I want to look how I feel

I had my 3 week checkup yesterday. It went mostly pretty well. My PS aspirated about 1 cup of fluid from my incision line. I didn't feel it at all, but it creeped me out haha I hate needles. My next checkup is in a month. Most of my major swelling had subsided. I still swell a bit in the evening, but keeping my compression garment and binders tight helps a lot. I'm going to start going to yoga next week. I'm really looking forward to it. I still have some swelling in my hips/butt, so I'm hoping the heat and movement from yoga might help. I go back to work in 10 days. I'm not looking forward to that haha. I'm down 16 pounds since the day of surgery. Mostly from water retention/swelling from surgery. I've posted a few pics.

So today I was feeling pretty good so I decided to shop through my closet and try on my jeans again. I went through every pair of jeans that I own. 6 pairs are now so big I have to get rid of them, including the pair I tried on last week that fit they same way they did pre-op. I have about 5 pairs of jeans that fit tightly before, and I can still maybe wear them with a belt, so I'm going to keep them for now. I can wear them to work or something. I had 7 pairs of "skinny" jeans, some new with tags, some I've never fit in to, some I "grew" out of, that I saved for the day when I finally lost some weight. 6 of the 7 pairs fit me perfectly now, so that was really encouraging. 1 pair is too small to fit over my hips still. I will continue to save them in case I lose weight in my hips/butt down the road. I'll probably lose a little more weight once I get back into crossfit and yoga and can move better. I think the arnica, bellis, and extra B6 I've been taking are really helping reduce swelling/water retention. I wish I had been taking them since day 1. I stepped on the scale this morning and I'm down a full 14 pounds from the day of surgery. It's been a few days since I weighed myself and I thought it was a mistake. I stepped on the scale 3 different times before I believed what I was seeing. I'm pretty mobile now and pretty much only taking Ibprophen in the morning when I get up and right before I go to bed at night. That seems to be when I'm the most sore. I'm thinking about going over to the local high school and walking the track today. I'm not sure if it's too ambitious, but I'd like to try and walk a mile today. We'll see if I make it off the couch ;)

So I got my drain out yesterday (yay me!). Completely painless. I could feel it slide across my abdomen as my PS pulled it out, and it tickled a little bit, but that was it. It took 10 seconds max. I bought a faja to wear since I'm on to a stage 2 garment now. Unfortunately that didn't go well. It took me 45 minutes just to get the first hook clipped (1 of like 50). I quit after that and decided to wait for my husband to get home for help. Based on the size chart and my measurements, I'm a 2x. There's no way I'm fitting into that faja. I MIGHT be able to fit in a 4x if they even make a size that big. After some thought, I decided to just return the faja. It was making me feel terribly fat and was damaging my psyche. I ended up just going to target and buying a $25 spanx body suit that fit beautifully. It was also a 2x. I threw on my stage 1 garment over the suit for good measure and I had amazing seamless compression all night last night. This morning I had my first lymphatic drainage massage. It was an hour long and it was heavenly. If I was rich and didn't work, I would start my day off with a lymphatic drainage massage at least 3 times a week haha. I highly recommend getting a few post surgery. I felt amazing after and my swelling seemed visibly reduced around my torso. I have another appointment with my PS next week to make sure there's no fluid collecting now that my drain is removed. Other than that, all is well and everyday I'm a little more mobile and a little less tired :)