38 Year Old Male Tummy Tuck and Lipo of Flanks - Round Rock, TX

I was in the military when I was young, and used to be in great shape. Over the 15 years that followed, I really let things slide. At my heaviest, I weighed nearly 300lbs. A couple of years ago, I took control and got my weight down to 210 through diet and exercise. I looked decent, but it became apparent that I would not be able to get rid of my love handles and spare tire because so much of it was just skin.

I just went in on 7/15 and had the surgery done. It went very smoothly. I don't have a before picture handy, but I'll dig one up and update this post later on. I am totally stoked with how things look even one day after surgery when I'm swollen like crazy. Can't wait to see the final outcome.

Its funny how this is playing out exactly like the rhinoplasty I had done in 97. I spent the first week on the couch wondering just what the hell I had done to myself, and vowing never to do plastic surgery again. I went through that stage last week. Part of it I think is a weird denial thing because you are literally missing a significant part of your body. Its like your reptilian brain perceives it as a catastrophe and it takes a while for your higher self to say no this is actually really badass.

This is the same angle from the day before and the day after the surgery. Its a little tough to appreciate how much skin and flab is in the lower belly in this particular before shot.

In second picture, what appears to be remaining love handles and belly fat is primarily swelling, which apparently takes weeks to go down. PS removed 5 lbs from the lower belly yet I weighed 17 lbs more in the second picture. 23lbs is almost 3 gallons of water. Yow.

Also I got one of the drains out today, but the other one is still outputting 60ml. Pulling the drain out felt really strange. Turns out there's a couple feet of perforated tubing inside the abdomen, and when they pull it out you can feel it snaking its way all over the place. Didn't hurt much, was just weird.