>>12901I didn't expect THAT much belly to still be left intact. Really only 1/3 of Ms Belly left, she made it sound like all of Ms Belly was amputated. Was something like 30 pounds, she said for what was removed. A total removal would've been over 100 pounds. There's enough here that if Vanilla managed to lose 350 pounds (since she's still hovering around 615), all of downsized Ms Belly would still reach down to Vanilla's knees. She won't go that far, though, since she expressed a desire to just be a manageable size and not seek being under 300 pounds.
However given her frequent sliding to weightgain before the surgery, she seems like she'd pop a lapband anyway and creep weight back on to 700. I don't think I'm making shit up on this, it was the total disablement if she ever fell and the circulatory shutdown that pushed her for weightloss and the panniculectomy. That is to say, it was only when her lifestyle was imminently becoming extinct that she took desperate measures. This is the mindset of people who get on TV solely because of their obesity, they wait til the crisis already struck to seek medical intervention. Ms Belly wasn't going to be removed when Vanilla first reached 850 pounds, nor 800, nor 750, because if she wanted that she first had to lose weight. It's only when she was resuscitated in an ER was the weightloss requirement set aside, in the life or death timetable of an ER, that this amputation could be performed. And I have to put the story like that because all we were told is it was a life or death situation. This was not an elective surgery, it was a life-saving surgery. Because it was life-saving and not elective, it implies Vanilla was not going to change anything to prevent her own flatlining in the ER. We have an episode of Dr Now's show to corroborate this behavior. She wants to stay big, but she doesn't actually have control over how big she is, and that always is a recipe for becoming too big.
Thanks for the images, I'm still gonna follow Vanilla's progress. I was on her OF, but was disappointed it was only old content.