32 Years Old No Kids, Lipo of Stomach, Full Back/Bra Roll Fat Transfer to Side Dents on Buttocks - Chicago, IL

After years of research, I've decided to have my procedure done with Dr. Shifrin, one of Chicago's top Board Certified Plastic surgeons. This is something I've wanted to do for a very long time. It is scheduled for March 2, 2015 and I'm so nervous!

I used to be active years ago when I was in the military and just got lazy and started gaining weight after I left the Army. I put on quite a bit of weight over the years. I'm 5'5 and currently 190 pounds. I have been working out about 4-6 times a week since September. In August I was 210 pounds. I have been really getting into weight lifting and have seen some progress but just not fast enough. Over the years I accumulated quite a bit of fat in my bra roll area and stomach. For some reason my body seems to love to store fat in the bra roll area on my back Ugh! It looks so unsightly and it makes me extremely self conscience. My waist was at about 40 inches but through diet and exercise I've gotten it down to 34. I'm currently wearing a size 14.

I always had a solid build somewhat of an hour glass shape, and recently for some reason I've become infatuated with having the perfect butt. Even though my main goal was to get rid of the back fat and stomach fat. My butt is wide already and actually has somewhat of a lift, and I'm not necessarily looking for a big ghetto bubble butt. I just want a nice shapely butt. So over the past few months I have been training my gluteus like crazy basically to sculpt and build what my momma (God bless her heart) has already given me. I do lunges and squats with weights and take in 145 grams of protein per day. I have a desk job where I sit most of the day, so to get in some extra calorie burn, I used the stairwell near my cubicle and go up and down the stairs during my lunch and breaks for a total of 20 flights per day Monday-Friday, this is in addition to working out. I have seen great progress with my thighs and glutes with this. It has done wonders for cellulite. I mean I still have cellulite but just not as much! I do have those 2 dents on each side of my outer butt/hip area like most women have and the surgeon actually said he can fill in some fat there from my lipo but he told me I had a beautiful back side with great volume already. He said once he sucks out the fat from the back and stomach it will make my shape look a whole lot better and my my butt look more pronounced. One of my hips is also larger than the other one, so he is going to correct this for me as well. I feel like this will give me a new sense of self and give me the motivation I need to keep working out. I really need a breast reduction but that's another story..

Unfortunately, I've decided not to tell my family or friends. I know how my family will respond and they will most certainly tell me not to do it. Hell they damn near lost their minds when I had lasik eye surgery to correct my vision a few years ago. I'm hiring a nurse to be with me for the first 48 hours after the surgery. I'm taking 8 days off work for this also. People already know I've been working out and dieting so once the swelling goes down after surgery, hopefully they'll just assume whatever I've been doing has been working!

So I'm putting my before pictures up to give folks an idea of the mess I'm working with here. Lord help me. I so need this surgery!

Forgot to mention that there will be lipo above my buttocks to get rid of that square shape of fat that I have where my but meets my lower back, that should be more of a curve. Hopefully this will bring back my hour glass shape. I'll continue to work out as hard as I can before this surgery so that I can have the best results possible especially with my back fat. For some reason I feel like my stomach fat has been easier to lose than my back fat. I may post a few more pics later right before the surgery. I was actually hesitant about looking for wish pics because I do want to be realistic about what my body will look like because at the end of they day I will only able to look like me. Its easy to get caught up looking at pictures of all these beautiful flawless models and try and hope for unrealistic expectations only to still be unsatisfied with yourself, and I just do not want that. If any one has had similar procedures please comment and give me any advise you might have and also any supplies I might need.

Well, tomorrow is the surgery day for me. I am nervous but not as nervous as I thought I would be. I was looking at my unsightly fat again today in the mirror, and I'm like this is long overdue and I can not wait another minute to get rid of it. I really hope he is able to snatch my torso up tight :) If I can get my waist to at minimum a 28 or 29 after the surgery that would be cool, I'll just work the rest out through diet and exercise. Ideally I'l like to be about anywhere from a size 6 to a size 8 waist. I'm currently a size 14. As far as bust size once this back fat is eliminated I hope to be a 34 bust size. I think once my saddle bag is evened out I may lose an inch or two off the hip, I'm okay with that, I really don't have too much of an issue with my hips, just want them to be a little more round. I took my measurements this morning and here is what I'm working with pre-surgery.

Bust (around full breast): "40
Bust (underneath breast): ''36
Waist: ''34
Waist (belly button & below: ''37
Natural Hip: ''43
Hip/Saddle bag (around fullest part of buttocks): "46

I filled all of my prescriptions last week, did my grocery shopping this morning and picked up my supplies. I don't have to go back to work until the 12th, so hopefully I should get plenty of rest. I'll be posting about my experience and plenty of pictures. I've posted more pictures that I took this morning, so you all can see what I look like right before this procedure. For some reason many of the women on here put more pictures of their wish pic up than pictures of their own bodies before and after. I don't understand that. Hopefully everything that I post will be enough for to give someone enough information about the process. Pray for me.