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You won't have any problems until after your surgery, then you will stop receiving courteous treatment or help.

I can't wait to....
.....Tell Lane Bryant to kiss my butt...
.....Take a bath and have more than 40% of my body covered by water! (I miss baths)

I can't wait to....
.....Tell Lane Bryant to kiss my butt...
.....Take a bath and have more than 40% of my body covered by water! (I miss baths)

I'll toss in another perspective. Our culture has dictated specific ideals of beauty, which can be difficult to escape. What I am finding (and have learned before but didn't acknowledge) is that confidence is sexy..period. Men are much less complicated than we perceive.
Own yourself, project confidence, feel good about yourself, and there is no stopping you.

I am in the same spot! What a great feeling! I skipped size 16 completely and went right into 14.

I am in the same spot! What a great feeling! I skipped size 16 completely and went right into 14.

I am in the same spot! What a great feeling! I skipped size 16 completely and went right into 14.

I am in the same spot! What a great feeling! I skipped size 16 completely and went right into 14.

I can't wait to....
.....Tell Lane Bryant to kiss my butt...
.....Take a bath and have more than 40% of my body covered by water! (I miss baths)

I can't wait to....
.....Tell Lane Bryant to kiss my butt...
.....Take a bath and have more than 40% of my body covered by water! (I miss baths)

I will be happy when I am not having my Asian Mom not give me those disapproving glances when I eat and to her not saying " your so pretty but just dont gain any more weight". I am tired of the the "Skinny B!tches" checking my husband out and giving their looks of disbelief when they see who he is with (me) I will be "Skinny B!tch" too only maybe not so much a B!tch.Knowing my Mother in law won't be talking about my weight to my husbands entire family behind my back and instead she will be talking and speculating on the lack there of but I am not telling her a thing . I look forward to not getting Fat Girl Rash on my thighs where they rub together when I wear dresses in the summer. Wearing a swimsuit that isn't black and doesn't look like an old lady suit. Not always feeling like a "Schlumpadinka" in my clothes,

Not to be indelicate, but I'd love to be able to see my junk without a mirror.

Please let us know what the doc said. I expected a more dramatic weight loss at first myself. Happily, I found this forum and realized that my body has it's own strict schedule, it just doesn't let me know what it is, ...secretive and illogical. I think my body works for the government sometimes.
But eventually the forms were attended to, the check was in the mailbox, and the fat came off. So shall it be for you.

I got sleeved for one reason: to conceive a child! I have spent over $36,000 trying IVF but was too heavy and miscarried. I have my whole life to lose weight but now it's focusing on a baby. Thanks for being such a bunch of insensitive assholes.

I don't know but I'm subscribing to this thread.

I dye mine red......as a warning. Lol!

I tell people it's why my boyfriend dumped me shortly after the surgery. He was jealous mine were bigger than his. lol

I'm 5 weeks out, I can only "stomach" (pun intended) about 600-700 calories. Doc says I need to drink the extra calories (about 1000 a day he says) since I can't eat them. Even drinking is a trial but I can get a Starbucks Tall down over the course of an hour. I find every week I am doing better, I definitely am getting more variety now so that's good.

Every one of these doctors has their own rules, that in itself is crazy, so you get on here, see all the conflicting advice and it makes you more crazy. I really just posted this because I thought it added a bit of levity as it was so unexpected. I went in because I was achy and feeling like I was getting the flu or something.
Stomlin-the net is FULL of conflicting stories but the NUT directed me here for best explanation.
http://www.builtlean.com/2010/04/27/starvation-mode-are-you-eating-enough/
I'm thinking the Ensure or Boost is the way to go, I cannot endure another Protein shake, one already kills me.

I just read about Panera's Hidden Menu today. You won't see it anywhere in the store. You have to request an item specifically from the Hidden Menu.
Here are photos and descriptions of the choices:
http://mypanera.panerabread.com/articlestips/article/access-into-paneras-hidden-menu/
And nutritional information:
The so-called hidden menu has six items, including the power Breakfast egg white bowl with roasted turkey (180 calories; 25g protein), the power Breakfast egg bowl with steak (230 calories; 20g protein), power Mediterranean chicken salad (360 calories; 35g protein), power Mediterranean roasted turkey salad (320 calories; 22g protein), power chicken hummus bowl (330 calories; 33g protein) and the power steak lettuce wrap (280 calories; 28g protein).
I can't wait to try the Power Breakfast Egg White Bowl!

Lately I've seen a TON of posts about lucky sleevers that drop 100 pounds in six months.
Congrats to them and to their loss. And I would never, ever begrudge anyone the right to crow about a fantastic success. It's part of why we're all here, to share the ups and downs of this surgery!
But frequently, these posts are followed by folks that feel frustrated because they aren't losing at the same pace. All too often, we forget that everyone loses at a different pace. It's easy to lose sight of the real goal (long term maintenance) in the face of the scale goals we set for ourselves. And it's also easy to forget that this isn't a race and that there's no special prize waiting at the end for reaching goal more quickly.
I would like to contribute my loss pattern so that people can see that there is more than one way to achieve a goal. Being successful is about reaching your personal goals, overcoming your personal food demons and maintaining your weight loss for life. It's not about hitting goal in nine months.
I encourage everyone else with a slow loss story to contribute their successes here as well. It's hard to research this surgery and find only the stories about extremes - people completely thrilled with surgery or people that regret every minute of life post op. The same goes for loss. When people search out stories on this, it's too easy to only find rapid loss or stall posts but nothing showing the more realistic and moderate journey many of us take. The sleeve is a permanent tool that does not have a special window of easy weight loss. There is no reason to feel discouraged when you haven't reached goal at one year out, or even two. There is nothing preventing you (short of your own body's natural stopping point) from achieving or re-achieving goal at any point post op.
I lost 60 pounds in the first five months after my surgery.
And I slowly lost 32 pounds over the next seven months.
It took me another five months to shed the final 15 pounds to my goal.
I lost 107 pounds over the course of 17 months. I stalled twice for nine weeks each time. I had months where I only lost one pound. I regularly experienced a gain of three pounds around my cycle, and often only lost weight in the last week to ten days of the month, after sitting at the same weight for nearly three weeks.
I am a success, and at 2.5 years out (and currently pregnant) I still have good, healthy eating habits and maintained my weight loss quite easily. Even 30 weeks pregnant, I am still wearing a size 6/small (in maternity clothes, of course) regardless of how I feel about my expanding body!
I learned what was important on this journey and am in better health today (not just physically, but mentally and emotionally), than I have ever experienced as an adult.
Good luck to those currently on their journey, and I encourage everyone to share their stories here so that newly sleeved folks can see that slow vs. fast loss doesn't really matter in the end.
~Cheri

Hmmm maybe I should become a MFP troll.

Then being on this website is like a ticking time bomb for you....and don't even think about MyFitnessPal. I got a PM the other day on there because someone noticed I ate a kit kat. Holy Jeeez....the kit kat police.

Today I had my post surgery follow up and my doctor and NUT said something to me that nobody has said in years. He looked at me and said, your weight loss is great but I need you to eat more calories, stop for a milk shake or get a Frappacino if that's what you fancy. You have my blessing to do what it takes.
After I picked my jaw up I just laughed. Good news is I've lost 37 pounds!

Today I had my post surgery follow up and my doctor and NUT said something to me that nobody has said in years. He looked at me and said, your weight loss is great but I need you to eat more calories, stop for a milk shake or get a Frappacino if that's what you fancy. You have my blessing to do what it takes.
After I picked my jaw up I just laughed. Good news is I've lost 37 pounds!