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Dualstarr

Gastric Sleeve Patients
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    Dualstarr reacted to JillianMarie73 for a blog entry, With the Weight, So Too Do the Chains Drop   
    Well here we are. I have survived the first month of my gastric sleeve. Yesterday marked the one month date since I surrendered my stomach to the great nation of Mexico.
     
    I can’t say it’s been a completely smooth ride, I’ve had my moments of restriction pain, nausea and frustration… and the three week stall threatened to crush my spirit plateauing me for a good 8 days, but at the end of my first month, I can say I have lost 16 lbs.
     
    16 lbs man. That’s nothing to sneeze at. I have read many blogs and posts where people are light years ahead of me on the losing scale and for a short time I allowed that to frustrate me. Then I remembered one great fact.
     
    The power of the law of attraction. What I ask the universe for, I get. Always.
     
    It does not always seem like things are working the way they should but in the end I get the result I have asked of the universe… this rate of weight loss (which I may find slows further) is aiding me to help my skin retract – which is what I am asking for… no loose skin, no loose skin, no loose skin.
     
    So let’s step back to the plateau. It was pretty hard on my nerves, and I think I allowed it to affect me physically because I started having some digestive problems as well, after all had been fairly smooth sailing for the first couple of weeks. I decided one day to sit down and think about the things that I want.. and the things I have wanted, over the last few years…
     
    In May 2010
    I wanted to lose the weight and get back into shape
    I wanted my husband to stop drinking and being abusive to me
    I wished I owned my own home
    I desperately wanted to have a baby, having fought infertility for 6 long years
     
    In May 2011
    I wanted to lose the weight and get back into shape
    I wanted my husband to stop drinking and being abusive to me
    I wished I owned my own home
    But I had a beautiful baby boy!!!
     
    In May 2012
    I wanted to lose the weight and get back into shape
    I left my husband!! (... but I still wanted love)
    I purchased my own home!!
    I have a beautiful son!!!
     
    In May 2013
    I am losing weight!
    I have love with my soul mate!
    I purchased my own home!!
    I have a beautiful son!!!
     
    BUT... I’m on a stall.
     
    REALLY JILLIAN???
     
    Perspective perspective perspective!
     
    And the non-scale victories are amazing!!
    I sleep Better
    My pitting edema that has haunted my feet for the last 5 years is practically non existent
    The sciatica is gone
    And the biggest one is the strength I feel when I power walk.


    Everyday I walk up the nature trail beside my office building at lunch time, or behind my home – and I feel the power. I feel myself walking away from all my misery of the past, all my heartache and disappointment…. The chains drop from me as I go. Pretty soon, it will turn into a run, and once I start running… I will never stop!



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