june13sleever

My doctor said that losing weight is not the issue...It is keeping it off. Do you see biggest loser doing reunion shows or where are they now. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! So we can all lose it, but we all can't keep it off. Skinny people also have no clue what it is like to be fat. The ridicule. I mean I was the joke of my college, and I wasn't even that big. Being fat is mentally and phycially exhausting. that guy is just ignorant. My mom just saw me suffer and cry throughout most of my life and she would never say I have taken the easy way out. LOSING WEIGHT IS NOT EASY and this sleeve is not easy by any means, but when we are skinny and feeling better YOU WILL NOT CARE AT ALL ABOUT THAT GUY and then he is going to want to date you

Tamz - You were over 300 pounds and really need a reality check. Everyone has bad days, but you seem to be extrememly negative about the sleeve and that is your right, but in all honesty - there isn't **** you can do about it now. So you have to embrace it and learn to love it. I fear your misery will be forever if you don't punch yourself in the face and start telling yourself that first you needed this because you couldn't do it on your own and second so what if you can't eat. FAT OR EAT? I guess you wanted to be FAT. BUT I know you didn't and you don't. SO PUT ON YOUR BIG GIRL PANTS and tell yourself you made the right choice...Because even if you didn't, again...There is no going back. I am not even 30 days out yet and my incision pain is still seriously bothering me. It feels like SCIATICA in my stomach, but OH WELL. I gotta go to work. I am dizzy everytime I get up, but I gotta push through it and drink more and figure out what I need to do. I was eating like I had lost my damn mind, but finally, no more bad fat girl thoughts...Eater's remorse. GONE. At 30 days. You have to really get it together. Because we are gonna lose our hair, our skin is going to be saggy and who knows what else is gonna happen...You have got to start getting to a positive place because the journey is long and FOREVER. Do you want to be all down forever. You post a lot of negative things on this site, and I think you need to take a break, get your nails and toes done, get a massage and LET THE **** GO. It is ok to have a bad day, but you don't seem to have any good days. Maybe you should also see someone. And I am really sorry to say this, but I have been lerking on this site for awhile and it just seems you are really bad off. Attitude really is everything.

how do you know if you have had to much or you could eat more. i don't have any triggers for being full so when you eat what does it feel like and how do you know if you have pushed it to far. how could you cause a leak and how do you stretch it?

with so many variations in diets I find that I just do what it takes. I am still struggling with protein, and i just can't drink another protein drink. I cook a piece of salmon and a piece of halibut and graze on it over the day. I take a couple of spirulina tablets. I honestly do not think you can just eat 3 times a day or even 5. i can't even fathom putting anything into my body but protein at this point, but i do use butter to cook with. a little fat is ok for you. the fish is already fatty, but i need the protein more than i need to lose weight fast. i am not anywhere near drinking 64 oz yet, and i maybe need to push things a little to see where i can go when it comes to water. i am never hungry ever. i eat because i have to. i think you need to do whatever it is you need to do in order to get in your nutrition. i refuse to have anymore anything with artificial sweetners. this sleeve is trick, but i had to experiment.

I am 18 days and that incision is killing me, but I took some advil and it feels so much better. Doc said it was ok to take two. He also said soda was ok in moderation, but just let it sit for awhile. I guess the pain will go away one day. The steri-strip is still there so I don't know if it is trying to oooze. I feel great other than that so I figure the pain will go away one day. Tylenol didn't do crap. Advil is my cure all. I just chewed it up. I think my pain has got to be the worst. NO SERIOUSLY it makes me want to HURT SOMEBODY. IT IS NOT COOL AT ALL. But then I take the advil, and I feel like a normal person again.

I think I will do the vitamins for breakfast and the calcium for the lunch and dinner. I couldn't quite get a schedule. I NEVER miss my PREVACID so I just have to take them right after I take that. Now it is just meals and liquids to get together.

I am not a worry wort, but I just feel like the sleeve is quite consuming in terms of always thinking about eating, drinking, vitamins, leaks, pain, will I lose the weight, when can I work out, etc, etc, etc. When does it all just click and you start living? I just feel like I am on egg shells. Then on top of everything worrying about...When is the hair going to fall out and will it be really bad. I know it takes time, but how long.

The lump in my throat is gone. Been on Prevacid and doing much better. At the pureed food stage. Surgery was 17 days ago. Problem #1 - Drinking/Protien/Eating - So pureed Soups are fantastic and they go down with ease. My first egg...Threw that up. Tried Hard Boiled and I can eat one egg white. So how in the hell do I get 70 grams of Protein in and 64 ounces of Water. I literally probablyy drank 3 cups of water yesterday and had maybe 20 grams of protein. I know I get side tracked and since I am not hungry I totally forget to eat. Drinking, I forget that too. I could tell in my urine yesterday that I needed to step up my intake I just really am having a tough time. I can drink with ease...I just let the day go by at work and towards the end i realize it is 7pm, and I have had only a little bit of water and only a little bit of food. Problem #2 - INCISION PAIN!!!! OMG!!! - Called the Doctor about it yesterday. I think he gets a lot of calls about pain so he acts a little like it is nothing, but seriously...THE PAIN under the big incision is like WOW!!!!!!! It is sharp. Of course I have no fever, no ooozzing....It seems like it is the stitches under the incision. I am sure I over did it, but this pain is not pleasant at all. My Doctor is like...It could be a hernia, but I doubt it. I said to him...Could it be infected because that is sort of what I feel...He goes...Possibly, but I doubt it. The way that he says it is too funny, but at the same time I am like...WTF. I need this pain to go away because until it does I ain't walking for NOBODY! OUCH!

I literally told my boss I need more time. she wasn't too happy, but oh well. i think about everyone else but myself. this time i had no choice. so i got some prevacid, that stupid lump is still there, but i just feel better in general because of these three days off. i wish i had 3 weeks, but that woulld be out of the question. back to work again on monday, but at least i can eat eggs. i just have a good feeling about eggs. i am also able to get more fluids in. since starting the prevacid no more furry toungue. i will just keep on it and keep breathing!

so i eat my creamed soup and really need to slow down. it is not like i eat it and it just comes back up it is just that it sort of just sits there, but there is no feeling of full. i don't have any warning signs and at some sittings i can eat more than others. i just feel like i should feel something, but i don't. it doesn't bother me because i am not hungry, but just want to see if this was a forever thing or if anyone can tell me in their words how they feel when they eat. i am almost 2 weeks out. the intial weightloss is quite scary since i am already down 30 pounds in less than two weeks. i hope it slows down. seems a bit too fast which was my biggest fear.

So I don't even know what Acid Reflux is supposed to feel like because I have never had it before. So I told you about this lump in my throat, well it is making me gag and now I feel sick to my stomach. I am just crying and crying because I can't get rid of it. I sort of felt something burn, but then I just drank some water and the craziest thing is that my tounge feels like it has fur on it. Like there is lint in my mouth and I can't get it out. The lump is worse now then it ever has been and feels bigger. I am just scared, and I am cry baby, but before this surgery I was just fat I didn't have any problems except for being a fatty. I am feeling like I made a mistake. I am still at work by the way.

Skinny people will never understand - EVER. My boyfriend just said look you could have done that on your own. (Lost 17 lbs in the first week). I said sure could have and then been starving, caved and went to McDonald's to binge on everything. He said, you need to have self control. I said you can eat anything you want. I don't even care. I think now I am going to secretly try to get him fat by cooking pizza everyday and getting him McDonalds. I don't really understand why anyone would think anything about anything, especially since this surgery was positive. My best friend said some girl he was messing with, who is like 21 just got triple D implants. WTF. Do i think she is disturbed, yes. So I too pass judgement. I guess in their mind maybe they were ok with you being you. Which is cool, but they are not us. People also don't like change. And some people are dependent upon us being fat. My fat co-worker weighed me and she was upset. I totally understand her pain, and I think I am going to pay for her to have it done in Mexico. I really feel that this will be the best thing I ever did in my life!

Seriuosly? I would tell my mom to F OFF and never talk to her again until she had some respect. This sounds seriously messed up, and I know what our parents can do to us. I would get some therapy because her behavior is OUT OF CONTROL! Parents should be the MOST supportive and everyone else can fly a kite.

Get off the scale. Eat 500 calories. This is just my opinion, but i have noticed a lot of people on here complaining about a stall and then saying a week to two weeks later the stall was over. No offense to anyone, but it seems a bit obsessive. The weight is going to come off. Just throw the scale away and start living! I am sure it will come! That is unless you did it in Mexico and they just cut you open and didn't remove anything. JUST A JOKE PEOPLE! Ok, you are going to do what you are going to do and we all went through this to lose weight and made drastic changes to have drastic results. But I can't imagine not losing at 500 calories.

Why are you eating the pizza. Just eat a cup of cucumbers with a little drizzle of dressing. If you go for pizza, look at it and SAY NO and then immediately pick up the salt shaker and douse the damn thing in salt. This is what I did a restaurants when I still was eating on a plate of food any wasn't hungry anymore! EAT EGG WHITES OR AN EGG. The bread is a no-no. Just eat the topping on the pizza and don't eat the bread. Just think (if you didn't cook the pizza yourself) that someone in the back jizzed on it. Your doing great, but maybe eat something else first.

That first liquidy poop is the BEST! It will come! Mine was 4 days after so anytime now!

THE LUMP IS KILLING ME! But I just read it is ACID REFLUX. It could be other things, but I am guess this is what it is since alot of people have it. Burps don't even really make it go away it is swelling. I guess that is one of the reasons why people are on Prilosec or Prevacid.

I don't even know you, but I want to call them now. UMMMMMM! HELLO! You can not stand for this. Where do you live? Can you go to another Hospital? I absolutely want to call them. I AM FURIOUS!

Ok so a week ago I did it. Today I have a lump in my throat that won't go away. I have had this prior to being sleeved, but it has been so long I can't remember. it is super annoying. What is it???? And number 2, shortness of breath. I seriously can't walk up a flight of stairs without being winded. I am more winded than I was before. Anyone? On a more postive note I am down 23 pounds. 6 pounds leading up to my surgery and 17 this week. How much does your 85% of stomach weigh I also bought numerous amounts of egg substitutes and eggs. Next monday I can eat eggs, and I will eat them FOREVER! I will get my Protein in with EGGS! EGGS! EGGS! I LOVE EGGS! And...I weighed myself at work, but I will commit to not weighing myself anymore except at Doctor's visits. I DO NOT WANT TO BE A SLAVE TO THE SCALE!

just on more thing....doctors think we are retarded so they don't explain things in depth. yes you need cards, yes you really need Protein...research ketosis. some are for it and some are against it. but our bodies were never designed to handle this food we have in this country now.

your body has to stay in ketosis to lose the weight. that being said...500 calories a day until you reah your goal. i did a liquid diet before i decided to do the sleeve. they put you into ketosis. 1000 calories is way too many in the weightloss stage. look it up. i am not a doctor, but you can buy ketosis strips to see if you are in it. it is all about calories. that really is the bottom line. i believe it.

i told everyone. only one of my co-workers was supportive, the others were, let's just say i don't think they really cared or they kept their feelings to themselves. I will, in our next meeting, ask that no one really say anything about it it anyway ever again and I am going to straight up tell my boss that my performance during the healing phase will not change so don't go blaming my weight loss surgery if i forget to do something. she will most certainly blame te surgery, but i am back to work on monday. only 6 days to get better. i think she would have had a heart attack if i took two weeks. she is nuts.

Finally farted and pooped and felt relief from gas pain There is still a bunch of rumbling going on, but I know I will poop again soon. So right now the only pain I have is from the two incisions on the left...you looking at me...my right. They aren't easing up. I still can not drink much of anything, but I found that water actually goes down the easiest. sipping is no problem because i take myself back to childhood. I used to poke a little hole in a soda can and drink the whole thing through this tiny little hole. I was really tired today, but once I got some protein in I felt better. I need to really find some shakes that taste good or where i can make mini ones with my own powder so i don't let it sit too long. I am just drinking clear protein drinks. I maybe feel a little acid down there, but nothing too bad. I am feeling pretty good today even with the pain. I do sill take the pain meds..they just help to take the edge off. I bought a belt you wrap around your tummy to hold in my gut and that helps with the pain, All in all i feel sort of good. I maybe am hungry, but not sure if it is acid. i wish could just try some applesauce now, but i will be ok. the hunger or acid isn't that bad where i find myself about to lose it. so that is my update. still at home. i have to go to work on Monday so I am going to cherish these next two days and hope that the incision pain does away.

i just can't drink anymore I am going to explode. I doubt I got three cups in today. 8 cups...how am i gonna do it. i feel like i never stop sipping and i just want to take a nap. after how many days of just three cups before i should call my doctor. i brought those tiny medicine cups from the hospital, but i can't find them. i only have the teaspoon, table spoon thingys and i don't know how much an ounce is. they said an ounce every 15 minutes.

I paid for it. Insurance didn't cover it even if I was approved. Some companies don't include it to keep costs down, And what would happen if all the fat people in the world stopped eating Mcdonald's and corn based products. No one wants us to be healthy. I financed through Care Credit. Zero percent for 18 months. Oh well. I will somehow make it work.