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The 30th is my 1 year wedding anniversary. First picture is that day, 2nd picture is the honeymoon (, the real me not all glamour) and 3rd picture is yesterday. Gastric Sleeve July 3rd and lost 47 lbs. Happy Friday!!! You'll look amazing!!!

I use miralax daily for maintenance regularity but I no longer am a slave to its vagaries. Lol. I go straight for MOM first then fleets glyc supps next until I blow that gopher out of its hole a la Carl and Caddy Shack!

The picture on the left is from Sept 2017 and the one on the right is from a couple weeks ago.

The 30th is my 1 year wedding anniversary. First picture is that day, 2nd picture is the honeymoon (, the real me not all glamour) and 3rd picture is yesterday. Gastric Sleeve July 3rd and lost 47 lbs. Happy Friday!!! You'll look amazing!!!

The 30th is my 1 year wedding anniversary. First picture is that day, 2nd picture is the honeymoon (, the real me not all glamour) and 3rd picture is yesterday. Gastric Sleeve July 3rd and lost 47 lbs. Happy Friday!!! You'll look amazing!!!

The 30th is my 1 year wedding anniversary. First picture is that day, 2nd picture is the honeymoon (, the real me not all glamour) and 3rd picture is yesterday. Gastric Sleeve July 3rd and lost 47 lbs. Happy Friday!!! You'll look amazing!!!

The 30th is my 1 year wedding anniversary. First picture is that day, 2nd picture is the honeymoon (, the real me not all glamour) and 3rd picture is yesterday. Gastric Sleeve July 3rd and lost 47 lbs. Happy Friday!!! You'll look amazing!!!

I’m only 11 weeks post op now. I still don’t see too much of a difference but I’m down 57 lbs (32 since surgery). The left pic is the day of surgery, the right was yesterday (before putting on my makeup). I guess I have a neck and more defined cheekbones now, lol. You all look awesome

Being afraid is 100% natural. But the sleeve's mortality rate for "on the table" issues is amazingly low. In fact, ALL of the WLS now have super low "on the table" mortality rates. The numbers you might be looking at or hearing are usually skewed by old numbers, the surgeries have all advanced quite a lot even in the past 10 years.

As far as getting "too fat"... we all understand. It's not 100% your fault either and you shouldn't shoulder all the blame. It's a battlefield out there, horrible easy to access foods are all over. Advertising bombards our subconscious mind at every turn.

Let the past be the past. Stop dwelling on it and start moving forwards. The road ahead is going to need your undivided attention. You can't change the past, but you can control your future. So leave the past where it belongs, behind you. Now you get to start working on where you are going now.

Congrats on deciding to take back control of your life. The path laid out ahead of you is tough, and is going to require major changes to so much of your typical daily routine. It's going to get emotional. It's going to get stressful, it's going to be painful, it's going to be very hard. But. It's very worth it!

Remember, you are stronger than you give yourself credit for, be ready, post-op is an amazing journey!

This is my first "meal" since surgery, day one of phase 3. One egg scrambled with one teaspoon of whole milk, a sprinkle of black pepper and paprika and 1/4 of banana. Unfortunately this is the post pic as I forgot to take a pre pic but gotta tell you it was not that much larger. I only had about 4 SMALL bites of the egg and started getting that good old feeling right at my sternum area. The 4 bites were over a period of about 10-15 minutes. Very odd feeling to eat such a small amount and have a full belly. This is going to be weird getting used to.