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Happy 1 year sleeve anniversary to my fellow December 2012 sleevers!

No matter how great or small your loss....you've come a long way baby ♡ you are not the same person you were a year ago ♡ so keep trucking and Celebrate life!!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS

HAPPY SLEEVE-A-VERSARY

HAPPY NEW YEAR

HAPPY NEW YOU, Celebrate LIFE

Today is my 1 year sleeversary! Time has past so quickly, this time last year I was a nervous wreck. I am so thankful for the 75lbs gone forever now just another 50 more for me to hit my personal weight loss goal by summer 2014

Thanks! I luv Panda Express!!!

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I really want A boneless wing from Wingstop....a lemon pepper flavored one at that!

That was my lemon pepper crack, I luv the stuff. I have not had any since November

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Praying for you and your girls

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That's all they been talking about on the news, glad your ok. Last I heard everyone attacked will is doing fine.

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I feel ya on that. I have a hard time ordering food knowing I'm only gonna eat about a fourth of it before I'm stuffed - I hate to waste the money. I don't always eat my leftovers, most of the time I end up throwing it away or my kids eat it up.

I luv my new tool, and all the weight I have lost because of it. I just hate feeling like I'm wasting money on food. I am starting to get my hubby to order stuff we can share, or I'll get one of my kids to order something we can shares....like everything else, its a work in process

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I feel ya on that. I have a hard time ordering food knowing I'm only gonna eat about a fourth of it before I'm stuffed - I hate to waste the money. I don't always eat my leftovers, most of the time I end up throwing it away or my kids eat it up.

I luv my new tool, and all the weight I have lost because of it. I just hate feeling like I'm wasting money on food. I am starting to get my hubby to order stuff we can share, or I'll get one of my kids to order something we can shares....like everything else, its a work in process

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I feel ya on that. I have a hard time ordering food knowing I'm only gonna eat about a fourth of it before I'm stuffed - I hate to waste the money. I don't always eat my leftovers, most of the time I end up throwing it away or my kids eat it up.

I luv my new tool, and all the weight I have lost because of it. I just hate feeling like I'm wasting money on food. I am starting to get my hubby to order stuff we can share, or I'll get one of my kids to order something we can shares....like everything else, its a work in process

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He was supportive of me because he wants me to be happy' date=' but he doesn't understand why I put my life at risk for it. I went through a lot the first 2 weeks post op and he was there for me, but the times I did break down he told me I wasn't allowed to because this was a decision I made and I had to live with the consequences. He said I was very selfish to have done this when we have a son who has health problems through no fault of his own and I should have thought twice before almost leaving him motherless.

I am withdrawn from my family and my friends and if it weren't for my son, I probably wouldn't be alive right now.[/quote']

If he wants you to be happy he will support you 100%. Dictating to you when you can and cannot have a meltdown moment is not being supportive.

Based off your posting, I truely hope you seek professional help. Your son needs you to be healthy and happy

You look FABULOUS!!!

Having mine at Memorial Hermann Memorial City as well! I'll be there on the 7th! You'll have to let me know how it goes! My Doctor is Dr. Erik Wilson' date=' is he yours as well?[/quote']

I was going with Dr. Erik Wilson (did all the ins requirements, for 3 months with him) but when I got my final approval and time came to set the date he was booked at the end of the year, I ended up going with Dr. Mehta on the 12-28-13 --- at least they are in the same practice

Since January 2013 I was taking lovenox twice a day in the hospital, then four times a day at home. Now I'm taking fondaparinux once a day. Hopefully this will be my last month on it, then I will start wafrin pills for the next 6 months or so. At least I won't have to be shooting up my belly anymore

Praying for you!

Be4' date='

I am 3 months out and 40 pounds down and I am having the same feelings. Whew! I thought I was crazy. People have been complimenting me and noticing my weight loss and I do not know how to reply. I stutter, look down or change the subject. I sometimes look in the mirror and still see "a big fat girl" when others see less of me. The mind thing is really difficult to understand. I think people sometimes think I am fishing for compliments but I'm not. I just totally don't believe them when they say "wow. you look great."[/quote']

DITTO! You are in my brain...

Here is the link to what I posted on vsg when I was in the hospital...

http://www.verticalsleevetalk.com/topic/64259-blood-clots/

things kinda went like this...

Thursday - bloody bowl movement

Friday - sick, feeling pain in back & under ribs

Saturday - eat greasy food, get sick & dehydrated

Sunday - admitted to the hospital for dehydration

LINKS TO SOME OTHER POST I REPLIED TO ABOUT BLOOD CLOTS.....

http://www.verticalsleevetalk.com/topic/73382-help-im-soooo-very-afraid-of-blood-clots/

http://www.verticalsleevetalk.com/topic/73416-lupus-antigen/

I will pm you

Pantala I say the same thing. I did this to be healthy and now I just feel like an 80 year old woman, going to the dr. All the time and always having a new ailment.

This too shall pass.

me too - and yes it will

How can you tell if you have a clot? What does it feel like? Symptoms?

first sign i totally ignored - bloody bowl movement

i have lost in the chest, but my cup size have gone up.... i have gone from a 44dd to a 38ddd

Great video - thanks for sharing

The entire time I was off from work after me procedure all I did was watch food network, cooking channel, and man vs food

My hubby thought I lost my mind watching food I could not eat

the pain i was in reminded me of how i felt when i had galstones - VERY painful. they had me on lovenox 2x a day in the hospital, but the way the script was written it was 4x a day at home . they took me off the warfarin/Coumadin pills while in the hospital because it appeared to be making my clots grow - plus the specialist prefers to wait after a month or two on the shots to change over to the pills. so next month i will be switching over to the warfarin pills, but for now he has me on fondaparinux 1x a day. when i go back next month they will do xrays and stuff to check if everything is going as planned.

i was in your shoes back in january - praying for you, it will get better

i developed blood clots and they said it had to do with a lupus trait - i dont have lupus but ido have rheumatoid arthritis. i hope & pray everything works out for you since you know this going in. i didnt find out about mine until after the surgery - when i got dehydrated and was admitted into the hospital.