Friday, 4th January 2008

I am just over 2 months post plastics, and everything has settled down wound wise for me. I still have a large seroma where I had lipo on my tummy, and I am still a little swollen on top of the tummy tuck line, but not all time time ! It's a seroma I keep telling myself as it comes and goes ! I gave myself 2 days off from my corset and the lipo seroma was larger than ever last night, so the corset is back on today.
I had previously been concerned about the scar line on my left boob because it was not closing up like the other one but I am over the moon to find that in the last couple of weeks it has now closed up. It is still being supported by steristrips which is fine by me. As long as the wounds heal up cosmetically then I will be happy as a piggy in poo, and will wear the steristrips as long as it takes !
I am officially a 36DD and I am thrilled with the way they have settled into place now. The swelling is gone now and I am able to start and wear prettier bras now that I no longer need the sports bras. My tummy is so flat, it's really quite incredible. I can't get over how my hip bones and ribs stick out with a dip inbetween where my tummy is !! My other triumph this month has been getting in to a pair of size 10 jeans !!!
I finally got the size 10 jeans in New Look and infact have them on today !! They are yummy and I feel really slim in them !!
Al even picked me up the other day, which is a first !! He weighs nearly a stone heavier than me now and when I saw him on the scales after me, I had to do a little victory dance !!! OK his BMI is lower because he is so tall, but that aside, HE WEIGHS MORE THAN ME !!!!!! Yataaaaaaaaa

RNY wise I had an interesting christmas. I was well aware of what I could and could not eat and I didn't feel I denied myself at all. I had a bit of everything in my Christmas dinner, and it was yummy. I know that too many mince pies make me feel ill, I also know that Chinese lemon chicken makes me throw up, and that the slightest thought of a fresh cream pavlova makes me feel sick as a dog, BUT, I also know that I can manage a little bit more to eat now and I am no longer losing or gaining weight. My BMI is 24.something, and I am no longer overweight, and my weight has stabilised at 10 st 6. I can eat like a little troffer some days and not others and regardless, I get on the scales and I am 10 st 6. I NEVER thought it would be this way, but I am so glad that it is !
I have found a new addiction though... I am hooked on sour sweets - Haribo or Co-op own, I am not fussy, or boot laces - strawberry or apple, again I am not fussy ! I could eat them til the cows come home, and sit here at my lappy with a packet open beside me to dip into ! The sour ones are the best, I love the texture of the sugary sour stuff on the outside. How sad am I !!? I don't dump on them though, and mighty pleased that I don't too !!
I have not been exercising as much as I usually would these last 2 weeks since the kids have been off school, and I have not had the double buggy out. We did decorate the dining room if that counts as exercise, but I am back to it next week once the kids are back to school - weather permitting !
Christmas was good btw, aside from the food I have already mentioned, I got some lovely things from Al. He got me 2 gorgeous basques which are totally lovely. One I had to take in because it was a fraction too big and there were no returns, but they are both really lovely ! He got me this beautiful jumper which really makes me look skinny !!! lol ! He then gave me a pair of Victoria Beckham jeans, which actually brought a tear to my eye. Stupid cow, I hear you say.... yeah yeah... but the reason is real enough. Before I had my RNY I could never imagine wearing a pair of these designer jeans. They are for skinny people, and definitely not me. I wanted to have a pair though, and told Al that one day I wanted a pair, so that I could say ' see, I did it !!'. Christmas Day though, I unwrapped them and sat there thinking ' what if they don't fit?' I would have been so gutted if they hadn't fitted. I went and put them on, and guess what? I needn't have been upset at all, they fit like a glove ! Me in Victoria Beckham jeans !!!! ME !!!!!!! I was again on the verge of dancing a little jig on the spot !
That's the update for this month anyway... I shall be back. Thanks for reading.