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Hope this one isn't sideways! Lol! My face is a lot slimmer...love it! I love being in the 100s

Sleeved on 9/11/12
Starting weight: 294
Current weight: 191

This 1st pic is me at my heaviest in 7/2012 @ 303lbs ( me sitting in the chair)
The 2nd pic (me & wax figure) was taken 11-3-2012 I was @ 282lbs ( surgery was 11-08-2012)
The 3rd pic (me in mirror) was taken 3-31-2013 I am guessing I was @ 220lbs
and the last pic was taken yesterday @ 218lbs .. I am half way to goal.. so I still have a ways to go,, can't wait to hit onederland!!

I'm one year post op here are some pics...

There is already a huge long thread dedicated to before and afters.. but it is such a fun topic I don't mind repeating!!
This is what losing 150 pounds does for you! A girlfriend of mine said the sweetest thing "I didn't know you had a teenage daughter"...LOL. I do feel like I look younger being trimmer.
Taken within the last few weeks

This was taken in December i believe - I think I was 20# away from goal,back when I was a bit curvier. I was feeling pretty good, but, I like how I look better now even if my T&A disappeared since this photo was taken.

This is my before picture at over 300#. I don't have much to say about it but I KEEP looking at my befores to remind myself how far I have come.

The photo at the top left is me at my heaviest (489lbs) and the photo on the bottom right hand corner is me today at my current weight of 260lbs.

Well I'm a new post op, little over a week, but I already have a NVS.. For the first time in 20 years, I'm under 300 pounds! I almost fainted when the scale read 286!

My lady just called me I was so surprised I got April 6th ????. I am just stressing bc my mom leaves the 9th. Yay we both got dates though ????

April 23, 2015
at 5:30 am ..
I'm a little sad but my surgeon is booked. Maybe I can get down 40lbs between now and then..

I chew my vities just before taking my meds, then I wait about 20 minutes for my shake, I am 3 weeks post op on Tuesday

I was having the same problem of feeling nauseous when I took my Vitamins. What I do now is an hour or so before bed, I eat something (even if it's just a few bites) and take all my pills except for the calcium citrate chews. I take the Calcium when I wake up.

Check the labels on your multi's. Most contain Iron. Iron and Calcium need to be separated by 2 hours or they cancel each other out.

Mine was when my son hugged me yesterday and said "look mom!!! My arms fit around your tummy!!!" His hands overlap and he could reach all the way around me. That made my year!!!

I found getting in and out of bed horrible for the first week. I am 19 days post op and can sleep comfortably on my back or right side. The left side is still a no go. I find I prop myself with lots of pillows and that really helps. It will get better. If it's Sore and not just when you are sleeping then contact your surgeon. It will get better. A bit each day.

I promise I will try it after my surgery and I'll give a shout out about my experience. (some of these responses truly had me laughing out loud!! folks need to "lighten up"!)

You cannot take Calcium and a multi or Iron together. Iron & calcium together cancel each other out. You gave to separate by at least 2 hours. Even if you aren't taking a separate iron pill, most multi have iron in them.
I do multi AM/PM 8am/11pm
Calcium mid morning and late afternoon 11am -ish & 3/4 ish
I also take Biotin AM/PM
Once a week I take sublingual B12, typically around noon

You only have to separate your multi and Calcium by 2 hours if your multi has Iron.
Always take them after, or during a meal. Vitamins can make you sick when taken on an empty stomach, even if you haven't been sleeved.

I just walked some, did a lot of marching in place while drinking (it helped), and watched a lot of TV. Oh and napped a fair amount!

Also, my husband just turned to me and asked me if I was hungry. We ate like 4 hours ago. I'm not especially hungry, but I could maybe eat a little yogurt or something but I'm trying to train my brain away from late night eating.
Being a complete nice husband, He offered to re-heat my beautiful turkey purée, but he called it my dish of broth with turkey sand in it. And then I got a little nausea just thinking about "turkey sand."
*Please oh please let me be able to eat more purée turkey sand in the future without being grossed out*

So, I don't know if any of you read one of, what felt like was a HUNDRED, times I kept saying I didn't feel any restriction, was afraid that my surgery "didn't work," or that I was afraid i had popped open all my guts. If you did, I apologize and I solemnly swear to not freak out and obsess over things again (for at least the next ten minutes ????) BECAUSE IT WORKED!!
I'm 17 days post-op. My parents (who I didn't tell before surgery at all, but know all about it now since visiting) came up to visit while I'm still off from work. Easter is coming up, and I won't see them on the holiday, and we had an extra turkey lying around bc my employer is very generous around Christmas time) so we decided to do an early Easter dinner. I just moved on to the puréed stage, and turkey is Protein protein protein, so we slow roasted it all day so it was super moist.
I was a good little post-sleever, and I puréed my 4 oz of turkey into tiny little itty bitty peices with some of the natural broth. And then I proceeded to eat with my baby spoon for 30 minutes. (I'm posting here while I wait for my timer to go off so I can take a swig of Water, lol).
I couldn't finish it. I slaved away at my plate, chatted with my fam, gave a little bite to my beautiful little dog. And the mountain of turkey hardly seemed to shrink.
I weighed it out TWICE before I puréed it because I thought--"there's no way that can be 4 oz, it's like a whole plate of food!" And I had my husband come check the scale, and he confirmed I didn't "do something wrong." (I always always second guess). It just looked like such a huge portion to my fresh sleever eyes.
I ate as much as I could, but stopped when I felt the pressure because I "slimed" on cottage cheese and it was disgusting. ...I ate so diligently.
I COULDNT FINISH IT. It was the only thing on my plate. And I couldn't finish it. I felt so happy.
I weighed it when I was done and there was 2.7 ounces LEFT on my plate.
IT WORKED! I DIDNT BREAK IT ALREADY! IT WORKED IT WORKED IT WORKED! Hooray!!
HW 276
SW 251
TODAY 235 (plus about 2oz of turkey and my other puréed stuffs today) ????
Hooray!!
Thanks for reading, pals.

My simple solution:
After Breakfast, multi, D3, E, Biotin, B12. Mid-morning "cocktail" (mix cold Water with 1 scoop unflavored Protein powder, water-enhancer drops, powdered calcium citrate, Benefiber).
Lunch; Iron.
Afternoon or evening "cocktail", minus the Benefiber.
Dinner; Biotin.< /p>
All done, all absorbed, no negative interactions between the conflicting vitamins! If you need to, to help remember, get a pill dispenser at the pharmacy that has differing times on it, that helps a lot.

Well I'm a new post op, little over a week, but I already have a NVS.. For the first time in 20 years, I'm under 300 pounds! I almost fainted when the scale read 286!

Thank you guys. I feel so much better and Healthier!