First of all, weight gain, blech. Enough said.
I'm slightly less than five months shy from my 2 year anniversary. It's still one of the best things I've ever done. Pain, recovery, swell hell, and now weight gain and through it all I have no regrets about the decision to snip snip here to there.
BUT since I have had a tummy tuck and gained about 20 lbs in the past year (thanks stress and emotional eating), I'd thought I'd share how it has affected my surgery.
It hasn't. Not really.
Although I've gained weight, for me, I've put it on in the usual places ... the butt, hips, thighs and upper arms. My stomach hasn't changed a whole lot. It's not as flat as it was but nothing that looks displeasing to me or bothersome. Also, from what I can see and feel, it hasn't done any damage to the repair my PS did.
I do know something that entered my mind a week or so ago in regards to the extra pounds. I wondered if I may have lengthened or added some stretch marks from the weight gain. Especially since the skin has been pulled taut. So, I got out a picture following surgery and compared it to my zebra stripes and .... no new ones, they're all still the same. So, that's a definite plus.
I don't even know why that thought entered my mind but once it did, I remembered watching a video of a post TT of another person and she was average build and weight in relation to her height and I remember she talked about getting stretch marks after her TT. Not the case with me. Thank goodness.
I'm slightly less than five months shy from my 2 year anniversary. It's still one of the best things I've ever done. Pain, recovery, swell hell, and now weight gain and through it all I have no regrets about the decision to snip snip here to there.
BUT since I have had a tummy tuck and gained about 20 lbs in the past year (thanks stress and emotional eating), I'd thought I'd share how it has affected my surgery.
It hasn't. Not really.
Although I've gained weight, for me, I've put it on in the usual places ... the butt, hips, thighs and upper arms. My stomach hasn't changed a whole lot. It's not as flat as it was but nothing that looks displeasing to me or bothersome. Also, from what I can see and feel, it hasn't done any damage to the repair my PS did.
I do know something that entered my mind a week or so ago in regards to the extra pounds. I wondered if I may have lengthened or added some stretch marks from the weight gain. Especially since the skin has been pulled taut. So, I got out a picture following surgery and compared it to my zebra stripes and .... no new ones, they're all still the same. So, that's a definite plus.
I don't even know why that thought entered my mind but once it did, I remembered watching a video of a post TT of another person and she was average build and weight in relation to her height and I remember she talked about getting stretch marks after her TT. Not the case with me. Thank goodness.
