Heatherrc1

@heathercc1 - you are not alone with this mindset....but mine must change tomorrow because my 3-week liquid diet starts!

i can't get over how much several of you have lost so soon after surgery. Was there a particular day where you suddenly started seeing the change? I'm on day 5 and still have a little gain from the surgery Fluid (started 10 up and lost most of it but I'm still above my starting weight.) When did you see the scale shift and these huge losses show up? 20 -- 23 lbs down in 9 days is mind boggling!
Would be a lot of fun to wake up 4 days from now and discover that I lost another size

Thanks guys,i really am enjoying every part of this experience from the healthy eating to the body changes and I have a new energy that I've not had for years.
It's all you guys that got me to this point, reading peoples experiences on here which made me super determined to get this right
Thanks guys, massive confidence boost right there

Good luck to you @@Texas_Chick!! Keep me posted on when you get your surgery date! I'm guesstimating mine to be June 29. Post op is in less than three hours!! Woo-hoo!!

Me too!!! Verbal approval today and scheduling tomorrow. I am SO ready to get this show on the road! Woohoo!!! Best of luck to you.
Blessings

Thank you!!
Got my pre-op appointment set for Monday!! I can't believe how fast everything is going now!!

Of all days - in a hurry this morning. . . forgot my cell phone at home... I get home, notice I missed a call - voice mail from my surgeons office - they received verbal approval! Calling to schedule my pre-op tomorrrow! Let the fun begin!!! Yay!!!!

I don't really need it. I lost 110 pounds from 250 to 138.
I have a pooch on my belly but I've also had kids and I don't really care. My arms and legs look fine, barely any loose skin and I think it will get even better in time.
 

Whoa! Awesome changes! Congrats!

I feel fantastic but had not paid much attention to body changes as yet until i did this side by side, the pic on the left is June 1st, the night before my surgery, the pic on the right is today June 14 and im shocked at the change in such little time, im so happy i had to share

Starting weight: 249
Surgery weight: 228
Current weight: 204
Goal weight: 145

That is awesome! Great work!

I was told this in a support group that I attend for something else. "You are only as sick as your darkest secrets". Meaning, you can never really live in the present if you aren't able to deal with your past and be able to share the parts of it that make you uncomfortable.
A true relationship based on the foundation of trust, respect, honesty and love means being able to open up those painful memories and share them with the person you share your life with. If there is something that is keeping you from sharing that maybe you should question whether it is something within you or it is something within your partner. It takes some soul searching and the ability to truly be honest with yourself. Tough work!

So, could you have possibly exchanged your relationship with food for the "time of your life"? When we take away a habit or addiction without really knowing the why of it or understanding ourself on a deeper level we usually replace that "high" we get from that for something else.
I don't know if that's true for you or your situation, but it's just something to think about it.

Oh, I get so tired of hearing this kind of thing. Not you personally, don't get me wrong. But I have to say IF you are madly in love, what is the big deal? Let me tell you MY version of MADLY in LOVE:
I am married to a man, have been for almost 20 years. MADLY in LOVE to me means I am willing to clean up after the terrible bouts resulting from colon cancer. Sitting for hours on end watching chemo treatments drip into my husband while he fades away. Watching my life fade away with his. For he has been my life for a very long time. I gave up my career so he could follow his. I have moved across this country over ten times for this. I have waited for eons to see if he was going to come home alive from his job (he's a police officer).
He is madly in love with me, too. He has wiped my bottom more times than I care to think about after several of MY surgeries. He has waited in agony in the ever-sterile waiting rooms of hospitals for word on my condition. He has tolerated my rage, fear, self-centered behavior far longer than any man with half a brain would EVER tolerate.
THIS, my dear, is MAD LOVE. If you don't have it, I'm sorry. I can tell my husband ANYTHING, with NO fear of him losing respect for me, lessening of his love for me, disgusting him with my myriad of scars.
I may not have him for much longer, but I have him FOREVER. I have his HEART, and he has mine.
These are the things with which a true, everlasting relationship is built on. I am truly sorry for the history you have. He cannot change it, but if you give him a chance, he CAN change your future. If you go through life not being able to tell him everything, why are you with him? What will happen when the bad times come? You won't have a base from which to draw strength. He's not perfect, neither are you. We not only live with these "failings", but we learn to embrace them, for they make us stronger, as a couple. There are not very many strong marriages out there anymore. One reason is trust. Or the lack of. Trust is a leap of faith, and if you don't take it, you will never know the true depths your relationship could take.
So ask yourself: are you ready for all the bad that can come with the good? Is he? Ask.

Thank you for posting this!! So glad that you are doing so well! Congrats!

How much time you got??
If I were to pick one, I would say the Cabbage Diet.
Not only does it smell like arse when you cook it, it makes your arse smell too! Between dealing with the constant liquid diarrhea and the horrible gas, who WOULDN'T want to try this diet?

I agree that it's a personal choice and it is no ones business. I chose to be open about it. I have been so blessed that everyone has been so supportive, I know that not everyone is that lucky. This forum is such a great resource, best of luck to you!

Before surgery 4/20 and current pic

Hi all! My surgery was on Wednesday, and I am home from the hospital today. I am taking Clear liquids better and better, and my pain is probably a 6. I'm due for another dose of liquid Oxycodin in an hour, so my pain will be close to zilch then. NO GAS PAIN! I was so worried about the trapped air that so many suffer from, but had none of it. The six incisions cause no discomfort at all, it just feels like I got punched in the stomach a bunch of times.
The nausea has been a bummer, but it comes from the pain meds, and the anti-nausea medication does it's job. I'm standing up at the kitchen counter typing this, so I'm already pretty mobile. BEST of luck to each of you this month! We're going to be SO GLAD we did this!!

And when she said that, did you think, "well, heck! If I could do that, I probably wouldn't be needing this surgery, now would I?" :-)
I'm sure others here will have some good ideas for you.
Do what you must. Get ready for a new you!

The friendships I have are real. We have discussions, we don't just talk. We discuss pros and cons and give our opinions and although we don't always agree on the outcome we always have respect for the others decision. My grandpa told me if you can count your real friends on one hand at the end of your life you have really done something. How true that statement is.

When I looked at the eight to nine pills a day I was taking I had my what I call "come to Jesus moment" I did not want to die from something I had control over. Also I have a disabled child who needs me to live. On top of it I am an RN and know better! I know I could lose the weight on my own but I could also gain it all back. The sleeve is a tool that has kept me from it. I have had a hard time this last month and gain like 5 lbs which I am working on taking off starting yesterday. But I am still a size 12 today down from a 24-26. I take one pill a day for thyroid that runs in my family. Tomorrow will be 2 years since my surgery and me thinking should I do this as I was getting on the OR table. I have no regrets and I would do it again in a heartbeat! Says the girl with all the great clothes!

Finally got my approval call this morning. I had my paperwork submitted two weeks ago. Had hoped I had all my ducks in a row and happily it turns out I did. Surgery is scheduled for July 2nd. Now I can stop worrying about approval and start worrying about the surgery.

I had to move a bag of grain. Normally I would put on a handcart or wheelbarrow but was in a hurry so I carried it up a small hill to the feeding area. I put it up on my shoulder.
Omg...within a minute my calves and legs were burning with that added weight on the climb. Then my back started in...then my knee joints...then I realized I felt like this ALL THE TIME pre weight loss.
Absolutely incredible since I lost 160# post sleeve and now carrying 40 just about does me in. Makes me grateful for my success makes me remorseful for how badly my body was punished for decades by that weight.