The Candidate

Sounds like you're on the wls fast track! Congrats!

Welcome to the site, and best wishes for your surgery tomorrow!

Congrats on beating the odds, and continuing on the journey. And you look wonderful!

Congrats on booking a date!

Welcome Brian! My advice would be to do as much personal research as you can. Go into the operating room with an empty belly, and a mind full of facts. Understand exactly what you're getting into, and what your role will entail in working your surgery to its utmost potential. Best of luck!

The "process" can indeed be daunting. But the results are worth the inconveniences a million times over! Once you have the surgery the long road that got you there will feel like a distant dream. ????

I enjoy it. In fact, I love them. It's substantive confirmation of how hard I'm working to get the best results out of my surgery. My last successful weight loss attempt on my own before surgery was over 10 years ago, when I was able to get down to 130 pounds. I was even able to hold on to that weight for close to two years. I loved the compliments and attention. I love how I felt. It was an amazing time. But then inevitably, the weight slowly started packing on again, plus more. The compliments suddenly went away, and there was just silence. A terrible awful silence. I had worked so hard to get to that place, but I just couldn't hold onto it. It really did me in, emotionally, physically. After that I just couldn't summon the strength to do it again, and so I went on to become my highest weight ever at 248. Now, after weight loss surgery, I'm only 45 pounds away from that 130 I was before. The compliments I've been receiving already are so wonderful, because it's finally displaced that terrible, awful silence. And I can't wait to be reacquainted with the 130 pound woman I was before, because I've really missed her. Those compliments are concrete proof of how far you've come. So it doesn't matter how far you still have to go. Enjoy where you are now, give yourself a little pat on the back, and bask in the knowledge that it's only going to get better!

Congrats! Hope the approval news comes soon!

Good to know things are looking up!

That's definitely a relationship breakup that you should celebrate. Congrats!

I'm so sorry to hear about your medical issues. I'm 54 and had my bypass on 07/29/15. I've had no issues or complications, and I'm very happy with the outcome so far. I believe there's a section here for sleeve to bypass revisions, so you might consider posting there as well to get specific answers from people who have gone through exactly what you are facing. I will say though, if it helps any, that we have a 76 year old bypass patient in my support group, and his progress has been remarkable. Best of luck and wishes in your upcoming surgery. Let us know how it goes.

Definitely normal. I didn't see much improvement in stamina until about six to eight weeks out. I'm heading into my twelfth week and I pretty much feel back to normal now. Hang in there. You'll start to see some improvement too soon!

Congrats! ????????????

You look incredibly beautiful @@vcarrillo88!

The psych evaluation was definitely the easiest of my requirements. I'm also curious as to why you cousin failed five times, and are you going to be evaluated by the same doctor?

The unexpected NSV's are still the best! Congrats!

While there are some instances involving either a patient's health, or individual insurance coverage, that might preclude someone from having a particular surgery, I think most of us were allowed a choice of which we procedure we wanted. I was given the option of either sleeve or bypass, so in my case, and many others, it absolutely comes down to a personal decision. This why it's so very important to do your own research.

So glad things worked out in the end and you were able to have surgery. Congratulations!

That's one of the reasons why I chose bypass. The fear of dumping is a powerful motivator. I couldn't stop myself from making bad food choices on my own before surgery. After surgery, with the physical aid of restriction, and the psychological fear of dumping working in tandem, I'm doing very well. ????

Good for you! That's definitely the proper mind frame.

Oh it'll come. Give it some time. You will be amazed at not only how little you can eat, but by how little you *want* to eat.

You look great @@Niki15!

This early out I wasn't even eating pudding yet, so if you're having issues I'd go back to broth, etc. If it persists, be sure to check with your doctor though, as I've never been stuck myself. I'm 11 weeks out. Don't try and rush new things. You've still got a lot of healing to do. Feel better.

Sorry to hear about the pudding. Are you doing okay with water, broth, sf Popsicles? Those were my staples early on.

Maybe it would be easier to equate it to the stock market. You don't go and sell off your entire portfolio because the market dips on a single day. I have been tracking my weight daily since surgery and I've had many weeks where I stayed the same or gained a pound or so. Yet I don't freak because overall the trend is definitively downward, and that's what's most important in the long run.