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SW 264 down to 261 feeling pumped had been stalled at 264 for a week

I cooked from 5am until 12:30 my family made it great! My mom ask if I was not going to eat my (Dad my biggest supporter) jumped in and said "he ate 5 bites of turkey while he sliced it and he ate 3 bites of ham while he sliced it you don't want him to make his self sick do you" that took all the pressure from me and allowed me to bring refills and serve dessert which kept me from grazing. I actually really enjoined being of service to them! I busted my calorie goal for the day but I might have eaten 1/10 of what I did last year! I love my sleeve!!!!!!

Welcome! I am a fairly new sleever 8/20/13. I am also a addict 8/11/03 is my clean date so I understand putting down the dope and finding the fork! LOL. I worked out a plan with my sponsor for post op meds and everything went great congratulations on both decisions. Recovery changes us on the inside and the sleeve is a awesome tool to help us change our outside. I believe the same disease that drove me to use drives my compulsive eating. The steps work on both! Thanks for your honesty

3 days past 3 months sleeved on 8/20/13 down 80 pounds loving life!

Ok now that my account is fixed! Thanks Alex

I am in SW 264 GW 250.

I am in CE 264 GW 250

Down 80 pounds total since I started this journey!

344sw

327 day of

262 today

Surgery 8/20/13

I got lost in the shuffle of the launch of the new site. I was just getting to know a few on here I lost all my subscribe threads but I am glad to be back.

Any one out there

My 100 year old Grand Father was in the process of telling me how good I looked and then explained to me I would have already been married and had a kid or two if I had not gotten fat! Wow he failed to noticed I raised my ex girlfriends daughter and now I am raising her son also. ???? but life is good and I am 80 pounds lighter to enjoy my Grand Son!

My energy came back slowly I had to up my Protein I do 100 to 120 a day. I am 12 weeks out and have more energy than I can remember. Just follow your nut. Directions as stated earlier as the weight comes off it gets better and better!

Thanks for all the encouragement. It is very helpful. I am drinking about 90-100 oz of Water a day. I am drinking 3 Protein Shakes per day. I found a shake I like. That is not the problem. I am also allowed to eat SF Jello and Popsicles. I can also have all the green leafy vegetables I want. Today is day 3 of the pre-op diet. My surgery is Nov. 21st. At work' date=' I'm so busy, I don't even think about the hunger. But, I have an hour drive home each evening and that's when the hunger hits. I can do this. Just needed some encouragement. Thanks guys.[/quote'] I did a 15 day pre-op diet it sucks! But is so worth it!!!!! The post op part seemed much easier. I struggled to get my minimums in. You can do it! I am now 11 weeks out down 71 pounds. I had a friend that had been sleeved and leaned on her a lot. I did have one slip on about day 9 ( the best 5 fries I ever had ) but that just kicked the hunger in. I would not recommend it.

thanks I appreciate the Kudos.. But I'm still struggling with it..

I had a friend tell me this yesterday. We were having a discussion about how i don't ever get hit on anymore. When I was heavier I got loads of attention.. Now a days not so much. Being the attention ***** that I am' date=' I kind of miss it. He was like you're too hot now and guys probably think you'll turn them down. Has anybody experienced anything like this?[/quote']well you are hot! :-0

I think I am eating about 800 i don't know if that is too much. .

Why do people say they are "bad" or "naughty" like its titillating or sexy when it's just a choice you are making? Nobody is going to "punish" you. You're not a child. You made a choice and you get to choose what to do next. Does it help you to feel guilty or to put a moral cost on it? It never helped me.

I ate candy last night and I am paying for it in gnawing hunger feelings this morning. Eh...Halloween is once a year and it's back to business today!

Thanks everyone!!

Welcome to the club. I've lost 37 lbs and I still worry I won't lose all the weight. We've all failed so many times' date=' it's normal to feel that at first.[/quote'] I have the same worries after 66lbs.

Hello all' date=' I am Robert and I am being sleeved in the morning. Starting to get a few jitters but really looking forward to this new step in my journey to a healthier me.[/quote']congrats! About this time the night before I was trying to check in to a motel and not poop on myself ( looking back I should have waited to start the clean out ) too busy puckering to be nervous! It going to be ok!

Decatur Alabama here!! Feel free to add me!

I haven't had my surgery yet' date=' but I am in nov with a girlfriend of mine. We were talking about it to another friend of ours who is currently on another diet and she said, "so what, am I the only one that's going to donut the hard way?" We easily have over 100lbs on her. I love her, but that posses me off.[/quote'] I have had the easy way comments I told them to go through surgery eat what I eat and follow me walking and we will see about the easy way...... Lol

Would anyone like to share their before & after pics! :-)

Okay' date=' so, since I've been frequenting this virtual bariatric world, there appear to be a few issues which seem to ignite much debate and throw the most meekly devised threads into huge ego-centric 'flaming' exercises. Not only do I, personally, find this predictably boring; it is also deeply unhelpful. We all know that this process changes or should change, how we do and view things to do with food and wider health issues, forever. As such, it takes a bit of getting used to. The prospect of having to adapt our long-held behaviours is scary and our little food related rituals? They are tough bleedin' Cookies to break. (My apologies for mentioning the 'C' word there) Consequently, I'm a big believer in the adage that 'skeletons in the cupboard' are no longer 'skeletons', if they are dragged out into the light of day. (Normally kicking and screaming with the neighbours looking on in horror) So, roll-up, roll-up. Consider this an online bariatric confessional! There'll be no 'Hail Mary's' or 'Our Fathers' and flagellation will NOT and should not be forthcoming. I want you to tell us your 'dirty' little bariatric secrets. What did you do? Why did you do it? (and I will refrain from asking 'with whom?' you did it!) How did it make you feel afterwards? Did you resolve to never do it again - or indeed, did you think that actually, everything in moderation is not so bad after all? Did you chow down on that hot-sauce laden and cheese encrusted beef taco 2 days post op? (No one can tell I'm fantasizing about anything that does not constitute a 'fluid' much, can you?!!!) Did you sneak into the fridge and eat all your kids chocolate bars, happy in the knowledge that your Protein Pump Inhibitors would prevent you from getting indigestion? Did you swallow 10 vodka martini's to see if your pouch and your legs could take it? Come on, tell Aunty Revs and lets see if we can put these beasts to bed once and for all x As is only fair, I shall go first.. Tonight, I, 8 days post surgery, ate a fair amount of cheese frosting off the top of a red velvet cupcake (and maybe a couple of mouthfuls of the sponge, too). Why? Because it was there. Did it make any sense? No, because I have never craved sweet stuff. I'm a savoury kind of girl. What did I learn from it? That damn, I'm an emotional eater (which I never thought I was) and that shockingly, that **** went down a little bit too easily. Consequently, I learnt in that way lies grave danger... See, if I can do it, anyone can. So, step forward and lets hear the 'worst' you've got. Everyone is welcome and all are equal here x[/quote'] I have spent the last little while reading this thread it is very entertaining. The undercurrents are strong in places I am very new to this just shy of 8 weeks but I have experience in recovery.

My name is Shannon and I am a addict (yes a drug addict) I have also struggled with my weight all my adult life. Through 12 step recovery I have been able to string together 10 years clean even in recovery my weight yo-yoed. The complete abstinence from mind altering substances does not work with food. I in the past have even taken eating healthy food to the extreme don't even get me started on unhealthy food! I see this thread as therapeutic secrets grow in the dark and die in the light of the day. Some miss the point on both sides but I know I have kicked my own a** enough my self esteem is still fragile a non-judgmental environment is what I need but I also need your experience and guidance. Thanks for being here. Oh I had 2 small pieces of fried catfish and 2 small hush puppies today. I recorded the cals and don't feel the least bit bad! I also enjoy the humor life is waaaay to short not to laugh!!!!!

Been eating a package of Kirklands dry roasted sea weed each day. Only 100 calories for the entire package and within a week I was regular like clock work.