jesusa_mari

Mmmmmm wine!!!!!!!!!

Mmmmmm wine!!!!!!!!!

I am in line with the other "slow pokes" sleeved Dec 8. 5'11" and just a smidgen under 250 on surgery day, and 221.8 on last scale, so 28-ish pounds gone.
Work folks are seeing a change. It is more than 10% of my body weight gone. That's not nothing. I saw no change on the scale for the last 10 days, but I did feel it in my pants. The muffin tops are melting.
I'm getting enough Protein and I'm improving on Water intake, but its constantly reminding myself to drink.
What I'm eating now is not what I thought I would be. eggs and beef are not good. Fish is great. And undercooked goes down better than well done. 900 calories a day is what I'm getting.
And I'm drunk on half a glass of wine. That's new. And I mean DrUnK.

. What kind of wine are drinking? I think I need a glass ????

I was sleeved 12/29 starting weight 284 surgery weight 271 and as of a few days 253.3. I feel the same but my clothes are falling off !! Lol

I haven't planned a birthday celebration for myself in a long time, but the first thing that occurred to me was a spa day!
You could do a spa with massages, etc. or even just mani/pedis at home depending on your budget. Even if it's co-Ed you might be able to come up with options that everyone will like.

Sleeved 12/29. 305 first appt (Sept 29), 287 day of surgery, 265 current.

It's hard not to feel like it's not coming off fast enough, but if I was told I'd be down 40 lbs by Feb. when I started the process, I would have cried. I had my five week post-op this morning and they're thrilled with where I'm at.

The problem is as time goes by, it takes more and more food to reach that full point. Years down the road, some can eat a small dinner plate of food. Relying on fullness early out (0-12 months) isn't a big deal while losing and restriction is amazing, but getting into the habit of measuring and weighing as restriction wanes is important if you want to actually keep the weight you've lost off.

I was sleeved 12/29 starting weight 284 surgery weight 271 and as of a few days 253.3. I feel the same but my clothes are falling off !! Lol

I was really happy to have a pair of pj shorts for under the gown. Helped when walking in the halls! ????

I had been on a constant Quest to maintain a healthy weight since I was 20 years old. I began gaining at about 17. This life long battle has seen me balloon up and diet back down many times in my life culminating in 5 major transformations. (40 lbs or more). Every time I thought I had lost the weight for good. Every time my weight came back, usually in 6 months or so. At around 55 years old I decided the battle was futile and I'd just be satisfied with "the way God made me". That was the point my weight really got away from me. At 61 years old, instead of being overweight at 240, I had ballooned to 270 and moving on up. At 275 I KNEW I was in trouble. I had sleep apnea, had been on crutches twice in 6 months due to knee issues, pre diabeted, elevated blood pressure, and general depression. Because my BMI was only 39.5, my insurance wouldn't cover, but I made the decision to self pay. Like my regular doctor said (he had the surgery as well), it's like a car payment. It was the best decision I EVER made.

The stories so far are wonderful !
For me ... I've been overweight my whole life ... it's genetic for sure ... BUT ... having ALL the teeth in mouth be SWEET ? I was doomed for sure ...
My highest weight was back in 2011 - 384 ... I thought I'd die ... have bone on bone arthritis in both knees .... lymphedema out of control .... high blood pressure ... but I just kept going and going ... till one night ... while laying in bed eating sugar Cookies with frosting that I kept stashed in my nightstand ... I was flipping channels and came across a show on TLC about the largest man in the world ( think he's since passed away ) ... I cried and cried ( while still eating the sugar Cookies ) .... Then my husband took the dish away and said tomorrow we look into getting your knees fixed ...
I thought that made sense ... if they were fixed THEN I could move around more ... I'd WANT to move around more ... then I could lose weight! Great idea!
But , the surgeon had other ideas ...
He said I was too big to have the replacement surgery because he couldn't move my leg/knee the way it needed to be for the surgery ... so he denied me
I told my husband then that WLS was going to have to happen first ... so began my journey ... from 2011 to July 8, 2015 ... Finally had the sleeve done ... and I've not looked back ....
Well, I take that back ... I do look back .... at old pictures and say "why didn't anyone tell me I was THAT big?" ... I cry at them ... sad for the girl who THOUGHT she was living right ... THOUGHT she had it all together ... the girl that MISSED out on SO MUCH of life ... because of something sweet to shove in her mouth ...
I am no longer that girl.
I am now the girl that actually gets up on stage and sings karaoke! IN FRONT OF PEOPLE !
I am now the girl that actually LIKES to go clothes shopping!
I am now the girl that actually WANTS to get up each day!
I am now the girl that is living life ... LIVING LIFE ...
And what a beautiful, blessed life it is!

I had the surgery as a part of my 5 year plan to work on finding my self! I started therapy and realize that I do everything for everyone else (I'm also a nurse) so I'm working on my weight, schooling (BSN), my marriage, my stupid social anxiety... Etc. I also have an active mind and the heart of a child. I want to climb trees, paddle board, kayak all Summer long, go hiking with my husband, be able to dance all night long without being tired, and I want to run!!!

Eight years ago I tired for the lap band and was denied. Today I am finally going into surgery weighing 183 pounds less. I am having my gallbladder and a possible umbilical hernia removed and having sleeve surgery so I can lose the remaining 160 pounds. My surgery time is 12:30. Not being able to drink anything is really causing my throat to hurt. But if I can be 155 again it is all worth it. I am so tired of being this weight and hoping and praying I will be able to walk again despite the injury to my back and hips. If I can't walk again at least after the weight loss I can get additional surgery so I can walk again and enjoy all the things I use to do before the injury. Please say some prayers that all goes well and there are no complications. This is so much more then sleeve surgery, it is the 2 other surgeries as well and the start of a new life at age 60.

I was 27 and 265 lbs. Even though I wore my weight really well (my profile picture is actually a before picture) I just knew it was going to catch up to me and I was going to end up with serious health problems. I already had serious joint pain. What made me call a surgeon is when my dad came to visit. He's about 500 lbs and can barely make it up the 2 steps in to my house. He needs joint replacements, has serious heart problems, sleep apnea.. I felt like I was looking at my future. I'm 8 weeks out from surgery and 50 lbs down from when I started and I'm SO glad I called my surgeon when I did.

I am what my surgeon told me was considered pretty young for the surgery, 27, and I really just wanted to get my weight under control now before it had a chance to hurt my health. I am fairly healthy, and would like to keep it that way. I felt nothing but support from everyone in my life and that helped tremendously.

When I was 40 (im 42 now) I found myself pregnant. Shocker but at the time I had been married to the same man for 20 years, we have two wonderful kids. We were starting over. Sadly we lost the baby. They said My blood pressure was too high. I remember my family doctor saying. "You need to get healthy and be here for the children you have". Ok, saying this to a woman who just had a miscarriage is not ok, but she was right. Keep in mind I have PCOS. I was on fertility meds to get pregnant with my children who at the time was 16/18. What are the chances? I got pregnant again! We hadn't used b/c the whole time we've been married. I thought what is my body doing? What am I doing? Sadly again we lost the baby. They couldn't tell
Me why this time. This made me determined and I started looking into WLS. My PCP said I didn't weigh enough. Yeah the one that said I needed to get healthy.. So I got a new DR. I was about to turn 42, emotionally I was better to make this decision and never looked back, I'm now 2 weeks post op. I can't wait to get healthy and do things with my husband & now 18/20 year olds. (And future grandkids). I WILL be healthy!!

I am feeling awesome! Basically no pain ever, except when I ate one bite too many just now and that was not fun! haha
I know, we've been having crazy winter weather this week stopping me from going to the gym! I was in such a routine too!
Ugh, I feel you. I had a little "stall" and haven't lost as much as I had expected, but my surgeon tells me that I am doing great and not to get too focused on the scale. Easier said than done!

She is an idiot.

One month after a gastric sleeve.... Ups and downs.
I'm eating all kinds of things, in tiny amounts, and sipping. 23 pounds down since surgery day, so, not too quick, not too slow.
I now take two chewable Multivitamins, calcium+D, and Biotin. I am off the pain meds, but I've saved some percosets for when I'm feeling better... *wink* I just took my last prilosec. I wonder how that will shake out.
Physically, I feel mostly back together, but not 100%. I teach 7th grade, and I have enough energy to teach all day, so a win there in the recovery column, but I'm having a devil of a time finding all the words I know that I know. Several files in my brain have bad directories now. Very frustrating, but I have hope that it will resolve soon. Stoopid anesthesia.... My incisions are still angry red, but totally sealed up. I had a pesky suture that kept poking out of one, but I finally clipped it off below the skin and it covered and closed itself. I realize just now that the itching has gone down dramatically in the last day or so. Win. My waist and thighs are drawing in, but that makes my flabby lower abdomen look bigger! I know it's melting, too, but not as quickly, and relativity is a bitch.
I'm tracking all my foods, and I'm hovering around 8 to 9 hundred calories on a good day, sometimes less, but I am getting consistent patterns established. I can go on this way indefinitely, I think.
In 30 minutes, on an empty stomach, I can bring 12-16 ounces of Water. I can totally feel the water flow through the pylorus. More solid things, say, cottage cheese, I can take about 4 ounces, but I need to take a break in the middle. Fish, I can get 2-3 ounces in, and no more. And it must be very wet fish - not overcooked. I threw up once, and it was overcooked trout. I had slime first, and when I could not stand the discomfort any more, my husband said, just get it over with. I don't like to vomit. Myself needed convincing, but I felt better after. I've only puked once on the soft foods, so I count that as a win, too. I've tried some other more solids, too. A bite of carrot even. No problems. But I don't want to push it.
I'm cooking and shopping out of habit, and my freezer is FULL. I think I will just stop cooking altogether. What I cooked tonight will literally take me a week to eat.
Maybe over sharing here, but the first real poop was rough. A week after surgery, we were shopping and I realized what needed to happen. I made a nice normal poo, and then felt nausea. I think the intestines had been in a shock and the waking to do their job was too much for them. It's gotten better since, but its days between the little poops. Small eats means small outs. Doesn't bother me much. Similarly, sex was a cautious adventure, too. A week out, we managed a gentle try, three weeks after surgery, all systems were ready for anything. Win.
And, as always when I am on a diet, I want to put hot sauce on everything. However, I don't think this is a good idea just yet.
I am curious as to what comes next and to see how this goes. At one point several years ago, I was 293 pounds (5'11"). I worked hard and dieted down to 187. That was impossible to maintain through a divorce, a brief time of homelessness, a career change, and a new relationship. I'm at 227 as of this morning. I'm pretty sure that losing some more is in the cards, but how much more? At my lowest, I was thin looking. Some said too thin, but 10 or more pounds would not change that look much, not at my height. My doc says 149 is a healthy weight for me, but I think that is WAY too thin. I'd be a bag of bones! My boobs would be two empty purses with olives at the bottom! So, goal... 175, and then reevaluate? That's 52 pounds from here, and if I go 2 pounds per week that gets me there by summer. We shall see...
Lastly, my husband is taking this opportunity to get himself back on track. He was banded 7-ish years ago. He dropped 150 pounds, but he's put 25 or so back on in the last year. We've been happy and eating like newlyweds... Anyway. He's been super supportive. His goal is 210, from his staring point of 275. Doing the math, from collective high weights to goals, 400 & 293 to 210 & 175, we will have lost a collective 308 pounds. That's like two people... It's us getting ourselves in better health together.

I, too, was afraid to eat. Just keep working on your Protein shakes and Water until you feel like trying more. Little bites, really soft foods, really slow.
I was the slowest progressor ever and I lived.

I agree. Just go slow and try one food at a time. You may find you like adding a bit more variety to your menu of choices.

The key is to eat VERY slowly and in tiny amounts and see what works. If something doesn't sit well with you, then hold off on eating it again for a week or so. My nutritionist did tell me not to give up on a food if it made me feel uncomfortable the first time I tried it, because the next time I tried it, it might be just fine. The key is to go very slowly so you don't eat too much of something that disagrees with you before you realize it.

I have watched other people so excited about reaching onderland, and I could not wait. Never thought I was going to post this so soon. Here it is 199.2 lbs this AM, felt good and weird. I was sleeved 8/3, and was a slow loser at first, or at least that's how it felt to me. Then finally the weight loss picked up, although I still feel it could be better, but not complaining one little bit. I just had a total knee replacement 2 1/2 weeks ago, and my appetite is not good and I have alot of nausea from the pain meds. I am trying to cut back on meds, really would like my appetite back. I miss my workouts too right now with my trainer, but need to rehab this knee first. All in all I am excited and just hope this journey continues to take me to my goal, and I am very grateful for my sleeve.