LisaDM

How did you handle the wine? I am 9 weeks out and haven't had any alcohol yet. I was originally going to wait six months, but I think that is excessive. I was thinking abou having a glass of wine on Xmas or New Years.

Congrats! I know what relief and excitement getting approval can bring. Your day will be here before ou know it! :-)

Good morning and happy weigh in day! Finally made it to last weeks goal today! Haha
SW- 220
CW- 217.8
GW- 209

Well, I didn't make my goal, but this was my first challenge and I am still figuring out how my weight loss with the sleeve. Down 10 lbs in 4 weeks, so I am still happy with that!
Today's weight- 220

Well, I didn't make my goal, but this was my first challenge and I am still figuring out how my weight loss with the sleeve. Down 10 lbs in 4 weeks, so I am still happy with that!
Today's weight- 220

Well, I didn't make my goal, but this was my first challenge and I am still figuring out how my weight loss with the sleeve. Down 10 lbs in 4 weeks, so I am still happy with that!
Today's weight- 220

Well, I didn't make my goal, but this was my first challenge and I am still figuring out how my weight loss with the sleeve. Down 10 lbs in 4 weeks, so I am still happy with that!
Today's weight- 220

Well, I didn't make my goal, but this was my first challenge and I am still figuring out how my weight loss with the sleeve. Down 10 lbs in 4 weeks, so I am still happy with that!
Today's weight- 220

I'm im! Won't quite make my Thanksgiving goal, but maybe I will make this one.
Current weight- 220
Goal weight- 209
With my goal weight I will have a BMI of 29.99! That would make me no longer obese, just overweight! :-)

I'm im! Won't quite make my Thanksgiving goal, but maybe I will make this one.
Current weight- 220
Goal weight- 209
With my goal weight I will have a BMI of 29.99! That would make me no longer obese, just overweight! :-)

I'm im! Won't quite make my Thanksgiving goal, but maybe I will make this one.
Current weight- 220
Goal weight- 209
With my goal weight I will have a BMI of 29.99! That would make me no longer obese, just overweight! :-)

Today's weight- 223.

Down to 199! I might not make goal but breaking through to ONEderland is such a great feeling! Haven't seen that in nearly 10 years!

I'm going to start a new NSV thread since I can't find the one I used to post on.
Anyhoo...! I had a beautiful coat in the closet for at least 15 years or more. I just tried it on, it fits!! I'm so excited that I might have to christen it with my hubs!

As of today, I'm "only" overweight not obese per the BMI chart! Time to celebrate!
Only you guys could understand my happiness at being overweight
How many pounds for you before you hit the next milestone for you? What's your next goal?

All I know is my surgeon won't even perform the band surgery anymore. She said the statistics show it does not work in the long term.

What a great idea. That's a great mama you have there! Congrats on your success thus far. :-)

Not every surgeon does a long liquid diet prior to surgery. Mine did not. She only required one day of liquids the day before surgery. Otherwise, I was required to lose 5-10 lbs prios to my surgery my own way. I chose to use Protein Drinks, but certainly not full liquids. I feel for those that have to do it prior to surgery, I wouldn't have made it! After surgery I had one week full liquids which wasn't bad at all because I was never hungry and I couldn't have managed to eat anything solid even if I wanted to!

My weight this morning- 224.6

It's nice to see a positive thread. I have already seen so much negativity between the different wls categories. It seems so ridiculous to me. We all have the same goal, just took different paths to get there. I had my reasons to chose the sleeve over rny or band, but those reasons are mine and I accept that others have different reasons for their decisions. I was inspired to go through with the sleeve by two friends, one had rny the other the sleeve, but both have had great success. I think it's great to hear stories from everyone about their journey with wls no netter what kind they chose. :-)

I was exactly where you are last week. I had a stall that last almost two weeks. It was frustrating, but I was comforted a bit to know that it was very common. Still no fun at all. I had lost 12 pounds in two weeks, then nothing for nearly two more weeks. I was grateful for what I had lost, but I didn't remove most of my stomach for 12 lbs! Then, amazingly, this past Sunday I got on the scale and finally saw 229.2 when I had been stuck at 230-230.4. Now as of this morning I am 226.2. I honestly didn't change much to break the stall. I actually attempted to up my calories to 800-900 a day. Not sure if that is what finally helped or if my body just needed time to adjust. The stall will pass, just gotta get through it.

So, I am just over 5 weeks post op and after reading through some posts on here I am starting to think maybe I am eating too much. I know that my surgeon uses a 40 french bougie, which is on the larger side from what I have read and I am ok with that. I don't need the smallest stomach ever, just much more restriction than I had before. I am losing weight slowly, but I started with a "low" BMI (35.8 )so I expected that. At this point I am eating around 900-1000 calories a day. I was eating more like 700 a couple weeks ago and hit a stall and thought maybe I wasn't eating enough. That is when I decided to try to up my calorie intake. My stall did break, whether from changing my calorie intake or just my body needed some time, I don't know. I have read about people 2-3 months out eating 600 calories a day and that seems crazy to me now that I am on soft foods. I have noticed more head hunger coming back and my desire to eat, but I still eat small meals and only 1-2 Snacks per day. Neither my NUT nor my surgeon ever really talked about calorie intake, just about fluids and Protein. I have no problem getting my protein (usually get 80+ daily) and no problem getting in my liquids. I am really limiting my carbs and almost eating something similar to adkins so that I get my protein with a few veggies here and there. I have my 6 week follow up with my surgeon and plan to discuss it more with her, but until then I thought I would see what my fellow sleevers are doing.

Couldn't log in yesterday and had trouble today. Finally got in.
Weight as of yesterday morning, 227. Down 3 lbs! :-)

You look great! You look younger too. :-)

You look great! You look younger too. :-)