#3 months post op

[diamondintherioux]

6/23/24

15w5dpo

I’ve been slacking ~shocker~ I know. It’s hard I can’t lie. The summer is all about iced coffee and ice cream, sweet little treats, patio season. It’s hard to resist. I’m trying not to break my own balls and remind myself that life is about “balance” but fuck it’s hard. I remind myself that I didn’t spend thousands of dollars to fuck up my progress by stuffing my face. The problem is where I live has been a catastrophic heat wave. It’s so hot that just by being outside for 5 minutes will leave you drenched. I have to think about a lot. Not just my body but my skin. It’s easier to just be a fat couch potato than go outside.

But that all changes this new week.

It’s a big week for me. On Tuesday I get IPR done to my teeth. I’ve been waiting 16 years for this. IPR is where they shave your teeth on the sides. Can’t wait to actually have straight teeth. My teeth are the one feature that I constantly get complimented on. Invisalign is taking it to another level. I also want to start a meal plan that I used back in 2019. I used to go to the gym 6x a week and eat 100% clean with this meal plan. I was absolutely tiny. It’s wild for me because I remember at the time I still thought I was fat lol my problem is having sweets in the house. If it’s outside the house I’m good. But once I have cookies or ice cream in the house I will devour it. The reason I’m restarting this meal plan is because portion sizing is killing me. I’m going to have to start measuring my meals again. I’m doing this because I’m going on vacation in September and I want to not only be in the best shape of life but I want to eat everythingggggg. This is a country where culinary arts are top tier.

I wear the faja overnight. I took a two week break from wearing it about 2.5 months post op. I know I should wear it more just for the curbing of the appetite aspect but with this heat it just makes it hard to breath. Pro tip: don’t get your surgery in the summer lol

This is my last week of “club Pilates” and my personal trainer on vacation. I’m ready to join a real Pilates studio or better yet start doing privates. I still get lymphatic drainage massages once I week. I really like the girl who does them so I’ll just continue for her.

As you get older life and experience start weighing on you. That’s why you gain weight, develop wrinkles, etc. the youth really is wasted on the young. I was at the mall and all the girl are wearing tiny white crop tops with either denim shorts or tennis skirts. They are tiny. Size zero, perfect ratios with no surgery. All because they are young. Then you see their moms and foresee what they will look like in the future. Not good. While genetics plays a huge role, taking care of yourself if a lifelong endeavor.

[hungryriverbeast]

29 today and doing better than ever ✨

[threateningwatercress]

weird ass bird

[bisamrottan]

he did in fact not come back

[miserable-something]

you're a ten, baby girl, and I'm the one

[transsextual]

me & the lady love in the sun last weekend ⭐️🫂☀️

[ikusam-art]

[sergle]

thank you so much for posting abt your experience with getting reduction, because it’s made it a lot less scary of a concept to me. i have a lot of paid and discomfort caused by my chest but surgery of any kind is terrifying to me- seeing your joy and honesty about your reduction gives me a lot of hope for my own future. thank you for sharing :)

I'm glad it's relieving some of your anxiety about it!!! tbh I was shot back in time knowing what I know now, I'd go into surgery again feeling a lot more confident. If I knew that the healing would be so manageable, I coulda saved myself a lot of stress LMAO

[smollstuff-art]

Brain hurty 🤕

attempting to draw smth new each day this month! (1/30)

[fizzygator420]

FIREBREAK POSTING

because

They are my little shmoopsie 🫶

[diamondintherioux]

6/5/24

3 months post op!

We made it! 3 months post op. I pretty much stopped wear my faja for almost 2 weeks at this point (I’m writing this on 6/10 since I’ve been on vacation.) Unfortunately since I’ve been out of town I haven’t been able to measure myself nor weigh myself. I’ve been very indulgent on vacation. Wine pairing with every meal, never saying no to dessert lol but I’m home now and home is where we have a routine. I’m going to Whole Foods tomorrow because I have no food at home. I need to start ordering delivery for when I come home but I just don’t trust the people picking the food lol are they checking dates? Are they making sure the food is fresh? A pro tip for traveling is to make sure you have something to heat up at home when you get back.

I am extremely happy with my results. They are very natural. Someone who doesn’t know me intimately can absolutely surmise that I worked at the gym and achieved this body desire you and I knowing this isn’t true. I’ve been looking at old photos from years ago when I was at my leanest and even then I didn’t have a flat flat stomach. Surgery has given me my youth again. The photo on the left was taken before I got coolsculpting done. It was 2023 in the summer. I had two rounds, 8 applicators total. It was very painful. I’ll probably make another post about that with before and afters. I do not recommend it unless you like wasting thousands of dollars.

I want to lose 20 pounds. I have a serious trip coming up on September and I want to look my very best. This means absolutely no sweets or drinks other than water. I need to up my protein. But most importantly I need to exercise. I have my 30 min personal training session once a week but that’s not enough. I want to incorporate Pilates and 10 steps. It’s hard but I’m taking baby steps

I’m going to post how many steps I take a day for accountability purposes.

It’s so easy to become addicted to surgery. The procedure and recovery is faster than exercise and relatively easier. The hardest part is finding the correct surgeon and paying for it.

[starscelly]

RE: tagging gifs as live blogging: If you're doing it live, it's live 🤷‍♂️ they have the ability to scroll passed those "bad hits" posts or ignoring the gif maker's comments about the hits or whatever they're saying they don't wanna see. Honestly the live blogging tag would be dull to me without the gif makers. I don't think they have a good argument for not putting it in the tag.

am just now catching up on my inbox, but i appreciate the genuine input! zoe kitnita was talking about it as well and im like. as always like nod nod i agree with her. i do think it varies Heavily depending on team and team fandom norms and it is very much the norm here? and as long as nobody in starsblr complains about it i think we're all just gonna . keep doing that lol!

i will also say i think it Remains the norm in starsblr BECAUSE there's been so many giffers as long as ive been active and most of the people who make gifs have been around starsblr for a While atp (i am by far Not the longest tenured poster but ive been Kicking Around for a few years now so) so the stars lb has ALWAYS looked like that in my memory? maybe a little less so in the 19-20 season when i started lurking but even still

[allthoseotherworlds]

Ugh, vision therapy makes me so angry.

For those who are not familiar, vision therapy is basically the idea that you can do eye exercises to fix certain conditions, mostly eye related ones.

Some of the more obviously scammy vision therapy stuff comes up in situations where it's pretty clearly never going to fix the thing it says it will fix- for example, eye exercises will never make you less nearsighted because nearsightedness is caused by the shape of your eyeball.

But I mostly see it come up in strabismus communities, and it's especially frustrating for me there.

(Strabismus is misaligned eyes - one eye pointing forward and one pointing in or out, for example. It can cause double vision, vision loss in one eye, and/or lack of depth perception)

The thing that makes it so frustrating in strabismus spaces is that there is some evidence that some vision therapy can help with some specific types of strabismus, as far as I can tell. But I haven't found evidence that it can help with other types of strabismus, such as the one that I have, and some people have reported that it makes things worse for them.

It's also expensive and not generally covered by insurance, or not covered very well.

When I first sought help for my strabismus, the optometrist I saw did try to get me to do vision therapy, which I declined because it was expensive, time consuming, and I didn't think there was enough evidence that it would help in my specific situation. She also prescribed me bifocals that did absolutely nothing, but acted very friendly and understanding and knowledgeable.

I eventually did get help that was actually effective - prism lenses and then eventually surgery, which is helping so far but there's always the risk I'll need prism again in the future because we don't really know why strabismus happens in some cases.

But I feel so bad when I see people saying things like how they're paying $1,000 a month for more than 2 years for their kid to do vision therapy and it isn't working.

They're under significant financial strain because they want to do the right thing and provide appropriate medical care for their kid, and it's being offered by people in regular optometry places that give you your normal eye exams, so it seems trustworthy.

But at the end of the day it's $1,000 a month for something that, as far as I can tell as a lay person, seems pretty controversial among experts and even if it might be helpful I think people probably should have more context than they're getting about that.

It just seems frustratingly easy to take advantage of people when it comes to medical conditions that don't have clearly understood causes and where all of the methods of treatment are at least a little bit risky and uncertain. Particularly when the current gold standard is surgery, which people are understandably wary of.

I'm not judging or frustrated by anyone who chooses to do vision therapy - like I said, it can be helpful for some specific situations. But I am frustrated at people trying to sell it as a one-size-fits-all solution without providing any appropriate context and while charging people exorbitant amounts of money for it.

(Disclaimer that I'm not a medical professional and this is not medical advice. I'm just a person with strabismus who has looked things up on the internet and spoken to multiple doctors about this stuff)

[crystalsandbubbletea]

Something I learned while playing Baldur's Gate 3:

I apparently like games that cause me to take hours to create a character-

[licollisa]

Just came back from the journey of putting another 88 post in the queue i think yall are going to love this batch

[boydykepdf]

january….