Hello everyone!

My names Danielle I prefer being called Elly if you don't mind makes us seem like we're already friends and I'd like to think we are, Friends, Comrades, Support system. Ive never blogged anything before so bare with me if i seem a bit long winded. I guess the first place to start is to tell you all a bit about myself and my journey so far.

Like most of you i don't know where or when or how i started to gain so much weight. I look back at pictures and i think to myself was i ever That small? What happened? Where did it all go wrong? Sound familiar? haha i knew it would I've been browsing this site for months learning about other peoples experiences and i figured hey I'm a day away from having the Gastric Sleeve now's prolly a good time to sign up. Haha, I'm twenty three years old and im 230 pounds and to top it all off I'm vertically challenged soo at my whopping 5 foot nil its hard to hide how much weight I've gained. Its pretty awful when a perfect stranger comes up to you and asks " ohh whens the baby due" and for you women out there you know how devastating that can be and you cant exactly tell them oh no im just fat.

Im going to be a second generation gastric sleever if that makes any sense. My mother had the lap band and lost most of her weight on it before it slipped. That was a really scary phone call to get. She now has the gastric sleeve and says its much easier on her body even though it was a harder recovery time. Shes had it for over a year now and her weight has pretty much stayed constant at her goal weight.

The process for me to get approved for the gastric sleeve has been a very long and challenging one. I first started trying to get the lap band almost 3 1/2 years ago but got denied 3 times. So if you get denied i know how you feel but don't give up! I had to go to 6 months of nutritional classes and about 9 thousand different doctors and specialists to get everything together for this surgery and finally last week i got approved! The letter is currently hanging on my mothers frig and soon i plan on framing it since it took soooo long to achieve and even longer for the shock to wear off that it was finally happening! I started my liquid diet right away. Which of course is all exciting until you realize that those lovely shakes they make taste like chocolate actually has you running back n forth to the bathroom non stop. Not pleasant.

My starting weight was 230lbs

on the liquid diet ive lost 7lbs leaving me at a starting weight of 222lbs.

My last meal was given to me by my mother in celebration for this all finally happening and was a delicious motzah ball soup and chicken alfredo at the local dinner down the street. Ive been on the liquid diet for 2 1/2 weeks now and nothing would make me happier than tackling the domino's delivery boy that just walked by and eating my fill of pizza. Its Hard to control yourself when you realize how much of your time has been spent revolving around food. And if youre like me i eat All the time. Whether im happy sad excited upset any reason to eat and i did.

Well thanks for reading my first blog i hope you all leave some comments its Nice to meet you!

Elly