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Congrats. ..we are almost identical. 6.25.13 surgery date 265 today 226.4
The ups and downs can drive you crazy but it's definitely worth it. I saw some parents at a fball game on Sat that were like you've lost weight and you look really good. What an awesome feeling soooo worth it...

Congrats. ..we are almost identical. 6.25.13 surgery date 265 today 226.4
The ups and downs can drive you crazy but it's definitely worth it. I saw some parents at a fball game on Sat that were like you've lost weight and you look really good. What an awesome feeling soooo worth it...

I have Aetna, they told me it was a 72 hr turn around to....I submitted on the 10th...as of yesterday still under review
Edit
Just got approval last nite...surgery is tuesday:-)

Haven't updated in a while....I'll be 9 months post-op tomorrow and with today's weigh in I'm down 90.6lbs. I still have 47lbs to hit my surgeon's goal and what I call my "realistic" goal of 160. I wouldn't mind making my way down to 145, but we'll see.
I'm starting to have some real issues with my deflated body, despite weights and cardio. My breasts have shrunk so considerably that I can't wear most of my tops because I can't fill them out. My batwings are a mess. My panni is not going away. I'm starting to have saggy britches because my once very very large butt is now big only in a good way, and my legs look like saggy tree trunks.
Overall it's tolerable for now, but when I hit 175-ish I will probably start seriously researching plastic surgery so I'm ready to go when I hit 160. Panni, Tummy Tuck, thigh lift, breast augmentation and lift, and I'm not sure what to do about my arms. The scars freak me out, but the situation I've got going on now is not cute.
I bought a size 14 pair of work pants this weekend and they fit. They are still a teeny bit too tight in the thighs for me to wear them out in public yet, but 10 more pounds and I'll be golden. My 16's are already starting to get loose. I can't believe I'm so close to the century mark. I haven't been this light since I got pregnant with my second, almost 7 years ago. 30 more pounds and I'll be the lightest I've been since getting pregnant with my first 9.5 years ago.
I feel great and I must have hit one of those periods where my body caught up with the scale because the past week or two I've been getting tons of comments. They come in waves like that. I'm back to caring about how I look. Dressing in cute clothes, putting on makeup and jewelry, and walking with confidence. I'm almost at that point where I'll be getting looks because I'm hot versus because I'm so big. I'm happily married, but a little positive reinforcement from a stranger every now and then never hurts the ego.
I've had such an easy time with this entire process. My surgery was uneventful, my recovery was super fast and easy, and I'm still able to eat any type of food I want. I still enjoy a few bites of "bad" stuff now and then. I'm not the fastest loser out there, but this rate has been perfect for me and it's allowed me to live my life as a normal person when it comes to food - for the first time in my life. No guilt, no shame, no obsession, no constant calculation of how bad something is. Just enjoying small bits of what I want to eat and moving on to other things.
I'm so happy about my choice to have this procedure. Looking back 9 months later, I can't believe I let myself live as miserably as I was for so long. I was on anti-depressants thinking I had depression. I was seeing a therapist because I was so angry. I was snapping at my kids and my husband all of the time. Looking at photos of me back then, I just always looked so...angry.
Anyway, I just wanted a chance to log my thoughts right now for posterity. I'm super excited to see what the next 6 months brings. I'm really hoping to see goal by spring so I get my plastics done before summer!

I have Aetna, they told me it was a 72 hr turn around to....I submitted on the 10th...as of yesterday still under review
Edit
Just got approval last nite...surgery is tuesday:-)

I haven't tried eating meat yet just chicken I'm scares

Sleeved June 25th. Seems like so long ago! Down 51 lbs total and about 30 since surgery. Feeling good, but struggle with eating and getting all my liquids in. No dehydration or other problems at this time :-). Congrats to everyone on their progress so far!

Hey My People! I am excited to say my date has been moved from Sept. 23rd to Sept. 3rd. PATs on Aug. 13. I AM FEELING EXCITED TODAY! Can you tell? Lol!

@it's not u it's me. Thank you for your candid response and I do agree with you. I have no intentions of cheating on my husband. I'm just very saddened and disappointed. I went thru hell and back to get this surgery and had a very rough recovery. I even lost my job over it because I was not covered under disability at work. But I am amazed at myself to see in just 10 short weeks the weight I've lost and the transformation has been just awesome and so exciting. When my husband met me 8 years ago I weighed 130 which was my normal weight pretty much my entire adult life, wore a size 6 and never in my wildest dreams would have ever thought that by age 33 I would weigh almost 300 lbs after moving to good old deep fried Texas. But it happened. I watched my husband pull away for 7 years and again at one point told me that if i didn't lose the weight he'd leave, once again he
never did physically leave but he checked out long ago. So here I am today wearing a size 14 and only 60 lbs away from my goa weight and what do I get from
him....nothing...I don't understand...I am happy again, I'm ready to tackle the world, I'm pursueing my dream and enrolling in nursing school but all I get once in a blue moon is "you look pretty". And he says it with no enthusiasm. I guess I'm just not understanding. I did this for 2 reasons number 1 my health and 2 my marriage, to give not just me but my husband back the women he fell head over heals for. He always used to tell me how beautiful i was and took me places and romanced me, he was so in love with me. He says he still is and wants to be with me and makes things better but those have been just words, no action. So as I feel so sexy and alive again I can't seem to get my husband to respond to me. I'm not arrogant or conceited about the situation, just excited and happy son why isnt he. This is what he wanted....I'm so confused and he's stealing my joy...i just don't know what to do anymore. I feel stuck....

WOW I feel like a complete failure... I am almost a month out and I am only getting in 30-40g a day and that is a good day. I have been trying to do my Protein Shakes but my they do not agree with my sleeve at all, so I have been trying to get it from my food but I can only eat 2-4oz at a time so that doesn't really do much... Guess I am going to have to keep trying till I figure out something that works for me.

I am very excited to see this group, I have been reading post here and you all make me very excited. I have been waiting on my insurance company to approve me and then it's the home stretch. I spoke to them today and it looks like they have ok'd everything from what the lady I spoke to said but it should be done by tomorrow. I am so happy for everyone on here that they have taken this journey and running with it, which gives me hope. I cant wait to be on the other side going from pre to post. I will continue to post so you all can take this journey with me.

My starting weight was 299 as of now I'm 198 Im 5'7 in a half but that's questionable because I look taller being 198 ppl say I look more like 145 so I set my goal at the higher end just because I would be way too small at a normal Bmi I still in the losing phase so it's not hard to maintain .. I still don't eat bread , Pasta , rice I it what I want if I turkey want it but I still drink low calorie drinks because it easy to drink your calories no I don't track my food that's not for me I try to be as normal a possible and deal w eating one day at a time .. I so happy and it feels so good some friends think if I lose more ill be too skinny but I won't be the first thin person ????

I do not have a stomach ulcer & make sure you eat tons of yogurt or take acidophilus supplements. I'm finding out the hard way...it literally is depleting all the good Bacteria out...so now I have a YI! So once I complete this therapy, I have my
sleep study on Sat 7/20
FOLLOW-up with PCP 7/22
Cardiologist 7/24
Gastoenterologist 7/31
I'm praying for a surgery date between 8/17-8/31 as I'm on 2wks vacay. That would allow me to rest and get it together before I head back to work. Pray for me please.
Stay strong.

My 3 n a half months change

I hope he's right because this stage is the pits!!

Started at 246 as of today I am 209 surgery date June 4th 2013. today I feel like this is the best thing I've ever done for myself .

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I work in a dentist office. I have seen people lose their teeth. Have gum disease. Have part of their jaw taken out. All because of smoking. It smells so bad. Please please I beg u don't start again. Every day without it ur lungs start to heal. Stop for urself. Stop for ur children. Stop for ur grandchildren. Please I beg u. U chose this operation because u chose life. Choosing cigarettes is choosing death!

There was one lady here last year that did...
She said it was ok, her doctor didn't tell her not too. She said she did it and was fine.
I don't know what happened to her though she had some kind of complication and hasn't been back.

I'm assuming part of the reason you got VSG was to decrease your risk of (or existing) comorbidities of obesity and to help give you a longer, healthier life. So smoking would kind of defeat the purpose, wouldn't it? On the bright side, if you die young from bladder cancer, lung cancer or just suffer for years with COPD, you will probably be doing it in a smaller clothing size. So no, I wouldn't start smoking.

Go for it! I was called mean for questioning the logic of eating a few wontons 5 days post op during the liquid phase, so who am I to advise anyone that they stick with their surgeon's advice?
Good luck to you!

Hi all, am I the only one who is finding it difficult to wait 30 minutes after eating to drink Water? I am a person that believes that water helps the food go down easily / digest and always drink right after eating. Since the surgery, I'm really having a hard time waiting especially at work. I am very conscious of myself like making sure nothing is stuck in between my teeth so I always use a mirror but drinking the water after eating makes it easier for the food stuck in between to come out. I guess I have to re-learn all these things again.

yes i was Ms Plus America 2011 Jacksonville, Florida....I think when i loose the weight ill run for ms. jacksonville