shesticklish

Hi!
Anyone getting sleeved in May and wanna be pals? May 27th here. 🙋

Whooot! OMG me too 🙈

Whooot! OMG me too 🙈

I'm hoping for a late may surgery date. I have 2 more appointments with my surgeon and at that last appointment, he will give me a date.

May 2nd here!

I am headed to Mexico for surgery with Dr.Illan on May 15th.

hopefully mines will be in may. I will be finished with my last weigh in at the end of april. my doc wants me to lose 5 pounds by the last weigh in or he wont approve me..

Hi!
Anyone getting sleeved in May and wanna be pals? May 27th here. 🙋

Hi everyone!
I'm new to the forum and stumbled across it while doing my research into the gastric sleeve surgery.
I'm 24 (25 in 2 months) and have been overweight since I was a child. At about 20, I was diagnosed with PCOS and have been gradually gaining weight since.
I've dieted multiple times. Each time I'd lose however, I'd gain it all back and more. Plus weightloss with PCOS is sooooooo hard. I'd always get demotivated after a couple of months. I was working so hard and I was seeing little-no results. Very frustrating!
So that's why I'm here.
I'm Jamaican, living in Jamaica. We currently do not have the facilities/the facilities here are fairly new. As a result, I've decided to have surgery in Tijuana. I'm hoping to get this done in May-June 2017.
Can you guys provide the names of doctors that you recommend?
So far, I've reached out to A Lighter Me. Which A Lighter Me doctor do you guys think is best?

Thanks! Had nooo idea Cancun was an option. I'll keep it in mind. Although, since my partner is in the US, I may or may not be in San Diego around surgery time. I should have her work schedule later this month, so I'll know my dates and where I'll be for sure. But Cancun would save me sooo much time.. And I could throw in a vacation too!
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I'm looking at a May - early June surgery date (Self paying so I gotta save)… I get how impatient you are. I've been stressing myself out trying to come up with ways to get it done sooner. Just gotta keep reminding yourself that your time will come!
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Hello fellow sleevers,
I was sleeved on 2/29/16 and I have to say even with some of the minor complications and sometimes slow weightloss, it was one of the best decisions I have ever made for "myself".
Being a dedicated working wife and mom, everyone else became a priority and before I knew it I had ballooned up to around 274 and at 46, it was affecting my health.
Anyway, at my heaviest and while waiting for surgery approval I would browse this website for encouragement and I would find it. I wanted to post my before and after pics to hopefully encourage someone else.
Btw... I am 5'8 and my health has dramatically improved (woo hoo). I would still like to lose another 15-20
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What did I do in the first seven days post-op? I followed my bariatric team's orders to the letter - liquids only, high Protein and low carb -- and that was for four full weeks, not just the first seven days btw. Why would I think I know better than they do? My track record proves that I'm not good at making smart choices with respect to food and my health. Why would I override the health and medical judgment of the people who I trusted with my life?
I really hope the person above who is talking about eating ice cream, pizza, prime rib and coke 10 days out of surgery is a troll, and based on that hope I'm not responding any further to them.
When did I start losing the lbs? Not really sure, I stayed off the scale until my post-op 4 week weigh-in. Why would I stress myself out by getting on the scale so soon after major surgery? That's a trauma to the body that is going to cause weird metabolic responses, and I wanted no part of freaking out over it and getting tempted to toss my team's plan for me out the window.
I'm glad I stayed on plan and resisted temptation to just do what I felt like doing. Minus 200 lbs, went from a size 6X to a 6 (okay really more like an 8 or 10 but in some brands I can wear a 6 so I like to claim it!). My team knew what was best for me, I trusted them, and it worked out great.

Just got an email from Garcia. They're up to 6-8 a day now too Sent from my GT-I9152 using the BariatricPal App

@@shesticklish Did you look at the BaritricPal packages? I think they are fairly inexpensive and I am pretty confident that Alex wouldn't put the BariatricPal name on something unless he fully vetted it.

ALM does quite a few surgeries everyday. Ask them how many 6-8? Other docs do 3-4. I personally didnt want to be rushed through. Also they brought a 15 passenger van stuffed full of people for their leak test. I was happy to have it be me and 2 other people on Dr Garcias shuttle.