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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

I'm officially a member of this board. Surgery this morning. Tummy pretty sore, of course. I get sick when they give me morphine. Other than that a good end to the day. I did walk around the hospital floor 5 times. Suppose to help with nasty gas. Hopefully tomorrow I'll be feeling better. Thanks for the encouragement on this board.

I'm officially a member of this board. Surgery this morning. Tummy pretty sore, of course. I get sick when they give me morphine. Other than that a good end to the day. I did walk around the hospital floor 5 times. Suppose to help with nasty gas. Hopefully tomorrow I'll be feeling better. Thanks for the encouragement on this board.

Good luck today. Love your outfit choice!!

Good luck today. Love your outfit choice!!

Thank you @Frust8 love reading your posts. Sept 5th will be here soon!

Good luck today. Love your outfit choice!!

I'm using this weekend to slowly slide into my pre-op diet. So I weighed this morning to get my official starting weight. My OCD side is loving the perfectness of this number.

Happy belated birthday!

Glad to hear You are still going pretty strong, Happy Belated Birthday🍰, there you go, a virtual cake to Celebrate. May this be the last heavy birthday and may your years be slender fro,now on!

Hello all, I'm 18 days post op. Had my 2 week post op appointment and they're so happy with my progress. Lost 20 lbs and on soft foods for next 6 weeks. Been walking a lot which I think has help. Finding myself with more energy. Did have one issue, where I thought I had pulled a muscle getting out of car, but found out it was an internal stitch. It's getting better though. Abdominal Binders are amazing!!! Think I've hit that wonderful stall, which is ok. Let's my body adjust to the traumatic differences I put it through. I'm off one of my insulin (Humalog) and only taking 17 units of Lantus ( down from 110). A1C down from 7.6 to 6.7 in two months. I'm so very pleased with that.

The incision where they took my stomach out of, just above it really hurt. I noticed it getting out of my Jeep. Called the doctor's office, they thought I had pulled a muscle. A week later I went in to see my surgeon and check it out and told me he had place a stitch there and it looks like I tore it, but there were other stiches, so I should be fine. Told me to take Alieve (big no no after bariatric surgery) to help with the pain. Plus I got an abdominal binder. I'm off the Alieve and it seems to be almost healed (doesn't hurt like it did)

So happy to see my name on the list @Ylime I have my silver fork and now my golden keys.

Just an update: I'm 4 weeks post op and feeling great. Had some bumps in the road but I'm pushing forward. The torn internal stitch seems to be healing, still a little sore BUT I'm sleeping in my bed!!! I'm on soft foods until end of August. It's going good. Amazing how small my serving size is and it's true, the tummy has a mind of its own and will let you know. One little thing, one of my incisions isn't healing so keeping an eye on that. I've also got that glorious stall (sarcasm is dripping) Honestly don't know what causes this, but on the plus side I'm still losing inches. On a final note I just celebrated my 50th birthday on July 30th. I was so good! Stayed true to myself and the new me!! 

Good luck to those with upcoming surgeries.

So happy to see my name on the list @Ylime I have my silver fork and now my golden keys.

Just an update: I'm 4 weeks post op and feeling great. Had some bumps in the road but I'm pushing forward. The torn internal stitch seems to be healing, still a little sore BUT I'm sleeping in my bed!!! I'm on soft foods until end of August. It's going good. Amazing how small my serving size is and it's true, the tummy has a mind of its own and will let you know. One little thing, one of my incisions isn't healing so keeping an eye on that. I've also got that glorious stall (sarcasm is dripping) Honestly don't know what causes this, but on the plus side I'm still losing inches. On a final note I just celebrated my 50th birthday on July 30th. I was so good! Stayed true to myself and the new me!! 

Good luck to those with upcoming surgeries.

The incision where they took my stomach out of, just above it really hurt. I noticed it getting out of my Jeep. Called the doctor's office, they thought I had pulled a muscle. A week later I went in to see my surgeon and check it out and told me he had place a stitch there and it looks like I tore it, but there were other stiches, so I should be fine. Told me to take Alieve (big no no after bariatric surgery) to help with the pain. Plus I got an abdominal binder. I'm off the Alieve and it seems to be almost healed (doesn't hurt like it did)

So happy to see my name on the list @Ylime I have my silver fork and now my golden keys.

Just an update: I'm 4 weeks post op and feeling great. Had some bumps in the road but I'm pushing forward. The torn internal stitch seems to be healing, still a little sore BUT I'm sleeping in my bed!!! I'm on soft foods until end of August. It's going good. Amazing how small my serving size is and it's true, the tummy has a mind of its own and will let you know. One little thing, one of my incisions isn't healing so keeping an eye on that. I've also got that glorious stall (sarcasm is dripping) Honestly don't know what causes this, but on the plus side I'm still losing inches. On a final note I just celebrated my 50th birthday on July 30th. I was so good! Stayed true to myself and the new me!! 

Good luck to those with upcoming surgeries.

I did!!! I'm scheduled for August 28th!

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!