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My surgery is on 24th of January 2016 just 3weeks away

Good luck everyone and update your post please????????????

Give ur update please...I am very very nervous

Good luck everyone .my surgery would be end of this month probably

So a little bit of a backstory. I've been overweight my entire life, from child to adult. I have never know what it's like to be thin. Yo yo'ed all my life and was never succesful and unfortunately I think there's a genetic element. Almost everyone on my mom's side is obese.

When I started researching VSG I was around 330 and seeing the amazing results on this site helped me make the decision. I was so excited to get the procedure and go on this journey. Going into surgery I was around 322 and given how high I started I had very lofty expectations. I easily expected to lose 50 pounds in 3 months. Ha, as the saying goes the best laid plans.

I'm 1.5 years out and let me tell you at no stage (other than the 2 week liquid diet where I lost 22 pounds) have a experienced any rapid weight loss. It's almost as if my body doesn't want to let go. I'm now around 262 pounds and let me tell you it's been a slow arduous process. Any time I think of how I expected things to turn out and how they actually are I just break down and cry. I'm still obese, sure I've lost a couple of dress sizes but the gut is still there. And it's not even about hitting the exact goal weight, it's the fact that I'm very big. I've been wallowing in depression for a while and keep thinking to myself why is God punishing me? If there's one thing I've wanted my entire life, it was to be normal sized and I viewed VSG as my last chance. Of course my dedication has waned, though I still work out 3x times a week. It's sad particularly when I read the amazing results others have had on here but I'm starting to think this might be it. Maybe just do the best I can and be happy with the 60 pound loss.

Man, I'm absolutely devastated. And the thing is I'm one the younger side and didn't have health issues other than high BP so this was more about aesthetics, losing the weight being more confident to pursue relationships(single, no kids)/be more social. Now it seems like I'm in a holding pattern and I'm alive but not really living.

Keep us posted everything and very very best of luck

I am Sheila

I am from the UK. 38 year old female. Married with two children.i have been suffering from obesity problems for many years.i have tried various types of diet, exercise. However I could not maintain the lost weight. Currently I have reached a BMI of 49. After a long struggle with my mind I have decided to go for bariatric surgery. At first I wanted to do lap band surgery but after reading a lot of reviews I made up my mind to go for gastric sleeve surgery. I am planning to get it done in Lebanon. The doctor is Dr Nagi Jean Safa of the advance BMI clinic in Beirut.

If anyone has had surgery in Beirut with Dr Safa, can you please post a response. About your experience. I am planning to get the surgery done in about four weeks time.

Thanks