Absolute Top Notch Tummy Tuck

First of all I am gonna start with my stats...Like I said in the title just turned 50....I am 5' 3" tall and weigh 132.6...My measurements are 38-28-39...Have a smaller waist but the lower part of the tummy is just too"poochie"...Have been thinking about a change to my tummy for years and years and years.. I h.I have a BIG Rear end but does not bug me like my pooch...my chest and my butt match pretty well...so the way I see it is if I get rid of this pooch the fashion world is at my feet....at least that is what I want to believe...Once I figure out the trick to reducing cellutlite after the age of 40....Well I have my first appointment with a plastic surgeon on Monday morning and I am gonna get a good idea of what he has to think and say...Extremely worried just thinking about starting this process because this is MAJOR surgery...Wondering if am I just being over critical and selfish or is this worth the down time for months following the surgery....Well I am posting my first "before" pictures and lets get this party started....

Went to three different plastic surgeons, and one dermatologist...three different treatments....two said just liposuction (said the skin would bounce back nicely) , one said mini tummy tuck with lipo and one said have your lipo (said skin was shot due to age) done than go later and have a full tummy tuck...I have been told that I do not have enough loose skin for a full tummy tuck, but I had one doctor tell me that no surgeon would EVER give me a mini tummy tuck...(2 hours before this doctor someone recommended the mini tummy tuck with lipo.) as I stated earlier I am so confused on what the best treatment would be for my lower abdomen. If anyone out there in the real self world has ever come across this dilema please let me know and let me know what you ended up doing....

well...I had been refered to Dr. Elizabeth Harris in stone oak....Went to 4 Doctors and both my husband and I liked what we heard from Dr.Harris..to top it off...after we were already taken with her bed side manner, they gave us a quote that was very reasonable...She has explained very much in layman's terms how things are gonna go down...lol...I have heard nothing but horror stories about mini tummy tucks, but she has made me feel very comfortable and trusting in her decision...I do not have a lot of loose skin on the top portion (under the bra line) and the muscle tear is about a fingernail wide...(not enough to cause any kind of bulge on the lower belly) She will liposuction about 2 cups of fat and that along with the mini tuck should make a huge difference without the down time. I am not looking for supermodel status I just want to look better without a big pooch on my lower belly. Thanks so much for all the help and input, like I said in another post...I love this site and all the women that" have been there done that" it is very comforting and reassuring that there are other women in your position.......Will be waiting till beginning of June at this point..need to take care of another concern before I do the plastic surgery.