Big Tummy Pouch After 3 Kids - Naperville, IL

After 3 kids, I have a huge tummy that I can't seem to get rid of as you can see by my pictures. Chasing around 3 kids, doesn't leave a ton of time or motivation for exercise, but I am pretty active with them and eat a good diet, which helps in other areas of my body, just not the tummy. I turned 40 this year and decided its finally time to do something about it. The cosmetic surgery place by me had a Cool Sculpting demo day where you could buy 3 areas and get a 4th area for free, so I decided to bite the bullet and go for it!

On 12/1/14, I had the love handles and lower abdomen done. It was an hour for each side and the lower ab, plus 1 hour of prep/ after wards, so a total of 4 hours. I'm going back in 4 weeks for the 2nd lower ab treatment and upper abdomen. While the love handles wasn't great - it felt like a huge clamp on my sides, it was bearable, but whoa! the lower abdomen packed a wallop! I have a high pain tolerance, but this had me holding the sides of the bed for about 10 minutes. Then, as with the sides, it becomes numb and you don't feel anything. I was working when the love handles were done, but you have to lay down for the lower ab, so no more working. After the treatment, the area was really cold and as it started to heat up, it hurt a little, kind of like when you come in after playing in the snow.
That went away after a few minutes. The massage afterwards was not fun, but necessary so you don't have a big block of butter where you got the treatment.

It is Day 4 after and it feels a little weird, like numb on the surface, but maybe bruised underneath? I am still waiting for the prickliness that most people say they got on Day 5. The day right after, I was walking around and my whole tummy jiggled around, prob from the swelling, but hope its bc the treatment got all the fat up and taking it away! I really had little discomfort with this, the only bad thing was when my little ones would crawl on me or try to hug me, but other than that, it hasn't been bad painwise. I am really hoping this works, but I feel very optimistic!

I went to the Dr office to get some "after" pictures on March 4, which was about 14 weeks after my first session and almost 10 weeks after my second session. To be honest, i could barely see a difference and I'm so disappointed. In the upper abs, I could see a very slight change in the contour, but nothing else. In fact, the pictures looked almost identical and you had to be really looking for a difference. Initially, I had lost a few lbs and I thought I could see some difference, but I guess the pictures don't lie. I really wanted this to be successful, esp given the cost and the discomfort after. I have an appt to go back in 2 weeks, bc they wanted to give a few more weeks to see if there would be a difference. If not, they said they would talk about other options, although I don't think I will go through it again.