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@finediva; I know I should ignore the haters it's just hard with some of the hateful things they say. Some of the girls I hung around with are now the ones who treat me different. I do love the feeling & way I look in cuter and smaller clothes. I mainly love that I feel better & don't have any more health issues. Thank you for your support. I needed it today. ????

I am 7 months post sleeve and the only bad thing I've had to deal with is how "friends" and co workers have treated me! I'm down 87 pounds from surgery day in a 6 jean and love that I feel better and feelers confident . I'm just having a hard time dealing with the "must be nice to be skinny" comments and talked about because I had surgery to help with weight loss. I did this for my health not for anyone else or for looks. It ssp heartbreaking to be treated different for losing weight

Find some new friends. Channel that hurt into new social situations. Join a few groups on meetup .com or sign up for a class at the local community college. True friends would not shun you because of you size or be threatened by your weight loss. You deserve better. I would never accept that in my life. If you like me, you like me for who I am, not my physicality.

Yes I cna help you with that. The instructions say to put a coat of reg mascara on both eyes first. I don't.
1. Put one coat on one eye of the gel
2. Put coat of fibers. They are fibers so you don't want too get too close to the eyeball.
3. Put one coat on other eye of gel
4. Put one coat of fibers
5. Repeat till desired lenth and thickness
6 pu final coat of gel to seal them on
I know it sounds like a lot. But it really is not. Washes off with soap and Water or your fav wash. Attached are my eyes. I would never recommend anything unless i loved it.... and i do.

I think on fair, to medium skin tones it's pretty nice. On olive or darker skin tones and/or people with oily skin I find it oxidizes after a few hours and can look orange-y.

Anyone have an insane craving for salt?

There is a theme here, dear bariatric sister: Don't give away your power! Good for you that you decided to take control of your health. Bariatric surgery exposes the dynamics of your relationships, and that is not a bad thing. For once in your life, you get to know how the people in your life really feel about you. That is a gift. Speak up for yourself.
As you continue to lose weight, you will gain confidence. As you gain confidence, it becomes easier to be bold with the people who are bringing you down. It is ok to get mad when someone is mistreating you. Maybe one good theatrical tantrum and walk-away will be fun - just this once.
Congratulations for your success so far. You have come to the right place for support. Hopefully you will be able to recruit new friends who understand your weight loss journey.

I don't do catty. I don't like mistreating others for their shape size or color. So it just shocks and hurts me for people to be that way with me. Thank you for your support. I needed some encouragement today. ????

My mother in law had a fit when we told her I was having WLS in Dallas. And now all she says is I'm too skinny and need to not lose anymore weight. She points out that I don't eat much at family dinners I. Front of everyone. And I too have lost friends over losing weight. One of my closest friends before surgery won't even speak to me in public now. I understand how you are feeling because I'm feeling sad too. It's frustrating. My home life with my husband and kids has never been better. My health has never been better. I'm just heart broken at how the public and some family have treated me.

I don't do catty. I don't like mistreating others for their shape size or color. So it just shocks and hurts me for people to be that way with me. Thank you for your support. I needed some encouragement today. ????

I'm at loss. I'm almost a year out and down 90 pounds. I don't get out too much but when I do I've noticed I get treated differently by almost everyone! I've had grocery store clerks ask if I got a divorce. I've had people I've known my whole life tell me WLS is cheating & the easy way out. I've been asked if I was on drugs and if my husband was having an affair. One local doctor here told me he preferred me fat. One ex co worker went on & on I front of his wife of how skinny I was. I was embarrassed for once for being thin. Why can't people just be happy for me for losing weight? No matter how I did it!?! Obviously I qualified for it because of high blood pressure & signs of diabetes. Why can't people just say hi and go on with their life? Why do they feel the need to 20 question survey me & talk about me? I'm so frustrated and saddened by how I've been treated Especially by those I've called my friends. My dad died at 62 from complications of diabetes & my brother is 45 and totally blind from diabetes. Anyone have any suggestions on how to handle public humiliation for being thin from VSG? I'm heartbroken by how people are treating me! Not everyone is so negative but I have gotten more negative then positive. I used to be out going but have become very reserved & a hermit.

hard candy mascara has become my absolute favorite of all. It's 6$ at Walmart. Love that stuff.

Lots of people like having heavy friends cause it makes them seem thinner. Then when that friend loses weight they start hating cause they have to look at themselves. I always had more guy friends than girl because girls are taught to be so trashy to each other. I've have 1 best friend for 30+ yrs abd and couple others that are good ones but other than family not really cause of that catty crap. FIND new friends

Thank you so much for responding. I got approved for the bypass. My date is May 4th. I've been thinking about it a lot and I'm leaning more towards the sleeve. I hope its not too late to change my mind. I'm going to ask them about it tomorrow. Thanks again

Hi everyone
I was sleeved on March 16
So I was a month out this past April 16
So far I've lost 23 lbs since surgery
I'm now on soft foods and I'm so glad to be one step closer to regular food. Haven't had any nausea or vomiting only thing is the Constipation which my nutritionist said now eating more normal foods should help. I'm so glad I found this board you have all helped me prior to and after my sleeve.
Here are my pics so far- day prior to surgery and 1 month post op

You look great. Keep up the great work

Hello I am new to this site. Just wanted to put my story out there, in hopes of encouraging someone who is as big a chicken as I am. I went through the whole preop test, appointments, classes, physchological eval, EVERYTHING... two years ago. Insurance approved, was scheduled for surgery, then backed out. I just couldn't do it! I really worried about post op pain and getting back to feeling well.
Well, after I backed out. Things never got any better. I was so disgusted with myself. The weight was really getting to me, my back, my legs, my overall well being, so I decided to try again. I went to a different doctor and had to go through everything all over. Of course it took a lot of convincing to get my husband back on track. Well, I had a wonderful doctor. (Dr. Aaron Hoffman at Buffalo General Hospital) I am 9 days post op. I had my gastric sleeve surgery on 4/9/15. Now I wonder why I waited so long. On my post op appointment 4/14/15 I asked Dr. Hoffman if I could hug him, and I did. So happy to start this journey and shed these unwanted pounds.

from Kilgore, had my surgery on May 21,2013, down 87lbs. good luck and stay focus.

Dr. Wade Barker is one of a select few weight loss surgeons to perform both the LAP-BAND procedure and the Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass (Roux-en-Y) and he holds privileges at several Dallas/Ft. Worth hospitals including: Doctors Hospital, Pinecreek Medical Center, and Forest Park Medical Center. He has performed over 2500 bariatric surgery procedures at his center in Dallas/Ft. Worth with great success.
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In the vast majority of cases a leak is only a concern the first few weeks after surgery. That being said though, there is a lovely woman on here who had a leak several months after surgery and then something like over a year after surgery, so I hesitate to say that you only have to worry about it immediately or if you do anything crazy with your sleeve. My understanding is she did nothing wrong and had a major leak twice, neither of which was right after surgery.
I stopped worrying about a leak at about two months. At that point you should be healed enough that there shouldn't be an issue with any leaks and if your surgeon, like mine, has never once had a leak, it is likely something that you shouldn't trouble your pretty little head over at all (at least that's what I told myself!).
Also, keep in mind, you probably can't find research on 20, 30, 40 years in the future because this is a procedure that has no data from those time periods because the surgery is new. Strictly speaking the way our body heals, there should not be a chance of a leak in the future, however that is part of the risk of having a surgery that there isn't decades of data available for. Could in theory we bust open our stomachs 30 years in the future? Sure I suppose so, but it would really take a major break in the way our bodies work and our understanding of healing for that to happen, so I am confident that the chance of a problem far into the future is really slim to none.

I'm at loss. I'm almost a year out and down 90 pounds. I don't get out too much but when I do I've noticed I get treated differently by almost everyone! I've had grocery store clerks ask if I got a divorce. I've had people I've known my whole life tell me WLS is cheating & the easy way out. I've been asked if I was on drugs and if my husband was having an affair. One local doctor here told me he preferred me fat. One ex co worker went on & on I front of his wife of how skinny I was. I was embarrassed for once for being thin. Why can't people just be happy for me for losing weight? No matter how I did it!?! Obviously I qualified for it because of high blood pressure & signs of diabetes. Why can't people just say hi and go on with their life? Why do they feel the need to 20 question survey me & talk about me? I'm so frustrated and saddened by how I've been treated Especially by those I've called my friends. My dad died at 62 from complications of diabetes & my brother is 45 and totally blind from diabetes. Anyone have any suggestions on how to handle public humiliation for being thin from VSG? I'm heartbroken by how people are treating me! Not everyone is so negative but I have gotten more negative then positive. I used to be out going but have become very reserved & a hermit.

Use it as motivation people that don't support you now will praise you later. I've had a couple family members give me a hard time but they also have been a size 5 their entire lives. I can't complain about my boyfriend he's even started drink Protein Shakes himself to help me

I am 7 months post sleeve and the only bad thing I've had to deal with is how "friends" and co workers have treated me! I'm down 87 pounds from surgery day in a 6 jean and love that I feel better and feelers confident . I'm just having a hard time dealing with the "must be nice to be skinny" comments and talked about because I had surgery to help with weight loss. I did this for my health not for anyone else or for looks. It ssp heartbreaking to be treated different for losing weight