"The First Half Pound Is Always the Hardest" (Furious Pete)

Zeltiq takes two months to realize full results, but I promised to put up photos at 2, 4, 6 and 8 weeks to keep track as some of Boxhead's fat is lasered away.  So here goes:

I can't see a lot of difference yet.  But then I'm the dysmorphic one...I'm relying on my credible / trusted viewers to decide whether or not there's a difference after the 8 weeks are up.  My eyes tell me I get fatter every day.  So fat in fact that my massive panniculus pools down onto the ground and I can sit on it like a beanbag chair.

From the side in jeans you can see the pudge / muffin delivery truck over the top of my waistband.  Fairness and scientific accuracy forces me to acknowledge that it is Day 25 of my female cycle so there is a modest possibility of a tiny bit of bloating.  Not a muffin delivery truck's worth of bloating mind you. 

And on the point of scientific accuracy, to those of you (code initials might be any of SLK, JRK, DJW, KKB, PL, DRV...) that have had the snark and audacity to accuse Boxhead of bias in these postings, STOP LYING.  Please explain how the flawless truth of my fat displayed in photographic evidence can be biased.  Exactly.  It can't.  I rest my gigantic panniculus.

These next three show the front and size views without jeans to compress and disguise the flank fat.

Its hard to take these pictures myself...I do realize they aren't the best.

In abdominoplasty recovery, its 13 weeks now.  Dr C says I can return to most exercise now.  The feeling of tightness in the muscles can be stretched out without harming anything.  It may hurt but it won't be doing harm.  "Without overdoing" I can go back to barre and kundalini and other more-active forms of exercise.  Um...dude...overdo?  How do you think I got that fat in the first place?

On the weekend I was reading the Georgia Straight (local Vancouver paper) and saw an ad for SMART LIPO with some Dr in City Square Mall.  I have to check to see if this person is remotely qualified to do cosmetic procedures and if so what he has to say about the safety of this kind of fat removal.  As much as you nutters all think I'd have liposuction performed by a cab driver in a Mexican back alley if he promised massive fat extraction, I am very fussy about going only to highly experienced, highly qualified surgeons and dermatologists.  Smart Lipo is the injection lipolysis procedure that the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery and the American Society of Dermatologic Surgery have all issued health warnings agains. Are these guys hypercautious party-killing bureaucrats or is there a legitimate health risk?  Who knows.  Boxhead will investigate and advise in a future posting.

So far so good on Zeltiq though.  The numbness of the first post-treatment period is gone.  I like to imagine the procession of dead fat cells exiting my body every day.  I'm relatively content for now, but I don't want any of you thinking that I'm done with fat removal for the long term.  Seriously, who wouldn't want vaser liposculpting for example??  Vaser is to fat sculping what the topiary trees were to Tomorrowland in the 80s. Sure, I COULD stop stuffing my face with so much food and get up off my ass from time to time, but where's the fun in that?

For anyone that doesn't know the title reference, its a quote from Furious Pete the champion anorexic / competitive eater.  You can watch him eat a pound of butter (Boxhead's typical breakfast) at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pSm-uRr7gk.  The first half-pound really IS the hardest.

Til two weeks darlings,

Love
Boxhead