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Dr Alvarez sends you home with a copy of his book and Susan will email you info about all the pre and post op diet plans, info on the Vitamins we need to take.
Dr Alvarez also emails us when it's time to move to the next phase of our food plan. I'm sure there is plenty we could have learned from a nutritionist, but we are doing great with the support & info we get from this forum. I'm confident we will reach our goals.
It's great that you have a PCP who is supporting your decision and will follow you. We are lucky that way too. My fiancé has been able to get off 2 Rx meds already. He's very happy about that.
Good luck on your journey. You'll do great. Looking forward to following your progress.

I'm Only 10 weeks out so not really my "after" photo yet...my before and During pics..
surgery date 8/8/13
HW 235
SW 216
CW 179
GW 135
1st 5 pics are before
last 5 pics from week 10

I was sleeved on 10/10/13 as well! (In Harrisburg) I'm still feeling great... No complications here.

HW 388
SW. 334
CW. 304

Down 25 since surgery. I'm down 50 pounds including pre op. Keep in mind I'm in the 300's.

Hey I had a non scale victory I bought a new pair of jeans

No need to worry :-) Dr. Alvarez, Rosie, Susan, and all the people at the hotel and hospital will take very good care of you. I went alone and had a very good experience.

I was just sleeved by Dr. Alvarez October 4 , 2013. No issues for me. Very professional Dr. and didn't have any problems.

If you will go back to page one and start reading, you will see that everyone that has the surgery goes thru this stage, and the answers are always the same. I remember the journey very well as I would stall for months at a time. That is when I decided to stay off the scale and use clothes to see how I was losing. you will lose inches but not a pound. Your body is fighting to keep your weight, but eventually it will let go. Best of luck to all of you.

Me: 241.8 (-4.2)
Him: 326.2 (-.3)

I reached my Halloween goal! 198!
Woohoo onederland !!!!!!!

I'm only 3 weeks out so definitely no sleeve expert, but my tips would be:
1) Don't compare yourself to others. As hard as that is, everyone's journey is so unique and personal. It will drive you crazy.
2) Remember to keep your eye on the prize. It gets discouraging when you are in a stall or losing slowly. Just remember, you really won't be the only person the sleeve doesn't work for if you work your sleeve.
3) Get your Water in
4) Get your Protein in
5) Remember to enjoy life. Have fun and start enjoying all the things you missed out on being overweight.
6) Listen to your body. It's a good source of info.
Good luck and keep us posted.

Congrats! I am happy for you.

I was sleeved 9/30 also. I've only lost 15 lbs since surgery/ 32.5 including the pre-op

1st pic I was 1.5 months post op.

My fiancé and I were sleeve by Dr Alvarez on 9/30. We are very pleased with him. I'm an operating room nurse and was looking for short cuts or some negative about the whole process. He's fantastic!! My incision scars look like a plastic surgeon closed them. They are so flat and faint already. His coordinator Susan was great to work with. She responses quickly to emails.
His van driver Rosie is super nice. We also really loved Andrea; she checked in on us several times to see if we needed anything and even offered to go get my mom dinner outside the hospital.
I highly recommend Dr Alvarez and would go to him again in a heartbeat.

I used my insurance in the US, but if I had to doing over I would have just went to Mexico. It ended up taking a year to get my surgery and with the $1200 I had to pay for my out of pocket requirements and all the copays and the days I had to take off work to make all my pre-op appointments, 2 physic tests, 6 weigh-ins, 1 dietitian, 1 learn to exercise, 2 surgeon, all before I had surgery, I think the money part of it would have been the same, but I would have lost this 88lbs one year sooner. This is just my oppinon of course. I totally understand were you are coming from. My mom had it done in Mexico 3 weeks after she decided to do it. Which doesn't mean she hadn't been thinking about it for years.

Just reading some of the posts and wanted to say hang in there! I lost 15 pounds in 2 weeks on pre-op diet and then 15 pounds or so in the first two weeks post op and then stalled for about a month. Maybe a little longer...
Pre-op diet started 6/25. Surgery date 7/9. Down 53 pounds total now. Just stick with your plan. :-)

I thought I was alone I was sleeved 9/30 down 19 pounds. My clothes say I'm losing inches but the scale says I'm losing nothing!!!!

May 17. 226. Today...147

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I'm only 3 weeks out so definitely no sleeve expert, but my tips would be:
1) Don't compare yourself to others. As hard as that is, everyone's journey is so unique and personal. It will drive you crazy.
2) Remember to keep your eye on the prize. It gets discouraging when you are in a stall or losing slowly. Just remember, you really won't be the only person the sleeve doesn't work for if you work your sleeve.
3) Get your Water in
4) Get your Protein in
5) Remember to enjoy life. Have fun and start enjoying all the things you missed out on being overweight.
6) Listen to your body. It's a good source of info.
Good luck and keep us posted.

Wow you made me smile and of course your correct, its hard to believe after so many failures..thanks

Highest wgt 243 wgt 08/28 213, surgery 08/29/2012
Today's wgt 122.6. My goal wgt was 130 but I continue to lose wgt. I am training for a half marathon Feb 2014...