Gynecomastia, Tummy Tuck with Lipo to Flanks - Forme Clinic, Prague

Not updated in a while so thought it was time. 13 weeks post op and I have decided to get rid of the binder, 13 weeks on 24/7, reason for doing so is that it is intensely making my scar worse and I have a few openings that are just not healing due to the rubbing. Needless to say that I am very very paranoid that my seroma might comeback but it has been 10 weeks since my last aspiration and nothing has cane about so fingers crossed. I am wearing under armour compression and still taking things easy.

Ok so I thought i would add in a pic of me at my heaviest, I was 310lbs in this picture, i look at it now and I am totally disgusted, its amazing though because at that time in my life I thought i looked fine, the same things go round your head, "i've always been big, too late now to change my habbits, i dont think i would suit being thinner, its in your genes", this is what i always said untill.......................... one day I woke up and siad enough is enough, i deserve to live a long life and so does my amazing wife and beautifull children so I began excercising and eating properly. 7 months later i was at 13st 10lbs and I stayed there +/- 5lbs for 2 years up until my op. My weight did fluciate when I was on holiday etc, someties it would increase by 14lbs / 20lbs but within 2 weeks I would be + 6lbs maybe, i have to admit when I go on holiday I go to enjoy myself. My post op latest pic (3days ago) and I am weighing in at 14st 2lbs. for the 4 weeks after surgery my diet wasnt the best so I am know back on to my normal eating habbits so expect my weight to get back to 13st 10lbs where I was very happy. The surgery for me was about tidying up the flab and getting rid of my man boobs which has been achieved. I though I might have been that little bit slimmer but being honest i think i will just look the same. I am very very happy with smaller man boobs though, if anything this was always my main concern, dont get me wrong I could of lived with them.

Ok so now as the title says I'm 6 weeks 3 days post op. this week has been challenging, not only with being slightly paranoid about seroma & healing but things like will I ever get back to normal, how long will it be before I can run again and yesterday was, SWELL HELL I believe they call it ???? It all started when I decided to go for a nice walk, 3 miles, slow paced, the weather was nice and did warm up, got home and boom, my belly was large and relatively hard. The whole day it stayed that way. Woke up this morning and it was a lot better, 2 hours into my day then boom, belly goes again and has stayed like that all day, wasn't even really doing anything. I was so unprepared for the post op side but I am getting there. I read that swelling hangs on for months and up to a year which is a little frightening. Luckly I'm not back at work yet and I have decided to take another 6 weeks off, hopefully by that time I will be on the right track (and mind frame). Not much difference in my pictures this week, I actually look a little rounder due to the swell hell. My scar is looking not too bad, 2 wounds that are being looked after by my NHS nurse (she is fab). So that's my update for this week.