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Thank you Honeydrop! Sorry I took so long to reply, been working like crazy. You will be great! It's really an exciting process!!

you had great results!

the results look great I have a similar shape. I am on WW and did Jenny Craig and still the fat will not disappear or disappears in the wrong areas. What are you doing to maintain the weight? also show us some more recent pics. I am having my surgery done in October cant wait woohoo!

hi! How have the past few weeks gone for you? I am scheduled for a similar procedure on Wednesday, just looking for some advice on what to expect for the next few months...I am also a nursing student, graduating in June and gained about 30lbs of my 60lbs to lose in school as well :) Do you find that it is easier to exercise with those targeted areas gone? One thing that I am concerned about is my ability to perform some aspects of patient care like boosting in bed or assisting around, afraid that I might not be able to support someone. I have only told one other student about doing this, as I know she has had some cosmetic procedures, and I have the ability to take an entire week off from clinicals since its my last term.

Hey girlie! I must say that each day is better than the last. I have MINIMAL soreness and just the hard spots. I had the procedure on a Monday and was back to work the following Wednesday. I worked 4 12hr shifts in a row lol It might have been a bit much. The draining was done but I was still very tender and sore. Not to the point of tears, but yeah. Honestly I've really been too busy working to exercise, BUT I have cut out ALL the bad foods that I had been eating previously. As far as the scale goes, per my f/u appt I'm down 8lbs, not counting the 8 that he sucked out. I weighted 206 the day of and when I had my f/u I was 198. He says I am still swollen but I'm healing great, and eventually I will flatten out. Try not to do TOO much that first week. They say it's ok to go back to a "desk job" after but you and I know that nursing is far from a "desk job" lol I've only told a handful of people as well, only 2 at work.

That's awesome...my procedure is tomorrow and for some reason I am having alot of anxiety about it which is weird to me, I'm not the type of person who gets anxious about much at all...I think I'm just afraid that I am spending ALOT of money and that I might not look that different. I'm getting married in July which was the main catalyst for doing this, although I have thought about it for the last year because I am sick of being fat and tired of not being able to be as active as I used to be! I feel like I will also use this as a jump start for a healthy lifestyle...in my mind, the cost of doing this is motivation enough to not backslide :) And I have to say, if I saw you on the street, there is NO WAY I would have guessed that you weighed anything over 150 and I am not kidding about that...so that gives me hope that even if the scale is not what I want, at least I will LOOK more like I want to look :) I also have that big deposit of fat on my abdomen which is why I am getting upper and lower abs done and I think that by having that removed, the rest of my body will look more proportionate...but I am also getting my chin, hips, inner and outer thighs, and bra roll done so I hope that all of those areas combined will result in a new shape for me. Did you need to use any stool softeners to deal with constipation from pain meds? Keep updating your profile, I want to know what to expect!

I was wondering did you have a mini tuck as well?