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Well I'm still happy at the 10% love my wife happy with my lot love my crazy kids and not changing for nothin or no one .
things can only get better in the land of brilliant if my wife and kids could put up with me FAT then we were always meant to be together 100% fact oh and my wife can't read this so I'm not doing it for effect : ) so all you shallow cheaters out there you've just wasted your time with a wrong choice THiINK HARDER NEXT TIME

Hi friends, I have not been on here in some time because I honestly haven't had a reason to be...
I know a lot of people drop off and do not check in because these forums are of no real use to them once they move on with their lives, but I just want to chime in as someone a year out from surgery.
Dr. Kelly keeps in regular contact with me to see how my health is, and to say my results with him have surpassed expectations is an understatement!
I no longer suffer with the emotional ups and downs that I used to have associated with my meals. I am completely capable of choosing what is healthiest to eat, and eating that (AMAZING! I used to eat a package of oreos for a night time snack routinely). Not only is sugar and crap less enticing, it just does not taste the same. Feeling full is no longer quite the same feeling it was, of feeling "stuffed"- this is a hard concept to grasp until you actually get VSG.
After surgery, I hired a personal trainer and let them know about the surgery. I am now muscular yet curvy, I actually have "abs"- I actually model and have been asked to compete in fitness competitions! A year ago, I was obese!
I write this to let you know, though everyone gets different results for a variety of reasons, a huge part of why I am so happy with my surgery was Dr. Kelly. He was in contact with my regardless of who my coordinator was, when I had concerns he called me immediately, and followed up via e-mail. My surgery was a mere 38 minutes, and though I had lots of gas pain as I recovered, I truly had an amazingly easy recovery.
If you are considering him, or any other surgeon, do your research- but I can tell you, this was by far the best decision I have ever mede with my body. I went in with so much fear, and now if I could tell everyone considering VSG to get it, I would. I will never die of obesity complications like people in my family, I will never have to avoid vacations or places because I'm obese and cannot do certain things, I will never have to worry about the size of seats, or feel guilty because of how much I ate.

Omg you brought me to tears- your words are very inspiring and motivating... Thank you!! I hope to carry this in mind for my surgery!! I really need the support! I have no one to support me but my mom ... Everyone opposes or show no interest in my decision and its heart breaking... So I decided to make friends on here who have or will be experiencing the same life changing goal

August sleeve sisters, I'm in my room and doing well! I've already taken my first lap around the floor and it felt good to get up and move
Hope the rest of you that we t today are feeling as goos as I do. ❤

I can't wait for my mother to see me at goal weight. When I lost 90 lbs. with WW the first comment she made was "99% of people gain all the weight back." Never a congratulations. I won't get it this time, but I am going to show her I can do it again, and this time be prepared - her favorite response to ANY good news is to snort, roll her eyes and turn around (yes I know, this is what I really need to get OVER!)
And my next goal is to be too small for my wedding dress by next April 5th for my 10 year wedding anniversary. I got pregnant with my first child within months of the wedding and gained so much weight I wouldn't even pull the dress out and have it properly cleaned. It was just too depressing. I would love to have a portrait done with my husband in that dress. Of course he looks better than he did the first time! (And then post it to Facebook - not only because a college ex recently friended me!)

I cannot warn you away from Mirena fast enough. Great for 18 months, no period at all, just 30 lbs of weight gain IMMEDIATELY. Nothing else changed. Then the spotting started and continued constantly for two years. Yes ladies years. And to top it off even though insurance covered putting it in I had to pay $300 to get it out. I realized within minutes of having it removed that the horrible abdominal pressure i had been living with was gone. It is great birth control though because you sure never want to have sex!

Ok... no one's been this bold so far.... I want to be able to have sex with my hubby in any position we want! I'm tired of being limited by my size.
There, I said it!

This one is evil...I have already had one mini-victory when my ex-husband saw me a few months ago after not seeing me in over a year. He doesn't know I had surgery. We didn't speak but the look on his face was...priceless! Now I can't wait to run into him again so he can see how even better and happy I look. The woman he cheated with sent me a text last year with their picture saying "thank you for the best gift of my life, he is a better man without you". Now she is bigger than I was and they have a baby. I wont ever stoop to her level to send her a text...but you can sure bet I have been posting new pictures to FB and leaving them as public! :-)

I just don't want to end up like my dad - he takes 12 or so types of medication for everything from high blood pressure, hypertension, diabetes etc.
I just want to be healthy.

Going to mexico!!
The crazy thing is, I have never even considered going for surgery.
But something in me changed. I think mostly i am just fed up.
I was paying cash for my surgery where i live. Not only is it 3 times the cost of going to Mexico,
But I also paid 2k out of pocket for testing. Then when I had a date, i was so excited and then got a call that
I needed to be rescheduled for a month later. I had worked my butt off to jump through every hoop (not insurance company hoops)
I was heart broken. So, after reading through hundreds of posts on here, my husband and i sat down and made a decision.....Mexico!
I got in touch with Dr.Kelly yesterday and by the end of the day I had a surgery date, flights, everything!
I feel so at peace with my decision.
So now I have questions.......What is the area like? Did people go with you? Did you like the hospital/hotel? Did you feel safe?

" I saw a lot of the sleeve prices at 4400 and such, what are the prices? does your doctor do financing? How much is your TOTAL cost??? AND, non Mexico sleevers......are you insurance or self pay?
I am self-pay so am having my surgery with Dr. Kelly in Tijuana on August 31st. My total cost is $5500.
Dr. Kelly does not do financing but sends links to financing options. I am going to be financing it myself with my HELOC. I've run that by my financial adviser! Because I am freaking out about how a complication could affect our family so much I am also spending $720 on a supplemental insurance plan. I would with any doctor, so it's not just Mexico, it's the fact that my insurance covers no complications from elective surgery.
My flight is "free" using frequent flyer miles. So my total cost with freak-out factor is $6220!
BTW, yesterday I met a woman who's sister had the surgery in Mexico SIX years ago! She promptly showed me tons of photos on Facebook and the woman looks awesome! That made me feel so good!

I want to go to macy's try on beautiful clothes, wear a two piece suit again, feel comfortable and sassy in my body, visit my brother in Hawaii, Run, play soccer with my nieces, Go to a Water park and not worry if I will fit on the rides. Retake some wedding photos, with my original dress, taken in! Take a zumba class, yoga class and pilates water class without all the "judgy" looks...................

Thank you all, I think I will contact Omar and ask if this has ever come up and what they would suggest. I do have insurance, and though my HR department assures me it's "fantastic coverage", I find that it doesn't cover a whole heck of a lot! I contacted them and they were very clear that they would cover nothing related to a complication of elective surgery. So I have made sure my PCP has made no record of the Mexican Surgery.
I may have to trust this is going to work out and follow Dr. Kelly's directions to a T. And somehow allay my husbands fears also. He owns his own business and we really need to protect what we have in this economy!
Best Wishes!

We all are to be commended on taking this step to improve our health. Some may not be morbidly obese, but who is to say we wouldn't end up that way? That was where I was headed. I know with my few health problems, I had to do this because diets do not work. I have sleep apnea, depression, GERD and high cholesterol. No energy and lots of joint pain. Only 40 years old and I feel like I am 80. Let's all give ourselves a pat on the back and a toast to our health and wellbeing. No one should judge us....PERIOD.

I am going to MX alone on Wednesday. He definitely would have come with me, but I just wanted to sleep when I wanted, watch movies when I wanted, fart when I wanted, lol. With him there, I would have been worried he was bored, if he had eaten...

First, I'm sorry about your missing anniversary fireworks. That's a bummer. I'm one big walking hormone these days so if I had a husband, boyfriend or local Fw/B right now the poor man would be running from me and my demands for attitude adjustments! =)
The conversations in this thread are funny! Men don't do subtle and they want to be the hunter but they don't have crystal balls (thank goodness - that could hurt!), so how does a girl get the message across that she's interested without violating their need to hunt and being branded a tramp?
This is making me think about the Patches used on cows that change color when they were fertile and ready to inseminate... wouldn't something like that be a nice clear "hint"! =)