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I had pains and deep aches under the right shoulder blade in my for about 2 months post op, like swelling was sitting on a nerve or something.

is she not the bomb or what???? It is amazing with her love of food that she has been so successful!

EVREV,, We have all been there. That little voice in the back of our heads saying do I really need this? What if..... I say to you WHAT IF you DON'T? No death would not be an imminent as it "might" with surgery, however surely the risks of staying over weight and gaining weight with out surgery will surely lead to a life with co morbilities and and certain death. I am 3 months out and I do not regret for one second the new control I have over food, it no longer rules me. I actually for the VERY FIRST TIME in the 40 years like what I see in the mirror. I no longer take 5 blood pressure meds, 1 sugar med, cholesterol or pain meds for daily back pain and sciatica. My blood pressure and blood sugar has been under control since the day I left the hospital. I have had only one back episode a month after the surgery. I have more energy than ever! We have had record snows this year and for the first time in years I YES ME Shoveled the drive, the back deck and THE FRONT SIDE WALK several times! I just ordered my 4th smaller size in work uniforms today and I am down from a size 24 pants to a 16! I hardly know the person I see in the mirror. YOU can do this my friend. I would be there is more risk to your life driving to work than surgery in a controlled environment with medical staff and meds all around you. I promise you, a month from now you will be psyched like I am and ohhh so proud of yourself.

I have bcbs il, but my husbands employer also has a say in the review. I did not have to do the 6 months diet before hand and once I jumped through all the hoops for the surgeon it and they submitted my papers I was ready to go in two weeks!

At one month I was able to swallow pills really well so I just bought calcium citrate at Walmart. I got 500 of them for 6 dollars. I will continue to order my Vitamins from celebrate or Bariatric Advantage, but for calcium, Iron and b-12 I am going generic.

I tell the nurse when I go to the doc I have to weigh in room one! I will even wait for that room to open. I hate to use a scale that says I gained! I have found they are all different.

So for the last month I went up 4 pounds and then took a month to get down to 191 where I was when my weight shot up. Now the last week I have seen 188,189 and 190 on the scale different mornings,. Well as of today I had to ask for smaller pants in my work uniform as the waist and butt where clearly starting to hang all of the sudden even though the DAMN scale is not giving me any encouragement. While it feels good to know my pants got too big, it is till a mind mess to deal with the numbers on the scale.

You are so rocking the sleeve!

Congrats, Everything will be fine. Deep Breath. You are giving you the best present every,,, health.

I found 2 kinds of co workers who said that to me. The first type was the person who was just trying to be nice, The second were those that were threatened in some form by my losing weight. I think they thought if they were not as big as me than they were ok. The nice people have been 100 percent supportive and give me compliments, the threatened people either don't talk to me about my weight loss or went on crash diets. Three months later I am still eating well and losing, they are not. Bottom line, this was for ME and no one else. I was sick of feeling gross, tired, back pain ect............. Now I look in the mirror and I LIKE what I see and I feel one hundred percent better! My starting BMI as 38 .

So here is 1/3 of the chicken philly sandwich (minus the bread i told them to keep)I got for dinner last night. I ate about 4 bites at the restaurant ate the tips of one broccoli and about a 1/2 cup of french onion soup/ no cheese for dinner. So when I got home I split the chicken breast again and put the other piece in the freezer and brought one the to work. This is pretty typical for my meals now at 3 months. "> For Breakfast: 1 Premier Protein shake Snack: Greek Yogurt Lunch: as pictured above Snack: Protein Shot or bar Dinner: will be some type of meat about one ounce with a salad.

You will find you can eat a lot more soft (slider) food than you can dense food (chicken breast). You are NOT over eating. Measure out your calories and it will reassure you. You can use fatsecret.com. they have every food and portion known to man on there. You are aiming for 6 to 800 calories a day.

I thought I heard some folks getting one, I personally would not want to be awake for that at all! Check with your personal surgeon, if they are being done, it is a very small percentage.

JustFran, No I did not. Look at my under my ticker. I was at 271 in Jan of last year, I lost 51pounds on my own and with the 2 week pre op. So I am down 33 since surgery.. I am a bit frustrated with that number, but I have been told because I lost before hand my body is fighting me as 33 pounds in 3 months is a lot. I keep reminding myself it took me a9 months to lose 31 dieting and a liquid diet of 2 weeks to lose 20 more. I just get frustrated for the last month here that I was down to 191, started the birth control pill and shot back up to 195 in less than a week, I quit the pill 2 weeks later and took 3 weeks to lose that 4 pounds I gained in a few days. Now I have hovering at 188-9 and 190 daily . I have been told this is normal, I upped my calories because I was only getting about 550 and I added some Omegas supplements also as my diet was so low fat that can stall you too. i am just frustrated that every thing was moving so nicely and then now I watch the scale play games daily.

all things carbs will go down too easy, raise your blood sugar fast a and make you hungry all over again. Meals should be Protein based. Puree some chicken or turkey and eat that. Stay away from noodles and dumplings. When you start to eat meets you will notice they hang around longer and fill you up aLOT faster!

If you are really bound up Mirlax can take 6 days to work and if it it really bad you may to consider and enema in addition.

Yes it does, especially if you don't get enough calories in and as your weight drops your basic metabolic rates drops also.

For the first time in my life I am layering clothes.

You will find some foods go down better than others. They told me if something did not agree with the sleeve or got stuck to leave it and try it again at least a week later. At three weeks I was on soft foods, yogurt, eggs, cottage cheese, puddings. Up unitll 6 weeks out I had to be careful with each new food and take little little bits, chew chew chew and let each bite go down and see how it settled before more food went in the mouth. I had 2 stuck episodes early out at 5 and 6 weeks that resulted in vomiting, just slowing down and watching foods is all to do until you are more healed and less swollen.

I did not like it, to me it was like drinking 20 oz of a protein shot and getting less protein.

Nothing feels better than our kids acknowledging us!

Thank you everyone!

YES!!! Great feeling hah?

Exactly how my story went, ALL POSITIVES after just fessing up. Too stressful being quiet. I get though in the beginning why folks want to keep it secret, because they have enough of their own feeling to process let alone what others feel.

Congratulations! Welcome to the forum and loser bench:) I understand your divorce with food if very difficult emotionally. Let me just tell you that you may think you will feel deprived when you can only eat a little bit, HOWEVER you know that feeling you got when you had a large,satisfying meal? Well now you will get that full satisfied feeling after a few bites, you will not desire more food and you will walk away with a full tummy WITHOUT that OMG I ate too much and I feel like a guilty pig feeling. It is GREAT to feel full, in control and not guilty!