When Am I Getting Surgery?
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[{'start': '0.240', 'end': '6.240', 'text': "hey guys welcome back to my channel I'm Myra from\xa0\nLow Carb Love Now most of you know I've lost over"}, {'start': '6.240', 'end': '13.200', 'text': '100 pounds So today I want to talk about surgeries\xa0\nI want to talk about loose skin after weight loss'}, {'start': '13.200', 'end': '20.640', 'text': "Now I have had surgeries in the past and I'll talk\xa0\na little bit about that Um and I also have a few"}, {'start': '20.640', 'end': '27.040', 'text': 'or not a few but I have an upcoming surgery So I\xa0\nwant to talk about that as well And all of this'}, {'start': '27.040', 'end': '33.280', 'text': 'has to do with um loose skin Now I feel like the\xa0\nmajority of people who go through a weight loss'}, {'start': '33.280', 'end': '40.480', 'text': "journey and lose a significant amount of weight\xa0\nusually for the most part do have loose skin I'll"}, {'start': '40.480', 'end': '46.960', 'text': "kind of um get into just like what the procedures\xa0\nthat I've had done plus the upcoming But before we"}, {'start': '46.960', 'end': '52.320', 'text': 'get started I do want to give FabFit Fun a special\xa0\nthank you for sponsoring this part of the video'}, {'start': '52.320', 'end': '57.360', 'text': 'They are a subscription box where you get\xa0\nfull-size products that are high quality at'}, {'start': '57.360', 'end': '62.560', 'text': 'a fraction of the retail cost Like this sports\xa0\nbra here I got it in my box This is their summer'}, {'start': '62.560', 'end': '69.680', 'text': 'box This one retails for about $40 I also have the\xa0\nbracelet on I feel like it goes really really cute'}, {'start': '69.680', 'end': '76.160', 'text': 'with my jewelry stack This one retails for almost\xa0\n$70 This was in the box as well So they also have'}, {'start': '76.160', 'end': '86.160', 'text': 'the sunscreen We have a little perfume We have a\xa0\nPro Lash Lift Mascara And look at this beautiful'}, {'start': '86.160', 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Now\xa0\nI have a discount code for both For the seasonal"}, {'start': '130.560', 'end': '138.000', 'text': "you would use LCL 20 and that gets you the 20% off\xa0\nor for the yearly you can use LCL gift and that's"}, {'start': '138.000', 'end': '143.760', 'text': "where you're going to get the gift worth over\xa0\n$200 Okay so moving on to the surgeries that I"}, {'start': '143.760', 'end': '150.480', 'text': 'had earlier on in my life So I was about 19 years\xa0\nold So I initially lost 100 lb Following year lost'}, {'start': '150.480', 'end': '159.840', 'text': '35 lbs a total of 135 lbs Guys my skin was it was\xa0\nliterally it looked like I had birth twins like'}, {'start': '159.840', 'end': '167.040', 'text': 'in my midsection I wish I wish I had those photos\xa0\nIt just looked like almost think of like chewed'}, {'start': '167.040', 'end': '173.760', 'text': 'up skin like full of stretch marks so loose Like\xa0\nif I were to get on all fours and just like you'}, {'start': '173.760', 'end': '181.440', 'text': 'would just kind of see how my skin was it would\xa0\njust hang So even though I had um lost all that'}, {'start': '181.440', 'end': '187.040', 'text': "weight I just didn't feel comfortable because\xa0\nlike I felt like I should feel so much better"}, {'start': '187.040', 'end': '193.840', 'text': 'about myself after going through a journey and\xa0\nlike dedicating myself a thousand% to this weight'}, {'start': '193.840', 'end': '200.080', 'text': "loss And um and I just didn't feel that So back\xa0\nthen it was not as common as it is now It was much"}, {'start': '200.080', 'end': '205.040', 'text': 'more of like a secret like if people were getting\xa0\num cosmetic procedures done they were just kind'}, {'start': '205.040', 'end': '211.520', 'text': 'of like not talking about it It was something that\xa0\nwas very like you know um but I was I was so young'}, {'start': '211.520', 'end': '216.800', 'text': "and I've always been the type of person once I set\xa0\nmy mind on something like it's going to happen So"}, {'start': '216.800', 'end': '222.080', 'text': "I remember I didn't have the credit for it I was\xa0\njust like uh-uh Like I'm going to figure this out"}, {'start': '222.080', 'end': '230.480', 'text': 'My amazing grandma ended up co-signing for me I\xa0\nremember back then the procedure was I think like'}, {'start': '230.480', 'end': '236.880', 'text': '15,000 or something like that which was so much\xa0\nmoney And what I ended up doing was a tummy tuck'}, {'start': '236.880', 'end': '244.400', 'text': "So um it's skin removal You know it So I get a lot\xa0\nof questions about um weight loss surgery So I've"}, {'start': '244.400', 'end': '250.720', 'text': "actually never had any type of weight loss surgery\xa0\nUm I didn't do lipo I didn't do um what is it like"}, {'start': '250.720', 'end': '258.400', 'text': "the the lap band or the gastric I didn't do any\xa0\nof those All of my weight loss was strictly from"}, {'start': '258.400', 'end': '267.520', 'text': 'diet and exercise 1,000% So I had um I do I have\xa0\na scar from here to here And unfortunately for me'}, {'start': '267.520', 'end': '275.120', 'text': "um I just happen to have a scarring tendency that\xa0\nis like a hypertro it's called hypertrophic scars"}, {'start': '275.120', 'end': '281.040', 'text': 'Some people confuse it with kloid Kloid is when it\xa0\njust gets like really bumpy and like really dark'}, {'start': '281.040', 'end': '288.240', 'text': 'Um hypertrophic is more where it does have color\xa0\nbut um and it does expand but then it flattens out'}, {'start': '288.240', 'end': '296.800', 'text': "So I had my tummy tuck and then um that was it\xa0\nwas pretty I would say it's a very it's not an"}, {'start': '296.800', 'end': '302.800', 'text': "easy surgery Um you know you have to walk around\xa0\nwith drains for about a week or two You're like"}, {'start': '302.800', 'end': '308.880', 'text': "hunched over because your skin's like all like\xa0\nsuper super tight Yeah I mean it definitely takes"}, {'start': '308.880', 'end': '314.720', 'text': 'a lot out of you Like this is not a whatever\xa0\nsurgery but but I do not want to discourage you'}, {'start': '314.720', 'end': '321.040', 'text': "because it's the best thing I ever did I felt\xa0\nso much better And that's me having a big scar"}, {'start': '321.040', 'end': '326.480', 'text': 'Imagine like if you have a nor if you scar normal\xa0\nthen guys it would be even like that much better'}, {'start': '326.480', 'end': '332.720', 'text': "I'd probably be walking around in a Tanga all day\xa0\nBut I'm joking But the truth is yeah I do I have"}, {'start': '332.720', 'end': '339.280', 'text': "an ugly scar and I don't care I don't care because\xa0\nat the end of the day um it fixed one problem that"}, {'start': '339.280', 'end': '344.720', 'text': 'I had and it was like a big insecurity of mine So\xa0\nyeah I have another insecurity now but I think in'}, {'start': '344.720', 'end': '349.840', 'text': "my opinion it's so worth it you know So if you're\xa0\nsomeone that's been thinking about it I wouldn't"}, {'start': '349.840', 'end': '355.120', 'text': "I wouldn't hesitate Like I would definitely do it\xa0\na thousand% So I've done that Um I ended up doing"}, {'start': '355.120', 'end': '362.960', 'text': "my legs So my legs I'm very very bottomheavy Um\xa0\nmy legs are have always always been where I carry"}, {'start': '362.960', 'end': '369.520', 'text': 'most of my weight So after I lost all that weight\xa0\nI had a ton of loose skin So I still have it Like'}, {'start': '369.520', 'end': '377.040', 'text': "I definitely still have loose skin I feel like\xa0\num it's just it's kind of how I was made When"}, {'start': '377.040', 'end': '381.600', 'text': 'I was younger it probably definitely bothered\xa0\nme a little more because you have you know 19'}, {'start': '381.600', 'end': '386.400', 'text': "20 yearear-olds that are like you know picture\xa0\nperfect going to the beach They're wearing like"}, {'start': '386.400', 'end': '392.960', 'text': "string bikinis And I've always had to be more like\xa0\nconservative I mean I'm naturally conservative but"}, {'start': '392.960', 'end': '397.440', 'text': "I would never like walk around just in a string\xa0\nbikini I feel like it's different when you have"}, {'start': '397.440', 'end': '402.400', 'text': 'the option and you choose not to versus like\xa0\nme not being able to because I would also feel'}, {'start': '402.400', 'end': '408.240', 'text': "uncomfortable you know with my scars So after I\xa0\nlost the weight I ended up um I don't know what"}, {'start': '408.240', 'end': '414.720', 'text': "that surgery is called but but it's also like\xa0\non the upper thighs right here you just kind of"}, {'start': '414.720', 'end': '419.360', 'text': "like they get rid of the skin but they can't\xa0\ndo that much unless they cut you all the way"}, {'start': '419.360', 'end': '425.120', 'text': "down the leg which I didn't want to do that So um\xa0\nthat's why I still have some some skin And then I"}, {'start': '425.120', 'end': '433.840', 'text': 'also did my arms Okay so the scar at this point\xa0\nhas now faded But these are all these are all'}, {'start': '433.840', 'end': '439.120', 'text': "um for me They were necessary for me for me to\xa0\nfeel comfortable I'm not someone that's going"}, {'start': '439.120', 'end': '442.560', 'text': "to be like you lose the weight you should do\xa0\nit No there's so many people that don't end up"}, {'start': '442.560', 'end': '446.800', 'text': 'doing anything like that and they live happily\xa0\never after I just wanted to get it done So I'}, {'start': '446.800', 'end': '453.360', 'text': 'did Those are the things that I did um after I\xa0\nlost weight Um sure You know you could you could'}, {'start': '453.360', 'end': '459.200', 'text': 'do what else is there at this point Probably\xa0\nlike lipo and stuff like that just to like'}, {'start': '459.200', 'end': '465.520', 'text': 'um kind of what is it Contour your body And then\xa0\nnowadays doctors add more fat to your booty and'}, {'start': '465.520', 'end': '470.560', 'text': 'they add it to your boobs and all of that And I\xa0\nthink like guys if you want to do it why not Why'}, {'start': '470.560', 'end': '476.720', 'text': "not Guys we live one life We live one life Live\xa0\nyour best life If that's what you want to do do it"}, {'start': '476.720', 'end': '483.040', 'text': "Do not listen to your thea to your friend to\xa0\nlike if it's something you want to do it Now"}, {'start': '483.040', 'end': '486.240', 'text': "if you don't want to do it and you have everyone\xa0\nelse telling you no that's not the right reason"}, {'start': '486.240', 'end': '494.000', 'text': "to do it either Okay So that's what I've had done\xa0\nNow moving forward 2025 um I'm going to redo my"}, {'start': '494.000', 'end': '499.280', 'text': 'scars because they do bother me Especially the one\xa0\nhere on my tummy and then the one here on my legs'}, {'start': '499.280', 'end': '507.520', 'text': "Um it's covered like if I wear a full fullsize\xa0\nlike bikini like almost like they it would just"}, {'start': '507.520', 'end': '514.480', 'text': "have to be kind of like a like little shorties\xa0\nor something It covers it But I want I'm like why"}, {'start': '514.480', 'end': '520.240', 'text': "Why not Like why you know I want to do it So I'm\xa0\ngoing to do it Um I was actually going to do it"}, {'start': '520.240', 'end': '525.840', 'text': "last year Okay if you did not see that video I'll\xa0\nleave it linked for you in the description below I"}, {'start': '525.840', 'end': '531.440', 'text': "literally went in the day of surgery They're there\xa0\nThey're doing all my vitals I'm They're I have"}, {'start': '531.440', 'end': '537.840', 'text': 'like the cap and gown like the whole gown on and\xa0\neverything And then they run one last test and my'}, {'start': '537.840', 'end': '544.080', 'text': 'iron is too low I know I literally walked out of\xa0\nthere feeling so weird because mentally I was so'}, {'start': '544.080', 'end': '549.120', 'text': 'prepared to have surgery and I wasn\'t able to do\xa0\nit So um I was like "Okay I\'m going to work on my'}, {'start': '549.120', 'end': '553.840', 'text': "iron I'm going to eat even more protein I'm going\xa0\nto make sure I get I'm going to make sure I am"}, {'start': '553.840', 'end': '558.480', 'text': 'like the healthiest version of myself before I go\xa0\nback in there." So I\'m going to give myself right'}, {'start': '558.480', 'end': '562.880', 'text': "after summer I feel like you know because it's\xa0\ntoo soon now It's just too we're you know we're"}, {'start': '562.880', 'end': '567.200', 'text': "going into summer So I'm like I'm not going to um\xa0\nI'm not going to mess up my summer because then"}, {'start': '567.200', 'end': '574.720', 'text': "I'd be out Um so I will probably do it right after\xa0\nmaybe um fall going into winter So I'll obviously"}, {'start': '574.720', 'end': '579.280', 'text': 'bring you through the whole journey I think like\xa0\na lot of women are interested in just seeing like'}, {'start': '579.280', 'end': '585.040', 'text': "what it's actually like Um and I'm an open book\xa0\nso I will show you I will tell you in terms of"}, {'start': '585.040', 'end': '590.560', 'text': "pain level I'll tell you you know basically the\xa0\nwhole procedure but what I'm going to get done"}, {'start': '590.560', 'end': '595.600', 'text': "are the scars right here on my arms I'm going to\xa0\nredo these I'm going to redo the scars here and"}, {'start': '595.600', 'end': '603.040', 'text': "then the scar here It's not like a very invasive\xa0\num surgery It's literally just the actual scar"}, {'start': '603.040', 'end': '610.160', 'text': 'So think of like the scar being this And so you\xa0\nbasically just outline the scar and then they just'}, {'start': '610.160', 'end': '617.360', 'text': "um you know sew it back together And now with the\xa0\njust technology there's lasers and there's so many"}, {'start': '617.360', 'end': '623.760', 'text': "things that can help So I'm just praying I pray\xa0\nthat if I go through all of that again that like"}, {'start': '623.760', 'end': '628.880', 'text': "my scars will just be a lot better I don't expect\xa0\nfor them to be non-existent I don't expect for"}, {'start': '628.880', 'end': '636.640', 'text': "them to you know I I know I will have scars I just\xa0\nhope that they're not dark and like defeat the"}, {'start': '636.640', 'end': '642.000', 'text': 'um you know defeat the purpose of redoing them\xa0\nbecause like right now I feel you know I feel'}, {'start': '642.000', 'end': '648.560', 'text': 'fine but I want to feel amazing I want to feel\xa0\ngreat So anyway I know that a lot of you have'}, {'start': '648.560', 'end': '657.680', 'text': 'questions If you do um have questions related to\xa0\nsurgery ask me I could do a Q&A video where I just'}, {'start': '657.680', 'end': '661.280', 'text': "answer all of the questions in terms of like\xa0\nI don't know maybe you want to know what I ate"}, {'start': '661.280', 'end': '668.640', 'text': 'maybe you want to know the healing the process how\xa0\nI felt all of that Ask me down below I can make a'}, {'start': '668.640', 'end': '675.920', 'text': "Q&A video But I'm thinking that this surgery date\xa0\nwill be scheduled like late fall early winter of"}, {'start': '675.920', 'end': '682.880', 'text': '2025 And when I do it then of course I will bring\xa0\nyou along But I feel like um some people are just'}, {'start': '682.880', 'end': '689.600', 'text': "afraid of surgery and yeah surgery is obviously\xa0\nit's a delicate procedure I think it's something"}, {'start': '689.600', 'end': '693.200', 'text': "that you definitely want to make sure you're\xa0\ngoing to a really good surgeon I'm trying to"}, {'start': '693.200', 'end': '698.720', 'text': "think I've had doctors approach me and want to\xa0\ndo like a partnership and stuff like that but"}, {'start': '698.720', 'end': '704.400', 'text': 'honestly I want to stay here locally I want to be\xa0\nlike healing in the comfort of my home At the end'}, {'start': '704.400', 'end': '710.400', 'text': "of the day the doctor that I'm going with I really\xa0\ntrust with scars because I've seen his work and"}, {'start': '710.400', 'end': '716.160', 'text': "he actually fixed what a small scar that I had\xa0\nand you can't even see it anymore So I just I"}, {'start': '716.160', 'end': '721.680', 'text': "hope that um that it ends up working out But um\xa0\nbut yeah guys those are the surgeries that I've"}, {'start': '721.680', 'end': '725.840', 'text': "had and those are the surgeries that are coming\xa0\nup I'm going to do it all at once because again"}, {'start': '725.840', 'end': '732.080', 'text': "like I said it's not invasive or at least not as\xa0\ninvasive But um yeah I think it's going to make a"}, {'start': '732.080', 'end': '739.200', 'text': 'big difference in how I feel And then I will show\xa0\nyou I can show you like the healing process and'}, {'start': '739.200', 'end': '744.320', 'text': "um hopefully fingers crossed they don't they\xa0\ndon't end up like getting really dark and like"}, {'start': '744.320', 'end': '749.360', 'text': 'thick Anyway if you guys have questions let\xa0\nme know But I hope you guys enjoyed this video'}, {'start': '749.360', 'end': '754.960', 'text': 'Sometimes I like to talk to you guys about little\xa0\nthings like that because I feel like especially'}, {'start': '754.960', 'end': '758.800', 'text': "if you're new here you might not know like my\xa0\nwhole journey and that you might question like"}, {'start': '758.800', 'end': '764.000', 'text': '"Man I lost 100 pounds Why don\'t why doesn\'t my\xa0\nstomach look like Myers?" Or like "I\'ve done this'}, {'start': '764.000', 'end': '770.000', 'text': 'Why don\'t you know?" 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