starshine123

Mine is Feb 7th which is middle of my semester as well im in my senior year and graduate in May. I haved 3 online classes tho so for the classes i have to physically go 2 i will let my teachers know in advanced that i am having surgery and may miss a class or 2

You can’t put it off till spring break? So at least you’ll have a little extra time to recover initially. I’m currently a student, and planning my surgery for when the semester lets out.

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.
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Sounds like you're gallbladder!

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I am in month 5 and I've only lost 8 lbs. My doc says just to maintain until surgery but trust me your not alone in panicking before weigh in time. I have this fear that I will gain and I've done all this for nothing.

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Do your best. I used a free app called Baritastic to track my food. The pre-op is mainly to make you aware of your food choices, to examine your relationship with food, teach you nutrition, and for you to gradually stop bad habits.
You have to look at how you use food - are you hungry or bored, anxious, stressed, etc so you can change from using food to solving those issues to solving them without food. It's hard, but your head needs fixing first or you will resort to these behaviors after the surgery. Stopping junk carbs will keep the cravings down, if you keep going back to them it just starts all over again. Give up one thing each week and build on that - I quit soda 1st thing - none, not even diet. Then - no fast food - none, zero. Then gradually let go of starchy carbs - no rice, etc.
You may lose a few pounds, or stay the same. The most important thing is to realize food is just food, it will always be there, there is plenty of it, you will have a bite or two of your favorite foods during maintenance. This diligence is forever. You can do it.

boy did you hit the nail on the head. neverending struggles finally have slowed down to normal struggles in life. I am grateful to be alive and in a better position in my life. its not so exciting work sleep on the daily. i will take that ten times over than the domestic abusive situations, homelessness, unemployment, hostile work environments, bad relationships. ive clawed my way to finally feel peace.

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.

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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.

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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.

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My mother had the sleeve done a year ago. She said her biggest regret was not getting it done in her 30's. I was going to wait, try some more on my own. Add to the yoyo that has been the last 8 years. Instead, with her support I have a tool to assist me for the rest of my life. I am super excited for this transformation and to be a healthy example for my girls.

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An old time member on this board once said she considers this weight maintenance surgery and not weight loss surgery. I couldn't agree more. I was like the graph shown earlier. Lost 50+ pounds more times than I can count. Never could keep it off. I've kept my 135 lb loss over three years now with no signs of that changing.

Add me to the "wish I'd done it sooner" chorus!

While I can't promise you'll experience what I have, 9 weeks out, I've yet to be hungry. I eat to get my minimal nourishment. I have moments where old habits kick in but I soon realize I can't eat it or go ahead, but I can only eat a bite or two.
The next day the scale has me down another pound.

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.
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Wow. I see by your graph your efforts never even brought you close. That's how I feel

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Im 9 weeks post op and down nearly 70 pounds. Im 47 and want to see my boys graduate high school and get married. You will be surprised how people will respect your decision and support you.

This ia not cheating. This is smart.

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I love the decision to have sleeve surgery. Wish I would have done it long long ago. Have lost 75 lbs. In 6 months and am really enjoying life

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The simple fact of the matter is, only a small percentage of people who lose weight can keep it off over a five-year period. There are studies that show this conclusively. Doctors no longer dispute this. It's been years since a doctor suggested that I lose weight, because research shows that when we lose weight our metabolism drops, and it stays at the slower rate even after we regain the weight. That's why dieters who regain the weight often gain more than they lost. It's a losing, or rather gaining, battle. So doctors have generally shut up about weight loss, except to suggest, as mine did, bariatric surgery. It's the only thing that gives us a chance of keeping the weight off.

It's not a character flaw or weakness that gets the weight back on, but the fact that our bodies want it back. This was a great survival strategy when food was scarce, but with our current abundance of food, it's a real problem. I mean, the fact that after surgery our weight loss can stall for weeks at a time when we're eating less than 800 calories a day is crazy, right? Not when you think about the history of our species and how the body will do whatever it can to keep us alive when we're starving.

We're fighting years of evolutionary success at staying alive during hungry times. It's not about willpower.

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I go through the same thing, and went through the same thing it took me over 3 years to find me and say "hey GURL, are you going to continue on the road to being sick and getting sicker by the day JUST TO PLEASE OTHERS? " nobody's being sick with you they're just looking on the outside, NOT UNDERSTANDING that EVERYTHING is going WRONG on the inside. OF MY BODY, so I went to my Father in heaven and I asked him to make a way next thing you know I get a new doctor I get a new surgeon and my date is on October 2nd 2017. ...everything happened so fast it scared me but I had to pump my faith up and know that I'm doing right by me!!! I want to be able to take care of my son better meaning be more active in his life be able to go to the amusement parks in ride the rides with him instead of sending him by himself, I want to be able to run the track field and go to the skating rink and do everything that a child wants to do should be there right there with them. All that to say you are making the right choice for you nobody can live your life for you but a lot of people like to try keep the faith Keep On Believing God has ordered your steps and mine be blessed and enjoy being sleeved

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.

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Hey Jan17, I have struggled as well, setting at 240 for many years. Bottom line is, I bounced up and down on my weight for years and have finally decided to at 60 years old to go forward with the surgery. I have now developed three illnesses probably all caused by my weight I'm gonna fix this and add many years to my life. I've also decided to become more active and enjoy what life I have left with traveling and scuba diving and any other activities I want to do, my weight won't stop me. My surgery is in two days.

I am about 8 weeks post op. I have struggled with my weight for many years. I started thinking about WLS a few years ago and I talked myself out if it because I thought I could lose through dieting. For the past 5 years, I have spent so much money on different programs, fad diets and endless meetings. All this time, my weight kept going up. The final aha moment for me was when I was diagnosed as pre-diabetic. It was then that I realized I need effective treatment for obesity. Like most people, my biggest regret was not getting sleeved sooner. But then again, I think I needed to hit rock bottom to appear irate this tool. I have lost about 30lbs so far by just following the program to the T. I did not even look at the band when I was seeking treatment. Just didn't want the idea of a foreign object in my body that is movable.

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.
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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.
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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.
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