JPacella

My A1C was 6.4 pre-op. My operation was March 3, 2015. On May 6th it was 5.1. On Oct 29 it was 5.2.

I have to say, I'm amazed at how fast this process was. I feel and look like my old self. I have another 40 pounds to go to get to 200, but I have to say I'm not stressed about it like I thought I would be. I don't feel compelled to check the scale like I used to be. I met up with some friends who haven't seen after I started to gain weight and they said if I hadn't told them how big I got they would have never guessed. So I'm happy and so glad I did it.

I started the exercise (I was walking from the very beginning, but now I'm doing vigorous cardio) because the weight loss has drastically slowed down (which I was prepared for), so right now i'm in a long plateau and await the day that it breaks.

My biggest relief is that my A1C levels dropped to completely normal.

I had a VSG at Northwestern Hospital (Chicago) on March 3 2015. I've lost over 110 pounds in those 7 months and to keep my progress up I'm able to do vigorous Step Reebock workouts for an hour every day. (My favorite workout from the 1990s) I'm off the pre-diabetes and cholesterol medicine and the only remaining pill I have to take is a fraction of the blood pressure medicine I used to take. Probably after New Years I could start looking into having the hanging skin slopped off. Having the surgery was one of the best things I ever did.

A palette is not a unit of measurement for volume, it's merely a surface to load something onto.. not sure what it has to do with the human body but I can see it's very important for you to have the last word.

My medicine changes have been Amlodipine: No longer taking (thank God, it was doing havoc to my ankles) Lisinopril w/ HCTZ: Changed to just Lisinopril and half the dosage. My BP is flirting between prehypertension and hypertension stage 1. Simvastatin: Unchanged (Cholesterol not re-tested yet) Metformin: No longer taking

Muscle is heavier than fat when talking about comparing the same volume of each. "In summary, research suggests that muscle density is 1.06 g/ml and fat density is (about) 0.9 g/ml. Thus, one litre of muscle would weigh 1.06 kg and one litre of fat would weigh 0.9 kg. In other words, muscle is about 18% denser than fat." http://www.nutracheck.co.uk/Library/WeightLoss/which-weighs-more-fat-or-muscle_1.html#.VUt5fHl0zTw

The day after surgery they didn't let me eat or drink, so I was actually hungry and my lips were dry. (They gave me a sponge to wet my mouth but told me not to drink any of the water). My stomach was sore naturally. I kept hitting the pain med button but I don't think I actually needed it. I walked a few times and was glad to get out of bed. I had one or two instances of extremely brief nausea. I was amazed how good I felt, relatively. On the second day after surgery I got my liquid food (Jello, broth and tea (I think)). I wasn't doing the pneumonia-prevention plastic exhalation thing and my temperature spiked, after getting angry looks from the nurse, I started doing it, the temperature dropped and I was ready to go home.

So after two months from my Sleeve surgery my A1C level has gone from 6.4 (the highest number before official diabetes) to 5.1. What a major relief!

Congrats!

I went to the April support group and will probably be at May's. Do you go?

I'm in Chicago. I had my VSG at Northwestern by Dr Nagle on March 3.

For most of my life I wasn't overweight and had nice muscular legs, but as I got fatter, I started getting fat legs and round looking ankles and so I stopped wearing shorts around people. Now that I'm losing a lot of weight, my legs are getting back into shape and I feel like I can wear shorts again.