Upper & Lower Ab Lipo- Auckland, NZ

For the last 7 days I have been doing quite a lot of walking and my stomach was scary hard towards the end of the day but I kept at it because I the doctor said I should. I haven't had anything else to drink but water hoping the swelling would go down a lot faster and oh, coffee with breakfast. I have noticed some lumpy areas around my stomach and it's where my belt has been rubbing . I have been doing my own lymphatic massages and I have just stopped wearing belts so I don't aggravate the area anymore.

2 weeks on and I am so happy I decided to have stomach Liposuction! I've been told by my doctor not to go back to my normal gym activities until the bruising is all gone and I still have some bruises so I'm holding off . Today I walked on the treadmill on 4.5 speed and 4 incline for 1 hour. I will increase this slowly and hopefully next week I can start doing Pump, Combat and CXworx. I will post again at week 3.

Day 7 today, I feel normal and no more head aches. I woke up sleeping on my stomach, it was not sore and the puncture wounds were healing well.

The doctor said that there was still a lot of swelling but you know what?... I am happy with what I see already. I think that that having Liposuction is absolutely worth the the money and being uncomfortable & sore for a week. I just need to remind myself this at night when I complain about the compression garment being so..... uncomfortable!!

I will being seeing the doctor again in 3 weeks. The initial blood test taken pre-op, Dr Ron said that I need to cut down on carbs, sugary food and I have also decided to cut down on drinking Diet Coke. Day 7 and I still have not had 1 can of diet coke which I used to drink 2x a day. I said to myself that I will stop drinking diet coke for 1 week, now that it's been 1 week and I have had no craving for it so I will continue to drink water only. I want to flush all the toxins from my body and hopefully the swelling will go away faster than 3 - 6 weeks. I will post something again a week from today.

The first 3 days after Lipo were the hardest and I started thinking what was I thinking!!! The leakage from the puncture wounds stopped the 2nd day and the feeling of being run over by a truck subsided on the 3rd day. The biggest thing for me was the dizziness I felt when I forget to get up slowly and pain wise I took Panadine every 4 hours. I have 2 young kids 9 & 6, I have to say that there was no way I could look after them in the first 3 days. I also saw the doctor on the 3rd day, he said that the area was looks good and that the the swelling should subside in 3 - 6 weeks. He suggested that I need start walking to get things flowing and that I drink plenty of water. Water was easy but I food wasn't easy to take in and walking was far from my mind as all I wanted to do was sleep. I really needed to sleep, I craved salty food too and anything sweet made me feel sick.

Everyday I wake up I feel a little better and I started going for a little walk on the 4th day but energy wise - gets pretty tired easily. 5th and 6th day I was able to walk further and not as tired as the day before. Yesterday we walked (slow) for about 5km and by night time my stomach felt hard and swollen. Maybe too much??