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Cott@ge cheese, I used to 💔 it, ate oodles of it prior to surgery, now Precious Pouch repels and forcibly repulsed it. Lets see,how my endoscopy November 9th,does, Maybe just Maybe I will OPEN UP enough to get some value from it?😕😯😪

And someday yet I will gain coyrage, like you did, to show the changes in ME, they are still subtle to many people but I can start to See some Fat Cacoon starting 👀 to Crack Off! Hoping to Still be Less the Woman I started Out Here With! And IT IS GOING TO HAPPEN! SW319 current 279 and DROPPING, thanks be to my surgeon, Bariatric Pal and a still-liquid diet. And I'd like think I MIGHT HAVE a small stake here myself!

I wanted to post this ongoing photo grouping that I've been working on with my sons. It started as a great way to show their aging, but it's also showcasing my weight loss.

2010, pre-band. I was around 370 in this photo.
2014, post-band. I was around 310 in this photo.
2018, post-bypass. I was 237 in this photo.

Just wanted to show everyone that, even just 4 years can change things so drastically, 8 years is even more amazing. Looking forward to going back and taking another update in 4 years, I can't wait to see what 12 years of changes looks like.

So when you are just a handful of days out of surgery and are feeling like nothing is changing. Or when you are stalled out for a week and are super frustrated. Please remember, this is a long term adjustment. Some folks are lucky and do see really fast results, but that doesn't mean anyone that doesn't see fast results is a failure.

Just keep looking at the horizon and taking 1 more step forward. Soon enough, you'll be where you want to be.

After waking up from surgery, and enduring the recovery room, I was wheeled to a non-bariatric floor because it was full. After getting situated. I decided to take it upon myself to go for a walk. Well, we all know where the gas they pump into you goes, I stopped let one rip for what seemed like 30 seconds. I then heard a voice behind me say "did someone start a lawnmower?". I was mortified and hobbled back to my room.

The hardest emotionally would be when I had to prep instructions and documents so my wife could pay the bills and access what she would need to if I were to die, I also wrote out some goodbyes, just in case.

Funniest was the first poop after surgery... that smell... ugh, it will haunt me forever.

Post op - almost in tears happy moment, when I went to Kohl's with the wife, bought clothes off the rack without bothering to try them on, knowing they would fit without issue.

And the most recent, uncontrollable smile inducing moment, yesterday when I went back to the gym, I hit the treadmill and was able to run at 5 mph for 5 full minutes non-stop without turning into a sweating, huffing and puffing mess. I would have been able to run longer if I had properly stretched, I didn't expect to be able to run that long without issue... so I didn't bother stretching. But damn if I couldn't stop that ear to ear grin on my face as I was trucking along. Same run, I hit 7 mph with zero issues either... so damn cool!

Ill be 6 months PO in a couple of days.
Total lost 58kg, total loss since surgery 40kg ; still loosing, albeit slowing, but still going down everyweek which is the goal. Officially under 100kg now as well which was a huge milestone for me

That’s awesome!! I had surgery May 7. I was 358 surgery day, 8 pounds higher the day I left the hospital, I guess from Fluid and gas...today I was 322.

My Carafate are huge white kinda oval pills, I have to pour boiling or very hot Water on them. let them soften , I usually use a shot glass, let it cool and then stir up the slurry. And lucky lucky me, I get to do this every 6 hours around the clock. Either Dr Noria my Bariatric Surgeon / endoscopist has great faith that this is going to shrink/eradicate my 5or6 newer ulcers or she is benefiting from a major drug industry kickback! And it has all the charm of ingesting white flour paste.👅

Sort of a scale victory - but for the first time in my marriage (10 years in March 2019), I weigh less than my husband!

I found a pair of jeans i had as a kid and they’re actually to big. (Why on earth can i fit kid sizes??)

My second non scale victory was some butthole parked super close to my car, so the door barely opened, i was still able to squeeze inside.

I am 11 day post op. My face changes daily. Lumps come and go. Swelling does the same. Most incision areas still have a lot of numbness. The process doesn’t really chill out for weeks...won’t know what I’m really going to look like until about 4 months out but what I look like now is a good indicator.
Aside from a brutal 5-6 day headache, the pain has been minimal. I’m mostly itchy now.
I’m going to try to post a before and after I put together a day to so ago. The bruising will be around for quite some time.

Well I had the post-op you booked for! This was the first surgery I have ever had that I didn't wake up in recovery. Oh I could describe Riverside Methodist where I had one surgery, my local "band aid station" Knox Community, where I had 2 knees, I thumb and a surgical repair of a Broken Right upper arm. I remember one they deliberately woke me,up, must have needed to speed me on my way so they could move someone else in?
But OSU, nice pretty room, woke,up like waking up on a pretty Summer morning, stretching, hey no pain? Maybe Dr Needleman changed his mind, sent me here to sleep it off? So I lifted my gown and looked. I expected big ABD everywhere, nope 6 little incisions with steri-strips criss-crossed on them and a trocar wound in the top of my naval. Now I know why the pre-op nurse told me when doing my shower before surgery to scrub my navel very very good, had a scar from tubal ligation in the bottom navel. Okay surely,i will hurt pretty soon. but I never did. My son, the mighty Tomkitten was there with me, and to be honest it seemed like he was my caregiver instead of the nursing staff. Oh they did come when rang for, they must have been monitoring me at the,nurses desk, I had ekg leads and oxygen on the whole time.as well as a pulse-ox, actually for a while I had 2, because I was being monitored for a special study. Oxygen always makes you dry, so when they said start on your medicine cups of Water, that was no problem, I was kept in my room, so no hall walks ,i was a little disappointed, I had taken a notebook to get names, addresses, emails of the other patients, never saw or heard anybody.Had a chair in my room, Tomkitten slept in it, got to sit there once. This was weird, every other hospital, they would make you get up and down to the chair, bathroom you whether wanted to or not, generally make a nuisance of themselves as often as possible. Rest of first day water, second day fruity drink, last day milky drinks. Dr Needleman checked on me at least once a day, that's about as often as I saw a nurse. They came in to count cups, told me to stack them up as I emptied them.So once in a while one of the staff would count them, after the first day TK was deputized to refill a cup as I needed it, must have been QS because nobody complained. And I still didn't hurt, only felt tired in my stomach muscles, The second day the Lovenox shots started, they did them until shortly before I went home wanted to see if I could do them, not the first shot I had ever given, but she thought I was a "quick study". Never vomited, no BM there, but when 1st one came perfectly normal, no black or bloody stool. I got to stay an extra day because of my age, but believe I could have handled a day earlier discharge. And things were pretty lovely until the 2-3 week when my structure reared it's ugly self. Told them I thought I had a stricture, oh no oh no, you're just swollen but most purees came right back up as well as part of the things on a level 2 diet. Finally October 12 , Dr Needleman's partner Dr Noria did a EGJ, guess who was right? ME! She found that and 5 new ulcers. So now,i am on Carafate 6an-noon- 6pm-midnight and tomorrow the 26th she tries again to stretch,and dialate so I can move to more solid foods and purees should have happened.by mid-September to move,on the Stage 3 so I am BEHIND. But if things go well, I get to try again. And dietician Roy wants to hear by next Wednesday, my 8th week day, if I am doing okay,or had to regress again. And thus ends the Frustr8 Follies!

I agree with you, from this and previous posts, you're not ready.
You are focused on what you will give up, instead of what you will gain.
No one can make you want your health, weight loss, mobility, etc., more than you want a pastry. Hopefully you will get there one day.

1 year ago today, I made a decision to change my life. And what a life changer or has been! I was diabetic on 2 different Mixed diabetic meds, so basically 4. Have gotten my A1C to 5.0 from 7.2. And no longer need any diabetes medication. Down to 1 high blood pressure pill instead of 2. 1 cholesterol pill instead of 2. And my triglycerides were over 600 are now 95. I did not do this for vanity, I did it for me, my health and my family. I want to live to watch my nieces and nephews grow up. I was in a bad place for a long time, and food was my outlet, my comforter. My shattered world is still wounded (and always will be) but not broken!
The pics are on top, the left, me at my highest, me before my surgery, me at the beginning of the year and the pic below them was taken a few weeks ago. It’s a daily struggle, but it was worth it! Thank you for all of your love and support and ty to my cheerleaders, who have been with me every step of the way.

Take the 140 and move on with your life.
getting fixated on moving that goal down can do a lot more harm than good at this point.
Congrats on your success now move on. You did it. you have arrived at the new you now move to the maintaining your weight stage.
Dont read the above as said in a mean way its more light hearted than that its just i understand how consuming the process of weight loss can be.
I also had a great surgery and rapid weight loss like clock work. Then i hit 155 and it just stopped. went from 8-10 pounds every month to nothing just like a switch was thrown.
It was jarring when it happened but when i pulled my head out of my ass and looked at where i was i realized i was already finished with the race and just forgot to stop running.
I wish you all the best and hope you squeeze all the life out of the new you that you can.
Now lets both of us Move on.

I've got one, I've got one. I have a very pretty front fastening bra, a name brand , not merely a better than nothing" big box store" type. I would know except I tend to cut tags out, I can be an "itchy" being.
Anyway, in the past when I tried wearing it, I immediately removed it when coming home, just too uncomfortable to wear! This morning I got it out of the vanity drawer, It not only fits, I think there is at least a quarter to half inch leeway in the band, and my band has been the same around for years, and at 72 Years are Years. Even Big Girls like pretty things, even more than usual, Danged Hard to find! So the Girls are happy, I still can breathe and after a Rotten Abysmal night, maybe things are turning around!👍😝🎶

Oh I pray So, I really do. The person set up to take me to Columbus for my surgeon appointment Tuesday ditched on me late Friday night, now I have been scurring trying to find someone, so far Nada. If I can not find someone by Monday afternoon I may have to cancel, but I do have someone to take me for my endoscopy and possible stricture stretching/repair Friday, but she is not available Tuesday. Now my st9mach is nervous, been sipping a Protein Shake all am, I know I need that Protein but sometimes I wish I could starve myself into iv,fluids, Yeah nobody is going to believe a 290 lb person may be starving inside. Yeah, I really could not harm myself like that, but in the short term it would be so E*A*S*Y. Tearful Rant over!

Well, as a RNY instead, I do still have my stomach, I instead asked my surgeon to make it largely non-functional. Does this give me a leg up. on sleevers? I'm not certain it does. At 6 weeks if I regret something it is the fact that I never feel full and never satisfied. I take in what I can, stop after designated amounts, try to keep all my counts proper, sufficent Fluid, adequate Protein, pray that my still meagre liquid diet is providing me sufficent calories to keep me until another day. But my skin is now dry and leathery, my lips are perpetually cracked, I keep ingesting Vitamins, minerals, omeprazole, Zofran and Carafate, is it benefiting me or just something to keep me busy? I do not looks forward to losing my hair, although it is probably inevitable. Obesity was slowly killing me, but did I merely trade it. for malabsorption, dehydration and a deficiency diet? Is there any. guarantee I have not jumped from the frying pan into the 🔥? I know of no other bypass veteran in my city of 20,000, I had to travel 50 miles to even find a bariatric surgeon. I have not seen him since shortly after my surgery, I am palmed off on Nurse-Practioners now,nice enough people but are they giving true consul or merely mouthing the company line?
Walking the walk? I do try but when you are light-headed it's not very easy. Try to keep my exercise at the level I don't pop tendons, rear ligaments, these muscles and. bones have to last the rest of my life. Have already repalaced a few joints, but they are 85% as good as the natural thing. I do not know if I have buyers remiss but at this point I do question the outlay of my insurances monies for this operation. I now have 7 small scars, was it the right trade-off? I have sacrificed myself but have I improved life, health and my future? At this point, IDK, I just don't know.😪💦😪

You look marvelous... with our without the wig! Keep your head up!

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What I think is awful....is how people here are continually encouraged to do what doesn't work.
How many hundreds of posts have we read that go like this:
"I lost all this weight by self denial and will power and eating a very restricted diet....and I'm so sad and disgusted with myself that I put half of it back on. HELP!"
And what do these people routinely get told here?
Go back on your diet that was unsustainable...and didn't work. Try harder. Deny more.

It's crazy. And it's unhealthy to yo-yo.
There is no harm in illustrating a DIFFERENT path supported by science. No one is forcing anyone to do anything.
There are and always will be a variety of options and opinions.

Yep, I eat them all. Love them. They're a daily part of my diet. Sometimes multiple times a day.
OMG, they're carbs!
Yep, they are. But they're not refined, over-processed, or bad.
And you know what else they are?
Excellent sources of plant based Protein and Fiber.
A baked potato has 160 calories. By itself, it has 4g of protein. Throw some vegetarian chili on there and you're in the high teens. Awesome lunch!
Brown rice...half a cup has around 100 calories and 3g of protein. Add some bean or peas and you've got complete amino acids...tons of protein... and a crazy awesome amount of fiber.
Why is dietary fiber important? To grow good gut bugs. Your microbiota and the health of your gut (and metabolism) depend on happy little bacteria. The strains of gut bugs that live in the guts of skinny people....have a favorite food: dietary fiber. Feed your good bugs good things and they'll be good to you.
They like to eat fruit, veggies, Beans, whole wheat bread...
Whole wheat bread? I eat this A LOT:)
For instance.....A lite Thomas English wheat muffin has 5g of protein for 100 calories. This dietary powerhouse has 8g of dietary fiber! Smear that sucker with your favorite nut butter or fruit preserves, and you're in business.
One of my favorite go-to dinners these days...... is fresh homemade wheat bread with 16 veggie soup...and fruit for dessert.
I eat about four servings of fruit a day...and that's not even counting the watermelon I huddle over in the car while hissing "My Precious...." LOL:)
A banana is not "a candy bar" A banana is a wonderful healthy food. I eat lots of them. Hell, I have a Yonanas that makes them into ice cream. They're terrific.


Normal weight does not HAVE to mean giving up carbs. It means being carb smart, balancing, and making mindful choices.
More than one way to do this whole thing.
Weight loss success does not mean ONLY eating meat for the rest of your life with broccoli on the side. That's great once in a while, though!
Not trying to tell anyone they're doing it wrong.....just sayin'....there's more than one way to do it right:)

Extreme thinking, extreme dieting, extreme self denial....is not sustainable.
Work on a forever diet you can live with.
Be mindful, be accountable....but be kind to yourself.

I’ve honestly been struggling to lose weight despite following my surgeons plan. I was sleeved on 5/7 and am down 42 lbs (which I’m still very happy about). I recently followed up with my endocrinologist for my PCOS and insulin resistance and am hopeful that a new medication and additional diet tweaks will get the ball rolling again.

I am losing at the same rate but I am thrilled with it too. I am down to a size 12. A SIZE 12!!!! Down from a 24. Holy freaking monkey balls it’s crazy to say but I am no longer a plus size woman 😵

Just thought I would check in with my surgery pals!

How we all doing?
My life has changed so much with this surgery, the non scale victories are too many to mention but life is great!
Currently losing around 7 to 8lbs a month and very happy with that. No stalls so far except a slight one at week three but only for a few days, fingers crossed it continues

I was sleeved 5/9. I'm down 50 pounds.
I have been working out a lot harder. Not much lost on the scale the last month, but my body is TOTALLY rearranging. All my clothes are loose again and my skin has tightened some in places it was saggy. I am not good about measuring, but there is less of me in lots of places even though I only lost 3 pounds in the last month.
It has been a wild ride!