Newme17

For sure. I’ve gotten kind of flabby not doing any strength exercises. No gym anymore so it’s up to me to stick to home workouts.

Let’s do it! I started off with the upping intake of Water. I’m going to also start with some kind of home workout today, blah....lol. The main thing is making sure I don’t go snacking on the wrong stuff.
if anyone else wants to jump in and do a 5 lb loss challenge, feel free to. If we start on the little goals, we’ll hit the bigger goal. Just 5 lbs!
Start now....lol

@Little Green, tears were brought to my eyes for you. I’m so happy this day has come! Can’t wait to hear from you on the other side...blessings for you hon! ❤️😊

Getting natural Proteins was hardest on a liquid diet. Unjury makes a good pea Protein powder called Planted. I also just ground up dried lentils, peas, chickpeas, etc into a fine powder in a coffee grinder and mixed into broths when I was on liquids. Just to up the protein. The more your diet advances, the easier it becomes.

Thanks!!! I updated my app and now I have no idea how it works lol @newme17 I would love to challenge ourselves to hit the goal!!

@sweet as peaches I’m so sorry to hear about the loss of ur mom.

You look great Patty!! I bet you feel amazing.

I need to get back into my regular running schedule. I got a little lazy when it got so cold this past Winter.
Lets all keep ourselves accountable for exercising like we should.

Oh no @Sweet as peaches. I am so very sorry to hear that. It is a very hard thing to go through and my prayers are with you for God to give you peace.

I am happy to hear from you and also very proud of you to have reached the awesome milestone of 100 pounds gone!!!! I hope you will check back and keep in touch. I will also try and check in every week or two.

You have achieved so much in one year. You look great! Be proud for sure!!!
I have to check myself at night on the weekends. Night time snacking will get me every time.
I love hearing how everyone is doing and I think as a whole our group has all done well. Sleevers lose weight for up to 2 years after surgery so I think we all have another year of losing.

So much has happened in the past year. If I count back to my high weight of 255 from Aug 2016, I have lost a total of 105 pounds since then, and 58 since surgery. I am sitting at 156 today so up 6 from my lowest of 150. I need to get back down to 150 because I feel like every pound is a slippery slope.

I have a new grand daughter born January 29th, Jade Rene. So now I am super busy with these two girls LOL

It is so hard for me to look back at how heavy I was, but here is a photo of me from May 2016

I feel like a completely different person now and I am so blessed to have regained my health and energy. I don't ever want to go back there again.

Surprisingly, with the lights on, I got some sleep last night. Woke up uncomfortable in some areas, mainly my tailbone. But I've always had that problem. Woke up about a quarter till 6, brushed my teeth, used the restroom and started my day with a walk. Now I'm actually watching the morning news which never happens in my house.
I asked for another abdominal binder (the first one was all gross with blood, etc from the incisions), seems to help with the insicion sights, putting pressure on them especially when I need to cough.
I'll be leaving the hospital today. I just live about 7 mins away so traveling won't be too bad.

It’s been a year, wow. So, I went to my year check up back on Tuesday. It didn’t go very well. I’m about 6 lbs from doc goal. 20 from mine. But he wasn’t happy it seemed. Not that I care too much about his feeling about me, but it was depressing leaving. Part of it was my fault, I felt like I had every excuse under the sun why I ate some chips or a cookie. He reminded me that I’m teaching my kids bad behavior too. No one wants to hear this stuff, but it’s good to be reminded. It kicked me in the butt so much, I changed instantly once again. Life has been a roller coaster emotionally for me the past few months and I allowed those emotional eating moments to creep back in. So, no more AGAIN. I’ll be changing up my children’s menu as well. They will eat just as healthy as I need to.
Other than that, I haven’t changed much from the last pic I posted. 1/2 lb down in three months. Overall I’m over 80lbs down...which is INFINITELY better! I won’t complain and can’t complain about that!
I suspect once I get my head and emotions in check here, the weight will drop again to reach my goal. So, I’ll give another update in about a month, maybe sooner. I’m trying to log back in here more often again.
Life happens....

Thank you for that. I’ll guess adjust mine to 140 then, cause 160 is what I’m good with. Guess I’ve got 43 lbs to go! 😊

I do think people should try to go as low as they can possibly go, because there will be some gain. Statistically, 10-20% bounce weight occures around year 3-4 as our body tries to find its metabolic set point and our metabolisms change as time goes by.
I've recently put on 12. Guess how many years out I am? Four . Right on schedule!

@patty0715 looking great and healthy hon! Great to see ya! We’re in the same boat. Wanna challenge each other to finally reach the doc’s goal? I’m 6 lbs from it too. Lol. I was also told to do more exercise!!! Haha. I walk about 2.5 miles a day, but he wants more??? I think I’ll just start with drinking more Water. Ha!

Year out from sleeve. Had horrendous acid reflux before surgery and haven’t had one episode of it after!! It has been fortunate for me.

Oh good. It should help, I hope. I just got home a few mins ago. I'm ready for a nap too. The calcium chews did not agree with my stomach, so I'll either chew up even better next time or wait another day. Sipping on hot Bone Broth and bought electrolyte Water at the advice of my nutritionist.

My surgeon came in and explained it to me. I noticed mine happen a lot after I drink Water. He says it's quite normal, especially with cold water. If I stick to room temp or warm/hot liquids, it won't spasm so much. So my liquid Breakfast was brought in, I had the hot broth. No contractions. I'm drinking the hot coffee, none there either. I think I'll be sticking to room temp and Hot Drinks until I heal a bit more. They're very uncomfortable. @Sweet as peaches, you home now?

Surprisingly, with the lights on, I got some sleep last night. Woke up uncomfortable in some areas, mainly my tailbone. But I've always had that problem. Woke up about a quarter till 6, brushed my teeth, used the restroom and started my day with a walk. Now I'm actually watching the morning news which never happens in my house.
I asked for another abdominal binder (the first one was all gross with blood, etc from the incisions), seems to help with the insicion sights, putting pressure on them especially when I need to cough.
I'll be leaving the hospital today. I just live about 7 mins away so traveling won't be too bad.

Well if you've heard of it, then I'm sure it's quite normal. Just reminded me of when I went in to labor. Lol
i was kind of worried when my iv came out yesterday about not getting enough liquids in, but it seems to be easy enough. It's just making sure there's always something right next to you. Kind of like mindless eating but with liquids.

So, besides the lights being on, I'm doing well. I can drink my Water with no problems now. I'm having what feels like contractions. It's really weird, painful too. Comes in waves. If it keeps up, I'll be buzzing the nurse. Anyone else with "contractions"? Don't know what they'd be called....

Hope you get to feeling better hon.

I will if this round of nurses would shut off the lights like last night's did. Lol. Smh. I even questioned it in a nice way.

Yay! Glad you're going good. Enjoy your nap.

I've opted to stay one more night. I don't think I want to handle my little ones just yet. 😂

I had chicken broth and it was yummy. Sipped it very slowly. Then I decided it was time to walk again. Feeling way better than this morning. I just might be going home this evening. Sitting down on the recliner for now, having ice chips. Nurse took me off the iv, so it's up to me to not get dehydrated now.