Lose 10 pounds

I've posted before and after pics of my plastic surgery for friends.  If you want to see my pictures, please request to be added and I'll set it up.  I just don't want these pics of me hanging out in cyberspace for anyone to see, but I know it was helpful to see before and afters of other people when I was researching.  I also found it useful to compare mine to others to make sure mine looked like it should.

I'm still healing nicely and only have a few scabs left at 5 weeks out.  I'm really starting to feel like my old self and can even see the muscles below the skin, which excites me.  I still haven't replaced my pants, though the ones I'm wearing are loose and I get some teasing about that from friends.  I want to wait a few more weeks at least to make sure I don't go down in size.

I'm very happy with my plastic surgery and thrilled with the job my surgeon did.

I finally did it.  I reached my surgeon's goal of 134.  Wow!  Now what?  LOL. I'm still healing nicely from the LBL.  Very little pain at this point - mostly itching as things heal.  I have had a few days of feeling swollen.  Last night, I felt swollen and tight, but it wasn't awful, so maybe I'll luck out and not go through the swell hell so many others do.  Ya never know . . . .

Well, I had plastic surgery on May 6th - LBL.  I kept worrying that something would happen to keep me from having surgery, sinus infection, cold, etc.  I don't know why I worried about this so much, but I did.  Nothing happened and the surgery went without a hitch.

The surgery itself only lasted 3.5 hours - less time than normal for these.  I didn't have any hernias and my stomach muscles were already tight, so the doc didn't have to do any repair work . . . woohoo!  That made recovery easier.  I'm not saying recovery was easy, though.  The first week pretty much sucked.  The drains were the worst part.  Once they came out the next week, things started going uphill.  The stitches came out after about 2 weeks and that helps, too. I continue to heal well and have lost 9 pounds since the morning of my surgery.  That puts me 2 pounds from my GBP surgeon's goal of 134!  If I stay at around 136, I'll be happy with that.

I didn't try on regular clothes for about 10 days after surgery and they are loose on me.    I haven't had an excessive amount of swelling, though there certainly has been some.  The body shapers I'm wearing really help.  I have to wear them 24/7 for another month, at least.  I'm getting used to them and may have to wean myself off them later on . . . lol.

I'm thrilled with the results I've seen so far.  The bruising and scabs are almost gone  and I look better and better as time goes by.  I think my surgeon did an excellent job.  I'm at a stage where I'm happy I had this done. 

I've lost 100 pounds and have a normal BMI.  Wow . . . this feels wonderful!!  I still need to lose 11 pounds to get to my surgeon's goal of a 22 BMI, but I know I'll get there.