37 Year Old and NEVER Had a Flat Stomach Even Before Child - Honolulu, HI

Even in high school I had a little belly pooch. It's gone up and done over the years and stayed there when I was super fit with a "4-pack" with a little pooch. I think it runs in the family. My mom and her sister only gain weight in their stomachs so they just look like they have a baby belly when they started gaining weight. I workout and eat healthy so I wanted for once to get rid of the pooch. I finally went down to get a consultation. I told the nurse, Sarah, I also have IBS and decided to eat beans a couple days before so I was a little swollen still. My body also doesn't recover very well from injuries so I was planning to take a few days off. She looks at my pooch and said normally they would do one large or two smaller pads on either side but my pooch is small and I have very little fat elsewhere. She measured my stomach against the small applicator and would do just fine. I was booked to come back in a few days. I was a bit nervous of all the pain I have been reading about. When I went back in I had a different person doing the procedure. I was only on the machine for 30 minutes. There was no real pain and the massage after just made me feel like peeing. I was fine just swollen after the procedure. I went to the gym that night. The slight pain came about 3 hour after the gym about 9 hours after the procedure. It was little shocks here and there on pooch. Especially if something touched it so I wore some Spanx. I slept fine that night no medication. I'm on day three and the little pains are gone. I went back to work the day after because I felt pretty good and just wore my Spanx. I have been wearing soft stretchy pants to sleep in. In the morning my belly isn't so swollen but goes up during the day. I can't really run or do cardio though. I'm not sure how to describe it but the jumping or bouncing makes the treated area kind of sore mixed with a feeling like I have a little clump in there. I'm still lifting weight and doing other exercise. My stomach is still numb and really swollen. I was told to drink lots of water and green tea so the only effects of that is I have to go the restroom a lot. Im excited to see the end results.

More than likely I wasn't listening to my whole treatment plan. This could be due to excitement or anticipation of all the pain. I got a follow up yesterday and was asked to see how I was doing. I was curious about why my treatment was only 30 minutes and was corrected it was actually 35. There is a newer CoolSculpting parts that came out just 2 months ago with FDA approval that has a better surface area to freeze fat and its 1 degree cooler. The process now is faster and less painful. I would have to agree. I woke up this morning and I still have numbness but no pain. Last night I had some irritating itching but this morning I feel the itching has gone down. I wasn't so swollen yesterday and today my stomach is only a tiny bit swollen.

Last night the itching wasn't too bad. I have more feeling in my stomach. Woke up this morning and this is what I normally look like. Still numb but I have more feeling today. Still wearing Spanx. I think wearing it is like a security blanket because it just feels better since I'm still numb.