Changing39

June 19! Self pay here. Mexico anyone?

I am June 11th Mexico at Mi Doctor Hospital

I made it my goal to not ruin my metabolism-- at the advisement of an awesome personal trainer. I eat about 2000 cals a day in maintenance now. I have for an entire year. If I creep up, I cut back a bit. I got my cals up to 1200 as soon as I could post-op in an attempt to not tank my metabolism. I lost most of my weight at the 1500 calorie point. I still made goal at 8.5 months post op! I think I am able to eat a hefty 2K per day now cause I work out and stay active and cause I didn't stay below 1200 cals a day for long. My friend that had gastric bypass ate 600 cals a day for almost year so now when she started eating a measly 1000-1200 a day now she has regained 50 pounds.
Thats why I love my sleeve. I can maintain my weight now at a reasonable calorie count!!!!

Okay so.....
I'm getting excited. I love reading everyone's posts because it really helps in making my decision.
I will 85% be going with Dr. F Garcia.
I just don't know if I will go through Ready For A Change or A Lighter Me. I have not spoken with anyone Alma or Ronda yet.
Does anyone have reasons for picking one over the other?
At this point, the only thing I like about RFAC over ALM is that RFAC gave me much more info up front.

I realize its a tool, knew it going in its just scary.

I'm sitting in my first WL seminar. I'm the "smallest" person in the room and my BMI is 34.5. (yeah, I'm self pay)
I wish this doc would pull an Oprah and say....Surgery for everyone here today!!!!

I'm sitting in my first WL seminar. I'm the "smallest" person in the room and my BMI is 34.5. (yeah, I'm self pay)
I wish this doc would pull an Oprah and say....Surgery for everyone here today!!!!

I'm sitting in my first WL seminar. I'm the "smallest" person in the room and my BMI is 34.5. (yeah, I'm self pay)
I wish this doc would pull an Oprah and say....Surgery for everyone here today!!!!

I'm sitting in my first WL seminar. I'm the "smallest" person in the room and my BMI is 34.5. (yeah, I'm self pay)
I wish this doc would pull an Oprah and say....Surgery for everyone here today!!!!

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.

I'm sorry to hear that Beth! I actually stayed on liquids longer because I really wanted to try and get to 60 oz per day before moving up to any more solid food. I'm 12 days out and just tried Greek yogurt this morning, it went very well. I added some sugar free vanilla Syrup to it. Just remember to not push the amount you eat, I have been eating with a shrimp fork and demitasse spoon which has REALLY helped me control my bite sizes.

You are gorgeous! Just wait until you get that sleeve!!!

Your right about that one, Caitlyn!

This is the rant and rave section so please don't flame me ...
Of all the words we use in this forum that are specific to being sleeved or common terms in weight-loss discussions, "lose" is probably the most often used.
To Lose - To be deprived of, or cease to have or retain.
Loose - Not firmly or tightly fixed in place.
It just drives me bonkers to see people constantly misspelling lose, "I can't wait to loose 100 lbs!" AAAARGH!!!! wrong. Clothes are loose, nuts and bolts are loose, a dog can get loose from his leash, but you LOSE weight, you will LOSE inches. It is called The Biggest LOSER, not the Biggest LOOSER. hello.

I think I finally figured it out. These pics are down about 65 but now hitting 70! Its been 5 months and I FEEL GREAT!
Wish I would have done this years ago.
libbylou

I second the kitty maintenance part!!
(Edit)
I mean my "friend" does

I don't know but I'm subscribing to this thread.

I ...ummm.. have a "friend" here and she wants to answer but is afraid to do so under her profile.
So I said I would answer for her.
She said...HELL YA IT'S BETTER

Oh it's a slider alright, easy to eat a ton of it!! I know from experience...
Trying to stay away now but at some point I think if you made a healthier version say air popped it would by better.

That's so exciting!
I'm going crazy that I have to wait until May or June. I just want to go right now. Seriously, I'm going crazy. I'm in this forum every night. By May I will be a pre-op expert. Then I'm on to post-op expert.

I think it's less about judgment and more about being shocked someone would take those risks at that point. I haven't been the perfect patient either but I definite didn't do that DAYS after surgery. Though i was still in a lot of pain For the first week so food wasn't even really on my mind. That's a really risky chance to take less then a week after surgery that could potentially kill them. Say a prayer for them and walk away I guess. Not much else you can do. Your doing what you need to do and that's great!

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.

danyelleb -
Glad you enjoyed the article. I'm not sure I'm worth more mention than any of us here, though. We all help each other so much.
Here is the link to the podcast:
http://www.knpr.org/son/archive/detail2.cfm?SegmentID=9672&ProgramID=2699

PdxMan is da man where carbs count! He helped me to obtain this goal!!!