FairySleeve

Really great news indeed! Congratulations!!

I'll be 4 months out tomorrow and still have this. I even feel that I now can eat smaller amount of solid food than a few months ago even when I eat slowly then I get hungry earlier than before. My surgeon told me too eat more to eat more but it seems difficult for the time being.

My greatest motivator is my mum's picture!! Each time I see her pic my head screams "You inherited that genes!!!!"

I was scared the most of the urine catheter but it was not bad actually, I came out of the surgery with it and ... Probably 3 more for blood and IV. I was on them for 4 days and they pulled them out one by one and the urine catheter was the last (on 5th day) ... Didn't hurt at all.

I'm 4'11" The highest weight in February 2014 : 228 lbs At the date of surgery : 209 lbs (clothes size 1X/ 2X or 18/20) Now I'll be 4 months out in a few days: 161 lbs down 67 lbs total (48 lbs since surgery) Clothes size M/L (10-12)

Uhh.. It's been 2 months I've been shedding and I did not have a lot to start with. Went to see my doctor, had the blood work done, my blood was fine, so my doctor couldn't do anything about it. Now I have a large thin (almost bald) spot on top and I'm wearing a hair piece topper! Now I just pray that they will grow back! By the way, I didn't take the Biotin, just wait to see a dermatologist in a few weeks.

Haha you look fantastic Poison Ivy, send this pic to Batman, he'd be pleased!

I try as well to buy some other colours but the thing is I just love black and white clothes!!! So yesterday I broke the pattern a bit by buying a pale pink jacket for work...and also the black one in the same model from H&M (size 12, thank you very much! Down from 18 or 20 in some models). The colours in my closet never really changed, I like black because it goes with anything and compliments my skin tone. Other colours are red, beige, white, grey (50 shades lol), purple-plum, brown and pink. Only 1 green dress I bought because it's the only one that fit. I don't wear light blue or yellow, navy blue is acceptable if it comes in polka dots or stripes with white.

No, I don't drink them anymore. My surgeon gave me very few instructions and one of them is NO soda or sparkling water, which I strictly follow.

Best of luck!! Cheers!!

Today a colleague almost screamed me-- Stop losing already!! you look great! Sorry, I still have 50+ lbs to go but kinda felt great to have such a comment. :-)

Hi sorry I should have told you earlier that there's a thread of July 2014 sleevers. http://www.bariatricpal.com/topic/313234-july-2014-sleevers-group/

Yes!! please fix it. I have to convert my weight in lbs each time to update the ticker. Thank you!!

I feel great thanks you! I had sleeved on 7th July and lost 46 lbs since surgery and I can cross my legs now!! lol (I'm so excited about this, just be able to do it last Friday) I just love love love that I feel so comfortable enough to dance again, I attend dance classes (Low impact Aerobic dance, Sh'bam and Zumba) 5 days a week and Body Balance (Yoga+Pilates) 1 hour a week. And I'm back on hight heels again! Isn't it fabulous??

Surgery on 7 July 2014, out of Hospital 12 July 2014 and went back to work 18 August 2014. 6 weeks off work in total.

I finally can cross my legs!!!woohoo!! It actually happened unintentionally during discussion with colleagues and I just realized it a few seconds later that my legs were crossing! I was like, whao! What I'm I crossing my legs? Almost forgot the work lol I usually don't sit crossing legs even when I was thinner, but now I'm like a crazy woman, I cross my legs every chance I get because I CAN!! LOL PS I showed my husband my leg crossing NSV and he was a bit surprised because he didn't know that I couldn't cross my legs when I was fat.

Congrats for the progress, you've done a good work!!! Keep on going together, I also got sleeved in July 2014.

Whao that's cool haha Congrats!

Thank you, I'm trying my best. I actually feel like to share my before and after pictures but I always feel that I'm still very fluffy lol. Maybe after I reach my next small goal at 154 lbs.

I guess you're blessed, Kindle, I envy you that people around you are open minded. There were times that I wanted to share with some good friends but I had to stop myself from telling them because I just don't want my personal life to be told to some sort of people. I know that once I tell one of these friends, they will spread it which I cannot stop them or blame them because I gave it away myself. At this age I learnt to say only things that I don't care if people will quote and pass them around. I haven't told my family yet because I know exactly what they're going to say (as I've known them almost my whole life) especially my sister-in-law. I like her well, don't get me wrong but you know some people are naturally ignorant and they just say things without thinking. I noticed that she always criticizes about my eating, it's just annoying. Now she knows I'm losing a bunch of weight and if I told her that I had the surgery, she'd say something like "Oh it's because of the surgery?, I thought you did it yourself" (she's a skinny girl by genetic) I see it coming so I don't see no point that I need to go that way.

Great job!!! I lost around 18 lbs pre-op and 44 lbs post-op. You're so close to goal, I bet it feel so fab!!

@@alwaysvegas Whoa I just saw your ticker, you lost 109 in less than 3 months!! Way to go!!

By the way, the reason why I decided to tell only some people in need because I experienced this myself. There's a girl working in the bank in my work place who had the sleeve a few years back, when I asked how she lost weight, she just said that "I watched what I eat". It was her colleague who did the sleeve 9 months ago who told me about her surgery and recommended her surgeon to me. (this girl were also the as big as I was, 30 lbs heavier but she's also taller) I couldn't help but thinking if the other girl told me about her WLS, I could have done it a few years earlier!! Well, of course I respect her decision, now she's happy for me too but I will always feel so grateful to her colleague who shared her story with me and I will do the same thing to help other people like she did to me.

I was not quite sure if I should be an open book about my surgery. I'd see it case by case depends on their background and the necessity. It's like if you talk to a person with the language that they don't speak, it will be a waste of time. Before the surgery, I told a few close friends because I knew that I'd need their support after the surgery, my bosses and cowokers in the office knew about it because I'd take a long recovery and they are going to bear my work, I think they deserved to know and they're very supportive. Since my transformation started to be quite noticable, some colleagues outside my office asked me for some tips to lose weight. I told them to do what I do now, lots of water, no sugary stuff, eat real food, lots of veegetable, protein first, no carb for dinner, excercise 5 days a week and eat a reasonable portion per meal. These colleagues, they just have only 20-30 lbs excess weight which I don't think they would need the surgery to lose it. I've done all above said during pre-op to train myself to see if I could live with the sleeve and I did lose 18 lbs in 4 months, so I think my information would be useful to them too. On the otherhand, I told a new colleague who is really obese and he never knew that I was fat. After I learnt that he has been struggling as well (he told me that he lost 66 lbs 3 years ago and gained all back). I told him briefly about the surgery what I went through and how I'm doing now. There's a weird thing though, some colleagues who have been big, we WERE practically the same size, they never asked me about how I lost weight. I was so prepared to tell them if they would consider WLS as their option but they never come to me and ask. (one girl just said to me nicely that 'you look great!') the other girl never mentioned anything about my change. I guess some people don't really mind other people's business. That's another reason I don't see the point to share with everyone.

61 lbs total and 43 lbs since surgery on 07/07/2014.