[EtellaObtaite]

Hey, guys. I've been on atkins for just under one year (extended induction). Like.. three or four months with Atkins alone, no exercise, I lost 30 pounds. Since then, I started exercising a LOT (like 1000 calories a day burnt a lot) and cutting my diet in half. I'm under the supervision of a doctor, and I'm taking a popular prescription diet pill (This forum wouldn't let me post the name... starts with a P )It sounds like I'm overdoing it, but like I said I'm under the supervision of a doctor, and although i'm losing about 10 pounds a month (reliably, although sometimes more. Most ever was 16), I feel fine and realistically expect to be at my goal weight in six months, at which point I'll top taking pills, eat normally and lift weights (but keep doing cardio... just not 1000 calories a day lmao). Since then, I've lost an additional 55 pounds. By late august, I expect to be at 230 pounds. Exactly 100 pounds lost At that point, my plans are to continue to lose weight until I'm down to 180. I'm five feet, eleven inches tall. I'd like to get down to a size 30, and I hope that 180 lbs. for someone my height will be a size 30. I used to be a 44!


But. The issue with excess skin. I already have a bunch of skin on my torso and down (although my butt doesn't bother me. No problems there, YET) that I want removed once I'm at my goal weight. It's just GROSS. I REFUSE to have my fat haunt me, and I REFUSE to look like a deflated bagpipe. I had always failed at dieting because I wanted to look good for other people. I believe I succeeded (and am) this time because I stopped that and wanted to do it for MYSELF and to not just look good, but to be healthy. This skin is undoubtedly going to cause relationship problems for an 18 year old (not that a 330 lb. teenager had many relationships to begin with) and so I'm GOING to have this done. Even if I'm in debt up to my eyeballs for the next decade. I THINK I can afford it now in one large payment, assuming it's not more than I though.

Here's the deal. I have 20 grand of inheritance doing nothing but drawing interest. I wanted to use it as a down payment for a house in four years (or so), and my mother is firmly against me doing this, but the truth is that it's my money, I'm an adult, and I can do what I want with it. I'd much rather look like a normal person (no offense) than have my own house, anyway. I refuse to be haunted by my weight. Is this enough money for a lower body lift? All I really want done is my torso, pubic area and thighs. I never had real breasts anyway, and my arms are a little flabby but if I gain muscle that won't matter anyway. Is 20 grand enough for the total cost of what I want to do? Of course you can't tell me EXACTLY, but I would be interested in a rough estimate. I'm hoping there will be a little left over after total expenses. But if not, then not. I think it's worth it and would be the best purchase I've ever made. I'm going to college, so the most I can make is like three grand a year (before taxes) via my job. It's just for spending money, but if that means I have to do without to look the way I feel on the inside, then so be it. It could also subsidize whatever excess of 20 grand I'm left in debt with, it that happens. I'd RATHER not spend my inheritance.. but on the other hand if I'm in debt, I'd still have the same amount of money to pay at the end of the day, and I'd still be making the same amount via my job, so it really wouldn't matter if you think about it.


So anyway, do you think 20 grand is enough for what I want to do? EDIT: I'd also like the skin under my chin tightened. I'm going to look like an iguana, and am starting to now. I could live with it if I couldn't afford it, but if I'm having surgery done I may as well go all out and get this done, too. How much would this cost?