THIS ONE’S FOR THE GIRL’S!!! I NEED YOUR ADVICE!

Maybe you heard me talking about it this week, but in case you missed it....guess what?? After 23 years of being TOTALLY self conscience, on Saturday April 14th, I had a “full tummy tuck” at the Sayeg Surgery Center in Troy!!!!!!  While I still completely believe that “beauty comes from within”, the way I feel about my body now, as opposed to before, is just unbelievable!

Lemme tell ya how I felt “before”......................I had a “fat pouch”, or “low belly” whatever you wanna call it my while life, even before having a baby. My pregnancy left me with an even BIGGER, saggy, stretch marked stomach, and then I had 3 surgeries after that, which left me with a hidious, uneven scar, from one hip to the other  hip. I did everything to conceal “the big belly”, and before having this surgery, I would NEVER have even mentioned my belly. I cringed when my boyfriend so much as touched my stomach, because I thought is was so gross and fat. My boyfriend told me when I was considering the plastic surgery to remove it, “you are beautiful the way you are, I love you and your stomach does not bother me one bit, but if this is something that will make you feel better about yourself, than I will support your decision to have it done”. Whatta man, what a mighty good man! I DEFINITELY wanted to do this, for me....so I made the appointment to “get er done”!

NOW......OMG.......Thanks to Dr. Sayeg, who seems to me like a miracle worker, I have a COMPLETELY flat, pretty stomach, with a brand new belly button! GONE...is ALL the fat, stretch marks, and “saggy pouch”. When I look in the mirror now, it looks AMAZING, like someone else’s REALLY nice body, attached to my head. It actually feels like a dream, so much so, that every morning now, when I wake up, I have to go, look in the mirror and make sure that my “nasty belly” did not grow back overnight!

I used to be kind of “on the fence” regarding plastic surgery. We have all saw the results of the movie stars, who go WAY overboard and have all kinds of unnecessary procedures.....like Joan Rivers with too many face lifts, and Meg Ryan, with her unnatural looking “Joker lips”. But I know there are lots of women like me, who have “just that one thing” that makes you feel SO self conscience....like a saggy belly, uneven breasts, a crooked nose......and I am here to tell you, by having this “one thing” fixed, I feel like a new, FAR more confident person. I am actually looking forward to going clothes shopping.....something I HATED to do before, because no matter what I put on, all I saw was my big gut sticking out! Not anymore...WOO-HOO....no more girdles, long jackets and super wide belts necessary to hide my biggest flaw! I am FAR from perfect, and that is fine with me, but I feel good about myself, and even “sexy”....which I have never felt before in my life. I told my younger sister, who always dresses so cute and trendy, that now I want to buy some low slung jeans and cute little tops, that might occasionally reveal “just a sliver” of my new, beautiful flat stomach. I mentioned that I am considering, getting a little diamond belly ring too. She said “you are too old to get a belly ring, women over 40 should not do that”. I told her I would NOT be wearing short tops now, that would even show it, so why not?  So ..............Belly ring or no belly ring, that is the question????