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HW: 314
DOS: 297
Current: 233
Goal:150
Congrats to everyone for doing so well.

On my way to under 200lbs. I can see it from here. Yippie! I can do this.
Best to everyone!

On my way to under 200lbs. I can see it from here. Yippie! I can do this.
Best to everyone!

@@dena1258
I'm 64 had surgery Jan 13 this year. I feel amazing and just wish I had it sooner. However I don't think I was as ready as I am now. I take this very seriously as my last chance at good health.
Haven't had sugar in 7 months (except things like condiments). I don't even want it. My big cheat days are a little bread. I have so much energy I just go like the energizer bunny.
The surgery is no picnic but well worth it. No regrets.
Just follow the docs orders to a tee. Don't mess around with food thinking you can just eat a little and you'll do fine. There may be a day when I'm at goal I will let myself eat a little something but I'm so happy with just a piece of fruit no2 I hope I can stay that way.
Best wishes.

@@dena1258
I'm 64 had surgery Jan 13 this year. I feel amazing and just wish I had it sooner. However I don't think I was as ready as I am now. I take this very seriously as my last chance at good health.
Haven't had sugar in 7 months (except things like condiments). I don't even want it. My big cheat days are a little bread. I have so much energy I just go like the energizer bunny.
The surgery is no picnic but well worth it. No regrets.
Just follow the docs orders to a tee. Don't mess around with food thinking you can just eat a little and you'll do fine. There may be a day when I'm at goal I will let myself eat a little something but I'm so happy with just a piece of fruit no2 I hope I can stay that way.
Best wishes.

jinxxy5, you look amazing and so fit. Appreciate the clean eating comment, that's really something!

My revision was Jan 2015. Band placed in 2006 never worked for me, just caused me pain pain. Had a slip right away and had it replaced. Lost 50 pounds but in pain all the time.
I am so happy to have that "thing" out of me. Even with no fill, it felt like I had a knot in my stomach all the time.
The sleeve is just plain easier. *FOR ME....My doc said longer term there are much fewer complications with the sleeve because of no foreign object that can slip, fail, whatever.
Best to you!

On my way to under 200lbs. I can see it from here. Yippie! I can do this.
Best to everyone!

On my way to under 200lbs. I can see it from here. Yippie! I can do this.
Best to everyone!

On my way to under 200lbs. I can see it from here. Yippie! I can do this.
Best to everyone!

A vomiting update:
I was having problems with frequent vomiting. Much better now. 2 things.......I stop much sooner. (picture 1/2 boiled egg in the AM keeps me satisfied for hours. I Eat more often. And I think more healing has occurred.
All is well.

My revision was Jan 2015. Band placed in 2006 never worked for me, just caused me pain pain. Had a slip right away and had it replaced. Lost 50 pounds but in pain all the time.
I am so happy to have that "thing" out of me. Even with no fill, it felt like I had a knot in my stomach all the time.
The sleeve is just plain easier. *FOR ME....My doc said longer term there are much fewer complications with the sleeve because of no foreign object that can slip, fail, whatever.
Best to you!

On my way to under 200lbs. I can see it from here. Yippie! I can do this.
Best to everyone!

My revision was Jan 2015. Band placed in 2006 never worked for me, just caused me pain pain. Had a slip right away and had it replaced. Lost 50 pounds but in pain all the time.
I am so happy to have that "thing" out of me. Even with no fill, it felt like I had a knot in my stomach all the time.
The sleeve is just plain easier. *FOR ME....My doc said longer term there are much fewer complications with the sleeve because of no foreign object that can slip, fail, whatever.
Best to you!

I just got back from Bali, Indonesia and now in Singapore.
You bet I still drink shakes. When I can't find the right food it is far better than eating something too spicy or I have no idea what is in it. The shakes keep me on track. If I eat at a restaurant and what I ordered just isn't going to work for a variety of reasons, I know I can have a shake and I'll get the Protein I need. Also keeps me from fooling myself and eating some crap cuz I couldn't find the right foods at a asian restaurant.
And I really like Protein Shakes. Fuzzy navel has saved me many, many times from eating the wrong foods. And I do feel full with them most of the time.

I just got back from Bali, Indonesia and now in Singapore.
You bet I still drink shakes. When I can't find the right food it is far better than eating something too spicy or I have no idea what is in it. The shakes keep me on track. If I eat at a restaurant and what I ordered just isn't going to work for a variety of reasons, I know I can have a shake and I'll get the Protein I need. Also keeps me from fooling myself and eating some crap cuz I couldn't find the right foods at a asian restaurant.
And I really like Protein Shakes. Fuzzy navel has saved me many, many times from eating the wrong foods. And I do feel full with them most of the time.

jinxxy5, you look amazing and so fit. Appreciate the clean eating comment, that's really something!

Great topic!
I also had sheer terror and total anxiety my first 4 weeks after surgery. The changes for me were rapid but mostly I feared that I wouldn't be able to defend myself, or I'd be so tiny no one would see me. (of course I was still a big girl 250ish so it seemed totally crazy).
I got help from a therapist. Working on the feelings that were coming up because I literally could NOT eat over them. I had used food to push down those feelings for 50 years and not I physically could NOT eat when they came up.
It was an exciting time and also a scary time.
I can say it got a lot better for me after the 1st 2 months. I no longer have the terror and I work through the feelings of being smaller and sexual stuff as they come up.
For me, obesity allowed me to predict how people would perceive me. Fat, lazy, whatever. But never pretty, or sexual, or whatever. I hid behind the fat.
Today I feel good moving around in a smaller body. I'm feeling "girly" wearing earrings and caring how I look.
I do expect another round of feelings as i approach a "normal" size. I'm still a pretty big gal.
Best wishes to you. And congrats on noticing the feelings, that's how we get better. Recognizing what got us obese in the first place. And as many more experienced sleevers say here....we had surgery on our stomach not our head!

For me, I feel I do have an age factor at work in my WLS.
Now, in my 60's, this is a last change to live a full healthy life.
In my younger years I was too willing to test the limits of eating the wrong foods for some kind of temporary "high" or satisfaction.
Today I know I don't have many more changes to get this right. It supports me NOT to take that first bite and playing around on the slippery slope of eating the wrong foods and the inevitable downward spiral of addiction to the wrong foods and self hate.
Some people can just eat one bite. I might be able to have one bite, and maybe a second. But at some point it has always got me into trouble.
I WILL NOT DIE OBESE! I'm halfway there. 59 down, 60 to go.

My new mantra.
Recently a recovering alcoholic said to me:
"I may always be an alcoholic but I will NOT die a drunk."
It really moved me and inspired me.
Now I say to myself many times a day:
"I may always have a lifelong decease of obesity BUT I WILL NOT die obese!"
For my age (64) and new weight charts according to age, I have about 60 pounds to go until I am at at normal weight.
God willing......giving me time to be a successful WLS patient---- I WILL NOT DIE OBESE!
One day at a time!
I am so grateful I have this opportunity to be at healthy weight enjoying each moment I have left on this beautiful planet.
Best wishes to all of you!

Four months out and I still miss the planning, thinking, eating, warm fuzzy I TEMPORARILY got from my food addiction. It wasn't just putting it in my mouth. It was a love/hate affair. A deadly affair.
It does get better. Now I spend more time feeling how my body moves better, faster, takes up less room. Easier to go up steps, get up from a chair. walk into a room and NOT feel like I take up the ENTIRE room. The best lately is in public close quarters.....I used to feel like I just didn't fit. That I couldn't walk between two tables in a restaurant (and I couldn't}, now I can move around so much better. It feels wonderful.

I can almost feel my hip bones. When I felt them at first I wondered "WHAT THE HECK IS THAT"! Some cancer or something. No..... just my hip bones. It's been a long time since I felt them.
Bottom-line....I feel my body more and now I think about that instead of what I'm going to eat and hate myself for eating it.
Hang in there! It is a loss.....suggest you feel the loss, recognize the changes, have a farewell party for how you used to eat, but find other things to occupy your thoughts and time. It's worth it.

Four months out and I still miss the planning, thinking, eating, warm fuzzy I TEMPORARILY got from my food addiction. It wasn't just putting it in my mouth. It was a love/hate affair. A deadly affair.
It does get better. Now I spend more time feeling how my body moves better, faster, takes up less room. Easier to go up steps, get up from a chair. walk into a room and NOT feel like I take up the ENTIRE room. The best lately is in public close quarters.....I used to feel like I just didn't fit. That I couldn't walk between two tables in a restaurant (and I couldn't}, now I can move around so much better. It feels wonderful.

I can almost feel my hip bones. When I felt them at first I wondered "WHAT THE HECK IS THAT"! Some cancer or something. No..... just my hip bones. It's been a long time since I felt them.
Bottom-line....I feel my body more and now I think about that instead of what I'm going to eat and hate myself for eating it.
Hang in there! It is a loss.....suggest you feel the loss, recognize the changes, have a farewell party for how you used to eat, but find other things to occupy your thoughts and time. It's worth it.

Great topic!
I also had sheer terror and total anxiety my first 4 weeks after surgery. The changes for me were rapid but mostly I feared that I wouldn't be able to defend myself, or I'd be so tiny no one would see me. (of course I was still a big girl 250ish so it seemed totally crazy).
I got help from a therapist. Working on the feelings that were coming up because I literally could NOT eat over them. I had used food to push down those feelings for 50 years and not I physically could NOT eat when they came up.
It was an exciting time and also a scary time.
I can say it got a lot better for me after the 1st 2 months. I no longer have the terror and I work through the feelings of being smaller and sexual stuff as they come up.
For me, obesity allowed me to predict how people would perceive me. Fat, lazy, whatever. But never pretty, or sexual, or whatever. I hid behind the fat.
Today I feel good moving around in a smaller body. I'm feeling "girly" wearing earrings and caring how I look.
I do expect another round of feelings as i approach a "normal" size. I'm still a pretty big gal.
Best wishes to you. And congrats on noticing the feelings, that's how we get better. Recognizing what got us obese in the first place. And as many more experienced sleevers say here....we had surgery on our stomach not our head!

@@VSGAnn2014
How did you determine your goal weight? And did you try to go below goal or did it just happen?
My surgeon has said to let my body tell me what is the best weight to maintain with the assumption it i near a healthy weight considering my age.
Just wondering how you did it. Thanks

Four months out and I still miss the planning, thinking, eating, warm fuzzy I TEMPORARILY got from my food addiction. It wasn't just putting it in my mouth. It was a love/hate affair. A deadly affair.
It does get better. Now I spend more time feeling how my body moves better, faster, takes up less room. Easier to go up steps, get up from a chair. walk into a room and NOT feel like I take up the ENTIRE room. The best lately is in public close quarters.....I used to feel like I just didn't fit. That I couldn't walk between two tables in a restaurant (and I couldn't}, now I can move around so much better. It feels wonderful.

I can almost feel my hip bones. When I felt them at first I wondered "WHAT THE HECK IS THAT"! Some cancer or something. No..... just my hip bones. It's been a long time since I felt them.
Bottom-line....I feel my body more and now I think about that instead of what I'm going to eat and hate myself for eating it.
Hang in there! It is a loss.....suggest you feel the loss, recognize the changes, have a farewell party for how you used to eat, but find other things to occupy your thoughts and time. It's worth it.