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Talking about ,.. Old Body, Getting close to your...
Talking about ,.. Old Body, Getting close to your goal,.. all the faja info that I know
Hey guyz.. finally uploaded new pics.. last week got my period and this week started school so a photoshoot was not in the question.
Posted pics of me from LAST january as well to show you where I was coming from. I had gained weight the year before and now I was huge! I wasn't always fat,.. I went up and down.. but this time was just too much (190s). I spent about 3-4 months to get some of the weight off and then I just maintained at 160lbs... not because i was happy there but because life got in the way and the best that i could do was maintain. I was not happy though.. I was young,.. but looked deflated and worn. Even Dr. Yily said that I didn't have lots of useable fat on my stomach and back and that it was more loose tissue from the weight loss.:( I'm in my 20s and that is NOT the body that i wanted. so i bit the bullet and got my surgery done to plump up back those boobs and redefine my upper body. The new pics are from week 3 and week 6.
TIP: Get to a weight close to your goal weight. Lipo will not make you lose much weight if any at all. If you started off a big girl,.. you will end up a big girl,.. just better contoured. But if you dont lose enough weight preop then your surgeon will hit the 5L maximum before they can get to the really nice contouring that you want. Ask them upfront how much you should lose to get close to your goal (realistic) pic.
Boobs: doing great. they have mostly settled and are very soft. Friends have done the squeeze test on me and didn't feel a thing. The right one is bigger than the left ,.. the way it was preop. TIP.. if you want your boobs to be even then let your surgeon know that you want two different sized implants. I told her i wanted a natural look, so i guess technically thats the natural look, lol. Oh well,.. they are still aligned and look good to me. What do you think? Honest opinions welcome.
So far I am happiest with my boobs. I do have an odd boob roll under them to the sides. Its either still fluid build up or fat!! Will give it more time to see. BTW i'm a 34D! Doesn't look like it in the pic but I tried on C's and they don't fit :D
Stomach and back. Love the new waist line/contouring,.. can't wait for it to get smaller. My measurements are not very different cuz i was just a saggy baggy before.. not really fat,.. but my shape has changed. I still have uneven areas on my stomach,.. right above my belly button. Depressing but will give it time. My upper back is also slightly padded or swollen.. will also give that time. Its still numb in some areas and i still get a weird ripping sensation.
Butt: same old same old. If i sit on it too long i get a burning sensation and i'm 6 WEEKS OUT! when will this end!! Big improvement from my starting point,.. but I want MORE! lol. Maybe this summer. When i take pics,.. it just confuses me. Sometimes it looks round, sometimes boxy. I can't stress about it anymore. Its better,.. I'm not self conscious about it anymore.. i dont look deformed.
Ladies,.. I've come a far way and i'm not stopping. I'm getting my dream body and dream health back. I've lost more weight and am almost back to my preop weight.. if u've been reading my story u know what i mean. I'll take more pics when I lose another 10lbs. I'll also be lifting weights for my arms and legs and doing major ab work so that I can tone up. Hopefully that will be the cure for my upper back and under boob. I will stop losing weight though if my boobs start to look fake!
Pre-op weight: 157 Postop: 180's Now: 162.8
Boobs: 36B/ now 34D
Waist: 29.5 / 35/ 27.8
Butt: 37.75 Now: 40.5
Jeans size: My butt makes most of my old jeans too tight. :/ size 29-30, the waist is always loose.
Didn't get anything done to my arms.. they are now 12.75. will be working on them.
All the faja info that i know: I posted pics that has the address to all the stores that sells the faja that i buy. Under the faja pics is the ID number that they use to order it for you. I dont know any web address. I wrote in the comments about buying the fajas too early. Buy it post op. If you stay at jacquelines spa she will arrange to get it taken in for you. You will have to resize it very often. The second one that I bought has removeable straps, no bra area and is shorter in the thigh area. I like my original one better. The straps keep on popping off when i hook it (maybe i'll sew it on or have the seamstress add a button) and the shorts cut into my thigh and make it look obvious that i'm wearing something underneath. The no bra part is nice cuz you can wear it with more shirts. Solution.. i''m getting my old faja bra part altered so that its lower cut and i can wear it with more tops.
I write a whoollleee lot on here so please read before you ask me questions. I dont say this to discourage you from asking cuz anyone who has inboxed me knows that i luurrvvveee to talk and share info and i give really (really) long responses. But certain questions come up frequently and i know i posted it on here many times. Its a lot to read through so just use "control + F" and pick a search word and i'm sure u'll find it. I have two reviews so check on part 1 as well. good luck ladies!
Hey guyz.. finally uploaded new pics.. last week got my period and this week started school so a photoshoot was not in the question.
Posted pics of me from LAST january as well to show you where I was coming from. I had gained weight the year before and now I was huge! I wasn't always fat,.. I went up and down.. but this time was just too much (190s). I spent about 3-4 months to get some of the weight off and then I just maintained at 160lbs... not because i was happy there but because life got in the way and the best that i could do was maintain. I was not happy though.. I was young,.. but looked deflated and worn. Even Dr. Yily said that I didn't have lots of useable fat on my stomach and back and that it was more loose tissue from the weight loss.:( I'm in my 20s and that is NOT the body that i wanted. so i bit the bullet and got my surgery done to plump up back those boobs and redefine my upper body. The new pics are from week 3 and week 6.
TIP: Get to a weight close to your goal weight. Lipo will not make you lose much weight if any at all. If you started off a big girl,.. you will end up a big girl,.. just better contoured. But if you dont lose enough weight preop then your surgeon will hit the 5L maximum before they can get to the really nice contouring that you want. Ask them upfront how much you should lose to get close to your goal (realistic) pic.
Boobs: doing great. they have mostly settled and are very soft. Friends have done the squeeze test on me and didn't feel a thing. The right one is bigger than the left ,.. the way it was preop. TIP.. if you want your boobs to be even then let your surgeon know that you want two different sized implants. I told her i wanted a natural look, so i guess technically thats the natural look, lol. Oh well,.. they are still aligned and look good to me. What do you think? Honest opinions welcome.
So far I am happiest with my boobs. I do have an odd boob roll under them to the sides. Its either still fluid build up or fat!! Will give it more time to see. BTW i'm a 34D! Doesn't look like it in the pic but I tried on C's and they don't fit :D
Stomach and back. Love the new waist line/contouring,.. can't wait for it to get smaller. My measurements are not very different cuz i was just a saggy baggy before.. not really fat,.. but my shape has changed. I still have uneven areas on my stomach,.. right above my belly button. Depressing but will give it time. My upper back is also slightly padded or swollen.. will also give that time. Its still numb in some areas and i still get a weird ripping sensation.
Butt: same old same old. If i sit on it too long i get a burning sensation and i'm 6 WEEKS OUT! when will this end!! Big improvement from my starting point,.. but I want MORE! lol. Maybe this summer. When i take pics,.. it just confuses me. Sometimes it looks round, sometimes boxy. I can't stress about it anymore. Its better,.. I'm not self conscious about it anymore.. i dont look deformed.
Ladies,.. I've come a far way and i'm not stopping. I'm getting my dream body and dream health back. I've lost more weight and am almost back to my preop weight.. if u've been reading my story u know what i mean. I'll take more pics when I lose another 10lbs. I'll also be lifting weights for my arms and legs and doing major ab work so that I can tone up. Hopefully that will be the cure for my upper back and under boob. I will stop losing weight though if my boobs start to look fake!
Pre-op weight: 157 Postop: 180's Now: 162.8
Boobs: 36B/ now 34D
Waist: 29.5 / 35/ 27.8
Butt: 37.75 Now: 40.5
Jeans size: My butt makes most of my old jeans too tight. :/ size 29-30, the waist is always loose.
Didn't get anything done to my arms.. they are now 12.75. will be working on them.
All the faja info that i know: I posted pics that has the address to all the stores that sells the faja that i buy. Under the faja pics is the ID number that they use to order it for you. I dont know any web address. I wrote in the comments about buying the fajas too early. Buy it post op. If you stay at jacquelines spa she will arrange to get it taken in for you. You will have to resize it very often. The second one that I bought has removeable straps, no bra area and is shorter in the thigh area. I like my original one better. The straps keep on popping off when i hook it (maybe i'll sew it on or have the seamstress add a button) and the shorts cut into my thigh and make it look obvious that i'm wearing something underneath. The no bra part is nice cuz you can wear it with more shirts. Solution.. i''m getting my old faja bra part altered so that its lower cut and i can wear it with more tops.
I write a whoollleee lot on here so please read before you ask me questions. I dont say this to discourage you from asking cuz anyone who has inboxed me knows that i luurrvvveee to talk and share info and i give really (really) long responses. But certain questions come up frequently and i know i posted it on here many times. Its a lot to read through so just use "control + F" and pick a search word and i'm sure u'll find it. I have two reviews so check on part 1 as well. good luck ladies!
Just to add to the update up there ^^^ I'm...
just to add to the update up there ^^^ I'm definitely happy with my surgeon and the results they produced. I'm just a big critic of myself so i'm always looking on how to get even better :p
So i'm officially 1 month post op,... well a month...
So i'm officially 1 month post op,... well a month and 3 days :p This has been the LONGEST MONTH EVER! When you are waiting around for the pain to go away, the swelling to go down, discomfort to go away,.. the days pass by very very slowly. I think i've been through it all,... excitement, then regret, then elation, then depression, then the whatever phase.. just want my life back (without the faja),.. and now i'm nearing back into,.. girl you look good!.. can't wait till I look AMAZING! and feel that way too.
For those who haven't had sx yet,.. takes lots and lots of before pictures both naked and in clothes. Because some days your mind will play tricks on you and you'll be sitting there in pain thinking... I don't even look that different... weren't my boobs always kinda like this... and my butt is only a little bigger. I've been looking at my before and afters and they kinda slap me back into reality. Although i want more projection on my butt when i look at my before I'm like damn!! I didn't know i had a gap between my ass cheeks!! I didn't even know that was possible! And of course now there is a big difference.
My waist measurements didn't change a huge amount,.. Pre-op: 29.5.. Post op: 35!!! (huge!).. 1 month post 28,... Just 1.5 inch difference but that's because fat is squishy and I probably just smashed the fat down while measuring,.. now there is no rolls hanging over the tape measurer like before, lol and I'm sure that within 2 months i should drop another inch.
Pre-op at 157lbs I could squeeze handfuls of fat ,... now although I'm oddly 165lbs I can't pinch an inch of fat on my stomach and I can pinch only an inch on my back. (Right after surgery i was probably in the 180s!!.. huge water balloon!)
As you can see, the process of healing has huge ups and downs. The first week post op when I was HUUGE i was thinking crazy things like "Did Yily inject fat or some substance all over me!! will i be like this forever!!"
I read back some of my old posts preop and I was talking about Dr's aren't miracle workers and I have to put in effort as well. Now that I have more stamina I'm making it my business to get back to working out,.. drop a few pounds so that my face and arms can slim out and work on getting some abs for summer.
The point of all of this is that when progress is sllllooooowwww,.. its hard to notice change and its very easy to get discouraged and depressed. For all those Pre-opers who are trying to lose weight to get the best results.. also take pics of your weight loss progress in clothes and undressed. When you feel like you're getting nowhere and you don't look different just take a look at your starting pics. I found some pics of me from last january when I was 30lbs heavier than my Pre-Op weight. I felt the same but I looked totally different!
good luck. Posting more pics by Sunday.
For those who haven't had sx yet,.. takes lots and lots of before pictures both naked and in clothes. Because some days your mind will play tricks on you and you'll be sitting there in pain thinking... I don't even look that different... weren't my boobs always kinda like this... and my butt is only a little bigger. I've been looking at my before and afters and they kinda slap me back into reality. Although i want more projection on my butt when i look at my before I'm like damn!! I didn't know i had a gap between my ass cheeks!! I didn't even know that was possible! And of course now there is a big difference.
My waist measurements didn't change a huge amount,.. Pre-op: 29.5.. Post op: 35!!! (huge!).. 1 month post 28,... Just 1.5 inch difference but that's because fat is squishy and I probably just smashed the fat down while measuring,.. now there is no rolls hanging over the tape measurer like before, lol and I'm sure that within 2 months i should drop another inch.
Pre-op at 157lbs I could squeeze handfuls of fat ,... now although I'm oddly 165lbs I can't pinch an inch of fat on my stomach and I can pinch only an inch on my back. (Right after surgery i was probably in the 180s!!.. huge water balloon!)
As you can see, the process of healing has huge ups and downs. The first week post op when I was HUUGE i was thinking crazy things like "Did Yily inject fat or some substance all over me!! will i be like this forever!!"
I read back some of my old posts preop and I was talking about Dr's aren't miracle workers and I have to put in effort as well. Now that I have more stamina I'm making it my business to get back to working out,.. drop a few pounds so that my face and arms can slim out and work on getting some abs for summer.
The point of all of this is that when progress is sllllooooowwww,.. its hard to notice change and its very easy to get discouraged and depressed. For all those Pre-opers who are trying to lose weight to get the best results.. also take pics of your weight loss progress in clothes and undressed. When you feel like you're getting nowhere and you don't look different just take a look at your starting pics. I found some pics of me from last january when I was 30lbs heavier than my Pre-Op weight. I felt the same but I looked totally different!
good luck. Posting more pics by Sunday.
Provider Review
Plastic Surgeon
Carmen Mendoza de Cornielle st. with Gaspar Polanco st., Santo Domingo, Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional
Researching online, from real self posts. will continue to verify all the board certifications Dr Yily and dr Robles are verified plastic surgeons on SOCIPRE. I ended up going with Dr. Yily and I am happy with my decision and results. She listened to what I wanted, and gave me her honest opinion of what she could do for me. She delivered!! The aftercare was great. She made house calls at the recovery house that I was staying at so there was no wait time in an office or the pain of having to go there. (very happily surprised by this). She encouraged me to ask a lot of questions and remained available even after I left the country. When I got nutty and nervous post op she firmly (lol) reassured me that what I was going through was normal.., she didn't baby me but never appeared annoyed. I would go back to Dr. Yily in a heart beat if I was ever interested in another surgery. The only reason I put 4 stars for aftercare was because I didn't get specific instructions in what I could and could not do after breast augmentation ( I didnt ask either). I googled it, problem solved.