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Hello new me! - Tualatin, OR
UPDATED FROM mrshopeful1211
1 year post
One year later!
$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
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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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!
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
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!
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.
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!
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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Looking good!
You look great!! How are you doing? can't wait to see more updates:)
You look awesome. I can't wait for August to see what my results will be:)).
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. :)
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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