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I am just starting my journey...I want to thank...
50 going on 35June 7, 2013
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I am just starting my journey...I want to thank everyone in advance...I have been poking around on the site for about a week...and it is wonderfully informative and supportive. Awesome.
A little about me. I will be "50" in December. I know a lot of women on the site are between early twenties and early forties..and are much younger than me...some have recently had their babies... So it makes perfect sense to do a TT and stuff for them.
You might ask.."Sheesh...you are nearly 50 already--why do it now?" I have always been a single parent, so when I was a new mother...just putting "food on the table" was they daily goal. THAT in itself might have added to being overweight...all the fast food is cheap...but very poor quality in nutrition. So now with my daughter grown, and pretty much on her own...I figure NOW is the time for me. :0)
I have had a pervious cosmetic surgery when I was 38. It was a kind of unique surgery .... but as a result...I pretty much still look 38 years old. I feel great with lots of energy, and in fact most people are just blown away by how much energy I have. I feel young, and I feel like I have an "old body". my boobs aren't quite at my knees, (but give it time-lol!) but I have a well rounded tummy that you only acquire with age.... These past two years I have been working on losing weight. At my highest, I weighed 235lbs. I have been "sitting" at 200 lbs for about six month. I have been learning to eat a lot better and increasing my nutrition knowledge base these past two years. What I have realized that now I have to boost all the knowledge with some physical activity. I think that's why I am stuck at 200 lbs. So my journey beings. I am anticipating getting down to 160 lbs. by late October. I am self employed, so in addition to the costs of the actual surgery (no insurance coverage for it, since it is elective surgery)-- I have to save money to support myself for three months. I expect to take off November and December from work. What prompted my MM idea is that, as a few women on the site have done too, is that I need a FOOT /Bunion surgery. So I figure if I have to go into surgery--then I might as well "toss in my MM too" while I am out and can't walk on my foot for 8 weeks. It seems from a lot of stuff that I have been reading from everyone's very helpful updates is that there is a lot of recovery that takes place between "week #3 and week#4"-- so I am hoping that by early December, maybe I can work part time, to help the finances out, so I won't be totally broke!
I have done some fillers and Botox --and I have done my lips a few times with filler...and for sure...right at day 2 or 3---I find myself staring in the mirror thinking "what made me think this was a good idea-when my lips look like goldfish lips!" I really enjoyed the "cartoon of the phases (of a MM) that start with Winnie the Pooh" that is on this site...I am currently at about the fourth photo...the baby throwing cash out the window! That was pretty funny.
I am located in the San Francisco Bay Area-- and just starting my research on PS...if anyone has some experience they can toss my way, good or bad--it would be much appreciated.
Although I anticipate having my surgery at the end of October...I am very excited that I have decided to have it done. I am excited. Stay tune for updates along the way.
Good luck to all the ladies that are having surgeries this week.
A little about me. I will be "50" in December. I know a lot of women on the site are between early twenties and early forties..and are much younger than me...some have recently had their babies... So it makes perfect sense to do a TT and stuff for them.
You might ask.."Sheesh...you are nearly 50 already--why do it now?" I have always been a single parent, so when I was a new mother...just putting "food on the table" was they daily goal. THAT in itself might have added to being overweight...all the fast food is cheap...but very poor quality in nutrition. So now with my daughter grown, and pretty much on her own...I figure NOW is the time for me. :0)
I have had a pervious cosmetic surgery when I was 38. It was a kind of unique surgery .... but as a result...I pretty much still look 38 years old. I feel great with lots of energy, and in fact most people are just blown away by how much energy I have. I feel young, and I feel like I have an "old body". my boobs aren't quite at my knees, (but give it time-lol!) but I have a well rounded tummy that you only acquire with age.... These past two years I have been working on losing weight. At my highest, I weighed 235lbs. I have been "sitting" at 200 lbs for about six month. I have been learning to eat a lot better and increasing my nutrition knowledge base these past two years. What I have realized that now I have to boost all the knowledge with some physical activity. I think that's why I am stuck at 200 lbs. So my journey beings. I am anticipating getting down to 160 lbs. by late October. I am self employed, so in addition to the costs of the actual surgery (no insurance coverage for it, since it is elective surgery)-- I have to save money to support myself for three months. I expect to take off November and December from work. What prompted my MM idea is that, as a few women on the site have done too, is that I need a FOOT /Bunion surgery. So I figure if I have to go into surgery--then I might as well "toss in my MM too" while I am out and can't walk on my foot for 8 weeks. It seems from a lot of stuff that I have been reading from everyone's very helpful updates is that there is a lot of recovery that takes place between "week #3 and week#4"-- so I am hoping that by early December, maybe I can work part time, to help the finances out, so I won't be totally broke!
I have done some fillers and Botox --and I have done my lips a few times with filler...and for sure...right at day 2 or 3---I find myself staring in the mirror thinking "what made me think this was a good idea-when my lips look like goldfish lips!" I really enjoyed the "cartoon of the phases (of a MM) that start with Winnie the Pooh" that is on this site...I am currently at about the fourth photo...the baby throwing cash out the window! That was pretty funny.
I am located in the San Francisco Bay Area-- and just starting my research on PS...if anyone has some experience they can toss my way, good or bad--it would be much appreciated.
Although I anticipate having my surgery at the end of October...I am very excited that I have decided to have it done. I am excited. Stay tune for updates along the way.
Good luck to all the ladies that are having surgeries this week.
50 going on 35's provider
UPDATED FROM 50 going on 35
4 months pre
Check off PS#1---:(
50 going on 35June 12, 2013
I started calling and I just got as far as my first phone chat trying to book a consultation; it didn't go we'll.
I expressed that I wanted to combine my foot surgery and MM. The office manager totally dismissed the idea, but said she would talk to the PS and get back to me by end of the day Monday---hmmmm-no call whatsoever. Tuesday has now come and gone; no follow up call either. Poof! - check THAT PS OFF my list. Really dude, not even enough respect for future clients to call back? NEXT!
On a good note, I have dropped 3 lbs this week--yay!!!
I expressed that I wanted to combine my foot surgery and MM. The office manager totally dismissed the idea, but said she would talk to the PS and get back to me by end of the day Monday---hmmmm-no call whatsoever. Tuesday has now come and gone; no follow up call either. Poof! - check THAT PS OFF my list. Really dude, not even enough respect for future clients to call back? NEXT!
On a good note, I have dropped 3 lbs this week--yay!!!
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June 24, 2013
I'm excited for you! You will do just fine. Make sure you take your measurements. Even now since you're doing Insanity. Take tons of pictures too
June 24, 2013
Hi 50!!!! Time sure does fly! Glad you checked out my pics! My hubby has had tons of surgery, kidney transplant, cardiac bypass most major so I figured it was my turn lol!!!! He's doing great and I was feeling frumpy. Last August I said this is it! I weighed 183 and was so sick of looking at me. So I finally joined a women's gym called get in shape for women and started to lose weight and started feeling so much better ! I really encourage u to lose a good amount before surgery. You will have much better results. How tall are you??? I got down to 160 and was happy but the pouch gets more pronounced the more u lose. So I started thinking about tt and went to see a doc that I know and the rest is history. Feeling 8/10 now. Day 20 and was just out on my jet ski :). I am an RN and have only heard of hernias being done with tt. Not to say it cannot be done but you'd be under anesthesia for 4 plus hours. If u can you'd get a savings on your anesthesia and hospital costs. Not a bad idea to be miserable everywhere. So start consistent program of exercising at least 4 days a week and diet. Good luck :). Let me know if u have any questions !
June 25, 2013
Looking forward to following your review!!!
June 25, 2013
Good for you!!! Mind me asking what cosmetic procedure you had done at 38 to still look 38?
June 25, 2013
Interestingly I had a really, really, high forehead --really high! I tried all my life to hide it bangs, to side sweep my bangs to try to hide it...changed hairstyles, etc...just think about where the edge of your ear is....THAT far back, was where my hairline started---if I was a guy, it would be a receding hairline....but on a woman...NOT ATTRACTIVE. Can you tell I was self conscious about it?-lol... I happened to have a client that recently had the "whole face lift"- done and she looked great!-- so of course I went to her PS and posed my problem...so very similar to a tummy tuck, where they cut some skin, and stretch it over and sew it up....that was the same thing on my forehead...so as an "unanticipated consequence"--they pulled my facial skin at my forehead back/taunt and pulled the hairline forward...and VLOIA' I still look 38---bacically that's what happens in a face lift too...at the same time I did neck lipo--which again is so similar to a fully tummy tuck, where the PS pulls together the ab muscles that have separated and stitches them together, they do the exact same procedure under your neck...I think at about 35 years old--lots of people get a double chin...and it basically never goes away right?--so now I don't get the double chin thingy either...so the combination of nice taunt skin, and no double chin pudgier...=38 years old... I just say 38--because that was the age I had that surgery. But fast forward now, and I feel like I have the pudgier, square, no shape body of a 50 year old...and that is my next surgery... Thanks for asking... :0)
June 27, 2013
You're right...PS is so amazing...I am looking forward to my current surgery this Fall...The human body is just soooooo unbelievable the way it heals...and can look so incredible after a few hours with a PS- !! Thanks for the support.
June 29, 2013
Good luck in your search and weight loss. You will be so happy when you can strut that hot 38 year old body ;-) very exciting.
July 7, 2013
Thanks...I don't need the "college boys" chasing me...but it would feel good to turn a few heads!-lol....thx!
UPDATED FROM 50 going on 35
3 months pre
Getting ready !!!
50 going on 35July 3, 2013
I've been getting a few consultations set up---and reading through everyone's "lists of stuff"--extra pillows, recliner etc... I am hoping to prepare a major combined list of stuff to assist any other ladies on the journey... It's all about giving back. Thank you ladies! Amazing results -
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July 3, 2013
Ohhh THANK YOU for the info-/-was he your doc? I recognize your photo of the Ferry Bldg---I love the Farmers Market there right?
July 3, 2013
Good luck in your journey :) nope, never too old for a little spice in life- go for it! I can see me 80 and finding a little more to kick it up a notch ;)
July 3, 2013
I had Mommy Makeover 3 weeks today ago and am going to be 50 in November, so close birthdays :) It was the best thing I have ever done in my life!! I feel fantastic and am doing very well, I worked really hard before I had the surgery tho.. im 5'3 and weigh 120 now, (before 5'3 175) I watched what I ate only eating clean foods and working out 7 hours of Kickboxing and 3 hrs of weight lifting at the gym a week, my body, and mind was ready for this, and cause of the shape I'm in, my recovery has been a breeze, My suggestion to anyone no matter what your age is to get in the best shape you can before, the rewards from it are amazing :) Good Luck with your journey and yes 50 is the new 35.... well I think my tummy looks 25 now lol...
July 3, 2013
Awesome!!! It just seemed to me to be intuitive to try to be in the best shape for the surgery. I weighed 232 at the beginning of the year...I have dropped to the low 200's-- stayed there a bit..I am now In The 190's--and I feel like I will be soon moving into the 180's...my clothes fit looser and I feel great working out. I am doing INSANITY workouts...and then another 25 minutes of HIIT too... I have one consult next Monday, and probably a few moore locally in the coming weeks. I am anticipating surgery to dovetail at the end of October with a planned foot surgery in November for a bunion! The darn bunion required me to be off my feet for 6 weeks...so I thought I might as well get everything done while I am at home resting for the foot...all very exciting..thanks!
July 3, 2013
Photos? Where are you I. The country? How many days did you take off work? I am trying to coordinate my TT and stuff, but to wait 2-3 weeks to then get my foot surgery..but I wanted to feel a little like myself before I do surgery #2
July 5, 2013
Im off in the summers so was really good timing for me, still not working lol.. but enjoying my time for relaxing I prob could have gone back to work at about 2 weeks, I was feeling that good I might post pictures later when I figure it out lol.. I hope your journey goes as well as mine and feel free to message me if you have any questions :)
July 7, 2013
It's great to hear that about at two weeks, you start to feel pretty "normal and stuff"--I heard that from another gal...that in between the two and three week window...everything is totally fantastic...but better...so that is my plan...at the two to three week mark, to get my foot surgery taken care of. I am still waiting for my doctor to post her November calendar
July 7, 2013
North or South or Mid? I am near SF...so I hope the weather in the Fall will be much cooler, so while I wear layer after layer of CG'S ---it will all be manageable. :0)
July 8, 2013
I am in central cali, sorry to hear about your foot too, hope everything goes well with that surgery as well :) and I am still in my CG not too bad just a pain when you try and wear "Real Clothes" lol...
July 9, 2013
Your plan makes sense, I ended up with a similar situation. A month after my MM, I had a couple of procedures to take care of some pesky kidney stones. Since I was already unable to workout or lift things, I might as well. I will say I got impatient to finish with healing and get on with life after a couple of months.
July 9, 2013
I feel like it is going to be so weird to be off work for like 8-10 weeks...but might as well "do it all at the same time" instead of "using up next years vacation time." Because you know in 2014-I'm gonna be in a beach somewhere in a fabulous bikini !!! :0). Thx for sharing.
July 7, 2013
50 is a great age to get the MM. You still have plenty of time to shoe it off and enjoy it and you don't have to worry about the daily physical strain of parenting. Good luck!
July 7, 2013
Exactly...my daughter is 27 now...and while I have been working out, she has recently started too...so that is great to see. Thanks!
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Fifty is young! It's never too late to enjoy an improved body. Thanks so much for starting your story on RealSelf! We're here for you so just reach out with whatever questions you may have.