Let's Do This! -Chesterfield, MO

updates Photos in celebration of 2 year Mommy Makeover Anniversary

I seriously cannot believe it's been two years since my mommy makeover! I can honestly say this is the best thing I have ever done and my loving hubby would agree. We would do it all over again in a heartbeat! You definitely have to "work" to keep your results in tip top shape. Now that a flat tummy and lifted breasts are my new "normal" I find myself being critical at times of my body forgetting what I looked like prior to the mommy makeover. I frequently tell my hubby that if I need another "nip & tuck" in 10 years as don't think I won't do it. I do believe things have "settled" into place over he past two years and I don't feel quite as "tight" as I did at the six week post op mark but that's all relative. I still find myself hanging around the same weight mark, I did gain about 3-5 pounds in late2013 - early 2014 when my career took me down the path of a sales rep and I spent a lot of time in my car. When I laid my full time career down about a year ago I thought those 3-5 pounds would drop right off but they've kind of been hanging around despite regular exercise and a healthy diet. 6 weeks post op I was in he 138-140 range but lacked muscle tone. Once I started building muscle again I was back in that 142-146 range. As of late my range has been 147-149 pounds and I refuse to get to the 150 mark, I don't care if muscle weighs more than fat. My clothes all still fit so that tells me the extra pounds are likely muscle. For me personally I'm most comfortable with myself in the 130's. So the past year I've tried Isagenix meal replacement shakes, Doterra Slim & Sassy oils and even gave the Body By Vi meal replacement shakes a whirl but my body has not responded to any of it. My conclusion is that it is likely because my eating habits are already healthy and I stay within a normal calorie range daily and of course have muscle tone from working out 4 days a week (a combo of running and Jillian Michaels). In the past five years I found that my body responded really well to the HCG diet and when I did that I was in the 130's. It's brutal though and I just don't have it in me to do it again. I've dabbled in the South Beach diet some as its not as restrictive as HCG but usually a few days in hubby says "let's take the kids out for ice cream" (my weakness) and then I'm back to my normal eating patterns. After a long talk with the hubs last week and sharing my frustration despite my efforts of what the heck is going on with my body I decided that I would give the South Beach Diet one more REAL try before I resorted to getting my thyroid (or other things) checked or doing HCG again. Truly a 5-10 pound loss makes all the differenc e for me in my body comfort level, of course 10 pounds is better! Happy to report I've been doing Phase 1 of SBD for 6 days and have seen movement on the scale! I guess I know what really works for me and this is just a recalibration and reinforcement of good/healthy habits as we all have times in our lives where we get lax. Overall when I look at how far I've come and how much more confidence I have I am one happy girl! I am doing things now that I never would have dreamed of before like wearing a two piece with confidence and I've even hooked up with a local agent and am doing print, voice over and commercial work...who knew they needed "Moms" for that type of work! I will post some two year pics in the next couple of days!