Trendy Mindy Knows...: Liposuction caused me to NOT be able to compete in bikini show...what the.....?

So 17/18 years ago....wayyyyy back when I was in my 20s I had liposuction.

I was young...and thought that it would make me look thinner.

I was not fit.

The only working out I did was the elliptical for half an hour a few times a week.

This was post college.

I was not at my heaviest weight but I certainly was not healthy or very active.

I was eating total crap foods.

I thought that lipo was the answer.

I had lipo done on my stomach, inner and outer thighs...

I didn't lose one pound. I basically looked exactly the same except now I had ripples on my inner thighs and loose skin on my stomach,

Not one person could ever tell I had it done. No one ever!!

Total waste of money!!

Now jump ahead it's now 2015....about 18 years later...

I am fit. Have been for a very long time...

I don't drink ...haven't for almost 10 years...

I work out 5-6x a week.

My diet is super healthy.

I have had a baby...gained 43ish pounds. And lost every single one of them!

I have run halfmarathons...5ks...10ks...

I lift weights.

I strength train.

So when a new "natural" bikini show was making their debut in my town I thought yep doing this one!

By "natural" apparently they mean no steroids...no doping...no drug enhancing...

So being that the show is in just a few weeks I was going thru the info pages...finding out when I need to be where...it's a ton of scheduling and planning.

The only "drugs" I take are BCAA powders on days when I lift ...and the week of the show I take dandelion root for water weight. That's it nothing more.

So I totally assumed I was clear with the "no drugs" part of the show being that you have to take a polygraph the day before. Yep a polygraph.

I went thru the no no list and can completely say that I have never taken any of those drugs. Ever!

On the very last page under miscellaneous it states that a person can't have had any fat reducing procedures ie "ab etching".

Well ummm I have had lipo but it certainly didn't "etch" any abs for me!

I thought well certainly there's a time limit...certainly being that it's been 18 years...I have given birth...certainly that would count for something...

Ummm NO!

It doesn't....

I am "Ineligible to enter"!

That's right folks...I can't enter because I had fat removed from my body in the 1990s!!!!!!!!!!

I understand that they have rules...truly I do...

But even people that do steroids can enter after 7 years of being clean.

But nope not me...not lipo girl...I can't enter!

Yeah because this body was made from lipo....NOT!