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I’m down 64 lbs since my sleeve on 5/3/18. I thought I would be further along with my weight loss but I had a setback early on after surgery with an infection but I healed and was able to get on track. I recently went home last weekend and saw my family for the first time and they all loved my new look tho they don’t know I had the surgery. I’m back now and I noticed I gained a few lbs while with my family partying all weekend so now I’m depressed and today was not a good day. I know tomorrow is a fresh start so I’m planning on using that but I need some motivation. Any tips?

I have a goal I want to reach so I’m looking for some support and tips. I have my workout motivation back but just reaching out to my #vsg squad for some support and tips.

Feeling somewhat lost 😒 Been struggling these last 2 weeks To lose weight and I haven’t. I noticed I’ve been eating not good And a little more than I should due to This stall and funk. How can I get out of it? I feel like I’m ruining everything I’ve done these Last three months.

Thank you everyone for all your advice and encouragement. It has definitely helped me. My coworkers measure me once a month and today was the day and to make me feel better they pushed me even more today. Came out that I have lost another 4.5 inches since surgery so it seems as if my loses right now are with my inches which prompted me to clean my closest tonight and I have one full bag and another closest still to go. I do have a habit of weighing myself daily so I’m going to try and stop because when i do that and the scale doesn’t move i get too much in my head

Such a difference!!! You look great

I’m interested in intermittent fasting. I see many people doing it to help get out of a stall. Has anyone done this and if so what tips can you provide me? Like what should I eat and when should I do it? Any advice would be greatly appreciated 🤗

I guess mine started today. I noticed that I brushed out more hair than usual in my morning routine today. It worries me at first but I’m reading from the above comments that some people experience it as well. I’m 3 months post op.

So I’m almost 3 months post op and I’m stalled right now at the same weight for almost one week again. I’m not sure why i keep stalling, is anyone else experiencing this? I’m down 44 lbs since surgery but I feel like I should be down more when I see others who had the surgery around the same time as me. Also I feel like i need to live up to the expectations of others, especially one co-worker who had by-pass fifteen years ago and keeps reminding me she lost 100 lbs in six months. She keeps telling me I’m doing something wrong, am I? I’m so confused.

I had surgery on 5/3/18 and I’ve lost 36 lbs so far. I had a little delay with working out because i got an infection which lead to an incision needing to be opened and not healing until the middle of June so my surgeons office wanted me to wait to work out until it fully closed. Right now tho I’ve been in a stall for about two weeks but it also didn’t help that i got sick again due to everyone else being sick so once again no workout for a week. I have a good feeling now that I’m back on track things will come back to me and i will begin to lose again

Thank you for your feedback. I think it has to do with emotional eating but I do know that I’m not getting enough water or protein. I feel as if I’m retaining my water intake and I’m not using the bathroom enough. How can I move past this because it has become an issue.

I’m two months post-op and I’m struggling when it comes to the weekend. I find myself eating probably more than I should. Saturday’s are spent in school until 430 and then I don’t do anything afterwards and Sunday’s are usually spent down by my pool and I then want to binge eat when I come back to my house. I’m going to go back to basics tomorrow and go on a liquid diet for a few days but I feel like I might be messing up everything I’ve worked so hard to accomplish. Please if you can give me some guidance I would appreciate it 🙏🏼

So I’m seven weeks post-op and for the past week or so I’ve been nauseous. Every time i eat, after i eat or even before i eat. Has this happened to anyone? If so, what have you done to help with the nausea. I’m tired of feeling like this.

So after my infected incision healed it sorts sunk in like a second belly button and it is still in the red stage of healing. What did everyone use for their scars to help so with the redness and to make them less visible? Eventually one day when i lose enough weight I want to be able to wear a bikini, it’s my dream! So any tips would be helpful!

So I had a NSV today and I just had to share! I’ve been very depressed since my surgery because four days after my surgery, I’m five weeks post op, I got a staph infection in one of my incision sites and had to have it drained and have a drain put in for almost two weeks due to an abscess. I was very depressed even my coworkers were worried even though I was still home and I isolated myself from everyone. It took a very long time for the incision to close and I was beginning to worry. Well with that being said, today my friend who is a medical assistant and helping me through this confirmed that my incision is officially closed!!!! No more band aids or butterfly sutures!!! This has officially been the best day ever. I called the surgeons office and told them, they were aware she was watching it and I asked if I could start working out again and they gave me the green light!!! This has been a big day for me today 🙏🏼

So I spoke to my doctor today about my incision that has not completely closed. There is a little section left that starts to catch on to each other and then I need to bend or move and it separates again. With that being said, I spoke to the doctor today and they want to see me Friday again 😩 I’m almost five weeks post-op and this is due to an infection I had and she told me today again I still can’t work out until this is completely closed. I’m back again in my depression. Here we go 😔

I have a question for everyone. How long after your sleeve did you go out and lay in the sun and go in the pool? I live in South Florida and this weekend is the first weekend we have sun. It’s been raining for like the last two weeks and I want to lay out and get some color. Please let me know your thoughts?

Thank you that’s what i did. I didn’t stay out long because it was hot out and the uv index was very high.

Thank you for your feedback. I am four weeks post op and my last incision that was open due to my infection just healed. Yes i was definitely going to sunscreen my incisions and still wear my one piece suit but the plan was not to stay out long in the sun, i just wanted some color, I’m turning too pale

Try not to weigh yourself everyday if that is what you are doing. I did that in the beginning and i was stressing myself out all the time because i saw the scale go up and down especially when i was on my fluid diet. Retaining fluids was my hardest thing. Then when i transitioned to food i did gain a little but now I’ve noticed the scale dropping again, it’s probably your body just readjusting. You are doing great!

I’ve been in a stall for about two weeks now and I’m four weeks post op. I’ve lost 25 lbs total so far and I’m eating soft foods. I’m struggling to get my water intake during the day so I’m trying to hold myself accountable by writing it out in a journal. I still can’t work out due to an infection i had and the wound is still healing so I’m in a funk about it so I’m kinda stuck right now and I’m struggling mentally with that

Can you tell the difference? I’m struggling to see a change. The picture on the left is from March 2018 and the picture on the right is from today. It’s a 25lb difference and I still can’t see the difference. I’m also in a stall right now, I had surgery on May 3rd and I still can’t work out due to my open incision from my infection that still hasn’t completely closed yet so I’m in a funk so I’ve been depressed lately.

Thank you everyone for the encouraging words it truly does help me

Good luck!!

Thank you, i appreciate the encouraging words. I sometimes need to hear from other people to keep pushing forward. I’ve wanted this for so long and I want to make sure I don’t fail.

I had my surgery done on a Thursday and went back to work on a Tuesday but only half a day because i was tired. I ended up taking the rest of the week off due to getting an infection but then i went back the following week but was only doing half days until my energy level came back up. Thankfully I’m able to work from home if need be