Thistlegirl

I'm gonna try a poached egg tomorrow morning. Do u think 2 eggs is too much?

But all of that being said in my previous comment, I think they tell people that to get their asses into gear. I think what they are trying to do is create a sort of "now or never" mentality in hopes that it will shock people into action. Because I do think that if you cannot make some significant headway while the surgery is still fresh and new, the thinking is that you never will.
If your stalling at 4 months out, throwing the rules to the wind and frequenting the local fast food joints and have not made any significant headway or have completely hit the brakes on weight loss, chances are you probably will never get with the program again. Its a sad but true assessment of bariatric patients. Of course that does not apply to everyone and its obviously a generalizations but where there is smoke there is fire and there is a reason why its a general assumption.... GENERALLY it's true.

As it pertains to the sleeve, there really isn't one. I'm seeing some posts here that say things like, "I really need to make the first six months count because my surgeon told me loss slows after that," or "My surgeon told me I won't lose after a year and will be in maintenance at that point."
This causes a panic and pressures patients to lose the weight as quickly as possible. It also causes a lot of people to feel frustrated or like they've made a poor decision with the sleeve if they aren't dropping five pounds a week!
With every WLS the patient is going to lose the most weight in the first few months post op. It's purely logical. We go from eating far too many calories a day to eating almost nothing. We go weeks on a liquid diet. Even once we're on solid food, our capacity is so limited that it's laughable. In addition, almost everyone is diligent about diet and exercise at first. OF COURSE we see rapid results when we're in this stage!
Many people see a slower loss from months six onward. OF COURSE they do. It doesn't mean the sleeve has stopped working and we need to panic because we're not at goal yet. It means that we're closer to goal and our bodies are losing at a slower pace. It's also our bodies compensating and adjusting because we lost so much in the earlier phase of life post op.
Does loss slow from one year onward? OF COURSE it does! At one year out most people are close to or more than one hundred pounds lighter. We have less weight to lose, and yes, once we're at that point it does come off more slowly. If you're a lightweight and had less than 100 pounds to lose, expect this slowing sooner. Again, the closer you are to goal, the harder to get those final pounds off.
That does not mean the sleeve works any differently. In fact, it's the same from day one. The sleeve is restrictive and that's what it does: it restricts the quantity of food you can eat in a sitting. It does NOT cause malabsorption which is going to speed up your weight loss. I've seen the study that was posted about dumping with the sleeve, but even that is not going to majorly affect your loss pattern. Your sleeve does not stretch like a bypass pouch, either. Your capacity will vary, but in my case, at about nine months post op I was double what I could fit at first with solids, and at around two years that doubled again. Sounds scary...until you realize that I'm talking about fitting in roughly 6-12 ounces of food at a time, depending on what I'm eating. That's FAR less than a pre-op stomach.
So this idea of a "honeymoon" is misleading.
In some respects, yes, there is an easier period of loss. But this is not due to the sleeve working more effectively. Our bodies do not look at a calendar and say, "Oh, wow, we're closing in on one year post op and so let's just transition to maintenance and stop losing now." It simply doesn't work that way.
Your sleeve will work as long as you work your sleeve. When you give up and slide into maintenance or worse, into bad habits, is when you'll see the loss stop. Outside of your body's own limits on loss, there is nothing stopping anyone from achieving goal at any point post op.
I just wanted to post this because we really do see a lot of questions about this and a lot of panicked posts because people aren't losing as rapidly as they want. We put on the weight over the course of many years - we cannot expect it to fall off in less than one year. Some people will fly to goal in a short period of time, but they are the lucky minority. The rest of us need to work at it and it's a longer process than a few short months.
Good luck!
~Cheri

I won't miss automatically going straight to the accessories because I know this store or online store does not have my size.
I won't miss just dealing with my long hair because I can't stand having to sit that long and look at myself while getting my hair cut.

Here are things I don't miss...
Barely fitting into seats at concerts.
Not having a style, I can now buy things that I like, as opposed to buying because they fit.
Being the biggest person in the group
Chub rub on my pants
Shopping at plus size stores

Hi everyone
I'm in Paisley Scotland and getting sleeved March 26th by Mr Galloway in Glasgow.
Great to see everyone doing so well.
I've got a 2 week low fat diet to follow so fingers crossed I can do that. Trying to cut down at the moment as my joints are really aching and I'm at my highest weight ever
As a failed bandster I am determined to make this op work for me.
Just have major issues about dying and leaving my wee girl alone. But trying not to panic too much....
gilx

Hi guys
I've been lurking about for a bit but thought I'd finally say Hi as I've finally got my date for surgery.
I am based in the UK and had a band op in Belgium (self funded) in 2005. I loved it and lost a lot of weight quickly. Met a guy and fell in love so didn't worry too much about losing anymore. I messed about big time with my fills. And was never really happy after the initial honeymoon period.
I suffered with reflux whenever I had any restriction therefore my band was quite loose a lot of the time so I started regaining. I fell pregnant unexpectedly in 2009 and me & my partner split - cue massive emotional eating (and eating 'for 2')
I had problems with getting a fill last year and under xray they discovered my band had slipped so now I have been offered a sleeve and am very lucky to be getting it on the NHS. I luckily have no co-morbidities but am suffering hip, knee and foot pain quite badly.
I made my decision that I need to give another op a try and am excited at having another bite at the cherry while also worrying that I'll sabotage this op as I did the band and ultimately that I'll die and leave my little girl all alone...
The fear of dying is paralysing me and combined with stress at work I've been signed off for a couple of weeks. So now I have the chance to come on and immerse myself in 'sleeve talk'.
Thankfully over the past few days I've decided to try cut out the junk food and help get healthy for the op. Not easy as when my 3yr old is acting up I am craving chocolate and crisps hehe.
Well thanks for letting me share, hope to be speaking to you all a bit more during my journey.....
gilx

Hi guys
I've been lurking about for a bit but thought I'd finally say Hi as I've finally got my date for surgery.
I am based in the UK and had a band op in Belgium (self funded) in 2005. I loved it and lost a lot of weight quickly. Met a guy and fell in love so didn't worry too much about losing anymore. I messed about big time with my fills. And was never really happy after the initial honeymoon period.
I suffered with reflux whenever I had any restriction therefore my band was quite loose a lot of the time so I started regaining. I fell pregnant unexpectedly in 2009 and me & my partner split - cue massive emotional eating (and eating 'for 2')
I had problems with getting a fill last year and under xray they discovered my band had slipped so now I have been offered a sleeve and am very lucky to be getting it on the NHS. I luckily have no co-morbidities but am suffering hip, knee and foot pain quite badly.
I made my decision that I need to give another op a try and am excited at having another bite at the cherry while also worrying that I'll sabotage this op as I did the band and ultimately that I'll die and leave my little girl all alone...
The fear of dying is paralysing me and combined with stress at work I've been signed off for a couple of weeks. So now I have the chance to come on and immerse myself in 'sleeve talk'.
Thankfully over the past few days I've decided to try cut out the junk food and help get healthy for the op. Not easy as when my 3yr old is acting up I am craving chocolate and crisps hehe.
Well thanks for letting me share, hope to be speaking to you all a bit more during my journey.....
gilx

Wanted to update everyone that my doctors office called today and has bumped up my surgery to February 28!

I think when you've been overweight basically your whole life, you get used to not feeling "worth it" or feeling like you don't deserve the best. We get used to failing. We have to STOP this way of thinking. We ARE worth it. We CAN do it. When we start our pre op diets, we just have to keep thinking that we CAN, and we WILL, and we are WORTH THE TROUBLE, damn it.

Hi guys
I've been lurking about for a bit but thought I'd finally say Hi as I've finally got my date for surgery.
I am based in the UK and had a band op in Belgium (self funded) in 2005. I loved it and lost a lot of weight quickly. Met a guy and fell in love so didn't worry too much about losing anymore. I messed about big time with my fills. And was never really happy after the initial honeymoon period.
I suffered with reflux whenever I had any restriction therefore my band was quite loose a lot of the time so I started regaining. I fell pregnant unexpectedly in 2009 and me & my partner split - cue massive emotional eating (and eating 'for 2')
I had problems with getting a fill last year and under xray they discovered my band had slipped so now I have been offered a sleeve and am very lucky to be getting it on the NHS. I luckily have no co-morbidities but am suffering hip, knee and foot pain quite badly.
I made my decision that I need to give another op a try and am excited at having another bite at the cherry while also worrying that I'll sabotage this op as I did the band and ultimately that I'll die and leave my little girl all alone...
The fear of dying is paralysing me and combined with stress at work I've been signed off for a couple of weeks. So now I have the chance to come on and immerse myself in 'sleeve talk'.
Thankfully over the past few days I've decided to try cut out the junk food and help get healthy for the op. Not easy as when my 3yr old is acting up I am craving chocolate and crisps hehe.
Well thanks for letting me share, hope to be speaking to you all a bit more during my journey.....
gilx

You can fix this TODAY. Pick up a nice bottle of wine, if you need to. :ph34r:

Hi guys
I've been lurking about for a bit but thought I'd finally say Hi as I've finally got my date for surgery.
I am based in the UK and had a band op in Belgium (self funded) in 2005. I loved it and lost a lot of weight quickly. Met a guy and fell in love so didn't worry too much about losing anymore. I messed about big time with my fills. And was never really happy after the initial honeymoon period.
I suffered with reflux whenever I had any restriction therefore my band was quite loose a lot of the time so I started regaining. I fell pregnant unexpectedly in 2009 and me & my partner split - cue massive emotional eating (and eating 'for 2')
I had problems with getting a fill last year and under xray they discovered my band had slipped so now I have been offered a sleeve and am very lucky to be getting it on the NHS. I luckily have no co-morbidities but am suffering hip, knee and foot pain quite badly.
I made my decision that I need to give another op a try and am excited at having another bite at the cherry while also worrying that I'll sabotage this op as I did the band and ultimately that I'll die and leave my little girl all alone...
The fear of dying is paralysing me and combined with stress at work I've been signed off for a couple of weeks. So now I have the chance to come on and immerse myself in 'sleeve talk'.
Thankfully over the past few days I've decided to try cut out the junk food and help get healthy for the op. Not easy as when my 3yr old is acting up I am craving chocolate and crisps hehe.
Well thanks for letting me share, hope to be speaking to you all a bit more during my journey.....
gilx