BluAlert

I'm almost 2 weeks post-op.
My bf and sister took me to a mall so that i can walk.
They were hungry and i didn't want to make them feel bad so i said hey let's go to Applebee's.
I ordered a Soup and a dish from the weigh-watchers menu. Ended up taking the entire dish home.
It was weird. To have no drink or no appetizer. I was killing time by using my phone while everyone finished eating.
The Soup filled me up but i can just imagine if this is how its going to be in the future i will have no social life
We all usually (we being friends) usually do dinner/drinks and then a movie or bowling or billiards, etc.
It never crossed my mind that part of "hangin out" with my friends was also stuffing our faces.

wow! u r so beautiful!!

i could have sf Jello up until the evening before my sugar however I was instructed to ingest nothing that has red dye in it on the day before surgery.

Sleeved on Monday, the gas pains are getting better, although the minute I take a sip of Water they start, only with water. I can drink tea and broth. I'm seriously thinking about jumping ahead to some creme soap. I can't so tired of the tea, water, broth. I don't like most favored stuff so popcisles or Jello aren't an option. My diet says clear foods for day 1-7 but reading here, tree seems to be some latitude depending on different doctors. I haven't been able to get pass 36-40 oz a day yet.. Amazingly enough I had a small bowel movement this morning. Who'd thought I'd get so excited over something like that.. I guess I needed visible proof that everything is functioning as its supposed to be.

Sounds like a bunch of big city talk mumbo jumbo to me. Back in reality land, we know where it goes. You slip the fat under your pillow and the fat fairy leaves you a dollar for each pound. I'm still waiting to get paid! So far that bi*ch owes me 70 bucks!

Everything went great! I'm on fluids now and should be headed home tomorrow evening! Thanks everyone for your prayers and well wishes.

Hey Blu, good luck tomorrow. I feel fortunate that God has blessed my life with insurance that covers this surgery, a skilled and reputable surgeon, and supportive family and friends. Tomorrow we both begin new, healthier chapters. Here's to us!

In less than 24 hours I will be getting ready to embark on a new adventure. I truly can't believe this is happening! At first I thought I wouldn't be able to do it, you know the whole lifestyle change but here I am stepping out on faith. God has been so good to me and I know He will continue to do so. I just pray that He continues to watch over me tomorrow and allow me to have a speedy and healthy recovery. I also pray that He watches over all of you guys as you embark on your journey. March 12...my reset day! I promise to make all my friends and family proud of me and to not waste my blessing. Moreover, I promise myself that I will never abuse you the way I have for so many years! Never again! Well, wish me luck.

In less than 24 hours I will be getting ready to embark on a new adventure. I truly can't believe this is happening! At first I thought I wouldn't be able to do it, you know the whole lifestyle change but here I am stepping out on faith. God has been so good to me and I know He will continue to do so. I just pray that He continues to watch over me tomorrow and allow me to have a speedy and healthy recovery. I also pray that He watches over all of you guys as you embark on your journey. March 12...my reset day! I promise to make all my friends and family proud of me and to not waste my blessing. Moreover, I promise myself that I will never abuse you the way I have for so many years! Never again! Well, wish me luck.

I'm getting sleeved on tuesday and I definitely had food FUNERALS! But I'll tell ya... it just made the start of liquid diet so much harder. It was very hard on me so much that I had to call my therapist. I regretted it so much and wished I had implemented at least part of my liquid diet w/o over doing it. I was feeling as if I'll never see some of my favorite foods again and not realizing I'll see them again...just not as a pig! You are very wise with your decision to start your diet early. Best of luck!

Yesterday was my last day of eating out, my liquid-diet doesn't start till march 13th, but I've realized now why I'm getting sleeved. If I keep eating like I do, I'm on a pathway to a coffin. It's fun eating hamburgers till I'm full and all you can eat buffets, but I ask myself? What do I get in return?
HBP
High cholesterol
Bigger waste
Feel like crap
One day closer to diabetes
And money wasted...
Every time I get the thought of backing out of getting sleeved, I think of living a healthy life and how I feel after eating junk. Please keep me on track fellow sleevers, I've got 16 days till my day!
Thanks for everyone's help, opinion and the ones that are nice enough to stay on the forum after getting sleeved helping us pre-sleevers! We really appreciate everything!

Just had a "last meal" with my whole family. It wasn't really a food funeral, but more of a way to Celebrate my decision since family is busy every weekend up until my surgery. That and my birthday is 10 days after surgery this year. Yay chicken broth birthday dinner!!! Lol. It was actually wonderful to celebrate this HUGE life change with my family. My dad told the waiter it was my last meal before I turned myself in to the police for heinous crimes. Nice...

Sorry Buddy!! That's the problem with food funerals. We are food addicts and as awesome as they sound, we only end up feeling like crap! Hope you feel better soon. You're on your way to a better you!! If you're tempted to food funeral again, come back here, we'll smack some sense into you

I would probably be crying right now if my family wasn't in the room after I read your post. I've been saying the same thing to myself for 2 months now but I've been so scared to say it out loud. I'm scared period about everything but I'm just realizing we have never showed more strength and courage with this decision we've made. Yes, its more extreme than going to gym and eating right but guess what...we've tried that too. We've tried fad diets, get skinny quick diets, crash diets, injections, pills, dieticians, personal trainers, etc, etc, etc! We need this. We need to be released from this bondage that we call a body. We need to know how it feels to be healthy....we deserve it. I dont know how old you are but I'll be 35 on April 10 and this is the last birthday I'm going to spend being depressed b/c I'm morbidly obese! (5'5" 275) But you have to get in your head that this is it, you're done chasing the fat person in your mind away. One thing I'm making sure I do for as long as I have to is getting a therapist that I see on a regular basis. I struggle with depression too. I was molested by my father so I know I need to address those feelings that I've tried to eat away all these years. Bottom line is we've got to look at this blessing as a new chance at life...a new life. I've let one slip out of my fingers I can't let a second one. I'm committing... fear and all.

No guilt. It's not the easy way out. And you do know that most of the Biggest Loser contestants gain back most, all, or even more weight after the show is over? It is one of the unhealthiest ways to lose weight! Numerous studies have shown that the old "diet and exercise" has a relapse rate of 95%.
The sleeve isn't magic and it isn't easy. Don't feel guilty. Most of us do this because we want to be healthy for ourselves and our families, and the eternal dieting left us even less healthy, and disheartened. If you think this is the right thing for you and you have really researched what it involves, try not to let what others might think dissuade you from what you think is best for yourself.
Welcome, and good luck.

We all have a story, good, bad, long, troubled, blessed or any combination. Let me start with the good and blessed. I'm am 28, a mother of one beautiful 2yr old daughter and getting my sleeve surgery late April. Like I said, blessed. Okay so the bad...my weight has been an issue for my whole life. I have had some successes throughout the years but after my daughter was born and the subsequent year off work, 80lbs found their back to me. Omg I am excited to get this process started! Well the last part of the story...the troubled. I am having so much guilt. Guilt about getting this surgery and not losing weight like the contestants on "The Biggest Loser". Am I taking the easy way out? Not sure how to remove these feelings or are they healthy? Enjoying this support site and hoping over the few months, I will get 100% ready for this amazing transition from a tired, unhealthy stressed out person to a healthy, active, exuberant mother.

I'm sorry I'm on my 3rd day of my pre-op diet and I am on an emotional roller coaster!!!

Blualert-thank you for the support and good luck on your journey as well. I am 32 years old 5ft8in 285lbs. Because i'm tall everyone is like"you're not that big" I have hid it well for to long. I told my friend think of all the pregnancy related weight issues you have like not being able to put on socks or walk from the parking garage to work without getting winded. Sitting in the seats at disney on ice and they hurt you because you are so big. Having to take breaks shaving your legs because it is to hard. I look forward to being done with all of that. I am done being enslaved by this fat body.

i felt this way too. like why couldn't i just do it on my own? i felt like a failure everyday. that really wears on you. the surgery was the best thing i did. i am almost 7 weeks out now and i am so happy i did this. don't get me wrong, some days are hard but i feel like i got a restart for my eating habits and i know i would never have been able to do it without the sleeve.

You know funny thing last nite, I was thinking about all the comments of what people are going to say as they lose weight and the explanations. Now understand that I am a fairly private person when it comes to my feelings and life. However, I feel I have been on this journey for most of my life and now I am embarking on another journey where I will be healthy, happy and skinny! lol There are things in life that I am sure that people do not approve of, just as there are things in life that I do not approve of, however, it is very difficult for someone who has never had a weight issue to understand WLS and the need for it by some; and that is an opinion that will never change. I do not live my life for others and I do not expect they live theirs for me. If I am not truthful about why and how I am losing weight, I am not being truthful with myself and that is what got me into this, as well as some genes! So, I will be honest about it and if I meet those staggering looks, so be it......I am excited about this journey and the light at the end of the tunnel and will not allow that excitement to be taken from me. Besides, this surgery is no different that anyone needing cardiac, orthopedic or otherwise, if it is broken you fix it.......And that my friends is my wisdom of the day...LOL!

I haven't been struggling a whole lot with cravings just yet, Im newly post op, sleeved 01/24/13, but my StepMom said something that I think I will help carry me through this journey. I wanted to share it with the hope that it speaks to some of you the way it brought me "peace of mind."
: food isn't going anywhere. It will always be right in front of you.:
She's right. And down the road when I have achieved my goal, I can enjoy any of it, in a new found moderation. But for now, kiss my ass junk food! Comfort food! Empty calories! You do nothing for me. I've got more important needs than to indulge in taste. Time to get right. ♥

5'3" (if I take a deep breath 190 lbs. surgery is Dec 14, Dr ponce de leon. And I hate buying pants. Only time I didn't have a problem was when I was 124 lbs last year. ( with lapband). I'm currently wearing borrowed jeans because I refuse to buy any clothes at my current weight. I have a ton of skinny clothes barely a year old. My surgery can't get here soon enough. I don't even have a winter coat and have been going out and freezing... May have to go to thrift store for temp solution lol
Being fat sucks!

Hey! I'm scheduled for March 12. Beyond excited, and just a little nervous. Wish it was getting done tomorrow (or today!). Going to Juarez, Mexico, Dr. Rodriguez.