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almost 4 weeks post op and I'm already thinking of more surgery

I must be nuts. My boyfriend keeps reminding me how miserable I was in the week after my band replacement 4 weeks ago. But honestly I don't care. Or I don't remember!

 

I came into a little bit of money and I want to get lipo done. Even at my lowest weight (BMI of 21) I had pockets of fat that wouldn't go away - my inner thighs, my love handles (above my body lift scar) and upper back fat (near my bra line). I remember trying to lose more and more trying to get rid of those spots and while I did manage to reduce them, they were never really 'gone' and the rest of me was looking VERY thin, as in "you could see my ribs clearly in the valley of my cleavage" thin.

 

So I've made some decisions - I like the weight I'm at now, a BMI of 24. I look voluptuous, womanly and healthy. I want to stay looking like that. But I want to get those stubborn pockets of fat out. Contour this body so it doesn't look lumpy, like it always did until I got way too thin.

 

I have tossed this up over and over the last few days. I know it's about vanity. I know I look good for my age (43) and am fit and healthy, and to spend that sort of money on me again seems, I don't know, a bit indulgent.

 

But then I think - why not? The money came from my hard work. Some of it is going to paying some money off our mortgage off and doing stuff around the house, boring stuff like that. Why can't I spend some of it on me? Plus, as I've always said when people ask me how I justified the WLS and the body lift and the breast augmentation, that most people spend more than I have on a luxury car they drive for a couple of hours a day. I drive this body 24/7, so why shouldn't I spend that money on it?

 

The boyfriend is worried about me going under the knife again quite so soon, so while I have a consult with a PS on Tuesday, I'm thinking of waiting for a couple of months before I go ahead. But I won't lie, if he says it's no problem to do it now, I'd probably go ahead! Lol!

 

No pain, no gain. With weight loss and everything else.

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stept04

LAP-BAND Patients

Even though we indulged in food we never indulged in are health and well being or what truly makes us happy. And we spent to much time worried about what other people thought of us. So I say if you have the means, and it will truly make YOU happy then go for it.

~~~Stephanie

carole6836

LAP-BAND Patients

Plastic surgery might or might not make you more happy...if it does, it will be temporary. If that were me, I would wait to have any plastic surgery done until I had maintained the weight loss for at least 1 or 2 years. But that's me. Just saying.

lellow

LAP-BAND Patients

carole, I've been a lapband patient now for 5 years. I got my lapband in 2008. I've maintained most of my weight loss despite a band leak that was present for 15 months.

I had a body lift 4 years ago and the plan was to go back to get lipo after 8 months or so to tackle the stubborn fat but I never went back and tried to diet the fat off instead. That didn't work. I have maintained at a BMI of between 22 and 26 for 5 years now, and I currently do not wish to lose anymore.

I have had both a breast augmentation and a lower body lift and both definitely made me happy. So I don't expect the lipo effects to be temporary.

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