starshine123

That's a good point. My semester ends March 23. Maybe I'll ask if I can get the surgery in the 2 weeks I'm off Sent from my LGL64VL using BariatricPal mobile app

In about a month out from surgery and worried about how it will impact my studies. As you know, we don't get to pick the date and its going to be smack dab in the middle of my semester. I'm in grad school. Any experience our suggestions? Sent from my LGL64VL using BariatricPal mobile app

Sounds like you're gallbladder! Sent from my LGL64VL using BariatricPal mobile app

I am going into my 3rd month of the supervised diet, and I'm embarrassed too go tho my appointment on Wednesday. I know I didn't lose any weight and I may have gained a pound. I only did well about 3 to 4 weeks in and then want able to keep to the diet. If I could lose weight by someone weighing me once a month and telling me to eat low carb, high protein, low cal, nutritiously, etc I wouldn't be in this process. How many of you actually lost weight in the pre op 6 months? I feel like a failure and it's discouraging me from thinking I can ever be successful. Sent from my LGL64VL using BariatricPal mobile app

I will be having surgery around that time as well Sent from my LGL64VL using BariatricPal mobile app

I think you are doing fabulous. I would suggest to try and think more positively of yourself. You ARE the same person. We are not our weight. Our weight changes as part of this life journey, but it doesn't define us. As you are becoming a better version of yourself, try to remember to love and respect your former self. After all, only you know the struggles that woman faced in her life and overcame. Sent from my LGL64VL using BariatricPal mobile app

Wow. I see by your graph your efforts never even brought you close. That's how I feel Sent from my LGL64VL using BariatricPal mobile app

You need to hide your scale. Watching the scale does not change the weight loss while you're following your plan to a T. I would make 1 time a week where you can step on it. Otherwise those fluid shifts are going to get you down. Sent from my LGL64VL using BariatricPal mobile app

No. I'm in month 2 of 6 of preop diet! Sent from my LGL64VL using BariatricPal mobile app

I'm in st Louis too Sent from my LGL64VL using BariatricPal mobile app

I'm the same way! So scared of the actual surgery and the risks! I'd love to just fast forward to even 1 day post op Sent from my LGL64VL using BariatricPal mobile app

I don't think you'd be normal if you didn't question this decision. Its a life changing decision. Instead of chosing day to day and meal to meal whether or not you will be working to get healthy, you are making that decision for the rest of your life! Surgery is no small thing. But you're changing your life for the better and sometimes we have to make tough decisions for a brighter future. Sent from my LGL64VL using BariatricPal mobile app

I plan on losing a lot of weight. I have some friends who have recently lost a lot of weight, and along the way, they would point out how bad they looked in their old photos. I see that here a lot, too. The problem is, I don't think anyone looks "bad" heavier- they just look heavier. Today I make the promise that I will not put myself (or others) down just because of my size. Yes, I will shrink and get healthier. But I won't say "yuck, look at my double chin." Because to put myself down for being 200+ pounds is to mock the woman I have been for 10 years. I have been heavy my entire adult life. I have, and am, struggling with it daily. But I am still beautiful, and so are all of you, my friends, who may have some more weight to lose. We can better ourselves without putting ourselves down. So when you get to where you're going, don't look back and say "yuck." That especially makes others who are still at their starting weights, or maybe even higher, feel like crap when they see someone putting their heavier selves down. Every body has beauty. Every stage of our journey deserves respect. I'm not going to put down myself for being big, because I know that I am a woman who has survived depression, who has grown three babies within her womb, whose husband loves her and thinks she's beautiful, whose children think she's perfect just the way she is. So I will love myself for who I was, who I am, and who I will be. Sent from my LGL64VL using BariatricPal mobile app

I want to believe that I can do this on my own. Many people will tell me that along the way, I know. But I have been so motivated before that I could have sung from the rooftop my weight loss anthem, and I still failed. The problem is now that I am older and have tried many times and see my weight higher than ever, I don't get that blind faith in myself anymore. I know that I'm a very strong person, and ambitious and nice and have a lot of good qualities. But I am not good at self discipline. Especially with food. The flip side of this is there is hope. Statistically and medically what I have chosen is normally very successful. And people who have chosen gastric sleeve sing it's praises. I thought ppl would hate it. But the more I read, the more I hear over and over again "the best thing I ever did" and "wish I'd done it sooner." I understand that weight loss surgery can be offensive or appear extreme to the general public. Maybe it seems I'm overly commited? Or maybe less comitted? Maybe it seems like cheating or an easy way out. Maybe it seems too extreme and hard when I could do it the old fashioned way. None of this really matters to me. At the end of the road, it has to be what I chose I can live with. And right now I know I have to chose a life of morbid obesity, or a life with weight-loss surgery to help me escape. Which is more dangerous? What is more risky? Which has more potential for happiness? These are my questions to answer, no one else's. Sent from my LGL64VL using BariatricPal mobile app