CrazyJaney

Oh how I love this! I'm using this quote here on out!

It's the "3 week stall". Completely normal and will pass. No one could have convinced me (many tried) back then. Hang in there. Good things coming your way!

Quick and easy for lunch or dinner. Premade chicken Meatballs (found organic at Whole Foods). Place in mini muffin tin and cook per directions (these were pre-cooked but I heated longer than it said to). Heat some marinara out of a jar. 2 meatballs, 2 T marinara, add 1/4c mozerrella. About 170 calories. About 16g Protein. Very good and a nice change from plain chicken.

Thank you! I feel great! Wish I had done this years ago. You'll be enjoying the new norm soon! Good luck!

5'6. My goal is 175. I keep adjusting it though. Not sure where I'll settle in yet. I'm very pear shaped. Harder to lose on bottom.

I never did a formal 1 year picture. This is a few months before VSG (date of surg 3/13/14 about 330#), and today (13 months post op) 130 gone. 20 to goal. Would love to have plastics someday.....

I wholeheartedly agree.

When I was preop, this was the thread I came back to over and over again. The fact that I weighed 325 (as high as 330's) was the shock I needed (along with rapidly deteriorating health) to make a change. When I started researching WLS I would come to this thread and read, and re-read just to convince myself of the possibilities that existed. It's hard (preop) to believe in yourself enough to see the possibilities I think. I just wanted to come back to say thanks to all those who inspired me on this thread. I hit "onederland" today. It was strangely anticlimactic in a way. But I've been waiting a long time to see that number. My one year Sleeversary was last Friday 3/13. There were moments when I thought I'd fail. I have 25-30 to go. I'm beyond grateful for a second chance at life. And those who shared their stories on this thread were a huge part of getting me there. Thank you - especially to Cowgirl Jane. To all those starting out: BELIEVE IN THE POSSIBILITIES! Keep reading, keep healing, keep talking, keep believing. It's so worth it.

One year Sleeversary and the greatest gift is perfect vital signs!

Happy Sleeversary Month to all! 1 year coming up for me on the 13th. I'm sitting right at 200-201. Really wanting to be in Onederland but still happy where I've gotten to. It's been a great year! Keep up the hard work yall!

One of the best NSV's. 44D to 36C/D. And panties too!

Love your post! Congrats on doing it at 30. I was 45 and wished I had this option so much sooner! Love your post! Congrats on doing it at 30. I was 45 and wished I had this option so much sooner!

Looking to find a good chewable Calcium. I am so tired of the gigantic pills. I am almost a year post op and will ask at my appointment. Found Citracal Chewable but it doesn't say "citrate" on it. How important it is for those of us who had a sleeve? I love the fruit flavored versus the chocolate or carmel. But the Bariatric Advantage seem expensive. Advice?

This might be my most favorite post I've EVER READ! So true!

Gorgeous!!! I'm almost a year post and down 122 pounds. It's so slow now and my BMI is still 32. Not sure I'll ever see 25. I think I'll be ok with that. Im not done yet but can't quite imagine another 50 coming off. Maybe in time? I don't know. But you define health, fitness and fab right where you are. Gorgeous!!!!

Hello! I haven't posted in a while and just thought I would check back in. There are tons of threads on this topic. I am almost a year post op. I kept my decision to have surgery very private and still do. I did realize that there was just no way not to keep it completely quiet (although some do). My inner circle of friends and family knew from the beginning. I told a few when it seemed like it was appropriate or when the moment seems right. I had major fears of being judged in the begining. I put it out there to anyone who did know that I wasn't really asking permission or their opinion. If someone was the super-anxious type I waited to tell or didn't tell because THEIR anxiety would make mine worse. I didn't tell my mom until the week before. I didn't tell my dad until I was 3 months post. My sister was my biggest cheerleader and knew when it was just a "thought" rambling in my head. Most of my best girlfriends knew. I didn't want everyone's opinion though and in telling people I was planning to do this - I let that be known up front. To my surprize, very few were outright negative. I've lost 122 pounds total (100 since surgery) and it's been pretty rapid so I am sure many have figured it out. It gets annoying when the only thing people want to talk about is my weight loss. And that was one of my reasons why I didn't want to tell everyone. I didn't want WLS to be the first thing they thought of when they saw me or heard my name. It's just ONE part of me - not the only thing about me. Looking back, I worried about it more than I should have. At the beginning and end of this journey - this is about YOU! Hold your head up high and make yourself a list of all the things you want to do when you lose weight. Focus on THAT list everytime the anxiety gets to you. It is the greatest feeling to LIVE life again. If you do all your homework and this is truly for you, you will not regret anything and the people in your life who love you will go along for the ride. BEST OF LUCK TO YOU!!!

On the tip top of my "why to have WLS" (besides health) was the desire to ski again. I grew up skiing and haven't skied in 23 years (partly because I moved to the south and partly because I weighed 325 pounds). This weekend, I got my wish. Skied with my boys. It was absolutely wonderful.

On the tip top of my "why to have WLS" (besides health) was the desire to ski again. I grew up skiing and haven't skied in 23 years (partly because I moved to the south and partly because I weighed 325 pounds). This weekend, I got my wish. Skied with my boys. It was absolutely wonderful.

On the tip top of my "why to have WLS" (besides health) was the desire to ski again. I grew up skiing and haven't skied in 23 years (partly because I moved to the south and partly because I weighed 325 pounds). This weekend, I got my wish. Skied with my boys. It was absolutely wonderful.

10 months post op and -115 pounds (30 more to go). I'm constantly having NSV's and feel grateful everyday. More than anything, I am grateful for better mobility and overall health. Watching others struggle with basic functions has really opened my eyes as to where I was going had I not lost weight. This week has been so stressful at work. I'm a nurse and we have been unbelievably busy for about 2 months. The patients being admitted are so sick. I can't tell you how many times I've stood at a bedside this week and felt immensely grateful that I have been able to lose 115 pounds. Several of my patients have weighed 250-300 and are severely limited in their mobility. I know if I had kept on, that would have been me in 10-20 years. I felt so sad for two different women today: one a patient who weighs 300+ and can't do anything for herself, and a 250 pound visitor (elderly woman) who couldn't make it back to her car because it was too much walking. She was so stooped over with arthritis and her knees could barely hold her. I am so grateful and motivated to keep this up. I never want to be that immobile of that dependent. I. Am. Grateful.