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Best of luck to you Tinabelly! I hope they are everything you hope and wish for! x

Thank you! I have updated with the 'before' and an 'after' front view pictures as they didn't load up first time.

You were right, they have already 'fluffed' a bit up the top. They look much better in a bra and I love how they feel!

Hello Andi22!

Thank you for your kind words and well done you on making the decision to go full removal, I know it’s a hard one!

I am now day 2 of being back at work having returned 6 days after my surgery. I stopped taking the painkillers they gave me after 2 days as they turned my brain to mush and I needed a clear head to be back at work. I found that I wasn’t too uncomfortable and ibuprofen did the trick if needed.

Right, to the important matter of LIES AND FASHION! - I think the fact that I never wore (especially in the office) revealing or very tight clothes on my top half has helped my situation. I never felt comfortable with them on show so I wore looser things which unfortunately made me look a bigger clothes size than I am (apart from a few shift dresses which I won’t wear again until people have gotten used to a smaller me so as not to be too obvious). As I stated above, I started my deception in the run up to the op by wearing minimising bras (sports bras work well too as squish everything down) and wearing loose cardigans over brightly patterned coloured tops (Aztec and colour blocking is in fashion so this helped lots!). I also told people I was dieting and did managed to shift a few pounds to convince people!

Coming back to work yesterday I was very nervous about how I looked and I really needn’t have been! I hate wearing my sports bra as doesn’t give a very flattering shape but I doubt we’re allowed to wear anything with shape in yet but do let me know if your surgeon says yes and I am in! Scarves are a good idea but people may wonder why you have a sudden scarf fetish and think you’ve gone love bite mad so I’d advise not to wear them every day or you’ll be having different rumours! I wore a standard black skirt, my usual big heels and on top I had the same thing I used to disguise how big I was before as it works both ways!! A brightly coloured (purples and pinks) blotchy patterned round neck top (round neck makes your top look bigger than v neck!) tucked into the skirt (we want to show a nice silhouette darrrling!) and a cardigan that had a silk neckline than ran all the way down the front of the cardigan. Don’t do it up, just wear it loose for a couple of weeks. Cardigans with a busy neckline like ruffles or anything similar works as ‘busies’ the top area giving something else to focus on than the boobs themselves. I also wore a HUGE chunky necklace that sat just below my throat. Today I am wearing an Aztec patterned top in darker colours with a different cardigan but a blazer or suit jacket would also work well as long as not done up.

I walked into the office and within an hour I’d had 4 people say to me “wow, the 4 days holiday have done you well, you look great! You’ve lost weight!”. HORAR! I think people noticed a change but because the lack of big boobs has changed my shape completely up top, everyone thinks I’ve lost a load of weight (I have not). My response to people was “Thanks! I bought a juicer and went a bit juice mad over the past week!”. I have also been asked where I got my juicer….looks like I’ve started the girls in the office on a juice diet fad. Oops! – I do actually have a juicer and have been bring my bottles of homemade juice in to further concrete my lie!

If any of my closer friends in the office ever have the guts to mention that my boobs have shrunk I intend saying something along the lines of “I know, it always go from where you don’t want it to and what with the dieting and coming off/changing my pill…..”. Sneaky I know but honestly, who’s going to question it!?

I intend to wear loose boring cardigans and blazers until I am out of this bloody awful sports bra and then I can wear padded ones and finally (FINALLY!), I can wear the clothes I’ve always wanted to! Pretty fitted dresses and things! My top half will look bigger and fuller and nobody will suspect a thing and of this I am now confident!

Pros of lying:
People don’t stare at your chest to see if they can tell/notice the difference
You don’t have to wonder ‘who’s told who’
You don’t have to explain the same story about PIP scandal over and over every time you go to the kitchen
You get to shop for new things!
You get to keep your private business PRIVATE!

Cons of lying:
You have to lie!
You have to hide your new fab figure for a couple of weeks
You don’t get to ‘take it easy’ on your first day back because nobody knows you’re a bit delicate

I wish you all the very best of luck. If you post a story on here, will you let me know? I’d be really interested in following your progress!

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