Mommy Makeover Scheduled for 3/22/11 - Bay Area, CA

almost 6 weeks PO - I worked out today, 30 minutes on the elliptical and crunches and sit ups. Just took it easy and slow, but man, when I got home, I was wiped out! Had to take a 2 hour nap. I guess it's signs that (1) I'm that out of shape and (2) my body is still recovering. I'm down to 153 pounds (about 5-6 pounds from my pre-surgery weight). Not bad considering I haven't been on the best diet and haven't worked out until today. The PS said that I'll lose weight faster now than before having the surgery because I have less fatty cells to burn off so the fat will burn from the rest of my body rather than the belly =) Hope he's right.

So as far as my swelling, still the same. I'm just so worried about the love handles. PS keeps saying that's the last to go down, again, I hope he's right. But otherwise, I feel great ! No soreness at all, and the swelling from my TT goes in and out during the day. I jump between size 10-12 during the day and on really good days could squeeze into a size 8! But, I don't leave the house in 8 because I can easily swell up soon after I step outside the house.

And as far as scaring, all looks good. I've been using Kelocote in the morning and wrapping my tummy in Gelzone. I've heard some good reviews on it so I thought I'd try it out. Pretty pricey stuff so it better work. Anyone use it?

so that's my progress so far. I'm feeling normal again. I'm able to do everything that I used to do before the PS, including house work and caring for the kids. My advise to any mom's going through this journey is to really really enjoy your recovery time where you're free to do absolutely nothing! I'm not one to ask for help or like someone waiting on me hand and foot, but looking back I should've taken advantage of it because that probably was the only time that I had that excuse to just sit and do nothing! Instead, I was trying to speed my recovery by easing into cooking and cleaning and caring for the kids. Oh well, lesson learned. Maybe if my love handles don't go down I'll be back to do lipo and can take advantage of it again later lol!

Well anyway, I love my body. It takes me longer to get ready because (1) I put all this gel and crap on my scars and (2) I like getting dressed :) 2 more weeks and I could start bra shopping!!!

4 weeks PO - I am feeling great! There no soreness or anything with my TT. The only thing that bothers me with the TT is that swelling. The ever so annoying swelling that comes everyday! It's the worse in the morning lately, so bad that I have to wear my size 12 pants, but as the day goes, my pants are so lose that you could literally slide them right off me! In fact, my friend gave me some of her old pants and I tried them on, one of them were actually a size 8 and they fit!!! How the heck do I go from a 12 to an 8 in a day?!

Then comes the boobs, oh how I love thee =)I'm not feeling as much swelling in the breasts and the soreness is very mild. Again, worse during the morning but gets much better when I ice it. There's absolutely no pain and in fact, after week 3, I only take an advil at night and when I first wake up just to help with the swelling. I just hope that this subsides so I can see the true results. I'm a person that lives for instant gratification, so I hate waiting! Oh, and my scar looks great. It's flat and it looks good so far!

So, the MM was the first step in my true "makeover". The next step is losing 20 pounds. I'm 155 and idealy I'd love to get down to 120, but I'd be content at 135. I just want to get down to a HEALTHY weight, then if I still have will power I'll get down to my DREAM weight. Baby steps... I told myself that I'd give my the first month just simply to recover, but ideally, I want to be beach body ready by the summer. This is the first time in a long time that I really feel like I can do this. Its amazing how surgery could change you and your whole outlook in life.

So that's it for now, my MM journey continues onto the next phase.

3 weeks and 2 days PO - I'm super swollen it sucks, but on a good note - my boobs look super!!! Pics posted!