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35 Years Old and I Am Finally Doing This!
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I'm a 35 year old mother of one living in Norfolk,...
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I'm a 35 year old mother of one living in Norfolk, UK. I've followed so many magical surgical stories here on RealSelf and I am MEGA excited to finally be sharing my own!
I'm scheduled to have a tummy tuck with muscle repair on 14th February 2017 (it's my Valentine's Day gift to meeee!) and I'm aiming to log my as much about my journey as I can. For a better surgery result I could do with losing 15lbs - I have roughly 7 weeks so I'll hopefully be able to do this.
I've included my awful before pictures (Eeekk!! - I've just realised that they're now "before" pictures and not "Im'a have to live with this flapping tummy for the rest of my life" pictures! Wooohoooo!) and I'll do my best to post more as we go along. Here we goooooo....
I'm scheduled to have a tummy tuck with muscle repair on 14th February 2017 (it's my Valentine's Day gift to meeee!) and I'm aiming to log my as much about my journey as I can. For a better surgery result I could do with losing 15lbs - I have roughly 7 weeks so I'll hopefully be able to do this.
I've included my awful before pictures (Eeekk!! - I've just realised that they're now "before" pictures and not "Im'a have to live with this flapping tummy for the rest of my life" pictures! Wooohoooo!) and I'll do my best to post more as we go along. Here we goooooo....
UPDATED FROM kymsanity
16 days pre
I feel like I'm going to screw this up :(
I'm a little over 2 weeks away from having the most incredible and transformational surgery - but I haven't been able to lose the weight I wanted to. I feel like I'm going to go through this entire surgery/healing process only to still have a massive tummy, and it's all because I can't get to grips with my emotional eating. I'm so excited, but at the same time I'm kicking myself for not being able to lose the extra weight. I've read that crash dieting/cleanses etc are a bad idea before any surgical procedure as they can interfere with the healing process, but I feel like I need to do something. Does anyone have any experience with weight loss before or after tummy tuck surgery? ??????
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January 29, 2017
Hello, if I can suggest maybe try juicing fruits, and veggies for a week also lots of water, divide body weight by 2 and that how many ounces you schould consume daily, and last increase your cardio. I wish you the best!
January 29, 2017
Thanks Leticial, I'll give that a shot - I definitely don't drink enough water so I'm going to focus on getting that done! :)
January 29, 2017
Hi again! , I can imagine how your feeling at the moment. I'm now almost 7 weeks post op and I feel back to normal self.
The one thing I was told was to be at my target weight and maintain it before having a tt as a tt is the removal of the excess skin gained by weight loss. xx
The one thing I was told was to be at my target weight and maintain it before having a tt as a tt is the removal of the excess skin gained by weight loss. xx
UPDATED FROM kymsanity
3 days pre
In 5 days I won't wobble...wow.
Took some more "jiggly pics" - I can't quite believe that by this time next week it'll be mostly gone. I keep walking past the mirror and scrunching my tummy trying to get an idea of what I might look like (yep, strange!) but I have absolutely no idea how good a result I might achieve. I've seen a few other Real Self'rs who seem to have started out looking like me and have had INCREDIBLE results after their TT - fingers crossed my surgeon can work that sort of magic on me!
Had my surgical pre-assessment last week, for a moment my surgery nurses were questioning whether or not my surgery could go ahead due to me being anaemic. Happy to say that I found out yesterday that my iron levels made it into the "safe zone" (by the teeniest amount but whatever, I made it!). Wooohooo!
Due to go in at 7am on Tuesday for a 10:30am surgery so this weekend I'm sorting out the house to make sure absolutely everything is prepped, washed, ironed, folded, cleaned, tidied, dusted, hoovered, polished, stocked and ordered so I can stay out of action for 2 weeks. I have my fiancé taking the first week and a bit off of work to help me and take care of our 5 year old son, for the second week I'm slightly stuck for help so I hope I feel a little better. A friend of mine is doing the school run for me before and after she goes to work so that's a help, other than that I'm going to just need to take things verrrryyyyy slowly!
I'm a bit concerned as I found out very late in the day that my surgeon doesn't use binders (I thought everyone used them so I didn't question this) and now I feel like the lack of support might be quite uncomfortable. Does anyone have any experience of a TT with MR and no compression/binder garment?
Had my surgical pre-assessment last week, for a moment my surgery nurses were questioning whether or not my surgery could go ahead due to me being anaemic. Happy to say that I found out yesterday that my iron levels made it into the "safe zone" (by the teeniest amount but whatever, I made it!). Wooohooo!
Due to go in at 7am on Tuesday for a 10:30am surgery so this weekend I'm sorting out the house to make sure absolutely everything is prepped, washed, ironed, folded, cleaned, tidied, dusted, hoovered, polished, stocked and ordered so I can stay out of action for 2 weeks. I have my fiancé taking the first week and a bit off of work to help me and take care of our 5 year old son, for the second week I'm slightly stuck for help so I hope I feel a little better. A friend of mine is doing the school run for me before and after she goes to work so that's a help, other than that I'm going to just need to take things verrrryyyyy slowly!
I'm a bit concerned as I found out very late in the day that my surgeon doesn't use binders (I thought everyone used them so I didn't question this) and now I feel like the lack of support might be quite uncomfortable. Does anyone have any experience of a TT with MR and no compression/binder garment?
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