Atlast83

Hello I wanted to post my stats. My surgery date was 11/06/12. I must admit somethimes I feel like I am loosing slow compared to others however I am in still in the fight!!!
SW: 260
CW: 199

Hello I wanted to post my stats. My surgery date was 11/06/12. I must admit somethimes I feel like I am loosing slow compared to others however I am in still in the fight!!!
SW: 260
CW: 199

Mine was nov 13th
SW 235
CW 177
So I'm right there too, but I'm not willing to give up yet.. I'm just a pokey little turtle making my way and eventually I will get there!

Hello I wanted to post my stats. My surgery date was 11/06/12. I must admit somethimes I feel like I am loosing slow compared to others however I am in still in the fight!!!
SW: 260
CW: 199

Lately I've seen a TON of posts about lucky sleevers that drop 100 pounds in six months.
Congrats to them and to their loss. And I would never, ever begrudge anyone the right to crow about a fantastic success. It's part of why we're all here, to share the ups and downs of this surgery!
But frequently, these posts are followed by folks that feel frustrated because they aren't losing at the same pace. All too often, we forget that everyone loses at a different pace. It's easy to lose sight of the real goal (long term maintenance) in the face of the scale goals we set for ourselves. And it's also easy to forget that this isn't a race and that there's no special prize waiting at the end for reaching goal more quickly.
I would like to contribute my loss pattern so that people can see that there is more than one way to achieve a goal. Being successful is about reaching your personal goals, overcoming your personal food demons and maintaining your weight loss for life. It's not about hitting goal in nine months.
I encourage everyone else with a slow loss story to contribute their successes here as well. It's hard to research this surgery and find only the stories about extremes - people completely thrilled with surgery or people that regret every minute of life post op. The same goes for loss. When people search out stories on this, it's too easy to only find rapid loss or stall posts but nothing showing the more realistic and moderate journey many of us take. The sleeve is a permanent tool that does not have a special window of easy weight loss. There is no reason to feel discouraged when you haven't reached goal at one year out, or even two. There is nothing preventing you (short of your own body's natural stopping point) from achieving or re-achieving goal at any point post op.
I lost 60 pounds in the first five months after my surgery.
And I slowly lost 32 pounds over the next seven months.
It took me another five months to shed the final 15 pounds to my goal.
I lost 107 pounds over the course of 17 months. I stalled twice for nine weeks each time. I had months where I only lost one pound. I regularly experienced a gain of three pounds around my cycle, and often only lost weight in the last week to ten days of the month, after sitting at the same weight for nearly three weeks.
I am a success, and at 2.5 years out (and currently pregnant) I still have good, healthy eating habits and maintained my weight loss quite easily. Even 30 weeks pregnant, I am still wearing a size 6/small (in maternity clothes, of course) regardless of how I feel about my expanding body!
I learned what was important on this journey and am in better health today (not just physically, but mentally and emotionally), than I have ever experienced as an adult.
Good luck to those currently on their journey, and I encourage everyone to share their stories here so that newly sleeved folks can see that slow vs. fast loss doesn't really matter in the end.
~Cheri

It happens! I am glad you are okay. Per my surgeon if you must eat somthing and can't resist it. Just make it puree. I am 1 1/2 post off, and started puree food on Monday. Last night I wanted a little birthday cake. So I put a small spoon of it in the blender with a tsp of milk. Ate 2 bites and it gave me the tasted I wanted.

Leaks are a big fear of mine so I read a lot of threads concerning them.
I am not in any way advocating eatting wrong but many do and post of their slip ups and progress without issue. Also we are all aware of how much doctors orders vary. Some doctors have no restrictions following surgery and others have weeks of liquids only prior to and following many weeks after.
I am suspecting leaks are more often caused my faulty staple lines or skin deteriorating around staple line than by wrong foods busting them open. That said I guess we should do all we can to be sure we don't bust a staple but I fear in the end it is all just bad luck, doctor misstaple, or bad tummy tissue that is goning to get us.
One cookie will not defeat you it is the pattern of behaviour that will determine your future.

I did the same thing! I have since banned chocolate chip Cookies from my house because they are my very favorite! You're going to have slip ups, you just gotta keep moving forward! Good luck!

Everyone had their slips. Don't beat yourself up but I've noticed if I trek myself I'm the exception and I'm not gonna lose weight etc I notice I don't stay on track. You need to stay positive and tell yourself you can and are going to do this one cookie isn't alot in terms of a meal which is probably why you didn't have to many problems keeping it down!! You're going to do this, this is just one of your down times!! Keep your head up!!!

What's the hurry? This isn't a race. You don't get bonus points for losing it quickly. Steady weight loss over the next year is all that matters. Don't worry about how much you lose after a couple of weeks or a month. See where you are at 3 months out. If you are a quarter towards your goal at that point then you are fine.

Quite frankly I think the diet part is a no brainer. WE ALL know what healthy food is and what a healthy calorie limit is. People fail because they don't change their thoughts about food and about themselves. If you don't believe in yourself, how you succeed at anything?

I confess that I'm 2 months out in 2 days and I haven't been to the gym yet.
I confess today I ate 2 funsized butterfingers (Halloween candy)
I confess that I don't count calories, fat, or carbs. I just count Protein and Water and I've still lost 43 lbs.
I confess that I now think its disgusting the amount of food my husband eats at dinner and it almost pisses me off cause he's not fat.
I confess that I thought I already looked hot at 263 pounds and now I just think I'm hotter. (It may just be a backwards body dismorphia thing though lol)

*I still overeat at parties.
*I advanced my diet to real food weeks before schedule with few ill affects so far.
*I don't know what I am going to do while my Water aerobics class is on hiatus over the holidays.
* I tell people that "I had a biopsy and they took out part of my stomach".
*I can see and feel that I'm thinner, but I don't feel any thinner.

Hang in there Kelly! I know liquids are not easy. I'm 12 days out and clearly remember the mental torment. How about TV? I had no clue there were so many food commercials on TV!
Once you get back to work and start a routine things tend to get better. I'm drinking 2 Protein shakes a day during work and coming home to blend up some Soup. I also made some homemade Soup from the "Eating Well After Weightloss Surgery" book and used it for 4 days after (froze it in these little 3 oz containers). After you start tasting real food again things get a little easier.
I also think you win a battle with your mind at some point. It seems that my mind has finally come to accept that I'm making a change. I'm looking forward to the journey!
Also, Jello and I do not get along now for some reason. I got a bunch of it before surgery and haven't touched it. Also got some stage 1 babyfood. I'll take a sip of the fruit every once in awhile just to taste something other then Protein shake & Water.

I had my surgery in September but got a leak - I have been out of hospital and eating now for six weeks. I was right where you were at the start of this process. Because of the leak, I really regretted my decision but from talking to others who also had a leak, as time goes by and you become more used to life with the sleeve, you no longer feel this regret. My friends who had normal recoveries also report the same thing - in six months, you'll feel so differently about this surgery!
People keep telling me this anyway It doesn't really help but I just keep reminding myself that I will look back on this and not feel so, well, crappy.
Just be kind to yourself and freak out...Best of luck, Lila

I know how you feel! the week following my surgery, I wad a major melt down; my sister was cooking some rice and the smell just drove me over the edge. I CRIED lol!!! but I will let you know, almost six months since my surgery I WILL DO IT AGAIN it was so worth it. You will enjoy all that stuff again in due time. Some won't even appeal to you anymore. Be patient, I know it's hard, the time will come.

... describes how I have been feeling for the past few days. I was just sleeved on November 14th. I am still on Clear liquids and tomorrow I can start full liquids. I am just so depressed. I want real food. Constantly I smell and see food. I know everyone else is complaining about things like this but I felt like I needed to vent and get it off my chest by typing it up. I am afraid I will never be able to eat the food I was before again. I am not talking about the fatty food perse but more like all the healthy meals I was making for the 3 months that I had surgery. All I want is some cauliflower crust pizza or spinach dip bites...
My husband keeps consoling me and trying to remind me WHY I made this decision and that it was a good decision, but I am having such a tough time with it today. Went for a walk today at the mall to help my brother pick a gift out and all I could smell were pretzels. Torture... never doing that again.
I am just really questioning if I made the right decision or if I should have just stuck to a diet low in calories and fat. I lost 200lbs when I was 18 with diet and excercise. I tried it again but didn't have the same success thats why I originally looked into VSG. I guess I just need to STFU, put my big girl panties on and stop being such a baby.