Tummy Tuck and Breast Augmentation - Doing It for Me! - Alberta, Canada

I am 36 and I have two beautiful children. I have been moderately overweight my whole life. I am 5'7" and bounced up and down between 180 lbs and 210 lbs for all of my adult life.

About a year and a half ago I got a wake up call and realized that I really didn't want to spend my life overweight. I began Weight Watchers and after I lost some weight, I began to work out regularly (kickboxing, yoga, strength and cardio). I started at 209 lbs and lost 54 lbs to get down to a pretty muscular 155. I have now kept that weight off over a year and feel fantastic. Unfortunately as a consequence of my weight loss, I lost the majority of my beautiful breasts (I used to be a full C and now I'm busy fooling myself that I'm a small B because they are probably an A). I also have a ton of stretch marks and loose skin from my pregnancies.

When making the decision to have a mommy makeover, I struggled a lot with trying to evaluate the reasons I wanted to do it. I also struggled with what and how to tell my daughter. At the end of the day I realized that I'm doing this BECAUSE I love my body. I'm proud of what I have accomplished and I want to celebrate it. I'm just giving myself back the things time and poor habits lost. I talked with my husband, best friend and mother about it and was surprised and elated with their responses that were full of support.

My surgery is scheduled for April 8th, 2011 and I have been lurking on this site for quite a while. After paying for the procedures yesterday, I thought I would introduce myself.

At this point, I have lost a lot of my anxiety over the procedure (I have spent more than my fair share of time stressing over implant size, what exact procedures i should do, whether I can really go without a breast lift, lipo or not, what im going to tell people, etc, etc, etc..... the list has been endless). My only really big concern right now is recovery time. I have to go back full time to my physically demanding job at the 8 week mark. I am hoping that because I am going into this in very good shape that it will help me recover sooner.

I just want to thank all of you for sharing your stories. They have been a big help to me. I will post pics in the next little while.

Ok, maybe I spoke too soon! The nerves and 2nd thoughts have come back full force. I can't believe there are only six days to go. I keep reading about swell hell and how it often lasts a really long time. As I'm going into this in fairly good shape, I know I'm not going to have immediate loss of size. I'm expecting to be larger than I am right now for a while and I'm not looking forward to that. I'm afraid it will make me become dejected and I might lose my will to stay small!

I'm still very excited about my new breasts though! ;-)

Five days to go! I keep looking at my tummy in the mirror wondering where the scar will end up. I'm planning on bringing my low rise jeans and a pair of bikini bottoms on Friday morning just to check that the scar is low enough. If I pull the skin up (like it will be when everything us pulled tighter), I think I will want the dr to put the scar about 1/2 " into my pubic hair line. Has anyone else's doctor done this or is it almost always above the hairline?