If you're considering weight-loss surgery, researchers say you should know that you'll probably need plastic surgery too.

After a patient loses weight, they commonly need help dealing with the loose, folding skin left behind, according to a Reuters report. Writing in the World Journal of Gastroenterology, a group of New York plastic surgeons detailed the "body contouring" procedures commonly needed after massive weight loss.

These procedures include a belt lipectomy, breast implants and removing flabby "bat wings" from the upper arms.

I have long bemoaned my flabby skin from losing weight. (See Tightening up after weight loss.)

Now, if I could just find some way to pay for it....

-- Amanda Barrett, amNY.com