L-in-NJ

I was told a few ago that I'm gttn DISCHARGED TODAYYYY! Praise God n THANK U ALL FOR UR PRAYERS N SUPPORT:). XOXOX. I'll luk when I'm home:))))

I just got thru my first stall. I was sleeved on the 4th and exactly 3 weeks to the day I started to stall. The scale just started moving this weekend.

Hi everyone!
I just wanted to post a few pictures of my progress since having been sleeved on 5/3/13. I know that there's someone reading this that's either considering surgery or already had it and are not where they wish they could be. I just want to say that it takes time, effort, dedication, and determination. I'd be lying if i said that i ate a ton of junk food since having been sleeved and lost all this weight. I lost this large amount of weight by working out and training like an athlete, eating clean, and staying hydrated. There were days where i cried, cheated, and gave up but ultimately, i got right back on track and continued. It hasn't been easy but it's definitely been worth it.
I started at a size 26 and i am now a size 16/18. I weighed in at 383 on 5/3/13 and as of today, i'm 263lbs. I worked hard to see that 263 and am continuing to work hard till i reach the onderlands.
I hope that this post can inspire atleast one person today
If any of you guys have personal questions you'd like to ask, you can always reach me at: sleevedtiffy(at)gmail.com
Wishing all of you luck and great success!
Tiffany

Just bragging! My new profile picture of me and my brand spanking new grandson, born 1/4/14! And I'm not ashamed to have pictures of me with him! Talk about a non-scale victory!

Again I cannot express how thankful I am to know you all! It is amazing and encouraging to read your victories, recoveries, and your numbers loss thus far. Altho I may not chime in, I'm keeping up w u all bc it makes me happy to share in ur happiness. Ty Tsn for those beautiful words bc last night, I prayed n chatted w God and asked that He guides this journey for me and allow me to take it a day at a time. Well, the Doc came in a lil while ago and said, " ok, how about we try u on 1oz sips of Water evry hour but if u spasm, stop and we try the picc line for nutrition on Monday". I was excited in the most cheesiest way:))) so they brot me a bottle of cold water. And thus far, I've tolerated it very well, praise God , and Ty allllll:). I'm sipping n walking. I am just elated. I'm still not hungry, physically or mentally but reading some of u alls food choices, I can't wait to have Wendy's chili, I'm excited:). He also stated that if I did well today w water, he'd add some taste tomorrow! Yippie. Update: surgery 12/30/13 including hernia repair. Have esophageal spasms which has caused my 3 night stay b extended to at least next Monday. Spasms decreased, doc allowed water sips today. Pain wise, not much ever, just spasms which were horrible in itself. Tmi, had two bm's alrdy and voiding frequently, so won't have that to keep me here:). Well I guess I'll lv it at that and Lord willing, my Driver, I will go home on Monday. Plz cont to pray that I can remain complication free as I will for you. Ty and I remain PROUD OF U ALL!! XOXOX

I'm in the 200's!!! Been 3 years since I've lived in this neighborhood! Of course, I'm only visiting!!
I stayed the exact same weight for 6 days -- woke up this morning to a 2.5lb loss! Woot!
HW 348
SW 330
CW 297.5
Yep..I'm claiming that half pound..lol!

HW 407lbs
Date of surgery 10/23/2013 367lbs
CW 290lbs
Before

After

What a number for December! Hope all of you folks do well, I'm pulling for you!

Happy new year to me...had the best experience at NYU medical center..Dr Ren is a true professional.i was sleeved on 12/31 around noon..procedure took about an hour and a half.no complications.leek test was perfect.spent only one night in hospital.gas pain was pretty rough the first night but has subsided greatly.been sleeping a lot.had a bit of very thin Tomato Soup a little while ago and got full very quickly.sucks to sleep on my back but the stitches should heal within a few weeks.very optimistic about this surgery.the pain meds they gave are wonderful lol....looking forward to a happy and very healthy new year...cheers everyone!

Hello my family:). Just wanted to update: I'm still n hospital, I feel rather well but these esophageal spasms are still givin me issues. As I said the second swallow test was.basically inconclusive but the surgeon said it looked good enuff for him, however; until I'm 24 hrs spasm free, he still won't let me eat or drink:( so today is day 4, npo. Then he said, we just have to b patient bc it will improve, so I have to stay here until Monday mornin:( my 9 yr old is alredy upset when she has to lv me nd she doesn't evn know about Monday yet. Catheter n heart monitor removed so that's good. I thank God that I'm not evn hungry or head hungry, I'm just rdy to get up n moving forward in a positive way. I've been reading about how u all are and praying every night for yall. Take care and hopefully I'll have bttr news for yall. XOXO my friends keep up the awesomeness of ur journeys, I'm proud of you all!!!!

Good everyone. Well my stay in the hospital has been extended till Friday at the least because my swallow test was inconclusive because I'm so very tight right now. Third day of not eating or drinking anything just have to swab my mouth and spit it out. Kind of scary and yeah makes me wonder why I did it. if I were not having spasms in my chest and heart I could come home tomorrow so please continue lifting me up in prayer, its greatly appreciate. Gn all.

Happy New Year to everyone!! We all made it thru December and are on the losers bench!! I wish you all a prosperous and successful 2014!! Here's to us!!

Happy New Year to everyone!! We all made it thru December and are on the losers bench!! I wish you all a prosperous and successful 2014!! Here's to us!!

Happy new years everybody! Pray that everyone is doing fabulous as well as recovering from surgery. I am still in the hospital what my doctor told me was to expect three nights either way. They will repeat the barium swallow test today so please pray for the success of that,then they can take off all these plugs and Patches and monitors. As of right now I have not had any of the esophageal spasms thank God! So hopefully the swelling has gone down and I can start the 2 wk postop liq. I would love to say yuck I'm so sick of liquids but its been 2 days now and I haven't had liquids of any kind just a wet swab for my mouth but no swallowing, again I pray that everyone had a great surgery and is recovering well. Im especially praying for our Dec group for that this year will be the best you ever ever had. Im ready to start seeing some before and after pics! Yall have a good day and thanks for your prayers. I've appreciated them:

Happy New Year to everyone!! We all made it thru December and are on the losers bench!! I wish you all a prosperous and successful 2014!! Here's to us!!

Happy New Year to everyone!! We all made it thru December and are on the losers bench!! I wish you all a prosperous and successful 2014!! Here's to us!!

Wishing this entire group a very Happy New Year...2014 is OUR year...no more broken resolutions! We are going to do it!

Hi everyone, sorry I have been away for so long. My weight loss is still progressing although it has slowed down. I have decided to do an off-road race called a Spartan Race in February so I will let you know how that goes. Pants size is down from a 58 to a 40! So, I am very happy but I still have some more weight to get rid of. Here are my numbers.

Sleeved: 12/26/12 @ *422 lbs*

Now: 12/31/13 @ *252*

So, as of this point I am down 170 lbs and have lost 40% of my body weight. I hope everyone is doing great in their journey.
GatorDave

I did it! 100 pounds down in 2013!!!! I am at 100.2 lost as of this morning and I am thrilled.
Best decision of 2013, hands down.

HW - 407
SW - 392
CW - 365
Total pounds lost 42.

My names Jules! I got sleeved on December 12th! I'm 19 years old and at my heaviest was 372 lbs. So far down 27 lbs... Excited to see what's ahead!! Just thought I would introduce myself

Hi guys. I asked my husband to write something for my blog. Like a "WLS from a spouse's point of view" sort of thing. I will preface this by saying, my husband is my rock and I love him to pieces (sure, some days I want to push him off a cliff, but...).
This is what he sent me - I wanted to share with this audience because we all have loved ones that drive us crazy at times. I think sometimes we open up in a different way when we put pen to paper as opposed to speaking to one another. What would your spouse or significant other write if you asked them to? I was surprised by what I read here...
The wife recently asked me to write a little something for her blog. Not much on writing more than witty quips in response to my friends Facebook posts, my first response was a “oh sure” and then to politely ignore the request. It’s a tactic that works I’d say 75% of the time. I was hoping that she would be so excited (or distraught) about weight loss/lack of weight loss/not pooping/pooping/someone else pooping or not pooping, she’d forget that she asked. So a week passed and then I get a, “So I’d really like you to write a post for my blog. You know, from the spouses point of view.” I thought I was home free with her focus on the stall. Guess not.

My wife's weight has never really been an issue for me. We met over the phone and had a 3000-mile long distance relationship before the Internet and unlimited phone service. We worked in the same industry and developed a relationship over months of hours-long, bank-account-crushing phone calls. We have always said that if we had come across each other in a bar or other typical meeting place, we wouldn’t have been each other’s type, physically. Since we fell in love before we ever met, we got what we got. Which by the way, I was pretty happy with upon our first meeting. So when she informed me of her thoughts on surgery I tried hard to keep the slack jawed WTF look off my face as much as I could. I initially thought, “Your going to cut out most of your stomach just to lose a few pounds. What?” What I didn’t realize is that it wasn’t a few pounds. Much like your surprise when someone comments on how much your child has grown because they only see him once a year, I hadn’t noticed she had gained a hundred pounds since we first met. She had always just been my wife, my best friend, the person I would spend a long wonderful life with. My attachment to her has always been so much more than physical, and when I look at her I still see that 25-year-old girl I fell in love with. So when she told me how much she weighed I thought, “Holy shit, when did that happen.”

My blessing of the surgery wasn’t without hesitation. I know what obesity does to a body over time and have witnessed it first hand in my father and mother-in-law. The breaking down of joints, the insulin injections, heart issues and on and on…I know, preaching to the choir. But what if something happens during surgery and I lose the love of my life? What if our boy loses his mother? The mere thoughts made my heart hurt. How would I ever cope if something tragic actually happened? But you can’t live life on the basis that something bad MIGHT happen. Its what kept my mother from fully experiencing life and I always hated that. I wanted to have the healthiest wife possible as we get older. I wanted her to be comfortable in her skin. I wanted her to wear clothes she likes, not just the ones that hide the most. I wanted her to not feel awkward around others. I’ve never really struggled with weight. Sure I could lose more than a few pounds, but it falls off with little effort. I don’t fully understand the angst that the weight causes my wife but I know she isn’t as happy as she could be because of it. Life isn’t a dress rehearsal. You gotta make the most of it. So I agreed, reluctantly.

After coming to grips with the minimal risk involved and nervously waiting for good news from the operating room, it’s been a pretty easy journey for me. I’ve had to do very little except listen. Listen about the surgery, shakes, stalls, pooping, not pooping and then pooping again. My wife is hard-core about obtaining information off the internet. So much so, she once gave her GP a tutorial on thyroid testing and the latest acceptable ranges for each test, which came as news to her doctor. Still not sure why we had to pay for that office visit. So nothing came as a surprise. It made my life easier knowing that if anything came up post op that might freak me out, she had the stats on how many patients experienced the same thing, why it happened, how long it will likely last, and what the next day, week, month has in store. Easy for me, but I know it hasn’t been easy for her and that each day brings a new challenge. I am so grateful for what she is willing to put herself through for a healthier future with our son and me. Recently she’s been in the dreaded stall, but it’s subsided, and she has a little pep in her step. I love the gleam in her eye when the scale tells her what she wants to hear. I love how she gleefully shows off how crappy her clothes fit. Mostly I love that each day she seems to feel more comfortable in her skin and happier with herself. What more can you really ask for?

HW - 407
SW - 392
CW - 365
Total pounds lost 42.

Good luck on your big day tomorrow!! You have been one of our biggest cheerleaders and I pray your day is just as successful and your recovery is easy!!

Good luck on your big day tomorrow!! You have been one of our biggest cheerleaders and I pray your day is just as successful and your recovery is easy!!