Good luck, you sound like you have a great GP - so fingers crossed.
I would emphasis you want the tummy tuck, as you get so depressed about your tummy, you are conscious of it all the time (it is destroying your life etc) you turn off the bedroom lights, won't get fully undressed in front of anyone (meaning your partner), dread holidays etc
I would also emphasis you think the loose skin was a result of your pregnancies, rather than your weight loss (of course also emphasis how hard you have worked to loose the weight - and have been doing lots of tummy exercises, drank lots of water to improve the elasticity of your skin, used firming lotions with collagen, elastin, vitamin E and Q10 and nothing is helping ). Why I say, emphasis you think it is the pregnancies that caused the excess skin rather than the weight loss - as I find society looks down on overweight people (they see it as self-inflicted) and they see pregnancy as a natural thing. For example, a pregnant woman while standing may have a bad back and put her hands behind her back to support her - if there is a chair people will offer it. If it was an overweight person, they would probably look down on her/him - and see it as self-inflicted.
You are tiny, and from looking at your ticker were never heavy - so I'm sure you will be fine. (Please, nobody get offended, I am an overweight person - I am just sharing how some people in society have made me feel. I am 26 now, but up until I was 21 I was 9.5 stone (I say I'm 5ft5, but I think I'm really 5ft 6 - as that was my height at uni) so I was fairly slim, fairly attractive in the so -called "in-crowd" at school - but I was never confident about my looks, and I wanted to be friends with everyone and some of the people in my group I won't call them friends - were very mean to me about that. So after uni & heart-break, I got depressed and piled on the weight. I stopped wearing make-up (that doesn't sound bad, but I used to wear make-up ALL the time), I stopped wearing trendy/designer clothes & shoes and opted in my spare time for the bagging sweatshirt & trainers look (to cover up my body and try and make myself invisible).
Yes, I'm invisible now - I used to walk down a street and people used to look at me, I don't mean to sound vain - but as I always had low confidence, it used to give me a buzz. But now nothing - although in a small way, I think that's good (as I have always been a little paranoid, so when people used to look at me, on some "low" days, I thought they were staring at me as I was so ugly.)
Anyway, a couple of years ago I bumped into some old friends, they didn't recognise me at first as I look so different without make-up and bigger, but they recognised my mum - so knew it was me and I could tell from their faces & body language, their impression. Last year, I started googling on the internet (just to be noisey) some of my old friends to see what job they were doing etc and I found a very nasty and *****y blog about me and my "change in appearance".
About 5 weeks ago, it finally kicked in - I needed to transform my life and I have been eating more healthly and have been exercising and I start the CD SS today!!!!!!!!
Although I hate being over weight - I feel I have wasted 5 years of my life, I haven't had the confidence to go out or socialise etc. It has in away made me begin to love myself again - I used to lack confidence & hate myself when I was 9.5 stone, but now if I could go back in a time machine I would LOOOOOOVE how I used to look.
The point of my story is, the nasty blog I found about myself - they mentioned even if I lost weight I would be left with horrible saggy skin and it would be my own fault for being obese and other nasty stuff etc - but that isn't always the case (you aren't always left with excess skin)
These people are extreme, not normal society - but others must feel that in general, society looks down on overweight people.
- Another thing that might help you, I watched a programme on channel 4 the other week, about embarassing teenage bodies (I think it was called that) and a girl in her late teens, I think. Was left with loose skin after her pregnancy. She got surgery, but the doctor explained after the tummy tick - the skin might not able to cope with stretching again if she got pregnant again, but she said she didn't want another baby - so she had the surgery. Do you want anyone more children? If not, point that out to your doctor.
I am sure you will be fine, and good luck and congratulations on your weight loss. I find all the weight loss stories on this website a true inspiration - so thank-you to everyone.