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I am now COLD. Never thought I would say that. Two weeks post op.

I am October 21. Good luck to you both

I am praying for your whole family.

Congrats. You look awesome.

Congrats grandma beach lover!! :-)

I am OFFICIALLY an October sleever! Just found out this a.m.' date=' kind of by accident. My surgeon's office was supposed to submit the paperwork to my insurance (Anthem BC) yesterday. I called my insurance this morning just to verify the paperwork had been sent. Much to my extreme amazement I was told it was received AND APPROVED 9/25. The lady then proceeded to tell me I am approved for a one night stay 10/21-10/22. ( I questioned..That is standard she said. Get approval for one night then add to it as needed.) Then I realized she just gave me my surgery date, even before I heard it from my surgeon's office!!!! I am so freaking happy it isn't funny![/quote']

I'm Oct.21 too.

Southern Indiana

Northern Indiana

You can add me. Oct.21. Start of 4 week liquid diet on Tuesday.

A little worried that my t-shirt is either too tight or too short for my current weight. Honest thoughts please?

You look great.

I just had my date changed to October 21 st. I am getting butterflies. I would like a mentor.

My husband and I have known each other since childhood. At 10 years old I said I wanted to marry him some day. Everyone laugh and he ran screaming. Well forward 8 years, and I am walking down the isle towards him. We have been happily married for 41 years. We are each others biggest supporters. Our love is so strong.

Anyone going to Fort Wayne Bariatric Center?

I am joining the Indiana sleevers losing bench on October 21.

I got my call yesterday. Surgery on October 28. Then they called today and now surgery on October 21. Sure hope they call tomorrow!! :-)

You are just beautiful. I would of loved to have been sleeved when I was younger. I love seeing all of you so happy and having this great opportunity of getting your health back. I may be 60, and a little late in the game, but soon, I am going to say goodbye to my high BMI and hello to a healthy old broad. Even though I am worried about having tube sock boobs. :-)

I always wooshed after my cycle' date=' too. Up three or four pounds (after sitting still the rest of the month, usually!) but a big drop right in the last week to ten days of the month was my norm. I usually lost all my weight for the month in the last week or so.

It is a lot easier without the hunger. I still don't have hunger. But I do still have disordered eating habits inside me, that only need a little stress, upheaval or upset as an excuse to come out and cause me problems! I think that in the loss phase (which was 17 months for me) it's really easy to rely on the lack of hunger to help you make those choices and stay on track.

As you get a bit farther out, it does fall more squarely on you. More specifically on your head and on how you relate to food. It's still sometimes a challenge for me. And what makes it harder is knowing that for six days running food is something I don't particularly care about and can walk away from at any time. It's easy on those days. But give me a really hard day - give me bad news and bad emotions and plenty of stress...and those choices become much harder to make. And head hunger still feels like hunger - no, not physically. But that nagging and never ending desire to just eat and eat can still show up!

I'm not here to share horror stories or scare anyone. I think that being a slow loser really helped me do as much of the head work as possible. Achieving goal and maintaining it before my baby helped me realize I can succeed and that it's possible. But staying in that "need to lose a few mindset" after any type of regain (even one for a baby, like my piddly five pounds I can't lose) is hard sometimes. And it gets HARDER the farther out you get.

Accepting that I will never be able to just eat what I want without being accountable no matter when I get back to goal and no matter how easy it is to stay there is important. I have to stay on top of things, because even now it's still far too easy to mindlessly eat or to fall back on old habits of using food to cope.

I know that for me, at least, losing incredibly quickly would have left me floundering once I was in maintenance. And oh, now? I would have given up already if I truly expected to lose the weight from my pregnancy overnight. I've been battling close to fifteen pounds for more than five months! And I still have five of them to go!

~Cheri

Not sure if I even had a point when I started. I guess that it might have been that this is challenging in the long run no matter what. But at least my slow loss allowed me to learn some new coping skills and new habits before I got to maintenance.[/quote']

I think you made several great points here. Your insight of this WLS is so very helpful to me and I am sure others who are just getting ready to start this wonderful journey. Thank you for your posts.

I had to work on my weight 18 months with my physician. Check. Psych evaluation. Check. Now I will have a 4 week liquid diet. Yum... can't wait! :-)

I am sitting on the same bench. Paperwork goes to insurance next week. Would love to have a quick answer back. They told me that they are full for Sept. and most of Oct. for surgery. Looks like I will be a Nov. Sleever.

I am a November Sleever too. Don't have my date yet. I am excited now, so can't imagine what I will be like when it gets closer.

I was sleeved August 5th and am afraid to get on the scales because I'm afraid I am not going to have done this well.

Take your measurements. I bet you have lost inches.

I will be 60 in January. This is a gift I am giving myself. The first thing out of my 5 year old grand daughter's mouth when she sees me is "are you feeling better grandma? Can you pick me up.". I can't wait for the day to hear " Let's go play grandma"!!!

So glad you are doing good Peggy. Can't wait for my date.

Surgery date 1/21/13 starting at 299 Cw at 185 my goal weight at 7 months 114 pound lost .. Now that I'm here and looking great I think imma go for another 10 pounds I really want to try 20 to be at normal bmi but I'm afraid imma be too small but I just wanna so to the new sleevers hold on you'll get there

What program did you use for your pictures to be sideby side? You look GREAT

Today is my day! I'm at the hospital waiting to be admitted. My surgery is scheduled for 11:30 & I got here at 5 am because my surgeon's office said "no matter what time they tell you' date=' check in at 5." But the hospital has free wi-fi & I have my MacBook Air to keep me entertained.[/quote']

Good luck Peggy D

I know that even with stalls, you are still losing inches. What measurements are you keeping track of and which one do you wish you would of tracked?