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LaLaDee it bizarre to explain but I’m afraid to. All I know is 4x or 26/28
anything else is foreign to me. I’m working on it though... may try one or two new things for summer!

Allie589 I’m in the same boat. Down 120 lbs and haven’t bought anything new except a shirt I needed for school (I’m a teacher) and I still bought a 3x. It’s all I know. I’m afraid of having to buy clothes because it’s always been a not fun experience. Trying to get my head around this but I still have a ways to go
HW 356
SW 343
CW 233

Allie589 I’m in the same boat. Down 120 lbs and haven’t bought anything new except a shirt I needed for school (I’m a teacher) and I still bought a 3x. It’s all I know. I’m afraid of having to buy clothes because it’s always been a not fun experience. Trying to get my head around this but I still have a ways to go
HW 356
SW 343
CW 233

Allie589 I’m in the same boat. Down 120 lbs and haven’t bought anything new except a shirt I needed for school (I’m a teacher) and I still bought a 3x. It’s all I know. I’m afraid of having to buy clothes because it’s always been a not fun experience. Trying to get my head around this but I still have a ways to go
HW 356
SW 343
CW 233

Congrats on your success! I was sleeved in August and am down 115 lbs still have a ways to go but feel so much better. A few people have commented but I think some are hesitant to do so which is fine by me. I struggle to see the change in myself. It’s all in my head. I haven’t bought new clothes fornfear a smaller size won’t fit. Makes no sense I know. My clothes are much looser but still wearable... definitely a journey we’re on!

Congratulations on your upcoming surgery. My sleeve was the best thing that has happened to me. I started this journey 356.6 lbs (I’m 5 foot 3 in) and was sleeved on Aug 15. Today I’m down 104 lbs. still have a lot to go though. My surgery was a Tuesday, I went home Thursday and went out with my husband and kids Saturday. I was able to start back to school 11 days later (I’m a teacher)
Follow your doctors orders. Listen to what your body tells you and try to move as much as you can even if it’s just around your home.
Best of luck to you!

Congratulations on your upcoming surgery. My sleeve was the best thing that has happened to me. I started this journey 356.6 lbs (I’m 5 foot 3 in) and was sleeved on Aug 15. Today I’m down 104 lbs. still have a lot to go though. My surgery was a Tuesday, I went home Thursday and went out with my husband and kids Saturday. I was able to start back to school 11 days later (I’m a teacher)
Follow your doctors orders. Listen to what your body tells you and try to move as much as you can even if it’s just around your home.
Best of luck to you!

Sure... my kids are back at college so dinners are easier now. My husband and I eat together, but not the same foods. Haha
fir Breakfast I have a Premier Protein shake which i think is 6 carbs?
lunch a 4oz hamburger or turkey patty
low fat cheese stick 0 carb
dannon light n fit 15 carb but you can subtract the Fiber the nutritionist said??
dinner 4oz chicken or steak, nothing on it, maybe some more non fat cheese, some almonds
thats about it
im down 97 lbs since 8/15
was 356 pre surgery, 342 surgery date
currently about 258 give or take a bit
Good luck to you on your journey!!!

Sure... my kids are back at college so dinners are easier now. My husband and I eat together, but not the same foods. Haha
fir Breakfast I have a Premier Protein shake which i think is 6 carbs?
lunch a 4oz hamburger or turkey patty
low fat cheese stick 0 carb
dannon light n fit 15 carb but you can subtract the Fiber the nutritionist said??
dinner 4oz chicken or steak, nothing on it, maybe some more non fat cheese, some almonds
thats about it
im down 97 lbs since 8/15
was 356 pre surgery, 342 surgery date
currently about 258 give or take a bit
Good luck to you on your journey!!!

Sure... my kids are back at college so dinners are easier now. My husband and I eat together, but not the same foods. Haha
fir Breakfast I have a Premier Protein shake which i think is 6 carbs?
lunch a 4oz hamburger or turkey patty
low fat cheese stick 0 carb
dannon light n fit 15 carb but you can subtract the Fiber the nutritionist said??
dinner 4oz chicken or steak, nothing on it, maybe some more non fat cheese, some almonds
thats about it
im down 97 lbs since 8/15
was 356 pre surgery, 342 surgery date
currently about 258 give or take a bit
Good luck to you on your journey!!!

Wow 30 carbs a day is low. I can barely do 50. Can you share what you eat to get carbs that low? I’m not losing so much so need to switch things up. Getting depressed as I thought I’d be much less by now.
CW. 231. Boo


HW. 289
SW. 284
Height. 5’8

Similar stats here... sleeved 8/15 and was 356 pre op, about 340 surgery day.
today at 258. So almost at the 100 lb Mark. I honestly think my body is still in shock from the lack of junk I was eating. I was very high carb, high processed, lots of fast food. Hang in there.... I’ve slowed at times and recently started exercising a bit so hoping that allows me to maintain a steady loss as I still have a long way to go!!!! Good luck

Reading these posts helps a lot. I was sleeved on 8/15 and have lost about 90 lbs and I still want to beat myself up over the tiny scoop of mashed potatoes I had yesterday with ham. Normally my plate would be covered and yet yesterday it was a tiny, maybe 1/4 cup if that. I’ve been baking up a storm, Cookies galore (I’m italian, lots of treats) but have not sampled one thing. Unrealistic? A bit. I’m not going to beat myself up this weekend if I enjoy something. This lifestyle has to be my new reality. I need to own it since I have come so far, but have a LONG away to go still.
We can do it. We have to. But don’t throw away months of progress because of a few days of indulgence. Like someone said, a small “cheat” I’m sure is NOTHING to what you would have had last year. Keep working hard friends! 🎄🎄👍🏼👍🏼

Reading these posts helps a lot. I was sleeved on 8/15 and have lost about 90 lbs and I still want to beat myself up over the tiny scoop of mashed potatoes I had yesterday with ham. Normally my plate would be covered and yet yesterday it was a tiny, maybe 1/4 cup if that. I’ve been baking up a storm, Cookies galore (I’m italian, lots of treats) but have not sampled one thing. Unrealistic? A bit. I’m not going to beat myself up this weekend if I enjoy something. This lifestyle has to be my new reality. I need to own it since I have come so far, but have a LONG away to go still.
We can do it. We have to. But don’t throw away months of progress because of a few days of indulgence. Like someone said, a small “cheat” I’m sure is NOTHING to what you would have had last year. Keep working hard friends! 🎄🎄👍🏼👍🏼

I was so thrilled 4 mo post op to be able to make a ton of delicious thanksgiving foods, including three delicious pies, and know that Thanksgiving Day was going to be, for my food log, the same as any other day. That is the blessing of this surgery.
i don’t eat Desserts. If after a dinner I feel munch while the others eat dessert, I will have a bit or two of 85% dark chocolate. It’s perfectly satisfying. Sugar never made me feel anything but BAD after, vision messed up, mood cranky, increased carb cravings. So I am done with eating sweet things. I don’t even eat fruit, though at goal I may add in 1 serving a day possibly.
I chose the food I wanted, put it on a plate like the others, got out my scale, weighed the plate to zero it, and took away everything but 4 Oz. It was really only a few chunks of turkey and a tablespoon of every other thing. I did put a tbsp of homemade cranberry sauce on the plate, which was a rare sweet thing. And I enjoyed that food for real as much as the two plates plus 4 pieces of pie I probably had last year. Would never have believed it.
I'm thankful for my gastric sleeve.

I was dropping fast at first... it has slowed and I think I'm stuck because I eat the same things almost every day. Really nothing more to "cut out"
presurgery weight was 356.6, surgery weight 344
current weight 281
Have SO MUCH more to go so I joined a fitness center at the hospital where I had my surgery to start some exercise program which I'm not doing well with on my own
hooefully this will help me

I was dropping fast at first... it has slowed and I think I'm stuck because I eat the same things almost every day. Really nothing more to "cut out"
presurgery weight was 356.6, surgery weight 344
current weight 281
Have SO MUCH more to go so I joined a fitness center at the hospital where I had my surgery to start some exercise program which I'm not doing well with on my own
hooefully this will help me

I lost 26 on the pre-op diet, then 60 since then. I've had a good experience so far. I've had good results, I know.
But there's still so much left to get through. I'm now "only" as fat as I was 10 years ago... when I was also fat... and also needed to lose a bunch of weight. Still a long way to go...

I'm a little annoyed... I didn't tell a lot of people I was having my surgery. Insurance wouldn't cover it and I was afraid if something happened financially (total cost was $22,800) I'd have to tell everyone I wasn't having it... anyway, I feel like people are expecting me to lose 100lbs within a few weeks. I can tell when they look at me. I'm 11 days post op.... people need to back off and give me time to adapt to this new life!!!

Congrats to everyone on their progress.
just left the doctor!! 2.5 months out, down 68 lbs and they said I'm doing good!!! Now to work on getting more movement and drinking more Water. 👍🏻😄

Congrats to everyone on their progress.
just left the doctor!! 2.5 months out, down 68 lbs and they said I'm doing good!!! Now to work on getting more movement and drinking more Water. 👍🏻😄

My surgery was 8/21.
Original weight was 299. Surgery weight was 257. I'm down to 229 now so a total of 70 pounds lost. Getting rid of my biggest clothing because I won't need them again! I still have clothes of many sizes so I'm delaying buying more as long as I can. I'm very glad I did this.

08/29/17 Surgery date
pre-op weight 309
Surgery Weight 298
Current weight 250.2
weight loss 59 lbs 7 weeks post-op

Original weight: 419
Surgery weight: 361
Current weight: 337
It is coming off very slowly, but I feel good!

I can eat around 4-5 ounces per meal now without too much difficulty. It depends on the food. If I go too far, I have found I get a little warning, where my body sort of tells me I am entirely full and need to stop right away. I don't mean I eat until I'm nauseous or in pain, because I don't. But I do get a little shift in my stomach that happens when I need to knock it off. If I do, no harm, no foul. If I do not and I try and have one or two more bites, I'll end up on the couch holding my belly. I've never pushed it further than that though, as I don't want to end up puking.