post op two months!!bod

Wow, time flies when you are enjoying your new body!! Started work two weeks ago after beingoff fortwo months and all I can say is iam sure glad I had that time off for recovery! I noticed three first week I seem to pull things in my abdomen and then there would be swelling because I was more active. I still feel tightness at three end of the day but nothing I can't deal with. fifteen pounds less and two sizes smaller. i plan on beginning amajor ab routine inJanuary. That willbe sixmonths post surgury so i think thatwill be safer. Other than that justenjoying myflatness andenjoying everythingthat hasimproved in my life. ....fourteen

I can't beleive how quickly the weeks have passed??? I am now beginning my fifth week post op and feel great! Went last week to see the PS and he said everything is looking good. Still too soon to see the final results. He wants to see me in six weeks and then he will have a better idea if we need to snip a dog ear and do a scar revision on one of my breasts. The BB is healing well and it most likely will not need to be fixed.

I have come to accept that Mr. Swell has moved in and is going to stay for awhile. He really doesn't make his presence known until around three in the afternoon. He shows up and I just keep the CG around for help. It is irritating but I know that eventually "he" won't be a necessary evil in this healing journey and my body will create new lymphatic channels to aid in the fluid dispersal. Lol!!

I am working out on the elliptical. Have worked up to fifty minutes every day. No core focus until six weeks I have been told. It Is cool to look in the mirror and see intentions/ definition in my form. I just can't imagine how it will look once the swelling is gone and I can do crunches and ab work. Look forward to that!

One last thing, I have to give a shout out to my PS Dr. John Roussalis! He just is the bomb. Iam seven hours away from Denver, CO and had several doctors and friends tell me to go to a PS there. They didn't know about roussalis and were weary. Well, Iam here to tell you he is like a little gold mine that no one knows about and his prices are not bad!!! Sure, I have seen cheaper here on Real Self but with his background and education..like I have said, I would match him up with any Beverly Hills doctor any day! I have not one thing to complain about from this whole experience. His office staff is top rate as well!!!! So if you are close to Casper, Wyoming look him up. You would be glad you did!!!!

Good morning gals! I am looking at starting my fourth week on Monday and this week I go see my PS for a check up and additional "touch ups". AKA; Botox and Filler for my creases!!! ;0)

So in a nutshell ladies, this is what you can possibly expect from going to the "flat side"! Weight loss, although this is not a weight loss surgery, when they are removing a huge panus and doing Lipo to your flanks, you are bound to lose weight. I weighed myself this am and have lost eleven pounds!!!! This is such a wonderful bonus I am beside my self with joy!!! Another thing you can expect is looking at a completely different body. This can do weird things to your brain. You will find yourself staring at your body with a big smile on your face and rubbing your hands over your tummy while you turn this way and that. Family will smile as you, for the millionth time, tell them how flat your stomach is or share another new "event" that has transpired from your experience. Friends will at first, be concerned about surgery and call you afterwards to check on you, but then drop out of sight when you start to heal and look HOT! Clothes pre surgery do not fit and never will again. This is exciting but some of my clothes were awesome AND expensive and to think I have to get a new wardrobe when there are other household expenses looming out there makes my anxiety stir! And I guess the BEST most AMAZING thing you can expect from this journey is the confidence and renewed sense of "I rock and I can do anything! So watch out world!!!" That to me is the greatest thing I have gotten out of all this. My body still has a ways to go. My BB is slowly healing and my boobies haven't settled, there are hard lumps along my TT scar line, and massaging the Lipo areas bring me to tears STILL. However, I have come to realize that my body is my friend and has always been there for me. It was ME that was not there for "it". There is a mind/body connection and my body deserves to be treated well. I am never going back to eating poorly or never exercising. My life has changed and this has helped me with my relationship with ME. That my friends is hopefully what you will get out of this along with all the other perks I mentioned. Until my next post, happy healing ya'll!