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So excited guys. Weighed myself today and I have been under 300 for 4 days now!!! Down 65.4 lbs!!!!

So excited guys. Weighed myself today and I have been under 300 for 4 days now!!! Down 65.4 lbs!!!!

Hey guys... Well I was sleeved on jan 9th too today is my official 6 weeks!! It's one of the best decisions I have ever made! I hope everyone feels the same way. I still think it's crazy to be so full so fast. I had sushi this week and the rice blew me up and I threw up for the first time... Lesson learned. So I'm pretty happy with my results so far. Started at 360. On the day of surgery I was 350 and this morning I was down to 312. Praying to be under the 300 mark by march for the first time in over 7 years! Thanks for all the support guys! Good luck

Hey all. I'm newly sleeved. Today is 3 weeks post op!! 37 lb including my preop down! Single and would love support! Live in texas. Anyone else?

I was sleeved the 9th of this month and went back the 24th. It was ok. I was def sore. I work 12 hour shifts in the med-surg icu. But It was nice to get back into the swing of things

Great job all!!!! I was sleeved on Jan 9th started at 360... Down to 335 today!!!!

Great job all!!!! I was sleeved on Jan 9th started at 360... Down to 335 today!!!!

Alright guys how's everyone feeling. I have this achy pain around the side they did most of the surgery from... And it burns sometimes too. Anyone experiencing the same thing? There's no drainage or anything from that incision. Sound normal?

There is no one-size-fits-all approach to life after the sleeve, much the way the one-size-fits-all approach to dieting doesn't work. If it did, we'd all pay our Weight Watchers dues, avoid comorbidities and enjoy life as skinny people after successfully completing our first diet.
For people without comorbids, it's usually NOT a health-related choice to have the sleeve. If you don't have high cholesterol or diabetes or high blood pressure, you're not making the choice to do this for the same reason as someone who does.
I really dislike the "food Nazi" attitude. It's one thing to criticize someone that jumps on a board and complains about slow loss, stalls or discomfort after they confide that they're eating off their doctor's nutritional guidelines or that they're doing binges and grazing.
It's another thing entirely to assume an all-or-nothing approach. For some people, that works. For the vast majority of us that have dieted most of our lives, it doesn't work. It didn't work before and it won't work this time, either.
You will see me say this over and over again. The sleeve is NOT A DIET. It's not. If you treat it like one, odds are good that you'll experience the same success you achieved on all those diets you did before you finally opted to have surgery.
The sleeve is a tool. Yes, we should make good quality food choices 90% of the time. If we can do that, why would we restrict ourselves with the other 10% of our choices?
I did not remove most of an organ so I could stay on Atkins for the rest of my life, sorry. It's easy to be a carb Nazi in the first four or five months post op. But at some point, sanity has to set in and you have to learn to eat normally.
This is not about getting to a set weight on the scale. That is the easy part, believe it or not. The challenge is STAYING THERE. It's being out there, post op and able to eat a larger portion of a larger variety of foods and being able to eat without doing it emotionally, grazing or binge eating. Maintenance is infinitely harder than the loss phase, and maintenance lasts forever.
So learning how to eat in moderation, how to deal with the social customs and rituals we've built around food and doing it all without feeling deprived and resentful is a huge part of this journey.
If you lose 100 pounds by eating 400 calories and 30 carbs a day, congrats. Your loss is no less a success. But tell me how you're going to stay there for the next thirty years without regaining if all you learned on your journey is how to diet more effectively?
Good luck. It's important that we realize that VST is a place for us to share a wide range of experiences and feelings about this surgery and life afterward. Attacking someone for choosing a different way to live, when that person has shown success and isn't complaining, is not okay.
~Cheri

I was on a week preop full liquid, a week clear liquid and now on a week a full liquid again

I was sleeved on the 9th as well. No complications noted so far! Good luck everyone

I was sleeved on the 9th as well. No complications noted so far! Good luck everyone