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this is my 10 week progress pic. I love my sleeve!

10months out down 110#

Started this journey at 317, Surgery day was 305, December 28 195, Today 193.

271 to 135. Tight 18W to a 4. 56% body fat to 18%.

More than half way to goal. I had to share my scooter success. Yep, I'm 40 and riding a Razor scooter for the first! So much fun!

Be proud of any weight loss you've had because my guess is, if you hadn't had the surgery you'd have gained a few lbs since December. Be proud of what you've done and accomplished! I'm 32 pounds down but only started at 232. My doctor and I spent time talking about a few friends of mine that had the surgery that were both close to double my weight. My doctor explained to me that most likely I wouldn't drop 100 pounds within a year, like they did because my body can't afford to lose 100 pounds. He also explained to me that this is my journey and everyone is different. I look at it this way, a loss is a loss. I weigh myself once every 2 weeks because mentally I know I'm doing everything right. I just hope I get on that scale and see a loss. I don't care if it's 1, 3 or 5 pounds as long as I'm less than the last time I got on that scale I'm happy! Don't pressure yourself so much and just be happy for what you've accomplished because you are a winner!

So let me add on to the complication stories already posted here. Got sleeved back on Dec 22nd of 2014. I was fine for the first few (3) weeks out of surgery. Then around the last week of Jan that when things started to take a turn for the worse. I had caught some sort of stomach virus that made even taking down just Water a problem. I wound up in the ER twice within a 3 week span. The last visit to the ER I had lost all short term memory and I was severely dehydrated. I had to get not only an IV of fluids but an IV of Multivitamins that night just to get my vision straight. It has been almost a month since that last visit and I am still dealing with short term memory stuff although my vision has cleared up a lot. I've remained in contact with both my surgeon and my primary care doctor to try and figure out what we can do to get me back on the better end of the recovery process.
I did have to go back on the full liquids again for an additional week and I have been on a prescribed Multivitamin pill along with some additional prescription B Vitamins. So far I am down about 110lbs since the start of the pre-surgery liquid diet phase of this. As much as I enjoy not having that much weight on me, the complications from it have been making life a bit more difficult for me. I work in IT and not having a good enough memory when 1.5 - 5 million dollar projects depend on you remembering can be indeed stressful. I also have to go to therapy to deal with the mental changes the surgery has caused. They have been helpful but again with the memory loss sometime I forget those appointments and I've already had to pay for an expensive no show fee.
All in all would I do this again, yes because I know I am extending my life by getting the weight off of my body. But the complications sure are making it difficult to easily say yes again. Right now I have an appointment to follow up with my primary doctor this week and I am going to ask him about getting on pure Vitamin shots instead of taking the pills. I really would enjoy for my short term memory loss to go away. Then I could focus a lot more time on shedding off more weight and actually feel good about my accomplishments so far.

Nothing. Little sore for a couple days, but other than that not a thing. Didn't even need pain meds. Eating was not an issue either. I'm careful to track and measure everything. Sleeved October 8. Down 80 lbs. Got blood work back couple weeks ago and everything is great! Had another sleep study two weeks ago. Met with the sleep doc last week. OSA is gone. And so is the CPAP. Life is good.

I was sleeved back on 12/22/14. During the liquid diet phase I lost about 30lbs going from like 491 to about 461. Since the surgery as of last week I was at 384lbs. So if including the liquid diet phase I am down about 107lbs. Have I had complication, oh hell yeah. Let start with a Vitamin deficiency that has landed me in the hospital twice within the past two months. First time was a stomach bug and strep throat that made me sick which caused getting anything down to be difficult. the second time was from sever dehydration because I just couldn't stop puking, that caused me to have blurry vision and now short memory loss that I have been battling for about 3 weeks now.

As far as weight lost I haven't stalled cause I'm still not eating as much as I did and my surgeon had me start my weeks back over again. So I'm just now back on "soft solids" again. Other than the memory loss and sense of confusion I am happy with the progress. I feel like I could be farther along with this, but getting sick was also not in the plans. I will follow up with my primary doctor to see about getting on the B complex shot instead of taking the oral stuff to help at least restore my short term memory and get my B Vitamin levels back on point.

Good luck to everyone.

I had surgery in Arizona at Tempe Saint lukes hospital. Before surgery the day of I was 516 which was done on April 20, 2014 I took a pic 4 years later and I was 170 As of today July 9th I am now 180 the 10 pound gain is all muscle..

I'm a little over 7 months post op. Here's a before during summer of last year and one that was taken about 3 weeks ago. Down from a 42/44 to a 34 waist, and from XXL to Medium/Large in shirt sizes. 5'10 currently 208lbs and in the first picture, I was around 300lbs.

Double YAY to my Scentsy Sister!!!!! How awesome! Did you feel a huge difference this convention and last? I could walk and walk this year no problems! My surgery was Nov 20, 2013 from 211-139! Let me do a convention before and after lol! Vegas 2012-Indy 2013-STL 2014!

HW 246
SW 223
CW 114
I was a little weary at first, especially having had the lap band fail the first time around. But getting the sleeve was the best decision I have ever made for myself. I have never been able to look in the mirror and like what I see, until now who knew I would ever like to be in pictures?!
   

this is my 3 month before and after still have a ways to go but I feel a lot better
SW 250
CW 201

Sleeve 03-26-2014
First pic - 332lbs
Second pic - 232lbs

Everyone looks amazing! Met my personal/final goal of 160lbs yesterday. Doing a 5k November 16th!!! So excited!!!!   

Rocking my sleeve... Sleeve date 3/26/2014... Sw 332... Cw 228

November 2013 vs November 2014...over 100 pound difference! 

Sleeve was 12/22/14. I don't know how much I am down since I left the hospital but I can tell just by how loose my clothes are that I've lost a lot of weight. I also started solid foods this past Sunday which was a good and bad thing. I wasn't getting in much Protein so I've gone back to the shakes for sure for now. I need to get an unflavored Protein mix that I can also put into other stuff like yogurt that way I can get that count up. As for solid Proteins right now seafood seems to be the only thing I can get down and actually keep down at the moment besides eggs. I have tried chicken twice and turkey (turkey Breakfast sausage) and found myself unfortunately puking it up. I will try those again in a few weeks. Right now I will stick to what I know works and not try to rush things.

The mental aspect of this is indeed rough. To help with the solid food I have been giving myself 12 minutes between bites of food. That seems to help out a whole lot tonight. I was actually able to get about 5 bites of fish down doing this and for the first time in almost a month I actually felt full.

Able to roller skate now! No more sitting down at kids birthday party's for this dad!

SW: 277
CW: 160
GW: 165
I'm 5 pounds under my goal weight

5months post op down 84 pounds hw 294 pw 277 sw 265 cw 210 gw 170 40lbs to go

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Was 277. Now 154. 7 months later

The first picture was taken at my heaviest ,335lbs, in January and the second was taken 2 weeks ago weighing in at 247lbs

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