Lipo 360

I have been thinking about this for 15 years. I am now 36 years old, two kids and I see my days of youthful beauty in the rearview mirror. As I am not getting any younger, I would like to feel beautiful while I am still relatively young.

I always felt uncomfortable with the amount of fat on my body. I have run the gauntlet of exercise and dieting. At one point exercising 6-7 times a week in the gym and militantly tracking micro and macro nutrients, calorie intake vs expenditure, and looking incredible tbh but it was not sustainable. I sometimes wonder if that was verging on (or just was) an eating/exercise disorder.

Moving abroad, lifestyle changes and maturing brought me out the other end of that and I find myself now living a life where I eat reasonably well, exercise whenever I can (difficult with two young children and working 4 days/week) but still wanting the body I had during my somewhat disordered eating/exercising days. Alas, the only way that I can sustainably live my life in a healthy way and achieve that body is via cosmetic surgery.

I have come to terms with the fact that this is vanity project but still trying to work through my feelings of guilt and this overbearing sense of selfishness.

I have had one consultation with a plastic surgeon, another one coming up.

pre-op photos to come.

I went ahead and booked the procedure for 3 September 2024. I was feeling nervous but resolute about my decision. Im having lipos 360 with lipo to arms and inner thighs, and fat grafting to hip dips and buttocks.

I am currently almost 48 hours post op and feeling pretty uncomfortable.

My first memory coming out of anaesthesia is being wheeled into the PACU and being wrapped in warm blankets and towels. Coming out of general anaesthesia feels pretty miserable. I do recall asking the nurse if im doing ok and if im going to be ok. The surgeon quickly poked his head in to advise me that everything went well and that they took 3.3Litres of fat. I asked the surgeon before surgery how much he estimated he would take and he said around 2 Litres. So he took quite a lot more than expected. There was some fluids that leaked onto the hospital bedding but that seems to have stopped for now.

Sleeping at home in my regular bed (not the hospital beds that have controls to recline etc) was very uncomfortable last night. I did not sleep well at all. Taking Palexia this morning has helped. My husband will help me to take off the compression garment and have a shower later. He will definitely need to help me to put a clean garment on too.

Expecting the next few days to be uncomfortable and poor sleep.

Will update with photos soon