I'M FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I had a follow up with my Dr. today and everything went pretty well. I can start exercising as much as I feel comfortable with beginning on Monday (3 days from now) and I DON'T HAVE TO WEAR THE GARMET ANY MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!! He said he may want to remove a little more from the area below my belly button, but that it is swollen still and he won't be able to tell for sure for at least 2 more months.

He told me that 2450 cc of fluid was injected into me and that they removed 2600 cc of fluid and fat. He said 25-40% of the stuff removed is pure fat and he said I was probably closer to the lower end of this, which would mean 650-1004 cc of pure fat was removed! I fount out that fat has a density of 0.9 g/ml (1ml = 1cc) and I'm just gonna assume he removed about 800 cc of fat...which is 720 grams, which is about 1.5 lbs of pure fat!

That doesn't sound like a lot when I think about it and I can't believe that 1.5 lb of fat made such a big difference in the shape of my body, but 800 cc is also over 3 cups (to put it in units we can understand). I'll never look at the baking instruction "add 3 cups of flour" the same way again!

I feel amazing not having to wear the garment and am excited to get back in the gym again! What is my personal trainer going to say??? I'm going to ask him to weigh and measure me this Tuesday, I bet he'll be surprized! I think I'll let him do all the measurements, then tell him what happened!

I'll post more pictures next Tuesday evening.