Well, you can keep you weight at 260 and just make some of the fat into muscle!
But it sounds like you have been working on that for a while.
From what others said, it sounds like you can start lifting in three weeks. I would assume you could afford to take that much time off your lifting routine.
Don't worry about scars...they probably will be minimal...and if they aren't, just make up some lie to explain them--say you were burned there in a fire, had to have reconstructive surgery...got stabbed there by a crazy exgirlfriend while you were sleeping...whatever. But as the above poster said...if they are looking at you that closely in the shower, they have problems.