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How exciting for you! I booked with her as well. I just moved my date up to August 30th! So excited and nervous. I'm starting with BL/BA. I don't heal the fastest so I want to see how I do with the healing and scarring before I move on to the Royal lower body lift. I'm so tempted to start with the RBL, she does such good work!

My quote did include the recovery house with meals, compression garments, post-op medications. My quote for her Royal lower body lift was actually less than $10,500 you saw on her site. Other than those details, I didn't look too closely at that quote since I'm not ready for a tummy tuck just yet. The quotes are only good for 6 months so I'll have to get another from her when I'm ready for that stage.

@coldsleeve How is your recovery coming along? I hope you are happy with your results. I've narrowed down my list to Dr. Carmina Cardenas and Dr. Irving Rodriguez for breast lift with augmentation now and CTT with fat transfer next year. Honestly Dr. Cardenas is probably the #1 contender but she is the highest priced of all the surgeons I consulted so it's making me pause just a bit. Would you still recommend her?

I am this.close to booking my date with Dr. Cardenas for a breast lift. Her quote was by far the highest I received from the Tijuana based surgeons but based on some of the after pics I've seen (yours included!) I think her prices are justified. Thanks for sharing your experience!

My favorites are Syntrax Nectar Sweets chocolate truffle and vanilla bean torte. The chocolate truffle is definitely tastier on its own but I use the vanilla bean as a base for other shakes such as a strawberry chocolate with frozen strawberries and cocoa powder, also some frozen riced cauliflower adds additional sweetness.

Wednesdays meals Breakfast: chicken cauliflower fried rice Lunch: Ham and turkey rolls with light cream cheese and zesty pickle spears Snack 1: Chobani greek yogurt and pink lady apple Snack 2: guacamole 100 calorie pack and beanitos black bean chips. Dinner: Syntrax chocolate truffle shake with collagen, fairlife fat free milk and 1/4 frozen riced cauliflower.

Tuesday meal plan Breakfast: deli ham and turkey rollups with romaine, tomato, light miracle whip and Hormel bacon bits Lunch: romaine lettuce, guacamole 100 cal cup, salsa, moose taco meat Dinner: chobani greek yogurt, planters cocktail peanuts 1 oz snack: Syntrax Nectar chocolate truffle protein shake with fairlife milk, collagen peptides

Monday Menu: Breakfast: Premier Protein Vanilla shake Lunch: moose meat and cauliflower rice with onions, garlic and spices Dinner: Syntrax Nectar chocolate truffle with fairlife milk, collagen peptides, unsweetened cocoa powder and frozen riced cauliflower. snack: ahem... 1 package raisinets

These are the meals I've packed: Breakfast: chicken cauliflower fried rice Lunch: Ham and turkey rolls with light cream cheese and zesty pickle spears Snack 1: Chobani greek yogurt and pink lady apple Snack 2: guacamole 100 calorie pack and beanitos black bean chips. Dinner: Syntrax Chocolate truffle shake with collagen, fairlife fat free milk and 1/4 frozen riced cauliflower

Congrats on your success!

I use zipfizz for my B12, caffeine and vitamin supplementation. It has an insane amount of B12 per tube, I think it's in the 40,000% range. I don't drink coffee anymore so I appreciate the caffeine and energy boost it provides..

I had VSG with Dr. Illan in January. I highly recommend Dr. Illan. There is a Gastric Sleeve Mexico forum. That forum has some reviews and discussions about searching out a reputable doc in Mexico.

Congratulation on your loss. How exciting to be at this point!

I too had wondered about the Ariel Center. I know Dr. Ortiz and the OCC is amazing so I assumed the Ariel Center would also be amazing. Bummer! @coldsleeve Did you have consultations with Dr. Campos or Dr. Cardena? I'm about 20lbs from goal and looking for referrals for implants and lift. Those two are on my list to contact along with Dr. Camacho Melo. I've heard good things about him from other sleevers in my surgeons fb support group.

I've noticed this too. Body composition changes differently with surgery than with typical weight loss methods that's for sure!