No REGRETS. Healed!!

I am a 40 year old African American female with no children and dating. I have seriously been contemplating have a Tummy Tuck procedure for over a year. I am no different than most women only thing different my weight didn’t come from child baring or some massive surgery. I just started to gain weight over the years and I never really understood why because I wasn’t eating maybe once a day most times. I can imagine every woman has something that they would like to improve on themselves some they learn to live with the defaults, some work on changing them and other pay to have them change. For me I think that I want to feel good about myself and with all the money I have spent on weight programs, camps, and gyms in my mind I have paid for this surgery once already?.

Being an only child of deceased parents, this was a major decision for me as with most women/men and one I didn’t take lightly at all. I have seen my internal medicine doctor along with my OBGYN to get a clearance on my health. With many recommendations I have entrusted my surgery to Dr. Devi Mans Manisundarm with Face & Body Plastic Surgery Center, patients call him Dr.Mani for short. When I arrived for my consultation I was very nervous and wasn’t sure what he would say about someone of my caliber and size. I say that because I find that I am embarrassed when I tell someone that I actively work out and I want to be a personal trainer. So I was hoping that he would receive me with kind words. He was wonderful he did tell me I was a good candidate for an Adominalplasty but he would suggest I lose the desire weight before having the surgery. I told him I would give myself three months to drop some weight but I advised him I would not be as successful to lose the weight I wanted to loose and he understood as I explain all my work out activities. He has agreed to do the surgery at my present weight and that I could continue to work out; however, if I lose any significant amount of weight after the surgery I may have to have a revision.

I have been actively working out for several years and my result doesn’t match my work out. I have dedicated my spare time to the gym, boot camps or walking trails. For me it had been hard for me emotionally because in my work out especially when here I still sit at a healthy weight of 200+ pounds. I have done Jenny and Weight Watchers and I have lost weight with those programs but still no any significant in the areas I am reaching to see results (tummy/breast). When making the decision I was having to make a choice between breast and tummy. Well the TUMMY won, I can live with big boobs hey people are paying for these buggers. I take a small waist line over any other elective surgery.

Well now that I am on the countdown I have found my time is consume with talking TT talk. I am either on RS web or YouTube reading and following some of the ladies. I have gather a lot of questions along the way to take back with me on my pre-op on May1. I will have my surgery Marked for May8.
I hope that I can gain as much support from this site as others have. Some of you all look great.
Bye for now TT friends.

I have started talking about my tummy tuck and I can say I have well received. My significant other seems excited, he asked about my weight lose surgery. I had to remind him it is not a weight lose surgery but a contour. He said for him it will be weight loss because he believes the biggest on me is my stomach and thinks I will be surprise to see my results. Um no I think he will be surprised because he will see these hips no one new I had lol

I have started to share my surgery information and I am very excited and still very nervous. One of my girlfriends has never been vocal about it although she didn’t appear to be disapproving. She knows all the work out we do together and she asked did I not think my stomach would go down eventually like the contestants on Biggest Loser. Um suga baby I been active over 3+ years has it gone ANYWHERE…… Well I told her if she wasn’t interested in TT talk than we couldn’t talk (joke). We continue window shopping and in the ladies restroom I let her view my stomach and she acted surprised that my stomach was as big as it is because it is hiden well in clothes. Well after a long conversation on TT I shared the stories and pictures on RS and she was in love with the results. She said she thinks I will be small as she is once the swelling goes down. I didn’t know if I should have been offended but I let it ride. She is not all that small she is probably 175-185 and she does have a very small waist line but a small stomach. I would live with her body but hey since I can’t get it exercises I will get it under the knife