workingmom163

Hi All! Just got home from the hospital. Surgery was March 1. Everything went well. Small suggestion for you ladies, don't bring an underwire bra to go home in. I felt like I was choking. Lol had to go home without one on. Best of luck to all my fellow March sleevers!!
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I wish I would have not stocked up on too much broth, yogurt, etc before surgery. Get enough for a week, but realize your taste buds change.

If someone would have told me a year ago that I would be running, I would have laughed at them. LOL!! I twisted my knee running last Tuesday so I took the rest of the week off. I honestly didn't know if I was going to be able to run at all on Saturday but I did it!! Not only did I do it, I ran my fastest 5K time ever. Yay me!! Even though the scale and I are not friends right now, I feel good and I am so proud of myself. I have been challenged to run a half marathon in Sept. (I must be crazy). I have a lot of work to do. Game on!!

Hello everyone!
Surgery was a success! I'm so happy! the only thing that was killing me for about 5 hours was gas that was terrible! But now I'm doing excellent!
Thank you for your prayers and warm wishes.
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My husband also prefers a curvy woman, but he also has said that he wants his wife to be as healthy as possible so we can be with each other for as long as possible. We met when I was at my heaviest (250) I lost almost 100lbs from diet, then gained almost all of it back with my two pregnancies. He loves me for me, and I accept that. Someone might be his physical idealness but they'll never be me. He's a very fit military guy, so I've always felt uncomfortable at my weight meeting his friends and things. He's good with the fact that I'm going to lose weight (and boobs lol), as long as I "don't lose too much" (120s). Even if I do though, I'm very secure in our marriage. For me, it's a good problem to have. He's attracted to me, because of me and that's good. If the tables were turned and he gained weight, I wouldn't love him any less. I think it's more of something I need to get over than he will. It'll take some time, but we'll get used to our new normal. Also, I know if I gain any back (as some people don't stay at their lowest forever) he'll be totally fine with that.

I was leaving work yesterday after a long day.
Tired. Ready to get to my vehicle and make the interstate commute home. Was already thinking about my playlist for the ride home.
I am a production supervisor in a large manufacturing plant. At one time, I seemed to know everyone there....and know them fairly well. The place has expanded and grown significantly over the years. Lots of new faces.
So, I'm walking down the main aisle with my tired mind lost in my thoughts about my music and a couple phone calls I needed to make to arrange some schedule changes. Waving at and speaking briefly with some folks as I walked on by. Nearing the main plant entrance I hear a horn blow and look back and see a dude riding up on his material handling cart. He's a big guy, too. Appears to be fairly tall, young and really, really heavy. He's taking off his work gloves and extending his hand.
We introduce ourselves and he said he's seen me around the plant and I'd been losing a large amount of weight and he was simply hoping I'd share how with him.
I was straight up with him and gave him a fast rundown of the my sleeve surgery process and how, where, why it unfolded like it did. I was 100% honest with him and broke down the costs and how our insurance was not so great.....covering only 50% of the actual surgery cost, but not the related tests and things that are required. I told him how it was actually significantly cheaper for me to have self funded the deal. Crazy scenario, but true. I urged him to pursue a couple different avenues for finding out further information on how to fund the surgery.
He had very specific questions as to what I could eat, what I could take for meds and what I could drink. He wanted to know what days off were like and what working days felt like.
We talked for at least 30 minutes and I tried to think of the the things he'd not asked that I could answer, too.
He thanked me profusely and I can say that I instantly felt like the last 14 hour workday was erased.....I had recharged my batteries. I felt absolutely great. I can only hope that he'll be able to sort things out and find out the information that he needs to find out to better make his battle plan.
So....I'm almost out the main entrance....but then veer on a new course. I stopped off at the nice gym we have at work and spent 30 mins working out before refilling my 30 oz water bottle and getting in the car for the well hydrated ride home.
Life is good. I am grateful for each day....but yesterday was really cool. I looked at this guy and could see in him the same desire to change that I had......the same confusion as to how......and I'm hoping that things will line up for him. I know that our HR department and our benefits are lacking in regards to wls. I need to study up on the various financing options and have this information readily available....contact info and such so I can be better prepared for the next such conversation I have with potential wls candidates.
Thanks for reading my ramblings.
I hope that today brings another such conversation with someone like this young guy. I hope that each of you have this experience and can feel a sense of calm and relief in the person you are talking to. It is a powerful moment and one that is very rewarding.
To date, it's one of the very best NSV's I've had.

@lscarelys my first check up is this Tuesday. Since being home yesterday I'm Having a hard time getting my fluids in. I feel like I would have to have a cup to my mouth 24/7 with the tiny sips I'm taking. Another tip for gas...walk walk walk! It helps so much with gas. I'm not waking around my bock or anything just like to the mailbox and back, around my court and back, around my house, etc. oh and this one is important...Never trust a fart!
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March 1st here! Day 3 of pre op all liquid diet. It's tough but I'm in good spirits. Good luck all!!
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Hi All! Just got home from the hospital. Surgery was March 1. Everything went well. Small suggestion for you ladies, don't bring an underwire bra to go home in. I felt like I was choking. Lol had to go home without one on. Best of luck to all my fellow March sleevers!!
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@lscarelys my first check up is this Tuesday. Since being home yesterday I'm Having a hard time getting my fluids in. I feel like I would have to have a cup to my mouth 24/7 with the tiny sips I'm taking. Another tip for gas...walk walk walk! It helps so much with gas. I'm not waking around my bock or anything just like to the mailbox and back, around my court and back, around my house, etc. oh and this one is important...Never trust a fart!
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@@workingmom163 thank you so much! That helps immensely! ???? when is your first checkup day? How are you feeling so far?
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@@nearperfectmess Surgery went well. Still on hospital. Hope to be going home tomorrow.

Hi All! Just got home from the hospital. Surgery was March 1. Everything went well. Small suggestion for you ladies, don't bring an underwire bra to go home in. I felt like I was choking. Lol had to go home without one on. Best of luck to all my fellow March sleevers!!
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Hi All! Just got home from the hospital. Surgery was March 1. Everything went well. Small suggestion for you ladies, don't bring an underwire bra to go home in. I felt like I was choking. Lol had to go home without one on. Best of luck to all my fellow March sleevers!!
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Sleeve date March 1! So excited.
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I have no magic mantra that you can repeat to change your own behavior.
But at some point you'll have to change your behavior if you have a chance in hell of being successful long-term.
Maybe you're not miserable enough yet. But I certainly was when I was pre-op. Here's what I did.
Even before my surgery was scheduled I felt I couldn't wait any longer to get healthier and to regain some control over my out-of-control, no-responsibility behavior. So I put myself on a 1400 cals/day diet incorporating some of the WLS eating guidelines and eating behaviors I'd learned about online.
In two months I lost 11 pounds. Not fast. But I had regained some control back of my life. And by that point surgery had been scheduled. I lost another 8 pounds on my surgeon's two-week liver-shrinking diet.
By 8.5 months post-op I reached my weight goal. At the rate I was losing when I hit goal it would have taken me another 2 months to lose an additional 11 pounds, had I not done so before surgery.
Not trying to bully or guilt you, but truly -- you've decided to have WLS because your BMI is 52 and you need to get healthy.
You can postpone and postpone and postpone creating a healthier lifestyle. Or you can start now to do so.
In your shoes I'd try to get back in touch with my reasons for having WLS and meditate / focus on those. If you journal, journal. If you pray, pray. If you are in therapy, talk to your therapist. If you're not in therapy, consider seriously finding a good bariatric therapist.
Good luck to you. You can regain your health. All you have to do is work toward it every day. This IS your life. It's not a practice run. It's the only one you're going to get.

Three years out and my posts have started to shift to living and observing life as a thin person and not focused on what to eat/not eat, what I weight..etc.
Yesterday I had an encounter that would have meant nothing to someone always thin, but reminds me constantly that I am not the same person I was. I don't mean that my moral compass has shifted, or that my personality is vastly different...or possibly it is.
I was at the market yesterday and bumped into another shopper. Happens all the time in NYC markets...they are very tight as is everything in NYC. I apologized and the woman laughed and said, 'hey, this in Manhattan...nothing we can do about it.'. I agreed with her and moved on and then realized this would not have happened when I was obese. I would have still apologized but my eyes would have been down and I'd have scurried away as soon as possible.....because it would have been my fault that we collided. How does an obese woman not get in other people's space when she takes up more than her share? Now times that by a thousand because of how we live here in the city.
The old Liz would have been so embarrassed but this new, normal sized Liz wasn't even thinking that way...I was only apologizing as anyone would have done. And then I allowed a bit of small talk after that encounter that would have never happened before either.
We really need to admit that when we lose so much weight, we do become different people. Both internally and externally. I was on a girls weekend recently with long time friends and likely due to the amount of alcohol flowing, we got silly and sentimental. I heard many times, how inspirational my story is. How I changed my life around. How I was always a great person before, but I simply glow these days. I found it embarrassing but I understood it was complementary and I just had to suck it up while they went on and on.
Don't tell me that doesn't change a person because it does.

March 1st here! Day 3 of pre op all liquid diet. It's tough but I'm in good spirits. Good luck all!!
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"Runs wildly to the front of the line"... March 1st! Coming quick now.