Best...Damn...Doctor...Ever.......period! - Chevy Chase, MD

Good afternoon beautiful ladies of Real Self. I am a 29-y/o pharmacist, recently married to my wonderful Airman husband, and getting ready to move to Japan to start our new lives together. This review will be an any-and-everything you need to know about my BBL experience from a medically relevant and personal perspective. So stay tuned!!!

So prior to college, I was a professional ballet dancer (I.e. I was part of a dance company in NY; I performed, travel and competed). Then I went to college, gained and lost the freshman 3000!!! But it wasn't until my pursuit of higher education that the requirement to be sedentary, keep terrible hours, and maintain horrible habits to survive that my body was destroyed. I was in class for 8+ hours a day, and then off to the library to study what I learned for the previous 8 hours...if I wasn't working at one of my 2 jobs. Professional school was the hardest 4 years of my life, and by the time I graduated, my body reflected the hell I went through. Of course it was all worth it in the end and I absolutely looooove what I do; but the process is still the process, and this is what I now looked like (please refer to pics within this thread). Keep in mind these pictures are of someone that fitness and weigh-in's at the beginning of dance class weekly was a REQUIREMENT!!! So my sadness about how far my body had been let go was very real and deep to me.

After graduation, I met my wonderful husband at my best friend's wedding. He went off to basic training and returned with the news that we'd be moving out the country within a few months and be starting outer lives in one of the beautiful island towns in Japan. I said oooooh hell naw. Here you are looking like Adonis and now we're moving to a beach town? Changes need to be made like yesterday!!! So both of my brothers are fitness models (think about what I just said and then refer back to my pics). Can I just tell yall that my struggles of self-image is no joke. So I sat down with them and said I was ready. I already had it in mind that I wanted to have surgery, but I wasn't going to commit thousands of dollars to such a procedure without being able to commit to a lifestyle change. They sat down with me and completely revamped my eating habits, caloric intake (I was weighing my food until I got used to portion control), etc. Before I started stalking realself and researching doctors, I dropped 30 lbs in 3 months just by eating better. I hadn't even reintroduced exercise into my daily plan yet!