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ataylo24

Gastric Sleeve Patients
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    ataylo24 reacted to chanelle102 in R there any Dec 2013 sleevers   
    Surgery date 12/10/2013
    Post op weight 454
    SW- 435
    CW 392
    Please let me know your weight loss I feel like I should be so much further than I am!!! How much are you able to eat? I am able to eat quite a bit now a half of whole wheat turkey wrap!!! Let me know feeling nervous I'm not keeping up
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    ataylo24 reacted to LipstickLady in Yes, I had WLS and YES, I *AM* doing this on my own.   
    I've seen quite a few people around these parts talking about people they know who have lost weight "on their own" while they personally had WLS and I must say, this mindset makes me a bit pissy.
    Before having VSG, I tried every freaking diet out there. I exercised like a maniac. I tried drugs I knew were potentially harmful to my long term health. I resigned myself to being fat every single time I failed before slapping myself around and trying something new or trying something old again and again. I saw nutritionists, I saw gastro specialists. I considered a hypnotist, but I waved that off as hogwash. (No offense to anyone who tried it, just not my cup of tea.) I lost weight, I gained weight, I lost weight, I gained weight, I lost, I gained, I yo-yo'd myself right into a flucked up metabolism and mass frustration for myself and my family.
    I finally decided that I had no other options and settled on the Vertical Sleeve after researching my WLS options for almost a year. I went through 4 months with one surgeon before realizing there was no way in H E double hockey sticks could I let him cut me open before starting the process over with another surgeon that I felt comfortable with.
    I did all the pre-op work with a nutritionist (whack job!!) figuring that if I could concentrate on losing for those 6 months, maybe I wouldn't need surgery after all.
    I saw the counselor (WHACK JOB!!!) and never got to the root of my troubles other than the fact that I am a greedy piglet. (She swears I am repressing sexual abuse in a past life -- no REALLY, a PAST life, not just in my past. Uhmmm...)
    I did my pre-op diet for a month instead of the required two weeks because I wanted to.
    I exercised my fanny off (literally) over the last 7 months.
    I weigh, measure and log my food.
    I read labels.
    I make good choices putting my Protein needs first.
    I make sure to get in my 10k steps every single day even if that means running in place for an hour at 10pm when I know I have to be up, bright eyed and bushy tailed in 7 hours.
    I look for recipes that are healthier for my family that I can eat as well but I often cook two meals so they can eat what they like and I can eat what I need to eat.
    I put the fork down before I want to so that I don't spend the next 30 minutes bent over the toilet even when it took me an hour to prepare a meal and I've only had two or three bites because ,my tiny tummy isn't tolerating more than an ounce instead of it's usual 3 or 4.
    I read menus days in advance if I know I am going out so that I can order seamlessly with everyone else.
    I attend parties and conferences and work functions and eat mindfully so I can enjoy the event without calling attention to myself.
    I suffer through stalls in my head so that my family doesn't have to hear my incessant whining because I know they've suffered enough of my nonsense over the years.
    I appreciate everything my changing body has allowed me to do over the years despite the abuse I put it through and I appreciate how much it's thanking me as I am relieving it of all the excess weight.
    I went to kickboxing even when I don't feel like it and now I teach it so I don't have a choice but to go.
    I joined a high dollar gym and hired a high dollar trainer, not because I am a high dollar girl but because I am now forced to go.
    I look at my saggy skin and my floppy boobs and my melty thighs and my squishy bum and my hangy arms and while I regret that I didn't do this 5, 10, 15 years ago, I smile that I did do it seven months ago.
    I am losing this weight ON MY OWN. If you honestly think I'm not, please tell me who is doing it for me. They owe me a whole bunch of money, time and heartache for all the things I've put myself through over the last year+ and I owe them a HUGE amount of thanks for getting me where I am today.
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    ataylo24 got a reaction from SoPeachy28 in December 2013 Sleevers Come In!   
    Tomorrow is the big day for me! Oddly, I'm not nervous yet. Just excited! Now on to bowel prep. Yay....
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    ataylo24 got a reaction from SoPeachy28 in December 2013 Sleevers Come In!   
    Tomorrow is the big day for me! Oddly, I'm not nervous yet. Just excited! Now on to bowel prep. Yay....
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    ataylo24 got a reaction from SoPeachy28 in December 2013 Sleevers Come In!   
    Tomorrow is the big day for me! Oddly, I'm not nervous yet. Just excited! Now on to bowel prep. Yay....
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    ataylo24 got a reaction from SoPeachy28 in December 2013 Sleevers Come In!   
    Tomorrow is the big day for me! Oddly, I'm not nervous yet. Just excited! Now on to bowel prep. Yay....
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    ataylo24 reacted to soul2bleed in December 2013 Sleevers Come In!   
    I'm in Harrison, Mi
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    ataylo24 got a reaction from Jerzygurl in December 2013 Sleevers Come In!   
    Dec. 11 here! Today was my first day of high Protein diet!
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    ataylo24 got a reaction from Jerzygurl in December 2013 Sleevers Come In!   
    Dec. 11 here! Today was my first day of high Protein diet!
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    ataylo24 got a reaction from Jerzygurl in December 2013 Sleevers Come In!   
    Dec. 11 here! Today was my first day of high Protein diet!
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    ataylo24 got a reaction from Jerzygurl in December 2013 Sleevers Come In!   
    Dec. 11 here! Today was my first day of high Protein diet!
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    ataylo24 got a reaction from Jerzygurl in December 2013 Sleevers Come In!   
    Dec. 11 here! Today was my first day of high Protein diet!

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