Arm Lift Plus Breast Lift and 295cc Cup Augmentation. Dallas, TX

I am SO excited to get this done. I am lucky enough to qualify for financing...it's my 30th birthday on April 10th and this is the perfect extravagant gift to myself lol extremely extravagant but I know it will be exactly what I need to feel better about myself.

I was an obese child and teenager and cut the crap when I was 15 and lost 100 pounds over the course of 2 years. Later in life I gained back 70 because of a munchies dependency (all I did was smoke weed, I was young) lost that weight, then years later I gained 70 pounds with my pregnancy. Lost 90. So It's safe to say I have lost over 250 (I'd say more like 300) pounds in lifetime. Just diet and exercise. I am strong-willed and impulsive. I want it and I do it. It's served me well so far.

My family is irritated I am getting this done because of the cost but they are okay with it. I am just praying recovery will be kind on me. I need to cut nicotine for 6 weeks :( (dear God, have mercy)...

I am a runner, a swimmer, a weight lifter, and I'm a very physical person...but I want to see the results from that. With the excess skin the results are hard to see. One month!! One month. Omg I can't wait.

It's been 5 full weeks since my surgery and I am feeling like a million bucks. Looking at my pictures from the past is shocking to me completely that my boobs were so low, those pepperoni nipples that I hated and the evil excess skin on my arms.

I believe some people could have lived perfectly happy with what I had but it was a lifelong dream for me to correct my yo-yo weight loss issues and having the surgery done has reinforced and breathed fresh air into my healthy lifestyle. Before I would always exercise and eat right with a physique in mind, an athletic goal but I would quickly lose fire when I would realize there was nothing I could do that could lol lift my boobs or tighten the hanging skin on my arms. It would create this barrier in my mind that if I can't have it all why try so hard? And so I would give in, give up, go back on my goals and always keep a goal in mind without ever coming close. It's a vicious cycle.

NOW I have a different mind set. Originally I had 2 and a half weeks of work after surgery to heal. That ended up being 6 weeks which was a blessing, only because my work refused to let me work with lifting restriction. My PS and his assistant thought this was insane and I agree but regardless it has been SO nice being off, spending time with my child, exercising, and focusing other goals.

Anyways so I knew that I needed to speed up healing time if I was going to turn into work in 2 and a half weeks (or so I thought) so I went on a plant-based diet of lots of fruits and veggies, cut my sugar intake into a fourth of what I was used to eating. I believe I healed a TON faster by cutting out processed foods, sugar, etc. Those things take extra energy to digest which take away from your healing. Your body needs a lot of energy to heal so that helped a great deal.

I had a tiny whole open on my left arm pit and it started to get a bit infected, probably because I kept rubbing against the area with my arm, but my wonderful PS Dr. John L Burns reassured me it was pretty normal and apart of the healing process and prescribed a topical cream that worked wonders for warding off a worse infection. No big deal.

My boobs are better than I expected. I've never had nice boobs, I always had hangers lol so to have what I have now is a shock to me every day. I think I originally discussed with my doctor that I would like a B cup but before surgery I had changed my mind to a D cup because I am a very broad shoulder'd lady and thought a B might be too small. Well I forgot to mention it to him before surgery lol and then after I woke up I asked him what he put in and he said a D cup. Woo, I lucked out. I knew that doctors put in what works for YOUR body, even if you originally ask for something different so it was a huge success for me. In clothing you can barely tell anything is different which is great but in a swim suit, my perky and firm boobs look amazing.

I don't think they have fully dropped, but they're almost all the way there. These pictures were taken May 17th so nearly a month ago and they have definitely healed and dropped some. I LOVE MY NEW NIPPLES. I can't even. They're the perfect size for me and I couldn't be happier with them. I feel so confident with my new arms and boobs.

My scarring on my arms is rough and I knew it would be but I LOVE that the hanging skin is NOT THERE. Scars can heal and fade but saggy flapping skin will not hehe.

My ONLY regret with this only journey is that I couldn't get my upper back skin removed. Not yet anyway. I am going to work on getting in the best shape for me and see what I can avoid having to get but in the future I may still want a back lift (the back boob skin area that hangs under and over the bras-my biggest enemy), inner thigh lift, and a tummy tuck.