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51 and Finally Did This for Me! TT with Muscle Repair and Lipo - Federal Way, WA
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I have waited a week to begin this documentation...
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I have waited a week to begin this documentation of my TT journey. After reading so many other reviews and gaining something from each I decided that perhaps my voice/experience may be of help to someone also. I hope so.
I am 51, healthy, fit happily married and basically happy. After having children (3) and having a VERY short torso (according to my ps :) the skin on my belly was less than optimal. Pair this with menopause and things were looking even worse. The agony I would put myself & my husband through when trying to dress in anything other than yoga pants was exhausting. It bring tears to my eyes now as I sit here writing this. Spanx can only do so much!
Being a fitness/PE/yoga instructor for that last 28 years and eating a pretty healthy diet 85% of the time one would think that I wouldn't have to worry about such things as a belly hanging over everything or people thinking I am pregnant (think Shar pei dog). Although being active has helped, I am very healthy and I was able to 'camouflage' most times, it was getting harder to do and the results weren't there. We won't even go into the naked business yet.... My profession also added to my belly self consciousness, especially as I become more mature and my contemporaries become younger, "flatter" and more fit. I know that we shouldn't be all wrapped up in our external appearance, but dang it I guess I am! And so with the support of my very understanding and loving husband I made the decision to do this for ME. Wish I could have/ would have done it 15 years ago instead of beating myself up over it!
I am 51, healthy, fit happily married and basically happy. After having children (3) and having a VERY short torso (according to my ps :) the skin on my belly was less than optimal. Pair this with menopause and things were looking even worse. The agony I would put myself & my husband through when trying to dress in anything other than yoga pants was exhausting. It bring tears to my eyes now as I sit here writing this. Spanx can only do so much!
Being a fitness/PE/yoga instructor for that last 28 years and eating a pretty healthy diet 85% of the time one would think that I wouldn't have to worry about such things as a belly hanging over everything or people thinking I am pregnant (think Shar pei dog). Although being active has helped, I am very healthy and I was able to 'camouflage' most times, it was getting harder to do and the results weren't there. We won't even go into the naked business yet.... My profession also added to my belly self consciousness, especially as I become more mature and my contemporaries become younger, "flatter" and more fit. I know that we shouldn't be all wrapped up in our external appearance, but dang it I guess I am! And so with the support of my very understanding and loving husband I made the decision to do this for ME. Wish I could have/ would have done it 15 years ago instead of beating myself up over it!
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UPDATED FROM yogagirl444
10 days post
The first week!
The first week was an eye opener for me! I knew that this wasn't a piece of cake surgery, but I don't think that I really gave it the seriousness that it deserved. Day 1 took care of that attitude! I tend to have a pretty high pain tolerance, tore my acl and fractured both the tibia and femur snowmobiling and continued to ride and even hike that day, yes it hurt like heck but I didn't want to miss out, and recovered from the surgery great. So I was putting that same attitude towards this surgery; while I think that a positive attitude is important, un realistic expectations are not. By day 3 I was feeling much better, except for the swelling. My back side was and is still so swollen my husband thought perhaps I had a BBL. Well if I did they forget to LIFT!!! Ice really helped to calm the swelling and its associated pain. Day 3 I saw my ps and received my binder with the okay to shower, woo hoo! Day 4 I took the first real look at myself....I look like one of the elves from The Rise of the Guardians, you know the ones that have the hat for a body, yep I'm shaped like a triangle! That being said my incision scar is nice a low for a short torso gal and the bb looks pretty good. There's potential here.
Key pointers for week 1:
*Stay on top of your meds; don't play catch up or hero
*REST; preferable in a recliner
*Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate; water, green tea, coconut water, hot water and fresh lemon, protein shakes
*HAVE HELP; at least for the first 5 days, a week is better
*Stay positive: remember WHY you did this; look at motivation pics
Key pointers for week 1:
*Stay on top of your meds; don't play catch up or hero
*REST; preferable in a recliner
*Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate; water, green tea, coconut water, hot water and fresh lemon, protein shakes
*HAVE HELP; at least for the first 5 days, a week is better
*Stay positive: remember WHY you did this; look at motivation pics
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UPDATED FROM yogagirl444
10 days post
Motivation Pics!
These are pictures from my ps's website. This patient was very similar to my pre tt state, except she has a waste and amazing gluts! Anyway, when I saw these I made my mind up immediately to quite trying to talk myself out of this and just do it!
The amazing thing that happened as soon as I booked my s surgery date, and recovered from the nervous butterflies, is that I released the guilt and shame I had been carrying around. Couldn't I just eat better, work out harder, do a different workout, have better posture the list could go on. I no longer felt like it was all my fault and that I needed to hide this like some dirty secret, which is what I'd been doing (or so I thought) every time I put spanx on or sucked in my gut while sitting, standing, talking eating.....I was ashamed of myself.
So these photos have helped me through the long wait of 3 months from the time of booking and receiving my tt and also through this last week when I would look at myself and not see the results.
I looked at these and said "I why wouldn't I do this?" So fingers crossed in recovery land.
The amazing thing that happened as soon as I booked my s surgery date, and recovered from the nervous butterflies, is that I released the guilt and shame I had been carrying around. Couldn't I just eat better, work out harder, do a different workout, have better posture the list could go on. I no longer felt like it was all my fault and that I needed to hide this like some dirty secret, which is what I'd been doing (or so I thought) every time I put spanx on or sucked in my gut while sitting, standing, talking eating.....I was ashamed of myself.
So these photos have helped me through the long wait of 3 months from the time of booking and receiving my tt and also through this last week when I would look at myself and not see the results.
I looked at these and said "I why wouldn't I do this?" So fingers crossed in recovery land.
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