#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

[pokemon-radical-red]

I hate it when I headcanon a character who’s canonically a girl as a trans man and make ships of him and a character who’s canonically a guy and I refer to it as a gay/mlm/guyxguy/whatever ship and someone gets mad. Like omg let trans people have FUNNNNN. Why are queer headcanons and genderbends cool until they’re saying that the character is trans???

“OMGGG you’re so misogynistic I can’t believe you would erase FEMALE representation!!!”

and like half of the characters in the franchise are women, and a total of… NONE of the characters are trans men. Also, my headcanon doesn’t change the source material. If my stuff upsets you, you can block me and go engage with the source or maybe every single other fanwork, since mine is the only trans man hc for this character that I’ve ever seen.

or when people are like “WTF??? this is so transphobic!!! how dare you imply that a character who looks like that could be a trans man?!?! do you think that trans men are women or something??? she uses she/her, and you’re misgendering her!”

No, I don’t think that being a trans man makes you a woman or vice versa. That’s why it’s a headcanon, and the headcanon is that this character is actually a trans man and not a woman at all! You’ll never guess what pronouns most trans men had to use at some point in their lives, and you really won’t like it when you find out about pre-(or no-)transition trans men… or trans men who are in the closet… or trans men who don’t know that they’re trans yet.

“But the character is a kid!!! Saying they’re trans is sexualizing them.”

I’ve seen this one from other queer people. Like did you miss when all of the homophobes said this about your identity, or do you think that bigotry is only bad when it’s directed at you?

“Why would you say ‘testosterone could fix her’??? Are you trying to call her a delusional woman?”

Why would your brain even go to that first? This literally has to be a bad faith reading, because there’s no way that someone could see what I said and get this unless they were specifically looking for something to be mad at me for.

(Note for anyone unaware: “Estrogen would’ve fixed him!” was a meme going around at the time I said this. I’m not sure if it’s still super big, but this was a joke to the effect of that.)

“So girls can’t be tomboys anymore? You just wanna trans everyone?”

This is like actual real life transphobic rhetoric. This isn’t even just shitting on my headcanon, but in fact, sending transphobic hate to a trans man. Thanks 👍. Maybe you should go send JK Rowling another message about how much you loved her essay instead of bothering me.

[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

[schlawa]

It’s a (translated) quote from my favourite bands live banter, where the drummer asked if anyone still needs a guitarist and I just thought the vibe fits them so well

[devilsskettle]

feeling so actively antisocial rn that i can’t even feel passively happy about pride. like great we get a month where people pretend to care about us before going back to either hating us or politely ignoring our existence. but it’s so fun that people get to go out and drink and dance and go to concerts and have fun with their friends!! not me though because i’m working forever and ever. but yay our shitty cishet manager got to see chappell roan. i’m sure that was so special for her

[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.

[euos-the-cat]

Y'know, there's something I've noticed while looking at my own top scars, something missing in my own art.

It's the fact that, well, these scars don't always end so neatly just before the armpit. In my case, they cross nearly half of my torso:

I know this isn't a great quality photo, but do you see that little dot scar under my top scar? That's where a surgical drain was put in. Being holes left in your body for a week after surgery, they're bound to scar up and create two little dots at your sides (also those drains can be a foot long wrapping around from there to your chest).

There's another thing I don't see covered in art, the usually dreaded "dog ear". Sometimes the end of a top scar doesn't heal nice and close to the body, especially if you have any sort of fat roll in that spot like I do.

It's a part in the skin that sticks out, and not much can really be done about it. It's another imperfection in the surgery seldom seen in art, and part of that reason is people are usually embarrassed and upset to have it after a surgery they feel should have been perfect.

I had those same feelings, but honestly now? Trading two heavy breasts for a bump on my side? Worth it 100%.

My point with this post was kinda to show some top scar stuff I don't see in art? Even in my own which I'll definitely be aiming to change.

[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

[g4yr4t]

u ppl wouldn't even believe how flat my ass is. you'd never look at me the same way.

[fizzygator420]

FIREBREAK POSTING

because

They are my little shmoopsie 🫶