Liposuction-tummy and Flanks-I Can't Wait! - Wauwatosa, WI

Over winter break, I got a breast augmentation surgery by Dr. Kramer in Wauwatosa. She and I thought that I would have to have a breast lift, but she did so well with the breast augmentation that I didn't have too! Hey, anyone that can save me $5k is awesome!!!!!!

So, since I was already planning financially to pay for another surgery, I decided to use that money to get liposuction.

I've never really had a waist. My sides go straight down, not in. And my stomach goes out starting under my breasts. In addition, after having had 2 kids (one natural birth and one C-section), I have a pouch of skin and fat around my belly button area.

I am a healthy person, I exercise regularly and eat well. I run 5ks and love obstacles! I've ran the Tough Mudder, Battle Frog, Spartan, Dirty Girl, and on. Trainers have told me that I could exercise my tummy down, but I could never get it to what I liked.

Since my breast augmentation surgery went better than I could have ever anticipated, I brought up the idea of doing liposuction on my stomach. Dr. Kramer said that there are some fat areas on my body that wouldn't go away no matter how much diet and exercise I did.

I have had a hard time considering doing liposuction, because I feel as a culture we think it's "cheating," but I considered a woman with wide saddle-bags that were from her DNA and not from her lack of healthy eating/exercising. I thought, if a friend had saddle bags and wanted to fix it through lipo, would I think that she was cheating? No, way!!!!

The weirdest thing I learned from Dr. Kramer is that lipo is not about weight loss, but about shaping. She explained that in the areas she would address, the fat would be removed and would thus NEVER return unless I gained tons of weight/ got pregnant (no risk there).

I'm feeling ok. The recovery is significantly easier than the breast augmentation.

I know that some people that share on realself do multiple surgeries at the same time. Dr. Kramer advised me to split them up and I am happy for it. I think one area to recover at a time is more manageable.

So I was feeling a little itchy from the sponge-like compression between the girdle and myself that I unstuck them and tightened the girdle back up.

I got to see the incisions and where the stitches remain. It's true, like she said, I have hardly any bruising in the areas she
Lipo-ed.

I'm uploading pics from today, but don't worry I did not get lipo done on my lower abs, I will take care of the fat there when I do the tummy tuck.

When feeling my upper abs and flanks, when unsticking the sponge pads I could feel there was no fat there!!!!

Feeling happy and excited for the toned down me that I never could achieve through exercise.

I see Dr. Kramer this Wednesday and she's going to fully take the girdle off for us to check things off before putting it back on. Trust her implicitly. She's the bomb!

Btw, I read on someone else's blog that lymphatic massages helped w swelling. I spoke to my friend who is a great masseuse and said it would do nothing to improve swelling and would be a waste of my time and money. Gotta love people who'd rather tell you the truth, than make a buck. By the way, if you live in the Milwaukee area, her name is Shahnaz and she is in Brookfield.