June 8, 2016
Now that you’ve all seen me in-the-buff, I am sure many of you are wondering how I was able to hide the awful damages that my two pregnancies have caused. Several of you have written to me privately – and others have spoken to me personally – expressing how shocked you were at the images you saw on my last post. Without sounding too conceited, I know I look sexy in my clothes – which is why many of you had no idea the damages that lie underneath. Well, it’s time to reveal my secret inexpensive undergarments that gives me my sexy shape.
The first undergarment I use DAILY is a high-waisted stomach compression & shaper. This undergarment has been perfect at hiding the 3-month-pregnant-looking belly that my diastasis recti has caused; and for those of you that personally know me, I’m sure you can vouch for how well this compression flattens my stomach and shapes my waist. It is also extremely comfortable and supportive. Quite honestly, I’ve gotten so used to wearing this compression, that I feel naked without it and will literally refuse to leave my house if I’m not wearing it. So if any of you ladies are looking for ways to flattening your distended belly, I highly suggest this stomach compression & shaper. But please actually go to Target and try it on first. The sizes run small. The size I wear is a large; and I can assure you, that I am not a large.
The second undergarment I wear is an oversized, over-padded, Victoria Secret push-up bra. The size I purposely wear is a 34 D – however, my actual cup size is between an A and a B (I’m too big for an A – but – too small for a B). The reason I wear an over-sized bra is because I was a 34 DD while breastfeeding!! I was HUGE!! Possibly a little too huge (if that’s even possible in my husbands opinion). And to go from a DD to an A/B was too drastic of a change – especially since I teach teenagers. I wanted to keep myself looking proportional throughout the school year. Plus, a lot of the tops I wear require a larger chest size to fill out, and I didn’t want to invest money into new tops when my chest size was going to change YET again.
Well, I hope this was helpful for some of you – it has definitely been a temporary fix for me for years; and hopefully after June 16th, I won’t have to wear them again.
8 more days !!!
This is one of the many reasons why I chose to start this blog. When does faking-it ever serve anyone? To go around flaunting your new stunning body as if you worked to achieve those results just makes the rest of us feel more self-conscious then we already do. Now, that’s not to say you didn’t work hard with proper exercise, a healthy diet, etc.; but for those of us who do all these things – and more – and still achieved zero results, is disheartening and frustrating to say the least. I’ve tried everything I can think of to whip my body back into shape. I’ve done 4 straight months of eating right and exercising. My exercise routine consists of Insanity, P90X, and running 3 miles in the evening. Unfortunately, there isn’t any exercise in the world that can fix the issues that my two pregnancies have caused. I am so unhappy with my aftermath of my two pregnancies – at times I wont even let my husband touch me because I turn myself off. I NEED this surgery. I NEED to feel sexy again.
