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I don't know, but I am hungry too! My stomach is growling constantly! Can I just sleep for the next 5 days??? I want something good. Lol
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I didn't mean to sound mean, I honestly think there is something wrong with me. So many people talk about head hunger and emotional eating and eating because they are bored, etc. I am pre-surgery and I can tell you that I am physically hungry all the time. It isn't just in my head. My stomach growls, it feels empty. And it happens when I am not bored in the least. I didn't have a tough childhood and I am not an overly emotional person now. I have a pretty easy, happy life. I start every day thinking I am going to "eat healthy and do better" but by the middle of the afternoon I feel like I am going to faint with hunger. When I eat a healthy dinner (lean Protein, veggies, maybe even a small serving of healthy carbs) I get up from the table hungry. I meet friends for lunch and have a normal, healthy "lady" lunch. If we sit and talk for a couple of hours I leave the restaurant hungry. I hate it

I' right there with you. I am also sleeved Oct 3. I constanty want something to eat! Protein shakes just are not enough. I am cranky and have a raging headache...can't take advil which is my 'go to'. Plus today I had a totally stressful day, like a 9/10 on the stress level. I was thinking about how I used to eat crap on days like this. I'm glad I'm not... but this sucks! The striggle is real! 5 and a half more days. Good luck to you!!

260 lbs. lost between my tall, tanned , sexy husband and me --- yes, so worth it!!!!!!!!

So far for me it is. I'm 3 weeks out, I'm 47 pounds lighter. way more energetic, and I can move better to keep up with my kiddo. Stairs are easier to climb, running doesn't hurt my knees anymore, and I'm no longer pre- diabetic. Plus I was already sexy as hell, but now I'm like "Bow chika bow bow" (that last part was a not so subtle opinion from my husband.) So yes ma'm IT is totally worth it!

Thank you all! I thought it would be easy... I'm so excited but this is terrible! I haven't cheated tho. 6 days to go!
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I'm drinking broth, and eating Jello and taking my Vitamins
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There is a reason for the pre-op, so please stay on track for your health and safety. If you are still a few days pre-op then get back up on the wagon and stay on program. I can tell you that post-op is more intense because you are healing so cheating then can have painful/serious complications.
just sayin'
16 plus months post-op...down over 100lbs,
jane

6'4"
Starting weight July 2015 = 478 lbs
Weight on surgery day October 2015 = 423 lbs
Current weight in September 2016 = 290 lbs
Weight related injuries and co-morbitities were dragging me down. I was miserable. Hurting all the time and having to consult with circulatory surgeons, spine surgeon, knee surgeon and my pcp was very concerned with me. I was 47 years old and making it much into my 50's was looking more and more like a challenge that I'd lose.
One memory of those days occurred in June 2015. It sums up how things were for me post op....more accurately, it sums up where I was and where I was heading. It was not going well.
It was early in the morning and I was doing my best to get ready for a doctor's appointment. It was with a spine surgeon. I was in intense pain the likes of which I'd never experienced before or since (including post op pain from knee and hernia surgeries.....this back issue had me in the dirt).
Made it through a shower and mostly dressed. Simply could not get my socks and shoes on. Asked my wife for help doing this last thing before she drove me to the appointment.
She did so....but told me I needed to "man-up".
Those words cut through the pain. They cut through the haze of the double dose of pain meds and muscle relaxers I'd taken in preparation for making the 30 min drive to that appointment.
They pissed me off......not at her so much as at myself. I was mad for letting myself fall into such a rut. The back injury could have occurred if I'd been lighter.....but not so likely.
Turns out I was unable to get into her car....it was too low to the ground and I couldn't do it. I finally managed to get behind the wheel of my little pickup and drove myself to that appointment.....yelling out in pain at every railroad track or pothole. It was a morning full of suck. My little 4WD truck is a stick shift....no way she could've driven. I made it there and back....using crutches and cussing a lot.
Spine surgeon's advice that morning was to load me up with a battery of meds.....and get me to weight loss surgery. I didn't protest and a few months later I had my sleeve surgery. In many ways, I owe the spine doc tremendous gratitude. He did nothing other than review my x-rays and MRI and write some scripts......but his advice was spot on. Grateful I took it.
I went into a whole heap of detail with the above description of a single morning of my life........but it was how things were then. I missed 6 weeks of work for that back problem......and then 3 more weeks recovering from my sleeve & hernia surgery. This from a guy who's never hardly missed any work in 21 years with my employer.....only for surgery recoveries. Tough times.
I'll be much more brief in describing life since my sleeve surgery.
Let's just say that I seldom miss the opportunity to "man-up" now and I put my back into it.
I am almost 11 months out from surgery and a long way from where I want to be.....but I am enjoying the process and have learned a great deal about what makes me tick and what I want in life. More importantly....at 47 years old, I can now see having plenty of life left to live and enjoy.
This was pre-op me......taken the day before my October 2015 VSG & umbilical hernia repair....you can see the hernia looking like it's going to explode, lol. No wonder my back was messed up. I was 55 lbs lighter in this pic than I was at the beginning of my bariatric appointments in July 2015. So....this was the "new" slim and trim me, lol.
Old stretched out 6xl tee-shirt in the pic, too.


Most recent pic I have....taken on September 1, 2016.....10.5 months out from sleeve surgery.

Here's a goofy couple pics........but the last full length pics I could find. I was trying on a brand new 2xl t-shirt.....over the top of the shift I was already wearing.
It fit.


No more daily prescription meds for high blood pressure, cholesterol, pain and etc.
There is no single aspect of life that's not been improved....some by a little.....some by a tremendous amount.
Approaching my 48th birthday but feeling more like I did at 28 and grateful for it.
carpe diem

@@AshNic
Yes, like @@LisaMergs wrote, it is a valid pre op question.
For me:
No more fatty liver
No more pre-diabetic stage
Feel lots happier
My face looks 10-15 years younger, and my eyes are "bigger", basically not surrounded by swollen face anymore
I can cross my legs, touch my toes
My bra is 2 sizes smaller and I don't need an extender anymore to do my bra up.
I can wear clothes I couldn't wear for few years, and no longer live in sarongs
My food costs are a 1/3 now to what they used to be before
My back ache is gone
My hair is healthier
I can look in the mirror again
There is more room in my shower now
I eat healthy again
My feet and ankles are no longer swollen
I actually have shapely legs and thighs now
My bottom is much smaller and I can wear nicer undies again
I am no longer snoring. I never snored before I became obese
I still have 22Ib or so to lose, but I am seeing a big difference now, after 6 months post op

It's been a while since I've been active on BP since I found myself pregnant at my one year surgiversary (9/8/15), But that doesn't mean I haven't been "Active" in my life!.. This year has brought so much happiness, May 25th of this year we welcomed a healthy baby boy into the world and in June moved from NJ to PA where we bought our first house. At a year out I was down 100lbs, during my pregnancy I gained 28lbs and since have lost the weight and have been maintaining my 100lb loss. Just this past week (3 months postpartum) I started back at the gym and am looking forward to getting back into the groove of things and continuing on with my WLS journey and future success.
Hope everyone is doing well!

I mean they are supposed to do their own continuing education like any other professional.
I don't think a patient should have to educate them.
Obesity is an epidemic in the US. They should be researching what they can do to help their patients.
If they aren't keeping up to date on some general things in their field how can you trust them?
I don't code but I keep up on code for my career. If you are a serious professional you keep up to date on your profession.
The bottom 10% of the class become Doctors just like the top 10%.
Don't fix them, replace them.

When I brought up WLS to my doctor 3 years ago (after he had seen me lose and regain 45 pounds on a medically supervised diet overseen by his medical practice) he said, "I'll support you in anything you want to do. But I would strongly urge you to find a good therapist and try to understand why you are unable to care for yourself. You have lost weight many times. You've proven that. But you can't maintain the weight. I think you need to understand why you take better care of everyone else than yourself."
It's one of the best things he could have ever said. I did (eventually) find a good therapist who has been great. I have (finally) understood that living healthy (including living healthy after WLS) is purely about your self-care abilities. In my case, everyone else and their needs were more urgent to me than my own. I have gradually made myself #1. No one else notices. But that change has made all the difference to me.
Later on (still pre-op), I asked my PCP what was his experience with WLS. He said, "About 50-50. Some do well, some don't." And that's what all the research about WLS says -- 50% success rates.
I know you don't think this, but let me just underscore that the WLS surgery alone is not the panacea some think it is. To make WLS work well for you it requires a lot of mental switches. It requires a lot of discipline. It requires a lot of humility. It requires a lot of head-shrinking -- whether done on your own or with a therapist or a smart doctor or whoever works for you.
It's probable your PCP did not say what he/she said just to be a pain in the butt. Sounds like he/she has seen a lot of people not be successful long-term with WLS. There's much to be learned from negative modeling -- who failed and why did they fail and how can I not do the things they did (or fail to the things they failed to do) that will lead me to that same kind of failure?
This journey is not about being "right" all the time, but about learning continuously what will lead you to a better destination than you've arrived at in the past. So keep learning!

Thank you so much for all your posts!!! I am in the process of scheduling!
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I was sleeved on 4/28 and started out weighing 212 at 5'4". I am now down 24 lbs at 188. Hit a stall at a week and a half and didn't lose anything for about a week or so. Aside from the stall, weight loss has been fairly steady and I am happy with my progress.

Weighed in at 199 day of Surgery now at 173-175lbs now im 8 weeks post op weight loss is going slow for me. Love the decision I made and im learning to go with the flow when it comes to weightloss I know this is my new lifestyle.

I was sleeved 5/12 and your concern was my mental battle for two years before I decided to finally have surgery. Diabetes , fatty liver and high blood pressure at the age of 42 and 201 lbs on the day of surgery. My highest weight 213 lbs on a 5 ft 1 in body was my concern and plenty of aches and pains, feet knees back. But finally I jumped and the eight is coming off slowly but I feel great. I've only lost about 15 lbs total but my clothes are big and I feel like I've lost inches which is more important to me. I'm definitely not in a rush I'm watching everything I put in my mouth the first few days was horrible and I battled the head hunger especially while laying around the house but since I've been back to work it's definitely gotten better. I don't mind the slowness of loosing the weight I don't want to have the crazy sagging skin but whatever or however the weight comes off I'm happy , oh and the fact that I'm off my metformin and working on getting off my bp meds is the best for me. But I understand everything you are saying and even the nurse that discharged me after the surgery was asking me why I did something so drastic?? I'm happy and that's all that matters, I feel I am in control now !!
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I feel your saying your looking for a quick fix... I can relate to much of your story, I've always struggled with the weight and for the most part it's been a tug of war, I win, the weight wins keep repeating... It feels like an endless cycle, since I hit the 40's the weight has been winning, I'm now at the heaviest I've ever been... Several things happened that made me decide surgery was for me, number one reason was as the weight goes up, I feel my mobility is going down... This is a lifestyle change, not a magic wand.
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I'm only 17 days out. I started out around 200, and weighed 195 on the day of surgery. I weigh 177 today. I'm so grateful to have had this surgery and I haven't had one second of regret.
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I made it to 199.8 today!!!!
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....so I'm late for work and I forgot my phone so I go bounding up the stairs to get it!!! That's right BOUNDING..me...! So when I read your post I was so excited for you too! The ache in my hips? gone. The CPap machine at night? gone. The downside: my undies keep falling off...my skirt dropped to my ankles...I still don't have the nerve to buy new stuff in a smaller size yet (right?) because after all these years of dieting it's hard to believe this weight loss is (as we say in Boston) forevah!! 55 pounds today in four under four months. It was rough at the start but look at us now!

I don't really have anywhere to share this...so I hope here is ok.
I hit the 199 lbs mark yesterday and maintained it today. It's been so long since I was under 200 that I can't even remember the last time. I'm down a total of 23 lbs since I started all this. It's exciting but I'm trepidatious about sharing it because my brain still says "this won't work" even though logically, it is working! Plus all the nay-sayers in my world. :-/
I was happy with my body before surgery, but I was unhealthy. Today my blood pressure is down and I managed 20 minutes on the elliptical last night! Better than that, I did the elliptical and I can still walk the next day. I have a neck again and inches have been lost. My rings fit again and my clothes are fitting better.
So one month out, this is my success. Still a ways to go but I'll get there, slowly and surely.