Kelsan

Just keep pushing along and you'll be great. What will be, shall be. Good luck with everything!!!

Woot - woot, we're sleeve sisters! I'm in for surgery Monday at 12p.m.. I'm usually a nervous nelly about these things but I feel oddly calm about it. Good luck to you, I hope you have a safe and speedy recovery! Check back in when you feel up to it.

Thanks for introducing yourself and welcome, I look forward to reading more of your blogs.

It sounds like you're really focusing on the important things before surgery (mental game) and I think that will greatly benefit you for your life after the surgery! You really sound like you're ready and committed to the change our new life with require. What's done, is done, just try and look forward and have a positive outlook, you're going to be great!!

Wow, congratulations. It's great to know you can go out again and be social. I'll be sleeved on 05/06 and I have a party at the end of May so I hope I can be/act normal there.

That sucks - I hope you feel better soon! And good luck on your surgery with a fast recovery.

Thanks makemyownluck! I wish the same for you too! It's going to be fun to see how all of the May Sleevers due - it's scary but very exciting! Thanks for the advice Welch, I will definatly take you up on it.

Wow, thanks ladies! I've never blogged before and didn't expect anyone to read it! Moonchild I really like your future self message, I just may adopt it too if you don't mind. Rickyswife: That's awesome, we're sleeve sisters! I'd love to hear how things go! Good luck to you both (and everyone else trying to figure this thing out), and I wish you so much success!!!

I don't expect anyone to read this blog. I'm mainly writing it to myself to read at a future date. My digital time capsale. I really want to remember the old me (pre-surgery). Being weight conscious started when I was in sixth grade. I went to the doctor to get a sports physical and the doctor told me I was a chubby little girl and needed to lose ten pounds. I didn't really know how to process that, so I just stopped eating (it made sense at the time). I lost the ten pounds but didn't know how to handle food after that. So I was on a constant diet for the next fifteen years. So when I got pregnant, I thought, finally I can eat anything I want and not feel guilty about it!!!! Oh, happy days. I was going to nurse so the extra weight was just going to fall off. Boy was I wrong - so naieve- so blissfully naieve. As if pregnancy weight is some how different from the regular stuff. I was 245 when I delivered my bouncing baby boy. I got down to 192 in about six months but couldn't move the scale after that. Repeat the same story two more times. Except after pregnancy number three I can not move the scale more than five pounds. I still weigh 245 two years later. I am in such a rut and I can not climb out on my own. I've really tried everything I can think of. In the spring of 2012 I begain considering weight loss surgery and settled on the sleeve after a lot of reasearch. Monday 05/0613 @12:00p.m. is my surgery. I'm a little scared of the procedure and complications from the procedure, but's it's a risk I'm willing to take because I can not continue on my current path any longer. My husband is supportive, but nervous for me. He's nervous about something going wrong and altering my body for the rest of my life. Which I appreciate and love him for, but I'm ready for this. I'll just have to keep praying - What shall be, will be. So future self: I can't wait to check in with you in six months and to see how well you've done. I am so ready for a different type of life.

Sometimes a good cry is needed! I hope everything goes well for you w/o gas pains.

Congratulations on your success! Very inspiring. As far as your co-works go, all I have to say is - haters gonna hate.