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MistyAnnMoon829

Gastric Sleeve Patients
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    MistyAnnMoon829 reacted to PamelaB58 for a blog entry, May 25th, 2014, 17 days post-op for Gastric Sleeve   
    Hello Everyone! I'm new on this and at this Blogging thing, so bare with me. I wanted to get on here and share my journey with any or all that may be interested. I am 58 years old and have had weight issues as far as I can remember. So like most of you, I have tried and FAILED at all of the other methods. Yes, I had some successes along the way, but I always managed to find every one of those pounds I lost, and then some. Sound Familiar? So, the reason I chose to have this surgery has a lot of meaning for me. It means I have a tool now that I have the power to be a true success to this method of losing weight, or I can abuse it along with myself and become a failure, AGAIN!! My choice is to succeed!! I no longer want to be in the failure's club!! So as hard as it seems, and as hard as it's been so far, I am going to make the changes in my brain that I need to make in order to accomplish my goal. I will have a few ups and downs along the way, and I have overcame a few already.
     
    My Highest Weight was - 341 (a few years ago while starting my latest diet trial - 6 week body makeover)
     
    My Weight before WLS - 326 May 8th, 2014
     
    Weight 10 days Post Op - 309 May 19th, 2014
     
    My weight today - 306 May 25th, 2014
     
    My 1st Goal is to get under that 300 mark. Long term goal is to get to 160. For my height and age, I thing that would be appropriate. My height is 5' 9". The in between goals are to get completely off the Blood Pressure, High Cholesterol and Diabetes Medicine as well as having better sleep without the Mask for Sleep Apnea. I was excited to leave the hospital after surgery without one of the Blood Pressure medicines and went on a sliding scale method to take my insulin. Since surgery, I have only had to take the insulin once!! Yea!!! Anyway, I feel like things are already looking up for me as I take this journey!
     
    If any of you reading this has any words of wisdom or advice, I'd be happy to hear it! Thanks for reading my 1st Blog!!
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    MistyAnnMoon829 reacted to Mishka85 for a blog entry, Shedding for a Wedding   
    Exactly 6 weeks post-op I will get on a plane and fly back east to the wedding of two of my best friends. I have not seen this group since last Thanksgiving and I'm totally nervous about this trip. My weight loss isn't dramatic, but we are a party group and my non-partying ways will be noted. I admit to testing my limits with alcohol with this new stomach which I know is a no-no but I made sure to be super active for two days to combat the calories. I knew I would never go back to my partying ways and as 30 looms another year away I made my peace with that. But now... knowing what I'm heading back into.... I wonder how I pull this off.
    I am not telling anyone about my surgery. My body is my business and they love me regardless so I feel no need. I just worry about how to combine two lifestyles that do not go together at all. Oh and also about making a fool of myself if I have three glasses of wine.
    The best part is... I have another wedding to go to at the end of August and I get to do this all over again.
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    MistyAnnMoon829 reacted to rhodywoman for a blog entry, Expectation vs. Reality   
    Expectations. I think one of the biggest problems with my gaining and losing weight over the years is my expectation of the situation. Reading the forums here I see that I'm not the only one who suffers from expectation problems.
     
    For example in late 2012, I joined Ideal Protein. It's a medically supervised low carb, high protein diet that garners relatively fast results. I was expecting to lose weight quickly and I did. What was the problem? I expected to lose it faster than that! I expected to lose 100 lbs in under 6 months and when I had successfully lost 75 lbs I couldn't really consider it a success. I wanted to but I didn't make my goal. I didn't live up to my expectation.
     
    Had I looked at the reality of the situaton: I LOST 75 LBS IN 6 MONTHS perhaps I woiuld've been more gentle with myself. Perhaps I would have taken more pride in my accomplishment, perhaps I would've care more or acted sooner when I started to feel the weight start to slowly creep back. My reality was that I had already failed at this process and so the 5 pound gain that turned to 10 which quickly morphed to 50 lbs was simply more failure.
     
    With this process I'm trying really hard to have zero expectations of how it's going to work out but that's easier said than done. From my first meeting the expectation was that it would take months to fulfill the insurance company requirements. I wasn't going to let that deter me. Just proceed on and understand that this could take a while. Nutrition and Psychology and the toughest to schedule with people waiting MONTHS to get appointments. I was prepared. I had zero expectations. My psychology appointment was booked on a Wednesday for the following Monday. WHAT?
     
    When I discovered that my 6 months at Ideal Protein covered my nutrition requirements and I only had to see the nutritionist twice through the surgeons office I was pleasantly surprised but I was told that scheduling them could take months. I had my two appointments within 30 days. That was better than any expectation I could've set for myself.
     
    As of yesterday, I have fulfilled all of my requirements for the insurance company submittal process so now I have to wait. I know that it can take up to 7 weeks to get an answer from my insurance company but I plan to just continue to have zero expectation of time. It will unfold as it has to unfold and I will yield to the time gently.
     
    I'm going to carry this out to my surgery and then to my weight loss following surgery. I know that there are many people who have lost extraordinary amounts of weight in short periods of time. I know others who have had more stalls than a football staduim's restroom but I am neither of those people. I am me and my weightloss will be unique to me.
     
    My goals is to:
    Follow my surgeon's instructions
    Make my meal planning a priority
    Keep my body moving
    Educate my family on what this surgery is doing for me
    Not compare myself, my diet, my surgeon, my instructions to any other persons
    Have zero expectations of how this wll play out but know that if I just follow the rules it will play out as my body needs it to.

    Tha'ts my new reality.

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