KatrinaGrace

My weight tracker app decided I should weigh 124.7 based on my height of 5'4", and I hit 124.6 this morning. Figured it was a good enough reason to put on some heels and go Celebrate.

My weight tracker app decided I should weigh 124.7 based on my height of 5'4", and I hit 124.6 this morning. Figured it was a good enough reason to put on some heels and go Celebrate.

My weight tracker app decided I should weigh 124.7 based on my height of 5'4", and I hit 124.6 this morning. Figured it was a good enough reason to put on some heels and go Celebrate.

Yay! Congratulations! You look beautiful.

@@KatrinaGrace Lol! I didn't even notice so your ok!

Congratulations on reaching your goal! Amazing! !!

My weight tracker app decided I should weigh 124.7 based on my height of 5'4", and I hit 124.6 this morning. Figured it was a good enough reason to put on some heels and go Celebrate.

My weight tracker app decided I should weigh 124.7 based on my height of 5'4", and I hit 124.6 this morning. Figured it was a good enough reason to put on some heels and go Celebrate.

My weight tracker app decided I should weigh 124.7 based on my height of 5'4", and I hit 124.6 this morning. Figured it was a good enough reason to put on some heels and go Celebrate.

Thank you!!
The two different leg colors is quite odd. Wondering if it's the lighting or if my right leg is really that much whiter.
And on a totally different note... I can't for the life of me understand why my daughter can't figure out the difference between the sidewalk and the driveway for parking her car ????

My weight tracker app decided I should weigh 124.7 based on my height of 5'4", and I hit 124.6 this morning. Figured it was a good enough reason to put on some heels and go Celebrate.

My weight tracker app decided I should weigh 124.7 based on my height of 5'4", and I hit 124.6 this morning. Figured it was a good enough reason to put on some heels and go Celebrate.

Weight is a touchy subject, and women are complicated creatures. I know none of us would take kindly to anyone commenting on our weight when we're gaining it, and I feel like a lot of people also think that way about commenting on someone losing it.
I had my surgery one day after you, and have lost right about the same amount as you, I think...from 213 down to 124. There's a huge difference in my appearance, yet almost no one acknowledges it. I am actually grateful for it. Even though I know that I look much better, if someone were to say that to me, I am pretty sure my crazy brain would go into overdrive with thoughts of "gosh, did I really look so bad before?" Yep, I think comments about weight - gain or loss - are best left unsaid. Except, of course, on here... Elode, you look fantastic!!!

My niece (in the dress) had gastric bypass May 2014. She has lost a little over 100 pounds. She's had zero complications. She is also now 16 weeks pregnant. This picture was taken last week.
I had the sleeve done in November 2014. (that's me in the white tank) I have lost from 213 on day of surgery down to 125 today. I have had complications. My doctors (not the surgeon that actually performed my surgery) have said that my body just didn't react well to the surgery. They agree that the surgery went as planned, and that it is simply a case of my body reacting poorly to it. I believe that, as I have a neurological condition that causes my body to behave in all sorts or ridiculous ways. I think that my complications are not typical, and therefore should not be feared by most people considering sleeve gastrectomy. There are, of course, risks with any surgery.
My niece and I both had WLS and we both have had weight loss success with the type of surgery we each chose. We were both self pay. Her surgery was $20,000, and included several nights included the hospital. Mine was $11,000, and was outpatient with the surgeon coming to see me for two days afterwards.

No one has mentioned the hair loss you've asked about. Yes! You do lose hair. From my own experience and from what I've seen from others, lots of hair is lost. I said screw it and chopped all of my terribly thin waist length hair off to an inch and a half long. Good thing I have boobs because you might not know I was a girl otherwise I do hear that the hair comes back, but I've only just hit a slowing down point in my weight loss 6 months out. I've lost all of the extra weight plus a few pounds so maybe I'll think about growing my hair back out. It'll only take about 10 years
I also had quite a few complications with my sleeve and as my doctor said my body was just one of the few that didnt take very well to it. To say the least, my body was pissed!!! No more icu stays or hospital admits since February, so hooray for that! Even now I can't eat more than a couple of bites once a day, but I finally FINALLY am drinking and keeping down Water really well. Getting better one day at a time.

Before 213 and Now 138

Someone stand me on my head with a mouthful of Water and scare the living shit out of me while I'm holding my breath. Surely one of those will work, right?
I get these things ALL THE FREAKING TIME since surgery, and they drive me nuts! Usually they come on after the third bite of food and let me know I'm finished eating. This morning they've hit after a few sips of my Protein Shake, and there's no way I'm giving this baby up. I go to bed at night dreaming of waking up so I can enjoy my nice refreshing delicious Muscle Monster energy Protein shake. Hiccups be damned!!

WHEN I am done rolling on the floor, I'll tell you what I do..............................................................................................
OK. I'm done, for now.....I take in as much air as possible into my lungs. I hold it for ten long, slow seconds. Then I GENTLY and SLOWLY (S L O W L Y) release the air THROUGH MY NOSE (not my mouth). I then take very shallow, slow breaths in to see if it worked. If it didn't, I try it again. It is just a matter of relaxing the diaphragm, so it may take a few times. Good luck to you....back to rolling..........................................

Someone stand me on my head with a mouthful of Water and scare the living shit out of me while I'm holding my breath. Surely one of those will work, right?
I get these things ALL THE FREAKING TIME since surgery, and they drive me nuts! Usually they come on after the third bite of food and let me know I'm finished eating. This morning they've hit after a few sips of my Protein Shake, and there's no way I'm giving this baby up. I go to bed at night dreaming of waking up so I can enjoy my nice refreshing delicious Muscle Monster energy Protein shake. Hiccups be damned!!

I weight myself daily.
However, I also don't obsess over the numbers. I recognize that my weight is going to fluctuate on a daily basis, up and down. The tracking software on my phone that I enter that weight into shows me the overall trend downward. I look at weighing myself that often as just putting in data points to watch the long term graph.

@@sunflowerchild, when I went to Victoria ' s Secret, they had absolutely nothing that fit me. The sales girl didn't believe that I was a DDD either. Said there was no way I was that big. I just sighed and let her go about her business of measuring me as has been done so many times before. She was right, but only not the way she thought. I'm bigger than triple D. These things are deceiving. I am guessing they must have bigger sizes online? I do have to have an underwire because my girls are lazy as hell. They have no lift of their own, and need all the help they can get. I never even got to have cute little perky boobs as a teenager or young woman. These things have been the bane of my existence since they popped up on my chest at 11 years old.

Insurance not covering complications after self pay isn't true. I was self pay. I've spent more than three weeks in the hospital since January due to complications, and my insurance has covered all of it.

I didn't do anything with that information. What was I supposed to do with it? I am still on full liquids, so I don't bother with charting anything yet. I drink one mega muscle milk Protein Shake a day (40 grams of protein). I drink my water. I drink 3 oz of Soup once a day. I fell and sprained my ankle on the 14th so no walking for me. Lots of laying in bed with my foot raised above my heart. What do you do when you have feelings of joy from success? Do you feel like you have to validate those feelings or do something about them? Do you feel the need to process the information you receive from your joy? I'm going to guess no. You just feel happy. Same thing for frustration. I don't feel the need to process it or get information from it. I just feel frustrated and move on. Feelings - good and bad - are part of life. You don't have to analyze or try to validate them all the time. You just have to keep on going.

I ate some Campbell's chicken noodle Soup two days ago, and it was amazing. My doctor said not to freak about the carbs until I am able to start eating real food. The soup helped so much to help curb my massive desire for some plain Lay's potato chips.

I feel your frustration and know exactly what you mean. I'm there too. I'm also obsessed with the scale. No amount of telling me to stay off of it will keep me off. I was sleeved on November 4th and lost 18lbs in the first week. Had an over the phone check up with my doctor on my one week anniversary and expressed to him how thrilled I was with the loss. I swear, from the minute I hung up the phone, I immediately stalled. Gained .4 lbs for three days straight. On the last day of week two at my morning weigh in I lost the 1.2 I gained and .2 more. Lost another .2 yesterday, and nothing today. It is horribly frustrating to go from losing to not losing after only a week. I started week three yesterday feeling like a failure already. I know the reality of stalls, but it doesn't make our feelings of frustration any less valid. Just like when we do see the scale finally go down again, our feelings of joy won't be invalid. Good luck on your journey and the roller coaster of ups and downs.