angela.spradlin

Christina 923
That sounds awesome. My highest weight was 260 day of surgery 245 and now 230..my weight seems to be coming off slowly, maybe 1-2 lbs a week. My surgery was the 16th but I'm only getting about 500 calories in a day. Are you able to get your calories and Proteins in? Are you able to exercise yet? I am happy that I'm losing but others seem to lose faster than me and I'm just trying to figure out what I need to change or improve on..thanks for any advice..

I'm so excited! I feel great, my pain is non-existent, I've lost 43 pounds total SW of 254 CW of 211!! I'm ready to do this!

My surgery was yesterday the 16th..not been released from the hospital yet but I have been walking and walking. I hope to be released soon. I have been able to sip Water slowly and some broth but nothing else..not hungry at all..good luck to all...

My date is also June 16th so excited but worried at the same time...

Awesome job! Can you believe that there are medical professionals out there that refuse to embrace this opportunity for their patients? Just eat less and move more, they say. It's like a lifeguard standing 20 feet from a drowning person and telling them to just swim harder!

Creating a new thread because the other one has gotten really long.
So, here are my before and currents to keep the topic moving.

Current as of last week:

I just found this forum. I was scheduled for the 17th got call from Dr office today . It was moved to the 10th.. OMG I am very anxious and nervous now.. My stomach is in knots . Thinking of things that could happen & food I will not be able to eat anymore.. But still excited!! I am an ball of emotions!!!

Good Evening all! I had my surgery this morning. I awoke to great of gas pain, but no other pain. No nausea and no vomiting. Walking is definitely the key. I have walked every hour on the hours since 2 hours after surgery. I have even managed to finished off two 20 oz bottles of Water and 16.9 oz bottle of propel zero!!! Feeling great. They just weighed me and I'm up 7 lbs from all the Fluid. It just means I'm not dehydrated!! :-). Good luck to the rest of you!!!

June 16 th here in Tx. Happening SOOO fast !!

Scheduled for June 16th right now! Going thru the checklist with insurance as we speak! Good luck all!

Yeah, me too, had my endoscopy today, so no more big hoops for me, the next two months are going to be tough!

June 16th here; time is going soooo slooooow.

Wow, it sounds like lots of you have had the same conversations that me and my husband have had, glad I'm not the only one... My husband tries to be supportive but he is so worried about the surgery and the potential complications...that he usually explodes with the eat less, exercise more, you're giving in tooo easy conversation...I let him get it out of his system and then tell him the benefits out weigh the potential complications by a long shot...every time he calms down but he is still worried..good luck everybody!!!

Wow, it sounds like lots of you have had the same conversations that me and my husband have had, glad I'm not the only one... My husband tries to be supportive but he is so worried about the surgery and the potential complications...that he usually explodes with the eat less, exercise more, you're giving in tooo easy conversation...I let him get it out of his system and then tell him the benefits out weigh the potential complications by a long shot...every time he calms down but he is still worried..good luck everybody!!!

There is an EXCELLENT thread titled: 4 Things I Wish I Would've Known Pre Op. It's long and wonderful and so very helpful. If I was more techy, I'd know how to put a link here but I can never successfully do that on an iPad or my phone. Search for it, it's worth reading if you are preop.

I'm set for a June 16th operation date. Anyone else out there with the same date?

I am 9 months post-op. I started this journey in November of 2012 with an appointment with my PCP who gave me the referral for WLS. Soon after that my Husband saw me reading "Weight loss surgery for dummies". He went ballistic. For months I listened to him Bit@h. He yelled at me, threatened me with divorce and wouldn't listen to me when I tried to explain anything about it.
Things finally came to a head and I (verbally) fought back. I told him (screaming of course) that as his wife I have always "had his back" regardless of whether or not I agreed with him. I told him straight out that as my husband it was his responsibility to do the same and "have my back". I was going to have the surgery with or without his support. After that I tried not to mention anything about it.
As the months went by and my surgery date got closer he did try one last time to convince me not to go through with it. His theory was that that if I was able to lose the weight that I did pre-op, I didn't "need" the surgery.
Now here I am 9 months post-op. I am down a total of 106lbs. I am now 30lbs thinner than I was when I met him years ago. He is now super proud of me and my accomplishments and has conceded to the fact that I was right and he was wrong. The whole point to all of this was my goal to be healthier than I was. I have achieved that. And now he reaps the benefits of an active wife.

I am going to my first appt with the surgeon on 6/13/14, I told my husband I would give their weight loss program a try first. He thinks WLS is WAY too drastic and I should be able to just not eat so much and lose weight. Also he thinks I would defeat the surgery because as in his words "Nothing gets in the way of you and food!!" I'm 5'4" and my highest weight was 328, my CW is 301. I can lose using MyFitnessPal and jounaling every bite I eat, but I'm fighting hunger and cravings all the time and eventually the hunger wins. Has anyone else had issues with a spouse and what did you do to convince them? I just don't want to do something that he is totally against.

My husband was against it also at first. He said the old eat less move more mantra. But he started doing some research and then saw how much Rex Ryan lost with the band (my first option but I got sleeve instead) And then an article came out about obesity and breast cancer reoccurrence and he came on board (I had BC 4 years ago) There are also studies that say if you are morbidly obese you have only 3% chance of keeping weight off even if you so lose it the "natural" way. The surgery improves the odds dramatically. I did not want to go thru the work of losing 100 lbs to have it come back (again). I wanted a chance at a permanent solution. It is scientific fact that when you lose weight without surgery your body produces more ghrelin to make you even more hungry and get you fat again. WLS neutralizes that effect. That's a big advantage over diet and exercise alone.
In any case with or without his backing, I was going ahead with the surgery. Now I am down almost 130lbs and he calls me skinny though I am far from that. He admitted to me that I was so right to do this. And having a husband admit a wife is right is rare indeed!

Some people forget that they were right where we are at some point in their journey....it's called the beginning! Somehow some seem to forget that. Remember for every bully there is a nice guy :-). I won't let the bullies silence me so I just disregard them and move on. This is your journey! Don't let anyone silence you and don't run from some great support on here. Maybe seek a few of those people out and friend them.
Good luck!

Hey guys!!! Lets keep in contact!!!
Check in after your surgery!
Let us know how it was and how it's going!!
We formed some great friendships on preop board!!!
If you are new just say hello!! June Sleevers are awesome support group!!
See everyone on the PostOp side!!!!!!!

This is so our month!
Lets keep in touch after surgery in PostOp June2014 Sleevers
I have formed some great friendships here!
I wish everyone the best and talk to you all soon!!

Ok it's getting real now..I just got scheduled for June 16th...I am really anxious but also very excited..I may have been able to get in earlier if I didn't get bronchitis this past weekend...but I want to be totally better before the surgery...

Ok it's getting real now..I just got scheduled for June 16th...I am really anxious but also very excited..I may have been able to get in earlier if I didn't get bronchitis this past weekend...but I want to be totally better before the surgery...

June 17th also!!