SoonergirlLayla

You can do it! Drink your water and be sure to stay active I'm rooting for you!

I'm so excited, I had to share! I have finally made it to ONEDERLAND! I am so thrilled I just don't know what to do! This is the first time in my adult life that I can remember being under 200lbs!!!! I just don't even know what to do with myself

Congratulations!!! I feel the same way! I will never let myself look at that scale and see a 2 again. I see myself with only 50 lbs to lose and It is so very surreal. I have always had this huge daunting number and now, 50 lbs seems like nothing I will be 5 months out on July 4th, and I am still in shock of where I could end up by the time I am a year out! If only when I looked in the mirror I saw a size 14 girl... I still see 28 :/ I cannot wait until the 180's either! For most of my life this has been my goal. I would tell my self, "at 180 I will be happy." I don't feel that way anymore... When my bmi doesn't read "overweight" I will be happy! I want to be a healthy weight! I'm also striving to hit a size 9... I have never in my life been a single digit size.

I have lost 100 lbs since January. I was 297 pre-op when I started my preop diet on January 7 and lost 30lbs before the surgery. I was sleeved on Feb 4th (weighed 267), and I now weigh 195 When I started the whole process I was 312lbs(October 2013)... I simply cannot believe how far I have come. It looks like we have the same surgery date! How is your sleeve treating you?

Realizing that you don't have 100(+) pounds to lose anymore! Talk about a huge weight lifted! Also going to the store, (not a plus size store) and them not having any of your size, not because you are too big, but because you are officially "Average" so they sell out of those sizes quickly

When your husband picks you up and carries to the bed and throws you onto it, just because he can Also, I'm really close to this one because so I am getting excited for it: when you FINALLY weigh less than your husband, because he has never struggled with his weight. 10lbs to go !!!

I have always been "the chunky girl." As a child I wasn't obese, but I was plump. My uncle nick named me "2 tons of fun" and I was called that for years, and internally, it shamed me. I gained progressively until high school, and then I started playing sports so I plateaued at around 215. In college I was always the "fat friend" and my weight settled around the 240's. On my wedding day 5 years ago I weight 260... In 2012, after my son's 2nd birthday party I saw the pictures of myself and was horrified. I went to the scale to find that I had made it all the way to 312 lbs. I knew that I had to do something, and from that point on I was determined to lose this weight! Today I am 202 (almost 4 months post op and 96lbs down)and I am anxiously awaiting ONEDERLAND because I honestly don't remember a time in my life since I was conscience of my weight that I weight under 200 lbs! Praying these next 3 lbs melt away so that I can feel what it's like to not weigh 200 plus pounds

It really does get better. Try to look at the positive that is going to come from this. The longer you work at the easier it is to use your tool effectively. You will see the lbs come off, and at some point you will feel so liberated to not feel controlled by food. For the first few weeks of soft foods I lived on refried beans with a little shredded cheese and low sodium taco sauce, string cheese, and eggs (either scrambled or hard boiled). after 7 weeks, I could tolerate dark meat chicken shredded and very soft green beans. It was all easier after that. I will be 3 months out on Sunday and I have lost 54 lbs since surgery, and bought a size 15 jeans today that were not in the plus size section I was a 24/26 in jeans from lane Bryant before this... Just hang in there. Soon you will be thanking your lucky stars for your second chance at life!

So I am getting so close to Onederland I can taste it! I am so excited because I literally cannot recall a time in my life that I was under 200 lbs (I'm assuming it was about 6th or 7th grade, but I didn't weigh myself then. I am looking for a way to celebrate this momentous occasion other than clothes, since I have clothes all the way from a 14-28 and I am currently in a 16, I just don't think I will need any sizes smaller than a 14 19 lbs from now. Any suggestions, I really have worked my booty off for this, and I am not good at rewarding myself with things other than clothes and food, which I no longer use as motivation!!! Onderlander's what did you do for yourself? Or people who aren't there yet, what are you planning to do to celebrate?

I have been really strict with my diet as well, and the first thing I thought was, Im going to eat chinese! That's why I started this I just knew I had to find some other wsy to Celebrate. I appreciate all of the suggestions! There are so many new things happening and learning about how to deal with them is so exciting, but just a little scary

A massage sounds amazing. That may just be the thing I pick!

This is a decision that you have to make for you. If you have done all of your research on this, and feel comfortable with the decision that you have made, then he needs to be supportive, move on, or NOT sabotage you. I would take a hard look at my triggers because this surgery is going to leave you with a lack of what most of us use to cope with all of those hard emotions(disappointment, not feeling good enough, anger, sadness, you get the point). His constant ridicule of your decision is going to make it so much harder to be successful, and it could ultimately make you gain any weight that you lose with your procedure, back. Then, you will resent him and yourself. I would cut my losses and move on and spend the next few months/year working on Myself. Good luck.

What does LBL stand for? You look amazing. I am very early on my journey, cant wait to be toned and sculpted like you!

I am 7 weeks out from surgery and for the last almost 2 weeks my scale is stuck a 238... I have lost 60 lbs since my journey began in January(29 of those post op) but now I am stuck, and scared that my fat body is stuck being fat forever. When I was on one of my millions of diets before this was always the weight that I got stuck at. I am so frustrated, I have been getting all of my water in and exercising 5 days a week. I have been eating right, and getting plenty of rest. I am just so afraid at this point that I am going to be a size 18 the rest of my life no matter what (the size that I have been since high school). I have this irrational fear that the surgery did not work on me, and I will never make it to Onederland

Thank you all for your encouragement. I'm really hoping that this will end soon. It didn't today, so hopefully tomorrow I will see a difference. I just have this pressure on me to lose the weight(all self induced of course) I especially feel it because My husband and I agreed that if this would make me happy that he would pay cash for the surgery(My insurance wouldn't cover it). I know I need to just be patient (I'm driving my poor husband crazy) but I cannot look him in the face if I do no lose this weight knowing that he just spent all of this money on me.

I am so looking forward to not being limited as to where I can shop! The day I walk into a store and fit a "regular" size not a XXL I will probably have bawl my eyes out. So excited and anxious for that! Congrats on your success.

I LOVE Panera! This is exciting since eating out post sleeve can sometimes be a challenge!

Hopefully you have been able to get back on track. It is a journey, not a destination. This was just a flat tire on the way, so get it changed and keep on driving. Good luck!

What an amazing transformation! If you dont mind me asking have you had any plastics or done anything for skin? You look great! Also, what did your diet look like for the 1st 6 mo?

That is so amazing for 6 months!!! Great job!

Way to go!!! I have been dreaming of wonderland for years. Keep up the good work!

I am new to this site, but I am getting really stressed out because I am not losing very much weight at all post surgery. I had my sleeve surgery on 2/4/14 and since then I am only down 17 lbs... I am not eating anything that I am not supposed to (just soft protein still) and following my dr's orders to a tee and I am still barely losing any weight. Frustrated....

thank you Guys, I do feel better. Everyone else that I see has lost 20, 30, even 40 lbs that first month, and I was feeling very stuck. Thanks for the support!

Maybe is I add this info it will help. In November When I started this journey I was 298 at my first consultation. On my surgery date (2/4/14) I was 267, and today, I was 250.