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Thank you for replying. I do love the surgeon and the people at Slidell. Years before even thinking about surgery I changed many food habits. I do not eat fast food or sodas. I cut sugar and have eliminated it. I am a very slow and picky eater. I do not drink with meals. I only drink water. I do not eat after 6pm and only have one meal a day. Food is not my friend. Even with all of these changes, I still only bounce between 10-15lbs. Lose it then gain it back. I stay away from bread and pasta. I thought this 6 months would be good and expected to lose 40lbs before surgery. I am down 10. Same story. I hoped if i did like you, i would have been further along. I guess that is why i am feeling this way. It makes me wonder if i do this, will it work?? So glad to hear from someone close to home.

Thank you so much for taking the time to respond and congrats on your date. I will say a prayer for you and look forward to joining you on the losers bench. I will try to focus on my goals.

Hi Everyone , I am here in need of some encouraging motivational words. I have one more appt on June 20,2017 of my six month insurance required visits. I just did #5 today. I am feeling sooo depressed, like this is just within reach but so far away. (: I have cleared all the hurdles, excrpt the last blood work for pre-op. I am just feeling like this has been a long road and hoping nothing will happen to detour my surgery. I am always a positive person and I am so motivated and ready for the change. I will do anything they tell me to make this a success. Its just such a long time. Have any of you felt like this? Have you felt like you will never be posting those before and after pics? Are you afraid that you wont lose weight, like maybe all this waiting and it wont bring results? i know I feel like i am spiraling with all these thoughts. I am just so ready to not be over weight, unhealthy, disabled, walking slow like an old lady, uncomfortable in my clothes, watching youtube videos of before and after and crying my eyes out. Seeing myself as a smaller person until I see a pic and freaking out at how large I am. Watching my 600lb life and seeing these people change their lives, so inspiring and most of all, ,,feeling as though I am the one who maybe wont see but 25lbs come off..... I think the insurance companies should never make us wait so long. I am 5'1 , 269lbs., hbp, diabetic, with one kidney and lymphedema. I am soooo ready!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for listening to me rant and cry......damn it's a bad day.. .. (:

Great pic!! Thanks for the post. I will need this too. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using BariatricPal mobile app

Oohhhhh,wwee !!! Beautiful!! So happy, you are an inspiration to me. I am 57 and having my vsg in July. Hope for the same results with my hard work too!! Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using BariatricPal mobile app

I agree. Glad it worked out with no issues. I see a cardiologist, kidney doc and pcp and no one suggested it til I saw my surgeon for hernia. Now they all on board but gee it would have been nice to have started this sooner. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using BariatricPal mobile app

I forgot to add , it was my surgeon who told me to check into wls, at the same time I switched pcp. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using BariatricPal mobile app

I changed my pcp because she did not help me when I complained of my thyroid and when I was interested in wls. I,am diabetic and all she talked about is how diabetes just gets worse and I will need more medd, it can't be reveresed, surgery doesn't really do anything., blah blah. I found another pcp in january, saw the bariatric doc, Jan 24. My surgery is in July...I can't wait! Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using BariatricPal mobile app

Ooooh congrats! Cant,wait to see and hear about it. I have hanging fat on my inner thighs,and haven't had my surgery tet. I am fearful of how much more will hang.....ugh...take care and keep us posted. I know I will need this oneday. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using BariatricPal mobile app

You go girl. And if you hit,a rough patch, you look me up. I will inspire you and ruffle up those beautiful feathers and get you strutting again! Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using BariatricPal mobile app

You are welcome:). Sometimes people get stuck focusing on what didn't happen because they stuck not realizing that the bad things can be the road that brings you to even greater blessings. Trust God knows what is best for you. You know it,already in your heart that is why you are closing the door to this man. You know you are worth better. I believe in a higher standard that I set for myself. I don't stoop to your level, you come up to mine and I don't settle. Some people would day that makes me a b***h, I disagree, it makes me a strong and confident woman who knows her worth. Know what you want and expect in your next relationship and know that it will come to you. I am happily married 38yrs to my best friend. We tell many people, your best relationships start with yourself. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using BariatricPal mobile app

Best revenge is living well. God Bless and much congrats on your weight loss journey! You are coming into the best time of your life. Changes bring good things and someone is about to be blessed with your presence. Be thankful that your husband did you wrong because it's going to bring you to the best time of your life! Don't forget to thank him for not realizing your worth, it will bring you to someone who will think the sun rises,and sets all for you. Stand tall and never settle for less than what you are worth. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using BariatricPal mobile app

You look 10 years younger!!! You go girl! Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using BariatricPal mobile app

When your doctors do not support your decision or staff makes you uncomfortable it is because surgery reverses many of the conditions that you no longer need that doctor or the meds they prescribe, so they losing their money maker, you! Find another Dr! I believe that one of the biggest reasons wls gets a bad rap is that it makes you healthy and you don't need to be a slave to the Dr or the meds any longer. Look at our health care system....being ill is big business!! Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using BariatricPal mobile app

I have my reply ready knowing I may have to use it. I am keeping my surgent a secret because my husbands family are huge massive eaters. They make fun of everyone if you don't eat. I have helped my husband change his eating habits and is truly working towards being healthier. We both have diabetes and he is adamant about using health to reverse it. Me do to other health issues need the surgery. He supports me 100%. My response: I am glad that being fat works for you and you are happy, yes I had the surgery because being fat doesn't work for me. It's is deteriorating my health. I know I will be met with open mouths and bitchyness...but to hell with it. They deserve the insult for being so rude and condescending. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using BariatricPal mobile app

God Bless you! Grab the brass ring and swing !!! Good luck!! Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using BariatricPal mobile app

I have not yet had surgery and I can tell you. I plan 100% to never get back to this size. My main motivation is knowing one day I will he able to sit at a table with my legs crossed and that alone for me is worth more than any cappy food I could think of eating. Besides following the program I do believe that changing how you look at food is a big part of it. I try to eat good nutrition food and will not comprmouse my body with processed or fast food ever. I don't eat it niw, I most certainly won't eat it after. This body is my temple and I plan on treating it as such. Like the girl who''s father weighs each week, do will i. I am 57 yes old and I have been overweight for 30+ years. I want my health and mobility back. I want that more than any crappy, carbs, junk or over eating could give me. It's a mind set, remember that saying: " nothing taste as good as thin feels" And that is the truth. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using BariatricPal mobile app

Great inspiration! You look beautiful, both then and now. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using BariatricPal mobile app

First if all let me say I'm sorry for the loss of your brother. I also agree that you have a good hold on your situation and a good attitude going in. With that said, the most important thing I can say is , you have one life to live, and you have to do what us right for you. I can understand your parents fears but when it comes down to it, you have to live in your body. No one but you . I am a firm believer that you must do what makes you happy first. Your health takes precedence over everyone's feelings, thoughts, concerns, fears and anxieties. If you fell this is right for uou, then go for it. Save your life and your health because you never know what age your parents are going to live to be and you just might be taking care of them at some point. And you don't want to be overweight and sick and regretting that you didn't take this route. If it is easier , do not tell them. Just do it and when they start to notice, just say, I have been going to a nutrionist and she is really helping me make progress. Sometimes it's best to not tell your parents everythung. I am struggling right now because I cannot tell my sisters. It's hard but I made this decision and my husband supports me 100%. I have told no one else but a niece who had the surgery. No one in my family knows, none of my friends know. I don't owe them any explanations or need their approval. It's my body. My parebts,are deceased now for overy 25 yrs. My mother was always overweight and struggled. If she were five today she would have had the surgery first. Next, give it to God. Pray and have faith. If it's right the path will open. Follow your heart and you can never go wrong. God Bless. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using BariatricPal mobile app

A good green juice to drink is romaine lettuce, cilantro, lemon, ginger, cucumbrr, celery and green apple. You can also do that as a smoothie. I drink it as a juice. Love it! Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using BariatricPal mobile app

Another beautiful transformation to inspire me! Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using BariatricPal mobile app

Also think about this. Does anyone ever tell an alcoholic , go ahead 1 drink won't hurt you, ??? If you are an addict, you can't have just one. Sorry for all my post. I am just so passionate about beating this. I thought of going to AA , but realized they serve donuts......

When i talk about sugar, i mean white sugar and candy. Fruit has good sugar. Eat fruit!

Sugar addiction is real and it is just as addicting and harmful as heroin and cocaine. There is not a chance in hell that i would ever put cocaine or heroin in my body, therefore I have to look at sugar the same way if i am to succeed in beating the addiction. I truly believe when you change the way you look at food, you CAN beat the craving and the addiction. I got away from all fast food 4 years ago. Now when i am around it from other people eating it, it does not bother me because it stinks, and its really gross when you think about it. I eat nothing proccessed because the ingredients gross me out. The problem with sugar is that it does not stink, its very sweet and tasty and that alone makes it much harder to get away from. It also hits those pleasure addiction neurons just like cocaine and heroin. Eat some and you want more. Its a vicious cycle. no one fighting a cocaine or heroin addiction is told, " you can have a little now and then, its ok ,just dont overdue." Sounds totally ridiculous, because it is. You have to put sugar in that category. That sweet b***h is all around and hard to ignore, but she is truly cocaine and heroins cousin. Remember the disguise she wears and do your best day by day to avoid her. Its very hard but together we can do it. Tell yourself everyday, (because words are power) I DO NOT EAT SUGAR, over and over everyday. Pretty soon your body will listen to your words and it will get easier. Yes, we fall off the wagon, yes, we will have times we give in. But just keep starting over and evertime you make another day, count your days, celebrate when you do just 3 days, then 10, then 15!!! Lets come here and support each other, celebrate the victories and keep working to break this sugar addiction, because truthfully people,,,,its killing us.

I am a sugar addict but I am treating it like alcohol,addiction...just like an alcoholic cannot have just one beer, I cannot gave just one candy. So I go day by day. I am on day 41 now. Yes once or twice, I did give in and had a piece of candy bug the next day I started over and go day by day. That is the only way I am able to do this. To reconize that each day is z victory. I am also off of bread , pasta, wheat and rice. One day at a yime, one step at a time. My surgery is July. I Want the change...I want the freedom from sugar. It's a conscience choice, to tell myself not that I can't have it but that I don't want it. Sugar addiction is hard to break but it can be done...one day at a time. If alcoholic's can do it. I can do it!!