mlkthomas

Happy Holday's to All!! It's amazing how well we all are doing! Feels good to see that our hard work is paying off. I've been doing good just trying to get my protein in and exercise when I can. Feels so good to be off majority of my medicines and return to the workplace. My journey started off with congestive heart failure and cardiac arrythmia which had me on at least 9 different medicines which caused me to be put on long disability. So, we decided that the sleeve will help me and it has changed my life! Only on 4 meds, all the vitamins and released off disability Jan 2013!! THANK GOD for the sleeve and my September Sleevers!! Reading your blogs and status has lifted my spirits and gave me so much encouragement!!

We are all doing great! Remember what we looked like and felt like before September 2012...Faith is trusting the process of letting go!! blessed, faith and not giving up!!

Stay lifted and prayed up!! Where there is a will there is a way!!

I'm in! DOS weight: 248 Today's weight: 226 Goal weight for Thanksgiving day: 211 We can do this!!

Please add me: mlkthomas

Congrats!! It's a journey but well worth it!!

Thanks, sorry I have been offline the last couple of days. Chicken breast and scrambled eggs seem to give me the stuck feeling. I retained so much fluid before my surgery due to my heart problems. So, I believe a lot of that was fluid that I lost.

Thank you! I've lost 22 lbs post surgery and it feels good. I just have a problem getting certain food down...stuck feeling. Chew very well but no more than 2-4 oz. Water and protein shakes no problem.

@Ich256 and @SAAH'SMom, it's encouraging to see that ya'll are doing so well! Reading some of these post makes me have mixed feelings....what's right and wrong. So, I follow my NUT directions. I'm 4 weeks tomorrow post-sleeve and I feel blessed but I know I have a long journey ahead! Become friends on MFP my ID name is mlkthomas

Tomorrow will be 1 month since surgery. I'm still having the stuck feeling with certain foods. I just want to be able to sit down to eat and everything goes down easy. Getting my water intake and protein shakes are very easy....why is food so hard?? Tuna, fish and popsicle are my best friend. This is very hard to meet my calorie goal......just keeping the hope and faith this too shall pass. @MDM0927, I'm going to try almonds I'm mlkthomas on myfitnesspal....join me!

I buy mine from Walmart and HEB. I'm so tired of the protein shakes, I'm going to have to start mixing some fruit with them to give them different takes. I so want a diet dr. pepper!

Thanks for helping me keep the strength...newgrandmother, ready4change77, MDM0927, and Justin13!! I'm still on liquids but so tired of the soups, protein shakes and JELLO!! I'm keep plenty of fluid down by mixing the Special K20 pink lemonade protein to my water. But I so want some food other than liquids, my doctor requires 3 weeks I cooked smoothered pork steaks, broccoli rice casserole for my family today and survived