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A coworker sent me home with a bag of jeans that were too small for her.....I just tried on and fit comfortably into a pair of size 8 jeans!

I may have cried.

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Question for runners or anyone post plastics.....

Do you think I could reasonably run a 10k Saturday followed by a half marathon Sunday 2 months after my Tummy Tuck and implants? Is that enough time to recover enough to run again?

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Question for runners or anyone post plastics.....

Do you think I could reasonably run a 10k Saturday followed by a half marathon Sunday 2 months after my Tummy Tuck and implants? Is that enough time to recover enough to run again?

Disney challenge?

Anyhow I would say sorry but no. I had tummy tuck, Breast lift w implants and arm lift.

My doc didn't want me to run AT ALL for six weeks post op and didn't actually clear me to run until week 7. And I recovered faster than most. So at best that would leave you only six weeks to get back up to half marathon shape.

I couldn't have done it and I ran a full marathon a week before plastics and has been running a half marathon race each month up until then.

Part of it is even if you are feeling up to it, you don't want to put any stress/pulling on the scars while they heal if you want the best possible outcome there. The other part, this is MAJOR surgery. Recovery is much harder and much longer than recovery from the WLS or a Csection or anything.

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Yea after sleeping on it and trying to be rational.....I'm gonna have to wait. I'm doing a half in November and will maybe attempt the Star Wars challenge in April. :)

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Yea after sleeping on it and trying to be rational.....I'm gonna have to wait. I'm doing a half in November and will maybe attempt the Star Wars challenge in April. :)

You will be glad you waited! I had my plastics in early June last year and was up to a half in October and that was pushing it!

Trying to talk my family into the Star Wars one in April! We did the Labor Day one in 2014... Pricey but so much fun! Do you live local? We don't so we have to do the whole hotel thing. My daughter starts school down in the area in the fall... Maybe I could crash j. Her dorm room!

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I did the inaugural Star Wars half last April and it was amazing! I def recommend staying at a Disney resort and using the transportation they provide race day if you do a Disney race. You have to be in your corrals crazy early and a lot of roads close for the course. :)

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I did the inaugural Star Wars half last April and it was amazing! I def recommend staying at a Disney resort and using the transportation they provide race day if you do a Disney race. You have to be in your corrals crazy early and a lot of roads close for the course. :)

We stayed at an offsite hotel when we did the last one--not Star Wars just the Disneyland race weekend over Labor Day. The rates were just insane on site. We were on the shuttle route and took that in the morning and walked back to the hotel after.

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Congrats!!!

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