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Thanks for sharing your story.  Gives me hope.  It would be great to get into a one piece and go swimming again.

I really like that you ate and ate while wearing your tiny little bikini.  

That's so awesome! Soooooo hope that will be me for next summer! Great stuff!

You are just awesome Becky , maybe one day I will rock a bikini as well as you do. I really do not think that you that much extra skin, you have shrunk better than many ! 

I love this post too! Way to go! 

What makes me the happiest is not how you are so teeny tiny (I love that too!), but how you are out there, enjoying your life! It gives me hope! Thanks for sharing this. Even if I never got my bikini body, the hope that I can be active again and enjoy life motivates me!

Hooray for you, Becky!

You are so right.  I really don't care what I look like.  I had this surgery to be able to compete in a dog sport (competitive obedience).  I never dreamed of the OTHER things that being a normal weight would allow me to do.  My life is so much more active and full.

~B

Becky

I attempted to send you a private message but it would not go through for some reason.

I am interested to be a size 4 what do you eat and what is your exercise program?

Thanks

Donna

The message system here doesn't work for me.  My computer skills are limited and I don't really care enough to try to fix it. 

I try to eat low carb, but am not consistent with it.  I stress eat chocolate.  I pretty much stay away from wheat gluten because it gives me gas. 

My weight management program is really my clothes.  When my size 4 jeans are too tight I throw out the chocolate, get back on protein shakes (or cakes) and make sure I am not sneaking in carbs.  The weight falls off and I am back in my size 4s.  I gave away all my size 6s that I bought when i had a regain and I am refusing to buy anything else in a size 6.  Crazy but it works for me.

I don't have an exercise program.  But being this small allows me to do what I want to do physically which is train dogs, teach obedience lessons and classes and walk my dogs about 3 times a week (time prevents me from doing it every day because I refuse to give up sleep...)

The DS is magic.  But you can't just eat whatever you want (or I should say "I" can't ).

~Becky

I was in my bikini at Cocoa Beach a couple of weeks ago.  My bottoms are small, top large (must be my Saucedas from my breast lift).  Didn't bother me a bit to lay out or walk into the ocean to cool off.  I'm not exactly a young person any longer at 61, but didn't care in the least. 

I walked all over Disney World (all 4 parks, 8 - 12 hour days), ate what ever I wanted including Krispy Cremes as the sign kept saying hot when I went by.  Came home after 2 weeks and was down 3lbs.  Yep, I love my DS.

Plastics do make me feel so much better about my body.  Did have to keep my top fastened across the back due to my upper body lift scar.   

I didn't know you were older than me.  You have no idea how much I want to just get a facelift.  I have the money but no one to go with me.  My daughers refuse to believe that I can be safe in the hands of a Mexican doctor.  You would think after all these years they would know that I do my homework about such things but they don't trust me. I am just too afraid to go alone.  So that is why I still havene't gotten this face/neck lift that I so desperately NEED and want.

I think we are the luckiest people in the world.  We APPRECIATE what we are able to do (walk around Disney, go in the Ocean) because we remember when we couldn't/wouldn't.

I would love a tummy tuck and new boobs. I wonder if I could HIRE somebody to stay with me in Mexico?

~Becky

Let them read all the posts in our group here on OH.  See who else is going from the surgery schedule and tie in with them.  Like Tom and I did back in 2011.  There are folks down there now that are posting both here and on FB BodyBySauceda.  Dr Sauceda does a great face!

Will one of your kids go with you?  I'm so independent, that I didn't want anyone with me.  I'm also a terrible sleeper.  At the hotel if I woke at 3am, I'd watch a movie or get up and play on the computer.  It would have been tough with someone else in the room.  You could get all your body stuff done the day after you arrive and 3 or 4 days later, your face.  Then 2 days later you are at the hotel for a week or less. 

While you are at the hotel, Dr S sends his RN Paty to help you shower, put the ointment, gauze and get you back into your compression garments.  Dr S generally stops by daily while you are in the clinic and at the hotel. 

I don't have too much leave left, or I'd go back with you.  :)