newmetwenty15

I can totally understand how the comments go to your head when others tell you how thin you look or how good you have done. Why do we fall off the wagon when these comments are made? I don't know if this would help but I just say that was just one of those days, learn from the mistake and work hard to say NO! It is hard when you have positive comments and unhealthy food in the same room! It seems the biggest battle is battling the old habits we had pre-op. I have been told if we fall back... we can move forward and keep on going!

Good luck girl and let it go... you can always jump back on and proceed forward!

Awesome work!

newmetwenty15

I know things are not always roses post op and I enjoyd reading your post. I agree, I had taken a little time away from this forum because it seemed everyone was doing better and losing more than I was. I finally chose to come here, write my blog entry and get off of it not reading others success for a while so I would not feel like I was doing something wrong. I was at the office on day and decided that my success was going to happen whether I wanted it to or not and not always as fast as I wanted. I then thought I wanted to read others post and get ideas from their individual stories and I quit trying to compete with my fellow VSGers! I have learned a lot from each of you, good and bad, happy and sad.... we all have our own personaly journey and I was happy to see your post because it was the raw truth! Keep it up girl, you never know when someone needs to read the true side of life on the other side!!! Thanks for sharing!

newmetwenty15

Just wanted to check in and see how things are going for you? I know you worried about moving through the pre-op diet and I had you on my mind. I hope you are doing well and let me know if there is anything I can help with!!

Christie

Thanks! I do think it has been a great journey so far! I guess I have been impatient and I will move forward with gratitude!! I know I am in a much better situation today than prior to my VGS. I do want to have a visit with my scale but I don't think we are friends right now so I went to the fabric store and got a measuring tape and I will befriend it for a while!! Hopefully one or the other will show my hard work is paying off!!!

Have a great rest of the weekend! Look forward to talking again soon!!

Christie

Thank you so much! I absolutely love this site and will really love to look back months from now and see all the things I thought were so difficult turn into just a bump in the road! I don't know if all my posts will be 100% positive, but I do know I will not sugar coat anything I go through!! There are days when I want to eat more than I know my banana belly will hold, but it doesn't take long for me to be reminded by my tummy that we are not going to do that anymore!! We are going to eat enough to nourish my body and get on down the road! I think the only part I struggle with right now is the afternoons and NO energy. I do think I am starting to adjust to that too, but I just take one day at a time! I don't know how it feels to wait for 6 months, but just my four weeks wait was difficult enough... I wish you strength and patience as you go through the next four months... It will be here before you know it!!! If you want to ask anything, please feel free!! I am here for you and any others who question WLS!!! YOU GOT THIS SISTER!!!

Christie

I guess I look at my overweight being that I was always more willing to take the easy route and that led me to more weight gain. Even at my thinnest, I was still looking for an easy way to cheat the system. My cheating and falling for the easy way led me to gaining even more weight over the years.

I will be honest and tell you, I am also one who chose not to tell many people about my WLS. I chose only a few people I knew would hold me accountable as well as give me positive feedback on choices I make for my new life ahead of me. I have a very encouraging group of honest friends and family that I trust will not share my journey, as for the rest, I will not lie, I will tell them I have decided to make better food choices and exercise more! You are right! There are so many people that will snub their noses at you for the mere fact of thinking of having a WLS, but the way I look at it is "It's not taking the easy way out"! I once read a book with a terrific truth to those who say by having WLS you are just taking the easy route. NO, there is nothing easy about preperation for the surgery, having the surgery, nor life after the surgery. I can say there are times that because we eat less and have been encouraged to exercise more the weight will come off faster but there isn't anything easy about it. The book made a suggestive: When there is negative feedback, or derrogotory comments, remind those by asking; "Do you still go out back and beat your laundry with rocks to wash?" "Do you have still hand wash all your dishes?" "Do you still hang your clothes out to dry?" I am quite positive the answer to at least two of these questions is NO. Well, does that mean they took the easy route out? NO, they found a more efficeint way to wash clothes and dishes so they aren't slaves to chores, they found help. Well, we found a way to help us not be victim to food addiction with a little help! Honestly, I chose to weed out the negative people in my life. I do not like to be involved with people like that! I think they are just envious. What we choose to do with our bodies is our choice, nobody else matters!!!

As far as me, I am in my three week stall and I dislike it! I thought I would shed the weight faster, and I did the first two weeks, and then there is this nice hill to climb, "Three Week Stall". I've read much about it and I will do all I can to stay motivated and positive about moving through and climbing up out of the valley! I want to be on the top of the mountain, not in the foothills!! =)

Wishing you a fast next few months!!

Keep in touch!

Christie

Thanks you OhSoNoni! I hope that you are getting excited! Three months will go by faster than you can imagine!

YES, I am two weeks and two days post-op and am eating the same things people around me are eating, just much smaller portions! I have learned to slow down and enjoy all the flavors of the foods I love knowing that I will not get to gorge myself like in the past! It was was baby steps in the beginning but I got through it with many tasty broths and soups! I remember the first thing I ate was scrambled eggs and I was scared to death they would not work out so well, but I did a small bite and waited a while before I took another bite!

If you wanna talk about anything, feel free to send me a message! If not, thanks for the kind words and I wish you the best of luck! If you are like most of us, you will not regret this at all!

Best wishes and look forward to talking again!

Christie

Congrats Lizzie!

I remember this night like you are having like it was yesterday! I wish you the best and I feel so happy to hear you are finally at your date! Good luck and hope to hear from you soon!!

Christie

Thanks so much and I am glad you found positive in my post! The pre-op diet was difficult and all I could tell myself is, "I've cheated all my life and now I have a chance to fix this, do not cheat yourself out of this surgery." That was my motivation, not easy, but it seemed to help! I will forever be grateful for this surgery. I agree the head is sometimes a hard one to beat when it comes to the food addiction, and no doubt I was a food addict, but it can be done! I have faith in you! Can I suggest something? If you are struggling, sit and write down all the things you can remember that you cant do now because of your weight, and then some of the things that you can wait to do when you lose your weight! Do it at those "hungry" moments and see if that will take your mind off of eating solids!! It's not forever that you have to be on the liquid... just longer than our brain wants us to be!! If you need someone to chat with about it, I am usually on here daily! I would love to hear your story pre, during, and post op!!! You got this sister!!!

Sincerely,

Christie

I am BACK and I am forever grateful for my decision to make such a drastic change in my life! Tomorrow will make a full week post op and I have lost 17lbs. I will not lie, getting used to the sipping opposed to the gulping has been a challenge! I am amazed at the confidence I have gained as well as the excitement of knowing I am finally in the running for my new life!! I wake up each morning (still a little sore =) ) so excited to know that I followed all my drinking and food guidelines and how I know that scale is going to show my committment to this new lifestyle!

Thank you for following!! I feel as though I have a new family along with my new life on here!!!

Talk soon!

Christie

Congratulations DizzyLizzie!!

I am 22 hours away from my surgery and I am feeling as excited as you sound!!! I just wanted to reach out there and wish you the best of luck through the two week pre-op and your upcoming surgery!

Keep in touch!

Christie