weight_no_longer

Just an update on my 1 week post op weigh in. I have lost a total of 6.5kgs.

13.1kgs all up.

hey aussie kelloff, did u have a pre-op diet? & how long for? Im also in Oz & dont have a pre-op diet, only have to fast from the night before surgery. Congrats on the loss so far, thats awesome !

2 weeks tomorrow is my surgery with Dr. Patrick White! While I am excited about beginning this new chapter in my life (and finally taking care of me)' date=' I have some reservations!

I am a RN and know all the potential complications of surgery. What has been going through my mind lately is what if something unexpected happens? I am only 41, have 2 boys age 7 and 11, and have about 90# to loose. Is it worth it? I know my risk are low for complications (I am otherwise healthy, no HTN or diabetes, ect), but the what ifs have been bothering me:( On the other hand, I wouldn't hesitate to have an operation that was necessary, so why am I worried about this? I think I have had too much time to think about it! LOL. Thanks for listening!

Has anyone else had these feelings?

Has anyone had any serious complications?[/quote']

I totally understand, Im 43, have 4 kids and am single. my bmi is not one of the highest -35 & i have about 100 pounds to lose. I find myself worrying about what if something unexpected should happen, what would happen to my kids, I have no family support & have just moved to a new state where I dont know many people. Im not scared for me, Im scared for my kids if something should happen to me. I have about 4 weeks til my surgery date. I do wish I could just lose weight on my own but Im 43 Ive tried long enough without success. I know for myself if I dont have this surgery now I will just gain more weight, have more weight related complications & a higher bmi. If we leave it, maybe in a few years this will be a necessary operation. Lets just do this now so we can look back in the next few months and be happy that our kids have a happier, healthier mum. We are going to do fine!!

my doctor has never had a leak!! he staples and then stiches also to prevent them happening. After reading these stories Im feeling a little scared though ...

totally agree with you jlewis, i know there are guys that want to date me but not necessarily the ones i am attracted to. i know im a good person, funny, confident, smart but i'm also fat!! and i know when my weight comes off my options will broaden. i dont think its right but it is reality!

best of luck Texarkolina, im not trying to go against what your Doctor has said in any way but some people dont have to do a pre-op diet at all. sounds like u made a wise choice in what u did eat. there is no way i could stick to a liquid diet, if i could i wouldnt need this surgery!! keep up the good work & dont listen to the negativity ... for every negative post you will get twice as many positive ones

great news, all the best patrick

Yea' date=' unfortunately, women can be mean and jealous! I don't like this aspect of our kind!!

I have too have experienced this first hand ... I've told the story before, but I will tell again (now I find it amusing).

Just after my sleeve - nearly 2 yrs ago - a friend of mine saw how I was losing weight. She had just had a baby and was caring extra weight. OUt of the blue, like so many other stories, she became a diet and exerise 'expert'. She worked out 7 days a week and hardly ate a thing - her mother had her two kids for her to do this btw.

She kept telling me how many inches she was losing, howmany pounds she had lost and what size she was. This would be followed by a half hearted question about my own weight loss. She knew about my sleeve.

She used me as competition. She couldn't stand the thoought of me being smaller than her... I have ALWAYS been the biggest in our friendship group.

She even gave me her clothes that were 'too big' for her, these included several maternity trousers. She explained this by stating that: 'I know your problem area is your tummy, so these are perfect!' Implying that I looked pregnant!

Anyway, fast forward two years... here I am currently maintaining at my 72lb weight loss and I fit nicely into a UK14.

My friend however, has put a lot of weight back on and is now a good 14lbs if not more heavier than me and at least one clothing size bigger.

I have not said ANYTHING about her weight gain. I have been tempted to pay back her back handed compliments, but I am being the bigger -metaphorically of course - person!

Try to ignore comments with negative undertones and outright negative elements... this is your experience. This is your time to get healthy, fit and happy.... bugger everyone else!!

Good luck to you ... =']

pass her maternity clothes back to her lol

AUGUST SLEEVERS:

8.2.12-allnewme-dr Alvarez MX

8.3.12-Made2beme- Dr Garcia MX

8.6.12-Aug62012-Dr Brengman Richmond VA

Arukind-Dr. Ross Seattle WA

Stormwarning-Dr Alvarez Mx

8.8.12-Futureskinnypants - Dr morris washington Sc

Forensikchic (*1 YEAR SURGIVERSARY!!!!)

8.10.12-thetruedream- Dr Almanza MX

8.13.12-harleymb-Dr Spaw

Nustartintx-Dr collier TX

Sabstar22-Dr. Almanza Mx

Southern Oregon-Dr Ortiz

Mickey- Dr Arnold- Dallas TX

8.14.12- strawberrysoul-Dr. Almanza MX

8.17.12- Beanieandrosiesmom- Dr. Rodriquez MX

Lisa1977

8.20.12- Audrey523- Dr. Yatco NYC

Shoe_vixen- Dr rosen Chicago

Skye-Dr. Joyce

8.23.12 MGM-Dr. Kelly MX

beanzilla Dr Garcia MX

msleo64- (*1 year surgiversary!!!)

8.24.12 Weight_no_longer

8.30.12 Runner

Hey all Here's the latest list. I'm super excited that the time is flying by! I went yesterday and got a few comfy outfits since im going to the beach for my surgery. It's going to be hot. I'm having a party (a christmas in july' date=' surprise birthday party ) for my best friend whos birthday is on christmas. It's going to be 3 days before my pre op starts! I'm almost to that "month til pre op diet" mark

Hope everyone is doing well. Keep in touch after you start your pre op diet's and we can be eachothers support systems! Please take a minute and hit the little rating star at the top of the thread! I'd like as many other august sleevers to see this as possible.

Talk to you all soon

PS, what is YOUR pre op diet?

Mine is 2 weeks Protein shakes....and i believe sugar free Jello.

my friend is having it and said her doc said she can eat whatever but has to drink Protein Shakes too (that doesnt make sense to me . )

Another friend on here had it for 3 days (protein shakes)

and another person had shakes but could eat chicken and steak as well. His diet was basically the Atkins induction phase. [/quote']

hi skinnypants, thanks for keeping this list, its great to see who our fellow august sleevers are and their dates. Im in Australia & having my surgery with Dr Dolan. Also what is the rating star?? Im on my phone ...maybe a different layout?

My pre op diet started jan 17. I have a very strict diet. I have had to lose 10% ofmy weight to qualify for surgery.

My diet is 1 cup of foods 3 times a day. So 3 cups of food per day

Nothing fried' date=' no eating out, no cheese, no bananas, no caffeine, only Water to drink. Can have 1 cup of skim milk per day.

I have to keep a food journal to be checked at my monthly weigh ins. If you gain any weight during this time you are put on probation, gain any more and it's game over.[/quote']

wow you are doing great thats hard work !!! keep it up its going to be worth it

I am just so glad that I had this operation. I have not felt this happy for years. I find myself just sitting here smiling. I wake up smiling. I get dressed smiling. I drive to work singing my heart out' date=' happy as a pig in muck. I am usually a happy person, but this happiness, this absolute joy? This is new. I am just so, so grateful that I had this opportunity to transform my life and improve my health.

Despite the heartburn, the Constipation, the pain of a pulled stitch and the full time job that is keeping hydrated.

I am just so damn happy!

Had to share with all of you as I am driving my family crazy :-)

Sent from my iPad using VST[/quote']

thank you! you have made my day!! This is EXACTLY how I want my life to be!! Im sure Im going to come back & re-read this post many times waiting for my surgery date to arrive. Feel free to keep posting these positive messages. Im certainly going to be reading them

Over the past two weeks I have all but stopped going to the gym and I've been eating crap. I went to the dollar general this morning and bought chips' date=' dip, and mini candy bars. Why am I doing this to myself?

I feel like crap afterward but the compulsion to buy the stuff and eat it was more powerful than my willpower to overcome.

It makes me wonder if I'll even be successful post sleeve.[/quote']

Im doing this also... why cant I be more in control? grrrrr! angry at myself!

So' date=' today is the beginning of my new life. I'm getting ready to leave for the hospital. I have to be there at 5:30. My surgery is scheduled for 7:30...wish me luck!

Little Bits[/quote']

best of luck, cant wait to hear how it all went, keep us all updated

Hi guys I am also having my surgery in WA. Mines booked for 6th July with Dr Jon Armstrong in Perth

hi mishy, great to see someone else from Perth here, you are ahead of me so you will have to keep me informed on how you go when the time comes. My date is 24 August with dr dolan. Do you have to do a pre-op diet? I havent been told to do one, only fast from the night before surgery.

Hi

Surgery in Canberra' date=' Australia on Wednesday of last week all went fine, no dramas at all.

Starting weight 106kg / 233lbs (after preop)

Current weight 102kg/ 224lbs (5 days)

Day 1 - walking around the ward, zero pain with the exception of getting out of bed 1st time and closing one super heavy slide door

Day 2 - 3 ice cubes, still zero pain

Day 3 - More ice cubes, about 500ml of apple juice, still zero pain (except the cannula in an annoying spot)

Day 4 - A litre of apple juice, Some orange juice, released from hospital, still nada on the pain scale

Day 5 - 3 full Optifast shakes, 1.5L of water/iced tea - feeling awesome

Day 6 - 3 full Optifast shakes, some banana custard, 1.5L of Water - Feeling awesome even did some baking (for others) and cleaned the house

Is this right?

No pain, No problems drinking Water, juice, cordial, no problems drinking my optifast or eating custard - nada!

Im not full, I don't want food but I drink my opti because I don't want my hair to fall out... I sleep on my stomach

Not even any gas pain, anywhere...

Went to maccas today to get a friend her morning coffee - nada - didn't want anything, didn't feel like I was missing out...

Im happy about the no pain thing, but also really concerned about how easy the drinking of the shakes is (the full shakes) Not really even trying too hard to sip or anything.

hmmmmmm

surgeon said he took out 75% of my stomach, and its now the size of...well if u put your two thumbs on top of each other in the straight line, sorta so the nails/tips of the thumbs are the connection...(perhaps pretend your singing 'tragedy') so shouldn't I feel full, even though its just liquid, its thick liquid?

Thanks [/quote']

wow, im in Australia also & having my surgery in WA in August. Ihope my surgery goes as well as yours has, Im getting scared as my date gets closer but fingers crossed it will be as breasy as yours has been . best wishes for great success

I ditto what Lissa stated! You are not done losing weight' date=' in fact, you have just begun! I can't wait for you to experience putting on your slacks in the AM and by mid afternoon, suddenly, they're baggy! Such an awesome NSV! Hang in there, it will happen over night. [/quote']

OMG does this really happen?? I cannot wait for this day!!!

add me also everyone, im new on there & not sure how to send friend request yet... weight_no_longer is my user name

wow u look amazing!

What I should have said to you is this....if you read the entire thread you will see that I already admitted to being judgemental and I stated I would try not to do it again. That doesn't change my desire for more people to be open about their surgery' date=' and I will still encourage people to share their story. But I recognize that it is each person's right to keep it private.

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I have read the entire thread & yes you did say you would try not to be so judgemental... so please dont be so harsh on people who see this journey differently to you. Alot of overweight people already have low self esteem. The last thing they need from this 'support' group is to be judged so harshly for wanting to keep this to themselves. Voice your opinion freely but not judgementally. Thank you for realising its the individual's right to keep this private.

What's childish and immature is you attacking and name calling because myself and others said something that you don't like. So many people say "this" or "that" is not a lie. I disagree and say it is. Your opinion.....my opinion. Why is that a problem?

Am I not allowed to call BS when I hear it? Am I not allowed to challenge people to do something outside their comfort zone? I'm going to guess that everyone who has had WLS had to step way out of their comfort zone the morning they got on that operating table.

In what part of what i said did I attack ? i said I dont like being called a liar because I choose not to tell anyone. Its not BS its just keeping my personal business to myself! Sounds like you have a problem with people having a different opinion to you!!!

What's killing me about this whole thread is that people are getting so upset. Everyone is accusing everyone else of 'attacking.' You know what it makes me feel like? It makes me feel like I can't be honest' date=' or express a differing opinion, without people accusing me of being a bully (or worse). I have NEVER set out to bully anyone EVER. I have NEVER told anyone that they are a bad person just because they have a different opinion than I do. We are all adults and should be able to have an open discussion without people getting upset because someone else is trying to come at the situation from a different point of view. You don't agree with me? Cool. Let's talk about it. Maybe we can each learn something. I'm not going to call you a bully because you think I'm wrong.

VST is usually such a wonderful place full of information and the experiences of many different people. I miss that...[/quote']

I have no problem with any differing opinions & in fact like to hear different points of view. I only became annoyed when the person that made the comment that by not telling others we are lying ... now thats a childish immature attacking comment!

To all the people who do not agree with my decision to not tell every person that I come in contact with' date=' well who are you to judge my decision. I did not come on here and start bashing you for revealing your personal medical decision, WLS, so don't bash me. I have told the people in my life that matter the most and to everyone else, its none of their business. I am not living a lie, just choosing who to tell and who not to. Throughout my life I have had other personal medical issues and I did not choose to broadcast them either. And I am no way embarressed about having WLS. It is one of the best choices I ever made but it is MY life and I choose to live it MY way.

And to the person 'Tell who you want or don't tell, but don't try to redefine the meaning of the word LIE just so you can feel better and make everyone else here feel better. Ok here goes-

lie/lī/ a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood.

I am not redefining the word lie to make myself feel better. It is bully people like you who bully others into having to think like you. Last time I looked this is a free country for all to live their lives the way they want.

I have not made any false statements or intended to deceive anyone or intentionally told non-truth information. I just do not give the personal details to people who I feel have no business knowing my personal life.[/quote']

Go Minnie !!! totally agree AGAIN!!

I also choose not to tell my co-workers except for the immediate 3 people that I am also friends with. I had my surgery 2/13. My family and a few close friends outside of work also know but noone else. It is nobody's business what you do. I just felt that people would judge me if I didn't succeed.My surgeon also told me that if I felt more comfortable not telling anyone at work that I could just tell them I was having abdominal hernia surgery. The length of hospital stay and the amount of time needed to be out of work coincides with hernia surgery. I am now 4 months post-op' date=' down 56 lbs and feel great. People are daily telling me how good I look and how am I losing the weight and I tell them that I went to a nutritionist ( not a lie ) and I am on a high Protein, low carb, low calorie diet.( also not a lie ) I also tell them that I eat much smaller portions ( again, not a lie ) I just omit the surgery part which is not lying just not revealing all the details. Good Luck with whatever desicion you make about your surgery but I just wanted to let you know it is possible not to tell people. Afterall, you wouldn't reveal personal information to everyone you came across so just think of your surgery like that.[/quote']

EXACTLY!!! its not lying choosing not to tell someone & if it were some other surgery would we feel the nned to have to tell everyone? Its a personal choice .... well said minnie

Not everyone has supportive people in their lives, the ones that do, you are blessed. Some people like myself feel that most people in my life would be unsupportive. And Its not always an issue of worrying what these unsupportive people think or say, sometimes it just that you dont want to deal with them. Also, not telling someone doesnt constitute lying, its just not telling them! Its a very personal journey & is up to the individual who they tell & who they dont. Anyone that wants to keep this surgery to themselves dont let others make you feel guilty for doing so.

So' date=' this sounds like I'm being dishonest, and to some degree, I guess I am. My son and his wife are having a baby just about the same time I'm having the surgery. I'm hoping before, but either way, I don't want them to worry about me. If it comes down to me being MIA for a couple days, I don't want them to know why, or exactly what I am doing. If necessary, can I get away with saying I'm in hospital for something more routine like gallbladder or spleen? Am I being a big jerk? I'm not really up to telling anyone I'm having the surgery, so far only my husband knows. I just don't feel like explaining details to people. Maybe long term I'll be ready to share, but from this point, I just don't want to.[/quote']

Im not telling anyone either! i feel its your business and up to u who you want to tell. im telling my son & daughter only. im not telling my parents because they will try & talk me out of it. my sisters & brother & parents are all slim/average size & expect that i should just be able to 'go on a diet' and lose the weight. Ive been on a diet for 40 years & it doesnt seem to be working lol. You are definitely not being a jerk & definitely not dishonest. Its your personal business. You dont have to tell anyone you dont want to tell. Im wondering also if i should say ive had a gall bladder op or maybe a bowel op... that should stop people wanting more in depth information lol

24 August here... cant wait!