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Congrats on your progress!

It's not our place to be judgmental.
Did you like speculation and comments of others about your obesity when you were larger?
Give the public figures and celebs a break.

wrong forum

No, it says gals room

So what's a non-scale victory for you? I guess at 10 weeks out I'm still new with my sleeve, but I could FINALLY wear my bra without my bra extenders! I don't think that's happened in 8 years! I can also wear my engagement ring!

I was told to avoid straws as well, so I bought a sippy cup, like I had as a kid. Hoping this will slow my drinking rate, and I can then progress to my bottle

My op was 4 June. I’m on mushy/purée phase at the moment with a daily calorie goal of 800. I have a ‘get up and go’ for Breakfast, a morning coffee when I get to work. I have homemade lentil Soup for lunch (1/2 cup) and homemade chicken & veg soup for dinner (1/2 cup). On weekends I have a scrambled egg for breakfast. I add Protein to the Soups to meet my protein goals.
Im also taking additional supplements, fibre, Calcium, Vitamin D, multi Vitamin and zinc. I drink a lot of Water, between 2-3 litres a day. I’m constantly sipping water to keep me hydrated.

I have an obnoxious gossipy aunt who loves to milk people for this kinda crap so she can spin it and spread it....so I don't mind having some fun with her.
I just tell her outrageously creative lies.
She isn't interested in anything factual. She doesn't really care or want to empathize. She wants tabloid entertainment for neighborhood publication.....so I let her have some.
How did I lose so much weight?
My new crack addiction.
Witchcraft
Eating only watermelon for thirty days.
Dedicating my life to the service of David Miscavige
Mail order tapeworms from Brazil.
Pancreatic cancer.
A new deadly gluten allergy.
Playing Dance Dance Revolution
Fat cryotherapy

She gives me a hateful look, I get a chuckle, and next time maybe she picks a different target for her shenanigans.

A Christian, an Atheist, a Jew and a Muslim walk into a bar.....
And they hang out, eat peanuts, share pics of their kids and spouses, complain about work, laugh, and talk about life......because none of them are arseholes.

I have gained weight 3 days in a row. I am up 1.6 pounds without changing anything diet wise. My body is a jerk. I know it is just normal fluctuations and I shouldn't be on the scale everyday but DAMN, WTF?!?! Just when I learn to breathe through my stalls and be all zen with the process, BAM! I told my husband to hide the scale because I am about to murder someone.
That is all. Stupid, jerk body.

Thank you for this. I’ve slowed down and the uncontrollable gas has stopped

Hello! June 12th sleever here! I feel like I’m getting used to the restrictions of my stomach with liquids, at least, but I’m sure it’ll be a different story when I start on soft foods next Thursday. I’ve had a rough couple of days - partly because I’m still exhausted and I feel guilty that my poor kid has been stuck at home with me all week because a short trip to the store wipes me out every day. I’ve just felt kind of depressed the past couple of days but I’m sure it’ll start to get better.
Aside from that, I’m happy with my loss - 224 before the pre-op diet, 198.8 a week after surgery. Hope to meet some new folks here!

Ok I finally feel better enough to understand update. Right now there’s a lot of pain. I’m sipping 30 ml of Water about every 2 hours. And every cup with the exception of the first has made me vomit. The nurse said this is normal. But yo vomit hurts sooooo bad. I got up to walk about a half hour ago. That wasn’t bad. It actually relieved some of the gas.

Having my VSG tomorrow 6/19/18. I’m so anxious!

I do not write alot of posts, but i read alot. since my sleeve in january the most popular posts i read is about people thinking they lose too little weight over time.
Ofcourse we will all lose weight at different rates, but there are alot of factors that goes within that. Starting weight, inntake, how your body is healing, Protein intake all that.
I took my surgery 1 week after a friend who was just 20 pounds smaller than me, ive lost over 2x what he has but he is doing fine. it discouraged him to see me lose so fast even tough we stayed on the exact same diet.

The important thing is not to doubt the surgery, if you start doubting and losing morale it might affect your mindset more than you can think.
ive seen people who started at 200 pounds complaining about losing "only" 30 pounds in the first 2 months. i mean thats over 10% of the body mass its not bad.
my starting weight was at 370 pounds. i currently weigh 253.53 pounds. We all differ in personality and interests but we all have the same issues. But the most important thing is to stay positive and think about what you eat.
I payed for my surgery from a private institusion(goodbye 15000 USD). I skipped the puree phase cause i couldnt find anything i could like. i only went on liquids and right to solids. i eat at this phase alot less than i should not on purpose but because i cannot handle anymore, tough today i ate a whole cup of instant noodles. i walk 5.59 miles daily with my dog, and i think positively.
Ive been sick atleast once a month, sitting here right now with the flu. Alot of people who just started on this journey also are already stressing about the risk of rebound.
Rebound does not happen by itself. Just focus, try to have atleast some activity daily and eat healthy. Alot of people on this forum has great recipes ive tried and alot of great tips. look to the people who has been sucesfull years after surgery and still are on the forums helping people. Get inspiration from them and listen to what they have to say.

Excuse my English, i live all the way up North in Norway so i know spelling mistakes will be a common sight in this post.

I had a sleeve gastrectomy in July of 2012. At my heaviest I was a little over 330lbs, I got down to around 170lbs. We (me, my husband and 2 kids) moved put of state and away from all of our friends/family. I got depressed and ate everything in sight, now I weigh 233lbs and am so disgusted and disappointed with myself. I’ve been going to the gym but not like how I should. I feel like I want another surgery to get my “mojo” back and to get me back in the right mind set. Anyone else gone through something similar?

Good to know. But we can have issues, apparently.

On my fourth or fifth day post-op, I was alone so treated myself to a toot. Imagine my dismay when my solo was, um, not just musical but liquid as well. Glaring at my undies in the bathroom trash, I scrubbed for what seemed like ten minutes to mop up this THICK BLACK SLUDGE--it reminded me of printer's ink. I was terrified to ever leave the house again, let alone enter a pool or something, but my nurse manager explained that it was all the blood left over from the surgery. Yeesh!

Oh I know I do... Hell, I've flushed while pooping so it just goes right down the drain... still really stucks.

You sleevers really are missing out on this "fun"!

Hi All, I’m 7:30am tomorrow with a 5:30 report time. So nervous but stayed busy all day with last minute errands, laundry, cleaning and presurgery lab work & ekg. I think my husband is more stressed & worried than me. Hardest part about tomorrow I think will be getting the 20 yr old up to go keep husband company during surgery lol. Good luck and prayers to all my 6/21 surgery twins out there. I’ll text update later in day if up to it 👍

I'm here in Mexico and having surgery in the morning! Finally....

Stop weighing yourself daily.....
Pick a day a week and weight yourself that day.....
If you can't mentally handle that, then pick two days....Lets Say Saturdays and Wednesday......
Doing it everyday will drive you Bat Shyt Crazy.....

Awesome, I am walking a lot. I got used to do it so because my gas pain was really really bad. I had to stay one extra day on the hospital. Even though I don’t have pain anymore I still walk every couple hours for 30 minutes or more. Yesterday was my follow up, had the staples removed and cleared to drive. Life is coming back to normal.

Cannot do sugar free stuff, taste horrible and linger 😥

Hey guys quick update.

Surgery date June 7.
5 7
HW: 280
Pre-op W: 264
SW: 250
CW: 240
GW: 170

How are you guys doing?

I am craving chewing, soooo tired of liquids. Not really hungry to be honest, but really looking forward to the soft phase and be able to eat scrambled eggs.< /p>