PART 1: BBL 07/03/12 PICS AND UPDATE! .. 5 week pics on my PART 2

hello friends! just wanted to let yall know i've decided to do whatever ENJOYSELF did during her recovery because i want ENJOYSELF RESULTS! lol she said she did the ass-less garment at around 3 weeks. i've been doing the ass-less garment since i got home from surgery. i just cut out the butt part along the seam of the orginal garment - actually, i just cut the lower half but the top is still on there and i wear this at home. but when i go out in public i would wear my regular full garment with the butt part covered and its a size XL and i just wear an old corset i already had over it. that way, the thigh and butt part is nice and loose but the waist is nicely cinched. the ass-less garment is a size L.

OH YEAH! GREAT TIP: i started wearing an old pair of spanx that i already had. it's the one that covers the belly and goes up to the bra-line but it has no straps. it's the thong one, not the panty - that way it leaves my ass bare. i started wearing this under my garment INSTEAD of a fitted tank and OMG it's GREAT!! when i take my garment off now, i dont see those ugly lines that my tank top used to leave. i also dont have to worry about tucking in my tank top like before since the thong spanx goes upwards instead. the fabric is very nice and smooth so thats how the skin looks under the garment - nice and smooth. so the layers that im wearing right now:

spanx, then the board and foam, garment from dr. salama's office, and then another corset over the garment to make it nice and tight. this is what i wear at home. i tried to order the same brand garment that dr. salama uses but just in a compression vest form with no butt part, but the site is wierd (www.bodyshapetech.com) i saw a really nice compression vest on there it looks like it would get the job done but nobody from the site has contacted me yet about my order going through. tomorrow im going to the mall and looking for some columbian made garments like the ones dr. s has. once i get this vest, i will only wear it over my spanx and board instead of having to wear the ass-less garment.

Also, Celia told me to use warm compression on my stomach to help the lipo'd areas. what i do is warm up my icy-hot pack, put it on my stomach, and then wrap my belly band over it and just wear it. once it cools down, i warm it up again, and repeat on each side and on my back. the belly band i bought on ebay a long time ago i used it after i gave birth to help my tummy go down. it was less than $10 its just a belly wrap with velcro. looks like the "belly bandit". you dont have to go out buying all these things im using, just use what works for you but these are things that i already had that have become very handy during my recovery.

come to think of it, i really wish dr. s had the perfect garment - nice and loose on the butt and thighs, and super tight on the waist. that way we wouldnt have to cut the butt part and go out buying all these other vests and stuff. i have fat thighs so the thigh part of the garment would keep rolling up and leaving marks on my thighs which also became very itchy.

This is part 1 of my BBL review. Click here to read part 2

so i'm at the airport and its embarrassing kneeling on the ground so I got my hat and shades on. people are starring at me and I just told the lady next to me I just had back surgery lol so she goes "don't be embarrassed dear we can all kneel with you and start a new trend" lol so how about I had to pee and I got a new garment on and didn't get to cut the front bigger so I had to take everything off to pee in the airport. how annoying. I was sweating bullets in this hot ass airport trying to put on this garment. i'm dreading the 2 hour flight but thank God its not as long as other folks flight. I tried sitting on the boppy but got up quick as hell cuz I can't afford to make this booty go down anymore. la la la la... 30 more minutes til boarding and time can't go by any quicker FML!! will update later my sisters. but I will say I am becoming more and more happier with my results. this booty starting to look right in these pants ohhhh yea!!

my only regret:
doing this in the summer-time! damn its hot!!! tired of feeling like i have a sweaty ass crack this is not cute!! for the girls doing their bbl in the winter-time: SMART MOVE! it will be so much easier to hide this ugly garment in cute layered clothes. and you wont have sweaty-ass syndrome either.

flight home:
freaking SUCKED! well, just the part when i had to sit. i showed the flight attendant my doctor's note and she was snooty about it saying with an attitude "if the seat belt sign is on then you have to sit down regardless and there's nothing i can do about it". and just handed my letter back like she didnt give a crap. i should of gave her my pimp hand cuz i do keep it strong. >=( so i walked to my seat and told the guy flight attendant instead and he was a lot nicer about it. so i was standing the whole time at the bathroom area while everyone was boarding and as soon as the last passenger sat down i went to my seat. the boppy pillow i just cant believe that it protects my butt so i basically used my arms to lift me up from the seat as i lightly sat on the boppy... and of course my arms got tired cuz take off took forever. and then i used my legs to push my body up. whatever i did, i just tried to avoid sitting. people around me were looking at me like i was crazy. but thats because i was like the "tallest" person sitting down my head was so much higher than everyones cuz of the pillow and me holding myself up. as soon as the seat belt light turned off, i went to the back again where the bathroom was. the guy flight attendant was so nice he told everyone i was a flight attendant in training so i needed to stand in the back during the whole flight lol so everything was going great until this tiny lady comes to use the restroom. when i say she dropped a bomb... im talking about she blew that sh*t up! i was standing right there next to the toilets so i could smell everything. hell naw... you know i jumped into the other bathroom to escape the smell lol so i ended up taking my shirt and my garment off to tinkle and put everything back on. took a good 10-15 minutes so that was great for killing time. and then turbulence started so the seat belt sign came on and i had to sit down... FOR 45 FREAKING MINUTES! it was horrible. i was so sad i had to sit that long. oh yeah! DO NOT WEAR PANTS like i did on the plane. they were drawstring khack pants but they weren't "stretchy". so when i sat down it just felt like i was hurting my new bum. i recommend wearing a maxi dress or loose sweatpants so it wont be so bad when you sit.

what else would i have done differently on my flight back home? i would have brought a corset or compression vest to wear on the flight back home that way i wouldnt have to worry about "omg please dont poop please dont poop". luckily, the flight i was on didnt have too many people running back and forth to the toilets so i was able to comfortably take off my garment and potty and put it back on without feeling the need to rush. so just in case, it would be good to wear one on the flight back home instead of the entire garment so you wont have to worry about taking it off.

OMFG! so how about i stepped on the scale and i gained 15 pounds!!!!!!!!!! please tell me this is just me being swollen!! i ate like a pig this whole week just because the doc said to eat eat eat. i hope i didnt over-do it!!! im going back to my protein shakes tomorrow. gotta quit eating like i got fast metabolism because i sure as hell dont! im scared to gain all that fat back that was lipo'd and that would be a waste! ahhhhhh please tell me this is normal!!!!