22 Year Old, Arm+Thigh Lipo for a Fresh Start

I've been struggling with my weight ever since I was little. I am a yoyo dieter, it's always been easy for me to lose a lot of weight (10 kgs for example) but it is also easy for me to gain it all back. I've noticed it's usually due to stress in my personal life. Last year, I finally managed to lose around 8 kgs in 2 months and go down to my normal weight but here I am 7 months later and I've gained almost all of it back.

Been trying to lose it again but I think after so many times gaining weight again after losing it I've almost lost hope. I've been going to the gym and eating healthily recently to try to lose weight slowly but apparently it's easier for me to lose weight the unhealthy way. So now I want to do liposuction to give myself a head start.

I noticed that my problem areas are mainly my thighs and arms - I feel like ALL of my fat goes there! My stomach and waists have bulges I guess but nowhere near as repulsive as the size of my arms and thighs. Even when I was at my thinnest, I couldn't wear sleeveless shirts since my upper arms look huge and made me look like Popeye, and I never had a thigh gap.

So next week on the 1st of August I will be doing arm liposuction and then the following week circumferential thigh liposuction. The doctor said this is better since I would only need to be on local anesthesia and could go home right after, whereas if I do both at the same time I would need total anesthesia. I'll be doing my procedures with the same doctor who did my chin implant and buccal fat removal as I completely trust him. He also agreed to put some of the fat on my face as a bonus!

Will put up pictures as I get closer to the OP date. Excited!

Just reached home now from the surgery...

My arms are pretty sore!! So far the pain's tolerable, I took some painkillers before I left the doctor's office and had some antibiotics as well. Don't know if it will hurt more tomorrow!

The surgery itself was pretty uncomfortable and there was some pain, the doctor and the nurses were surprised at how much pain I can take, they gave me 1 cc of Ketamine and some local anesthetic so basically I was awake for the whole procedure. They said usually patients would whine or complain that they are hurting during the procedure, but I stayed pretty much quiet and expressionless the whole time. To be honest, it did hurt, but I have quite high pain tolerance. I stayed quiet so that the doctor won't hesitate to take as much fat as he could, lol.

They got me into compression garments after the procedure. I have to say I don't like wearing it, it's really tight, but I don't want to take it off either as I have no one to help me put them on again afterwards! I could see a LOT of bruising under the garments now that I'm home.

I saw my arms for a little while before they put the garments on, the doctor was pinching the loose skin where the fat used to be. There was quite a lot of leftover skin, since as you can see from my before OP picture, I had a lot of upper arm fat. Anyway, I'm 22 so I hope that the skin will retract tightly! If not, I'm screwed lol.

Sorry for posting a picture of my arm in the garment as an after-OP pic, I know it's cheating, but I'm not planning on removing the garment anytime soon!! Will be going to the doctor's again on the fifth day to remove the stitches as well as doing my thigh lipo, and they will also do some draining massage on my arms. For some reason I'm thinking the thigh lipo will be even more uncomfortable and painful, but it has to be done :( I will update in 5 days how my arm look like without the garment...

So finally today I dared to take off the corset. The corset was quite uncomfortable and I was getting tingly feelings so decided to take them off for about 30 minutes. The most uncomfortable part is sleeping, I didn't know where to put my arms. Sore and uncomfortable wherever I put them. But today is slightly better than yesterday.

They're back on now, but I had the chance to take some pictures. My arms are very bruised but honestly not as bad as I was expecting. The left arm seems to be more bruised and swollen than the right arm. The under part of my arm still has that numb feeling to touch. I didn't try to pinch to check for loose skin though but so far seems okay.

I can already see the difference and I can't wait for the swelling to subside! I wear the corset under long sleeve shirt and already I am liking the shape.