breasts in the aftermath of pregnancies, etc. The trade-offs (scarring) are reasonable too. The facial procedures I find scary for both men and women, and the scars and disfigurement of ears, hairlines, etc don't strike me as reasonable tradeoffs.
 

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Yeah, gaining and losing a lot of weight can do a number on one's body in the form of stretched and damaged skin, and it can be a huge disappointment for people to go through the effort to lose a lot of weight and then realize they still don't look how they wanted to. I'm all for that kind of surgery, especially when someone's put in so much work to lose weight.

Just gotta make sure to get a very good surgeon!

I plan on getting this type of surgery after I hit my ideal body weight primarily because a lot of the "extra skin" that people have after massive weight loss is actually deflated adipocytes (fat cells) that will fill up again very quickly without a ridiculous amount of constant work. Right now I have to do no less than 45 minutes of cardio per day, 7 days a week to maintain my weight and at least 75 minutes to keep loosing. I will, not might, but will gain 5 LB per week until I hit 220 LB if I stop exercising, and adjusting my caloric intake during periods of no exercise seems like it would work but experientially I find myself constantly thinking about food; I think the high I get from the cardio acts as an appetite suppressant.

For the most part, I am pretty happy with the way I look now, but the amount of effort is just ridiculous. All I want is to be like a regular person, who only needs to do 30 minutes of cardio a day 3-5 days a week to maintain cardiovascular fitness, then I could use the other 3 hours to work on other stuff. How pathetic is this, in the 6 months that I layed off the the cardio so that I could do martial arts and intense vinsaya yoga for an hour a day, 7 days a weeks, which culminated in me passing a belt test and substantially increasing my flexibility, I gained 25 LB.

When I hit my ideal body weight I will have lost about 80 LB or 1/3 of my body weight.
 
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You have to make a distinction between several different types of plastic surgery. Don't forget that the plastic surgery specialty includes restorative/reparative/reconstructive surgery, too. It isn't all vain cosmetic surgery.

I'm not sure I understand the "I want bigger tits" or "my nose is too big" or "I want my lips to look like rugby balls" surgeries, but obviously, if a woman has a breast removed due to cancer, or a burn patient needs an ear or nose reconstructed, plastic surgery can be a good thing.
 

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15 more pounds and i'm going to get a consult for that new laser lipo treatment. philosophical concerns aside, i'm sick of looking in the mirror and feeling like i've gotten nowhere even though i've lost 80 pounds and i work out 5 days a week.
 

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The main thing keeping me from having plastic surgery is lack of money. Yeah, I'd do it! I want to work out and tone up before having liposuction though. And I'd like breast implants too, but I want them to look and feel natural.

And I'm sure that when I start showing signs of aging I'm going to want "fixes" for that, too. I'm fortunate to look younger than my age (great now at age 45 and looking like I'm in my early thirties; not so great when I was 18 and looked like I was about 10 or 11! :biggrin1:)

And yes, I do the preventative things too, with moisturizer, sunscreen, etc....
 

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When I get the money I'll get a chin implant and tuck my huge ears a little, as of now I just look too much like a fucking rodent.
 

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I'd say it's justified in some cases, but I don't agree with it for vanity alone.

I think a lot of people who change things about their faces; noses, ears, chin, lips etc because they're "ruining their lives" have other problems which they're not dealing with and which aren't going to be solved by changing whatever feature they've fixated upon.

One of my sisters lost a lot of weight, over 140lbs and ended up with a lot of loose skin. I'd say it was OK to have surgery under those circumstances, because that really does affect how you feel about yourself and also how other people react to you.

I don't think I'd go for plastic surgery for cosmetic reasons, although my views may change as I get older. I'm starting to show wrinkles now, so... However, I tend to scar badly, so I probably won't take the risk.