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Hello new me! - Tualatin, OR
UPDATED FROM mrshopeful1211
1 year post
One year later!
mrshopeful1211June 16, 2016
$14,000
Long damn journey. Lots of healing. Lots of learning to love myself. Lots of swelling!!! But I am happy. Here is my 1 year later pic!!!
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UPDATED FROM mrshopeful1211
7 months post
Late update
mrshopeful1211January 13, 2016
Hello, sorry I have been gone and not updated. I think I had a lot of self reflecting to do. I had done a lot of damage to my body by being overweight for so long and I think I expected surgery to be kind of an eraser and start over. Well, it's not really like that. Also, I think some criticism of my outcome from some close friends really hurt. I want to be happy, and it took some time for me to accept this is as good as it gets. Not that I'm not pleased, I very much am, I am still in shock at my before pictures, it's just hard getting over ones own critiques and loving yourself. Btw, my scars are pretty gnarly but I am terrible at putting cream on nightly. Also it took about 6 months till I could actually workout, like break a sweat kick my ass workout, which I have missed sooooo much! Oh and I still have swelling! You can tell in the picture. I think it's worse when I workout.
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January 13, 2016
I'm sorry to hear you've struggled. I completely understand though. I've been overweight my entire life and I'm covered in stretchmark's from up & down weight gain & 2 large babies. I'm 5mos po and I thought I'd be smaller. Nope, not the case. I feel my expectations were not realistic. I weighed 187lbs day of my surgery. Now at 5 mos po I weight 197 lbs. So, yeah I gained weight. WHO DOES THAT? I'm wearing a size 12 and all my clothes look better on me, but it's not what I thought I'd look like at 5mos po. I'm curving and my boobs are very full & perky but I'm not flat as a board. Which I thought I'd be. The people who know I had the surgery comment on it & say I look great, but I think their mainly just saying that to be supportive. Naked, I look WAY better than before, but in clothes I don't think it's a drastic change. I was hoping for $14000.00 worth my results would be drastic. If you don't mind me asking what were the remarks given by your friends? They had to have noticed. I see a HUGE difference! I'm glad your back..we've missed you!
January 14, 2016
I gained weight too!! And I have been eating good and exercising and can't get back to the 150's. I don't get it either, I keep telling myself it's swelling because some days I magically gain 5 pounds and other days I am down. It's hard on the mental part of this...... I feel like I look better too, just not as good as I hoped I suppose. I would do it again, for sure, but maybe with a more realistic view of my outcome. I guess when I look at the before and after its jaw dropping for me, but my friends reaction was not the same and it made me self conscious all over again
January 14, 2016
I think you look fantastic!!!! Perhaps you can meet with a personal trainer to discuss changing your exercise routine, I know for me, cardio alone helped keep my weight in check, however I didn't see REAL results until I started lifting some heavy weights... Best of luck, and again I think you look GREAT!
February 8, 2016
Lots of us gain, you're not alone on that. I think many women on here ate and exercised themselves into their best fitness pre-surgery and after cant work out as hard and that makes maintaining tough. I've gained a few myself. Sigh.
February 8, 2016
Your last pic I can see is 6 days post and it looks like an amazing change from before. Based on my own healing, I bet you're looking great. I used Dr Gorin too. We forget what a difference there is from our befores so it is good to go look at them as a reminder. I'm 9 months post TT and still swelling and exercise definitely makes it worse. Thanks for sharing!
July 21, 2016
Thank you so much for sharing your journey. I believe that my body is a lot like yours, and I have been contemplating surgery for several months. I so appreciate your openness and sharing your story.
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July 8, 2015
How are you doing these days? I am a patient of Dr. Gorin too and have been following you. (I am only 6 days post op though). It's helpful for me to see what lies ahead. Hope you are doing well. :)
July 9, 2015
I am impatiently hoping you post more pics;). It's so fun to see what your surgeon can do;). I'm seeing him August 21st for a MM.
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