Remix

On August 8 I had sleeve surgery. That's four months ago today. I went into this with no expectations; I was pretty much convinced it wouldn't work.
Then the weight began to fall off.
As I passed 90 pounds gone, and got closer to 4 months, I thought, wouldn't it be awesome if I lose 100 pounds by four months????
Did my body cooperate??? Nooooooooooo. I'm at 98 pounds down. The biatch is hanging onto those two pounds for dear life.
STOMP RANT FUSS STOMP RANT FUSS!!!!!
STOMP STOMP STOMP
STOMP STOMP STOMP
STOMP STOMP STOMP
STOMP STOMP STOMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Before:

4 months and 98 pounds down:

I had answered waaaay back in the beginning of this thread in May 2014 that a size 8 would be ideal.
I am now a solid size 6. I can even fit into some 4's.
Life is good

Love this idea!!
My exercise goal is 4 hours/week. I'm at 136 lbs and goal is 125.

Love this idea!!
My exercise goal is 4 hours/week. I'm at 136 lbs and goal is 125.

What a difference a year makes!
HW Dec 2014 296lbs
SW June 23rd 2015 257 lbs
CW 181lbs

It seems like just yesterday that I was all excited that my size 20W jeans were too big...
But today I bought a pair of size 4 skinny jeans!

Ruralnurse - so excited for you! I too am going to Mexico alone, decided I wanted my husband to save his vacation days and us to go somewhere when I'm healed and we can enjoy it together.
My parents will be in San Diego at the same time so I expect they'll come down the day of surgery to make sure all goes well, but then they need to be back in San Diego the following day. I think it'll be nice to know they're there in case there's any complications during the surgery, but honestly I'm expecting to be in pain and not feel great the next couple days and since neither of them are pleased with my decision to go through with the sleeve, I think it's best I recover on my own the next couple days.
I have booked off 10 days of work and as far as everyone else is concerned I'm just going to visit my parents in San Diego. Besides my parents and husband, I'm not telling a soul.
I've also decided to do the single incision surgery so there's less scars and hopefully I heal well enough that physically no one will be able to notice the scar.

I was sleeved July 11, 2015. I was 5'7" and weighed 185 (bmi of 30). My goal was to lose 50 lbs.
I've hit my original goal! I'm at 135 but am aiming to lose another 10. Currrently my bmi is 21. Ive gone from a size 16 pant to size 8. I feel amazing. I go to kickboxing class 2x/week. This is something I wouldn't have ever tried before and I can't tell you how much I love it!! I've gotten my life back!! I'm happy, healthy and confident again and I'm beyond thrilled.
Recovery for us low bmi-ers is much easier than those who have more to lose. Honestly, by the next day I felt like I hadn't had surgery at all!! I haven't regretted my surgery for a second in the almost 6 months since. Not a second.
I was self pay. I'm a Canadian who went to PV Mexico for surgery. There was no way I would have qualified for free surgery through health care. It only costed me $5500 US and the care I received was incredible...as was spending time on the beaches of Mexico haha. I went there for surgery alone and never once felt scared or unsafe. I decided I'd rather go alone for surgery and have family join me for a holiday there once the weight was gone. Guess what?!! My 2 sons, my boyfriend and I are booked to return to Puerto Vallarta during February break!!! Soooo exciting!!
There has been no sagging skin. I spent a lot of time exercising in the beginning because I was worried about that. I take Multivitamins plus B12, Calcium and Biotin supplements daily. Going to add a multi B Vitamin as well.
Congrats on your decision to have surgery. It's an incredible gift to yourself. I hope your journey is as wonderful as mine has been. Let me know if you have any questions!!

It is no secret here that bariatric surgery will expose the raw dynamics of your relationships. It is a painful process, but people will expose how they really feel about you, and who is supportive of your efforts and who you should avoid. As I have said recently, people who talk about you that way are not telling you about who you are, they are telling you about who they are.
Your husband is a gift. Too bad he comes with all that drama. So, let the little dogs bark and just go on with your pursuit of health and happiness.

My goal for 2016 is to reduce my body fat percent, get my boob fixed, and find a boyfriend - bet that is a unique combo!

I started out at 250 5 years ago, got my ass in gear and lost 80lbs. I hovered around 170 for 2.5 years. Then I quit smoking. I gain half of it back. After being at 170 for those years and finally learning to love me and what I looked like....I found my self worth and my confidence.... only to lose it all when I gained it back. I tried to better myself by putting down the cigarettes and now I can't stand to look in the mirror. My back hurts everyday again (degenerative disc) where it didn't at 170. I can't move and bend the way I had gotten accustomed. I'm tired all the time and my relationship with my two young boys are suffering because of it.
I'm done with it. I'm ready to get my life back.

I am glad I fuond this thread. So many of you have so much in common with me. I tried to get it done through my hospital (I'm an NP) and my insurance but they said I had to have at least a BMI of 35 and diabetes.
I have been up and down most of my life and now at 51 am having health problems.
For people to say that a lower BMI should not do it, they need to know that people with low BMIs get type II diabetes, hypertension, sleep apnea, joint problems, high cholesterol and a whole host of other problems related to obesity.
I have told my mother (she had WLS in the 1970s when it was very new) and my little sister who had RNY about 13 years ago. I have never been as heavy as they were so never even considered it. When I first checked into in with my ins I told a few people and they were all like, "Good for you, but you don't seem that heavy". "Let me know if you need anything". Then my ins denied me and they all said things like, "you will be glad you did not take the easy way out" "You will feel so much better by doing it on your own" "You would have regretted it". So sometimes when people sound supportive they really are not being honest. I am not even telling my husband or adult kids.
I will be going to TJ, Mx and have surgery on 1/10 and I am so excited I ca hardly stand it!
I like reading this as I see others compared to me and it gives me kind of an idea about how fast I will lose (a ball-park anyway).
Good luck to all.

I am getting sleeved at noon today (I hope, came down with head cold) My BMI was 35.5 at initial consult. I have hypertension, labelled diabetic, sleep apnea and high cholesterol. I am pretty nervous about my decision but feel that it's in my health's best interest to do this surgery. Lost 6 pounds on the 3 day pre op. I could have lived with my weight but not the diseases.

So im at a christmas party , at my best friends home. His wife who has supported me and I are talking about clothes shopping. I like talking about thrift shopping and my latest finds ( got a pair of dress pants, gorgeous ones, from goodwill the other day, 4.99, they were from Barney's of New York and had the tags still on them for 250 bucks retail....( yay me!)
Anyway, she tells me she has a few pairs of american eagle jeans that her son ( then 16) outgrew last year, and would I like them? SO of course i said sure! I never looked at the size i had already mentioned i was wearing 32 waist 30 inseam jeans that day. SO i assumed they were my size. My friend even laughed and said, man can you imagine wearing jeans my 16 year old son wore?
Now i only recently even tried getting into 32/30 jeans. End of november i was wearing 36/30 jeans, then 34/30 jeans a few weeks ago.
So the move to the 32's has been very recent. SO anyway, I get home later that evening and i look at the jeans.
The tag reads 29/30 . Of course i laugh and hold them up, they look like something ELmo would fit into. Straight cut by the way.
As a joke i throw a leg into them, and then the other.....
Yes you guessed it, THEY FIT! No not wonderfully. I wouldn't tuck in a dress shirt in em. But damn! i could wear em. Holy %$#k! Are you shitting me? People, just for reference, it was 1 year ago I was wearing 56's Now 1 year and 1 week later post surgery and Im able to fit into a 29 waist?
Yea i don't think I stopped smiling for several hours.
Heck i'm smiling now just thinking about it.

My in laws came over today for our christmas, and they gave me a very nice gift card to nordstroms ( which i have never shopped at ) and said to " buy something you wouldn't normally buy for yourself , to celebrate" ( my birthday was 3 days ago.) So im going to do a little shopping! ( with Nordstroms prices, it wont be much, but? it'll be fun!)
If it seems like i'm bragging, I apologize, i'm sure there's a little brag in there, but I wanted to say to those who are fighting the good fight and struggling....You can do this! I anxiously wait for your GOAL post! Keep all those NSV's coming.
They all add up and mean a lot. You can get there. Don't give up!

My BMI was 30 when I had surgery 3.5 months ago. I've lost 42 lbs since then and my BMI is 22.6.
My doctor told me that with my low BMI, I should focus more on inches lost rather than the numbers on the scale. He was right. I've noticed a lot more improvement in how my clothes fit and how quickly I move through pant sizes (I started at size 16 and now I need to go shopping again cuz my size 10s are too big).
This surgery has changed my life. I was miserable, had no self esteem and my thoughts revolved around my weight issues before surgery. Now I feel free!! I love myself and my life!! I enjoy exercise because I'm in awe of what my body can do now. I paid out of pocket ($5000 in Mexico) but it was worth every penny! I have my life back. Freedom!!

Pre RNY - XL Tim Horton ' s coffee with 2 cream. (It equals to lots of cream!)
With either a bagel with cream cheese or butter, or a donut, (Or two...) or a couple of Cookies.... then at my first break (09:00) I might even go back for another donut or cookie...or two
I'd start eating/drinking this at 07:00 and pound all back by 07:30ish
UGGGHHH HOW GROSS WAS I!?!?!
Post RNY - 1 cup 2% milk with 1-2 scoops of Protein powder (depending in which kind I'm having that morning.)
This is drank between 06:30-08:00 (that's how long it takes me sometimes to drink this shake)
--then at my first break I'll sometimes have a small coffee with 1.5 cream. And never finish it. Sometimes I don't even get a coffee!
What a difference!!!!!!!!!

Just found the below on the notes section of my phone. I'd forgotten about it but it's made me quite emotional. This year has been life changing and I'm reminded of all the reasons why I took the pretty drastic steps to get sleeved. I'm very proud also to have achieved two of my three goals, and today I'm 198 lbs so feel a bit more safely into onederland! As for the 5k run I'll start work on that in the new year. I'm so much fitter and healthier now due to my weight loss and all the work I'm doing with my personal trainer.
Here's the list: (Matilda is my daughter btw)
"Sleeve
Tired of fighting, all my life
Get control
Be healthier, feel better
To be here for longer for tilly
To run and play
Stop sweating
Breathe easier
sleep better
Move easier
Stop people laughing/pointing/making fun
Feel more confident
Affects every part of my life
Is tillys probs due to my weight
Work confidence
Going out in eve/socially
Aeroplane seat
Theatre seat
Will a chair break
Will I fit through a gap in a crowd/between cars etc
So tilly isn't teased at school cos of me
Want to be a participator not spectator
Wear my hair down without getting hot and sweaty
Can't ever have another baby if stay this weight
In and out of car door
Toiletting
For Matilda
To play with her
To run with her
To carry her
Stop ache pain in my
Knee
Feet
Finger
Back
Pelvis
General aches
Short of breath
Sweat
Pins n needles back
Goals
Get into wedding dress
Run a 5k
Get to onederland"
I wish you all a very merry Christmas and may 2016 bring us all a year of health love and happiness. Xxx

I started this almost 2 years ago. Had surgery a year ago in November. As the weight came off the wounds of a crap marriage became exposed. I ended that crap marriage in July and today live on my own. I have my daughters half the week and now they get a much more at peace mom. I've dated a bit and it still shocks me anyone would/could find me attractive. My hope is that my ears will hear it enough for my brain to catch on. Today I went snowboarding for the first time in my life-to get my kids outside AND because I actually could do it.
These seem like random thoughts but honestly if this is a dream don't wake me. I feel like I'll be having the first Christmas in a long time as the Real Me. The genuine smiling on the outside and inside person I always wanted to be. I can't thank all the people in my life that supported me enough.

I went clothing shopping today and actually ENJOYED it!!
It hard to know what size to grab because I still see myself as bigger so I take a whole range. When the size small sweater actually fit me I clapped and did a happy dance!! I could have cried. Spent too much money on clothes today but I so needed them and it was such a treat to spoil myself!!
I can remember 6 months ago when I hated clothes shopping and the clothes I tried on were always too small instead of too big. I'm so grateful for my sleeve and proud of myself for working hard on this journey!!!
And...you should have seen my boyfriends face when I showed him my cute new skinny jeans and tight T-shirt. Haha! I told him "they make me feel so skinny". He replied "that's because you are so skinny...and sexy".
What a difference 4 months can make!!

I've pondered the idea of surgery for the past 2 years but kind of wrote it off. The real straw that broke my back was a year ago I was on a family trip to disney world with my family. I couldn't fit on any of the rides its embarrassing when they march you past everyone after you can't fit on a ride. I finally had a breakdown that night and cried my eyes out in front of my parents. I finally had a enough of this life style. After we got home i finally got health insurance and started the process of finding a primary care physician and then the right surgeon. Fast forward to today and i am doing my 2 week liquid diet and my surgery date is on the 30th. I am very excited to say the least hahaha.

The day I walked into my cardiologists office and the scale read 502.
Although I am this size my weight has never stopped me from doing anything I wanted to with the exception of riding roller coasters.
I've always been the "funny fat guy" and that always helped me meeting people but now I'm 46 and the health problems,pain and general weight related issues are catching up with me. Foot pain, back pain, trouble with knees, dreading stairs etc.
I also have a 10 year old daughter that I WILL walk down the isle one day.
I'm currently at 448 and my surgery is this Tuesday and I couldn't be more ready.

Surgery Date 12/21/15.
My sensitive feelings when people would choose not to sit next to me on the bus. To be with my girlfriends and know the cat calls are never for me. The way people make acrobatic moves to get out of my way like I'll break something if they brush against me. Feeling clumsy and heavy all the time. Like the only reason that I am so clumsy IS because I am so heavy. Everyone stopping for me while I stop to catch my breath (for what felt like an eternity) while walking on a hike that they felt was easy. Scared to do thrill rides with embarassment of being excused when I
can't fit or the ride wont lock. And then if i can do a thril ride, there is the fear that I'll be the exception and be the 'freak accident' and described as the overweight woman who should have known better when its told on the local news later that day. Sick of the yo yo changes in weight. And weight coming back with a vengance each time, worse than it left. Like a right third hip and growing back boobage.
But the last straws:
1. about to turn 40 next year.
2. diagnosed with diabetes early this year.
3. unable to wear cute shoes and boots due to foot pain.
I am on day #6 of the liquid pre-op diet. The gassy headaches have finally stopped. And its not so bad.
This has to work! Correction: I have to make it work.

136 lbs this week.

I was sleeved in Mexico in July. I've lost 35 lbs and my bmi has gone from obese to overweight to normal with that weight loss. I'm beyond excited!!
I am at a 2 week long stall so that is frustrating tho.

I know exactly how you feel! I was at 30 BMI (so just into the obese category) and completely miserable. Self esteem was nothing and I was constantly thinking about the weight. It was torture!! I was trying to lose the weight but had no success.
I went to Mexico and had surgery on July 11 and it was the best decision I've made in a long time. I've got from obese to overweight to normal weight in the 6 weeks since. My BMI has gone from 30 to 23.6 and i feel amazing. It's not easy, but life is so much better than it was 2 months ago.
Some say I wasn't "that big" or think I should have just lost the weight on my own (again, I was certainly trying) and I certainly wouldn't have been a candidate for free surgery under our canadian health care system (or your American insurance). However, the impact of my weight was both physically and emotionally impacting me in a very negative way so that can't be tossed aside. I was suffering and being free from that us honestly the best gift I've given myself!!