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Oh yeah I've totally been there before, and it's NOT fun! Looking forward to you joining us over at the 5:2...amazing group of ladies and it DOES help to check in and stay accountable!

Yes. I went first. I started the insurance process in April 2010 and I wanted him to do it too. He was 100% supportive of me but wasn't interested for himself. Then about 3 months into my journey he had a change of heart and decided he wanted to do this too. We both had Dr. Snyder at Rose. I was in Oct. 2010 and he was in March 2011. Unfortunately we have high-dedcutible insurance and surgery was $5K out of our pocket each time since it was in two different calendar years, but it was totally worth it! How has your experience been so far?

Congrats girl!!! I know what you mean about the arms...but keep working on it! I'm also working on self-acceptance.

Wow congratulations on the Doctoral acceptance...wow, just wow! Hang in there during this stall, it too will pass!

My husband is sleeved and donates blood regularly without any issues. He is 18 months post-op though and just started donating again regularly about 5 or 6 months ago. What part of Colorado do you live in? We are in Centennial!

Congrats to not only you but your wife as well, that is amazing!!! My hubby and I are both sleeved (I'm 22 months post-op and he is just shy of 18 months post-op) and I am so happy we did this together. What a great thing that even though your wife is a non-op she has shed weight right along with you. That 5K picture is priceless, what an accomplishment, congrats!

I've always said that you were beautiful before but STUNNING now! Congrats on the 2 year and congrats on keeping your self in check...WOO HOO! Love that you have always rocked your sleeve Sophia!

Wow!! Congrats on your loss, and I'm guessing there is lots more room on the bike nowadays. My Dad goes to Sturgis every year, I've never been only seen pictures.

I am proud of your creativity and committment also! My surgeon's rules were no drinking for 1 year and I did 1 year plus a week so IT CAN BE DONE!! Now I'm not single and going out to bars but there were plenty of opportunities for ME TO DRINK and I DIDN'T PARTAKE. Now that I'm closer to two years post-op I do enjoy drinking every now and then but it definitely hits me faster than before and I get tipsy after 1-2 drinks. My hubby is also sleeved (16 months post-op) and he says drinks don't affect him like they do me, but neither one of us are big drinkers. It's definitely an occassional and social thing for us.

Absolutely incredible! Congratulations you are just about 6 weeks behind me (Oct. 22, 2010) and you have definitely rocked your sleeve. Congrats!

Lovemylife...YES!!!!! I lost hair. But it was never big chunks. As you can see in my before photos (which were all taken during the 6 months before I had surgery) you can see that my hair is shorter. Well, I grew it out long thinking that when I lost hair (went into surgery KNOWING that a large % of people experience hair loss after WLS even IF they are taking all their vits, and getting all their Protein like I was) I would just cut it short again. But I decided I like it longer and have been keeping it a bit longer ever since. I started losing about 4 months post op and quit "shedding" about 10 months post op. So for 6 months I was losing hair everywhere, the brush, the shower, the floor (killed a vaccuum cleaner...yep!) But losing a bit of hair was a fair trade to losing the weight. Plus of course, as you can tell it's not like I went bald. :-)

I've been photo-documenting what I've been eating lately. You can find it on my blog. http://thisonebody.blogspot.com/ BTW, I'm over 21 months post-op...

LOL, are you the bald one in the avatar pic? I started growing my hair longer before surgery with the idea that I would just cut it all off once I started losing it. I didn't lose big chunks, but rather went through a shedding process starting about 4 months post-op and ending about 10 months post op. I definitely have less hair today that I did before surgery, but I decided to keep it longer and I really like it. I posted before/after photos if you want to compare before surgery hair and after. I would so lose the hair rather than be morbidly obese again though! http://www.verticalsleevetalk.com/topic/46481-21-month-photo-update/