Time4SomethingBetter

I'm dying laughing... The three chins thing... Heheh!!!!! It gets me every time! I am notorious for sticking stuff down the front of my shirt and letting the girls act as a cubby/purse kinda thing. Wallet, keys, money, lipstick, phone, lists all go in my handy dandy front of the shirt pocket. And no... All these items do not go at the same time. Just one or two. Maybe three.
A few months ago (pre surgery) I had a burst of insanity I mean energy so I tossed the phone in its spot and started vacuuming. Then I heard a voice... I looked at the sky, the floor the dog before I realized it was my phone. It was coming from my b-o-o-b-s. I had inadvertently called someone and OH MY GOD I WAS ON FACETIME. I screamed so loud my husband came running. I had thrown the phone across the room by that point and was just gasping and pointing to it. I could hear my friend say "Jennifer you idiot pick up the phone from the floor. I can see the ceiling and hear your screams. James, I feel bad you have to live with her especially since I saw inside her shirt".
Well here is the thing- now that I'm down a few pounds my nifty holder no longer works. I was in Lowes looking at plants when my keys slipped right out of my shirt and hit the floor. I tried to look like I wanted it to happen but something tells me the guy snickering watering the plants didn't buy it. Jerk.
So I'm off to buy bras and think about a more mature way of transporting my stuff.
Awesome job Christinamo7. Keep the pictures coming!
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June 9, Baby!
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June 9th
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June 9th!
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I REALLY wish I'd not consumed my Coke with a straw while I was eating pizza and smoking, all whilst laying on my stomach in my hospital bed the day after my procedure...
Anyone?
Anyone?
Prayers going "Who let the dogs out? Who? Who? Who? Who? Who?"

June 9!
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My surgery date is June 9th. I'm nervous and excited all at the same time!

My date is June 9th. I'm too busy with the end of the school year stuff to think much about it.

We have a right, and possibly a duty to correct our mistakes of the past. There is bankruptcy for those who blew it financially. There is divorce for bad relationship choices. And there is WLS for those of us who at some point made bad food decisions. Without these remedies, people would be forever punished for some bad decisions. These are tools. They don't free you from future responsibility. They just give you a new start.
AND IT AIN'T ANYONE'S BUSINESS

It sounds like your bariatric team let you down by not informing you better about your options and consequences. Well, you can't undo your sleeve, so you may as well hop on for the ride.
The first month is tough. Not only are you healing, but your body which has been used to indulging itself, is now being told "no" or "let's find an option for that".
Hopefully your surgeon gave you a meal plan to follow that will graduate you from liquids, to purees, to soft mushies, to regular cooked food. For many of us that takes four to six weeks.
You will feel so much better when you start soft mushies and may start to get some energy back. The foods that you have to leave behind are the ones that really weren't food at all. Instead of nutrition for your mechanical human body that your soul lives in, you were probably eating mostly factory edibles made from highly processed ingredients.
Now you can focus on what it takes to keep a human being alive. You will find that the human body does not need nearly as much food as we thought it did to thrive from day to day. As the pounds drop off, you will feel more encouraged that maybe you did do the right thing and will have a better quality of life because of it.
Worry is a waste of time. Poo poo happens in this life, whether it is spraining an ankle or getting reflux, or something more tragic and heart-breaking.
Hang in there kiddo. You have already made it through two weeks and lived to tell about. Keep coming here for encouragement. I wish you good luck and good health.

You look great! I am the opposite I don't see myself as fat until I see a picture and then I am mortified but I have not been fat all my life or even very long.
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Think about losing 50lbs in 10 weeks - there's nothing about that that says failure! Damn good job! Get your Protein and Water in - it'll come off.

@@CowgirlJane
Let's make a deal...
How about I post a dimple laden smile, right here in this thread, at 200 pounds lost...
I'm sure I'll be a lot less frowny by that stage...
Now, what are you bringing to the party?

Well..
I was gonna Celebrate post 100 by suggesting that all the Southern Hemisphere folk get together and run amok while all the Northerners sleep.
However, I've decided to be a whole lot more self-indulgent..
Now, this is the first time I'm posting pics or numbers so I'm finding it VERY confronting
Anyway, here goes.
I'm a big dude..
Big!!
In the first pic (below) I was sitting at around 240kg (530 pounds)..
See...
BIG!!
This was in December last year.
Rock bottom came around the end of January.
At this stage I'll not give the gory details, but rest assured it involved, a breakdown, tears and thoughts of just letting go and disappearing...
I'd had my surgery postponed twice (finances first time and illness the second) and had had just about enough.
As it turned out, I didn't kill myself. Instead, I got my **** together and did the four weeks of pre-surgery liquid diet.
If I didn't want to kill myself before, I did then!!!
Anyway, I survived that as well..
Surgery day (Feb 25) came and the doc made no promises about being able to complete the sleeve..
However, six hours on the table and the man had performed a miracle..
I was sleeved..
More tears!!!
On the bright side tho...
No pain during recovery...
No hiccups along the way..
Apart from the whole not being able to break down meat Proteins (that SUX!!!) and here I am today...
Speaking of today, that's when the pic on the right was taken..
I've no idea how much I've lost.
I've only weighed in twice.
And I honestly can't remember the exact number (or the date) the last time I weighed.
My estimate is that I've lost around 60kg (130+ pounds)..
It might be more..
Still a long way to go..
But it's a great start..
Thank you for your time..
If anyone ever has any questions, just ask me..
Anything!!
And thank you for allowing me to feel comfortable enough to share my (personally) confronting details..
Kinda...

G'day all..
Just a question for you regular exercise type folk out there..
Is it weird that I'm setting myself musical goals in the exercise department?
Let me explain...
I've been concentrating on weights and muscle retention since I got gutted..
I've not been too concerned with 'fitness' because of my size...
(For those who don't know, I started out at over 500 pounds - 255kg was actually heaviest ever)
Anyway, as my fitness was S**T, I decided to change the way of setting my goals as far as time spent doing cardio goes...
I started by finding a playlist on my Spotify that was about an hour long.
I came up with Green Day's Bullet In a Bible album. (1h 4mins 56secs)..
I jumped on the stationery cycle, pressed 'play' and off I went...
American Idiot came and went, no worries...
I was flying along until about half way thru Jesus of Suburbia when all of a sudden, I was done..
And I mean done!!
I managed to struggle my way thru to the end of the song and this became my minimum...
Now, at this time, I wasn't looking at how long each track was or anything too technical like that...
I just knew that tomorrow, I had to get further than the end of Jesus of Suburbia before I was allowed to finish..
A few tomorrows came and went, as did Holiday, Are We the Waiting and St. Jimmy, and suddenly I was up to 25 minutes..
Still I had no idea how long I was actually cycling for, but I was setting, and reaching, my goals each day...
Well, Longview, Hitchin' a Ride, Brain Stew and Basket Case all became daily cycling songs over the ensuing couple of weeks...
And then Monday came...
A new week...
A new target...
King for a Day/Shout was to be my next victim..
Yep, all 8mins and 47secs of it...
I was aiming to increase my cardio by over 20% without easing off on the resistance...
So away I went...
Now, this song isn't the slowest around...
And for someone who dabbles in drumming, the challenge was to keep pace with the beat of the song...
For the love of God, who made this rule??!??!?!
Well, I survived...
I'm not sure how...
In fact, today I not only survived thru King for a Day/Shout, but I also managed to leave Wake Me Up When September Ends in my considerable wake...
So all of this means two things...
1. This morning I rode the stationery bike for 52mins 27secs without taking a break. For a guy that still weighs around 370pounds, that's some kick-arse kinda s**t...
2. I only have Minority, Boulevard of Broken Dreams and Good Riddance (12mins 29secs total) before Bullet In A Bible officially becomes my bitch...
Good Riddance hey?
Kinda fitting, don't you think...
Thanx for reading...

... I've looked the list up and down several times and this is as close to accurate as I could get.
I'm not ranting and/or raving...
It's not a 'men only' thing...
It's not a boy/girl thing...
I'm not 100% certain that it's a 'success story' thing either because the story isn't over yet..
It's just a thing..
Anyway, here's the s**t..
My story is similar to many others here.
Got fat...
Got sleeved...
Lost weight...
Hit a "stall"...
(I use the " around stall because technically, it wasn't all a stall. In the beginning it was. After that it was Christmas, New Years, holiday, drinking, not watching intake...)
I've posted about my "stall" before...
Unfortunately, the "stall" happened when I was floating around the 100kg (220.462 pounds) lost mark. I went from 98.5 kg lost to 96 then back to 98.7...
This went on for four weeks or so leading up to Christmas...
Once Christmas came, I knew it wasn't gonna break in the near future so I stopped weighing.
So for a month, I stopped worrying about calories and carbs and all that stuff.
Yes, I made sure to keep up the Protein and Water, but that was all.
Then, once I was back at work and into my routine, I decided it was time to bite the bullet and weigh in.
I was scared that I'd gained...
Scared that I'd undone some of the good that I'd done...
So with great trepidation, I stepped on the scales (first thing in the morning, straight after a pee, naked apart from my reading glasses).
I could not believe what I saw...
The scale hadn't moved...
I was still within a couple of kg of my 100kg lost.
Well, that got me going...
It was head down and arse up for the next two weeks, making sure I watched EVERYTHING that went in, got right back into training and all that...
No cake at work morning tea.
No waffle fries at the baseball.
No alcohol at the races... (I know, right??!??!)
Protein, water, protein, water, good fat and carbs, repeat...
Tonight, as I walked in the door, something told me to check my weight...
I dunno what it was...
The universe maybe...
(Please don't make this a God thing... That's a whoooole other story...)
Whatever it was, I listened...
I weighed myself..
No fear...
No trepidation..
And I'm pleased to say that, as things currently stand, I have officially lost EXACTLY 100.3kg (221.124 pounds) since Feb 25 last year.
I still have approx 50 kg (110 pounds) to go and hope to have that gone by year's end..
But I'll think about that tomorrow...
Tonight is for enjoying the moment...
Please...
If there's anyone reading this who is struggling or needs support - PM me.
I'm more than happy to answer questions or give opinions/anecdotal advice.
Thanx for reading...
Kinda...

Well I can't share my information...
I'm shy...

@@cberryspo.wa
120lbs, a zillion inches, and a whole entire wardrobe.

I'm in Canada ???? and my surgery is June 6th. I start my 3 week pre-op liquid diet this Monday may 16th and I'm nervous!
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Yay a another surgery buddy on the same date!
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I'm June 9, too. In Mexico. I'm trying not to think too much about it!
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I'm June 9, too. In Mexico. I'm trying not to think too much about it!
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