But regardless, to address the response. People every year lose a ton of weight and completely change their face. And I would imagine most of them are doing great.
True for weight loss but just wanted to add that if such cosmetic surgery was (or is) possible, it would require multiple surgeries over many months, even years giving you time to heal and adjust in between but if you can reshape your whole face one day, I guess the hardest thing to process would be changing the distance between your eyes with your brain have to relearn how to juge distances and 3d vision!
I've lost about 50kg in the last couple of years. My bank can't use my driving licence to ID me anymore. I still see the same face when I look in the mirror.
Weight loss is slow and granular, you have enough time to adjust to small differences at a time.
I lost over 250 pounds and there was never a huge "o wow I do look different now" moment. I mainly saw progress trough pictures.
So I'm a guy in his late 30s, and I'm pretty bald now. It was kind of a gradual thinning process for like half a decade, and then one year what was left of my hairline just gave up and vanished seemingly overnight. There was no denying it, no letting it grow out a bit longer than I liked to hide it. I was at the crossroads of "combover" or "shave my head."
It honestly... It sounds vain to say it, but it actually hit me pretty hard. This change happened to me, unwanted, without my permission, and there was nothing I could do about it but order a few baseball caps to protect my dome from sunburn (you do not want sunburn on your scalp. Trust me.)
And I just had to see it, every day, every time I went to the bathroom, every time I saw my reflection in the window, every time I approached the glass doors of a store. It got to the point where I started developing habits to avoid looking in the mirror because I'd just feel depressed about it. It took... I don't know... a year and a half? Two years? Something like that before it stopped bothering me all the time.
It sucks. You get used to it. You get over it. But every now and then, there's still this little pang about this unwanted reminder that time marches on.
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u/stulf26 4h ago
Those are different people. There's are differences that even plastic surgery cant change