Catherine Wible

And you thought you was going to quietly slip by... NOPE
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That is so great! You have really killed it this year, cheers to you!!!!! 🍸
I hope you take a moment to really let it soak in how far you have come. You deserve it!

WOW YOU ARE ROCKING IT GIRL GOOD JOB KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK !!!!!!!!!!!

Yay you! Congrats on a great year!!! We need to see B/A's and to read your 1 year write-up. 🍾

It's been a great year, and I wouldn't trade it for anything! Down a total of 221 pounds!!

Yeah, I have one every now and then, when I drink alcohol, but I can't drink much because they end up hurting my belly. You're fairly fresh from surgery, if I'm remembering correctly, so I would hold off another 6+ months if I were you.

I was told the same as MIKE P. No carbonated beverages.

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I was told no carbonated drinks after surgery. Not going there at all

^^^This. Not often on carbonation. Doesn't make me feel real swell even at 13 months.

We all make our own choices. Check your plan.
Your surgery restriction is tight right out from surgery. It's going to be hard enough to consume your Protein goal. My dieticians’ instructions are no soda in weight loss mode.
Years out, yes, I have a carbonated beverage occasionally. I really don’t do soda as a norm and I don't miss it.

Okay so I hit a stall on on day 12 after losing 23 pounds and once it lasted 3 days I decided that I CANNOT be a slave to the scale.
It hasn’t been long enough since surgery for me to feel like I can handle the mental roller coaster the scale provides.
So this is what I worked out I was gonna do: Find a pair of pants that you are close to fitting in, but that don’t fit yet.
Try them on every day until you CAN fit in them.
Then and only then do you weigh yourself.
I had my husband hide the scale and promise not to tell me where it was until I can fit into those pants.
I haven’t weighed myself in 3 mornings now and I feel better about it.

I’m in both camps and it will be situational.

First, I kinda had to tell my coworkers because of so many reasons, most center around the fact that we work in such a fast-paced closed environment that it would flat out be impossible to explain change in eating and drinking habits.
Also, I knew I would need their support and help for the self-care I would need moving forward.
Im a chain-retail pharmacist and we typically work 10-14 hour shifts with zero breaks for either food or bathroom and are going 100mph the whole time we are there. They needed to know that for at least a few months I was gonna need to tone that back a bit.
To have something like WLS and not tell them would be unfathomable because now I actually HAVE to try to eat and drink with some kind of regularity. In the past, we would all purposely dehydrate ourselves so we could get through a whole day without having to go to the bathroom.
That had to change.

Second, as a health care professional, it’s going to be difficult to flat out lie to my patients once they start asking questions. I mean, don’t I owe it to people to try to get on the path to better health by explaining the pros and cons of WLS?
Now that’s not to say that every jerk that comes through deserves to know: only those who could benefit from the knowledge or who I’ve built a relationship with throughout the years.
Besides, you never know when someone I’m helping could be either contemplating WLS or maybe just had WLS and if there is ANY chance I can help them with anything, it’s my professional duty to help.
I’m also a cancer survivor and I make sure that every patient I come across that has been newly diagnosed knows I’ve “been there, done that” and that I’m available to answer any questions or concerns that they have.
Surely I will need to carry that over to WLS and counsel people if I get the chance.

Now I do have many casual friends that have zero business knowing my business and if any of those people start to say something to me, I’m gonna tell them that I’m doing IF.
LOL, technically that’s what WLS surgery naturally does to you anyway so it’s not technically a lie.

I’ve not been secretive. Maybe I’m just at an age where I don’t care what people think of me? In fact, today, while conversing with someone who dibsed a bag of clothes I have shrunk out of, I mentioned that I’m about ready to have bariatric surgery, so there will be more clothes if she wants them. I have a great wardrobe and I want it to be able to be enjoyed. Anyway, she said that she’s lost 100 lbs so far, but is going the way of diet and exercise rather than surgery - as if diet and exercise isn’t a major part of losing with wls. I could have been offended, but instead just said that I’ve decided to add this extra tool with the diet and exercise that I’m employing. She clearly was just ignorant.
Chances are that she will regain, like I have previously and the vast majority of people who lose without surgery do. I hope she succeeds, but the odds aren’t in her favor. I refuse to pretend that the statistics are less grim than they are. That’s not a myth that I’m going to propagate.
However, I’m emotionally in a place where someone saying I’m taking the easy way doesn’t bother me. They don’t have a clue what they are talking about. 15 years ago it would have had an emotional impact, but not now. This whole wls surgery stuff is tough enough without having to deal with other people’s ignorant bs. I totally respect those who choose not to by keeping it to themselves.

Good for you my dilemma is my parents told almost all my family and every time a friend texts me I tell her I feel so dumb but oh well I just hope they don’t keep asking me about it I feel like it’s No ones dam business

I think it's a personal choice. I get offensive because people automatically assume people have weight loss surgery because (and I quote this because it was said to me )" people are just lazy and don't exercise". Completely untrue. Steroid use left me unable to lose weight (chronic use for a medical condition) no matter how many calories I cut, how much i worked out, I couldn't get it off. It took me a year to consider my PCP advice to think about weight loss surgery. Afterwards, i decided that I was taking a break from treatments and specialist, I would continue to see my cardiologist, but I needed a break from my pulmonary doctor and oncologist. If my pcp thinks I need to follow up with them then I'll do so. As of right now, all my labs and scans are stable. And I contribute that to the weight loss, and able to get off medication that was probably damaging my body. I'm open about my journey. Considering that I lost a ton of weight fast, they were either going to come to the conclusion it was surgery or cancer. I'd rather explain the sleeve, then my medical history lol- it's pretty complicated. And I work in the field.

I feel torn on the just tell the truth debate.
Most people would generally agree that you *shouldn't* ask certain questions or at least know your audience.
Some people disregard this in favor of shock value to disorient the person into giving a knee jerk honest answer... Interrogation. Unless someone is suspected of wrongdoings why use this method?
I have noticed that people who truly care or are inquisitive for positive/personal reasons tend to take more subtle or careful approach. Maybe empathy is partially in play instead of the Sherlock complex.
This is how I have decided who i tell when asked. I've lied to close associates and told the complete truth to strangers.
Zero Fs given.

I told the people that I felt comfortable knowing prior to the surgery and they were very supportive and seeing my results others have followed me down the surgery path, as far as others go when asked how I've lost so much weight I tell them diet and exercise which is not a lie, the surgery doesn't make me get up at 5:00am every morning to go to the gym and the surgery may restrict how much I can eat but it doesn't do the shopping for me.

It’s your story to tell or not. Don’t feel guilty about managing your life your way!

I would think it depends on if you had laproscpic surgery or conventional surgery, and how tight the garment is. I had laproscpic surgery on February 19th and I put on my spanks one week later. I was very comfortable, but they aren't overly restrictive.

I'm so excited!
I'm about 12 weeks post-op gastric sleeve and I was worried about my pre-planned two week cruise and how I would manage to eat and stay on the right track. I was so good! I didn't eat a single dessert or Pasta or pizza. I had a cheese omelette every morning for Breakfast, salmon for dinner every night and various things for lunch but all making good choices.
I just got back late last night and weighed this morning and I lost 2.5 pounds during my two-week cruise! Hooray! I exercised in the pool every morning and did lots of walking and stayed hydrated.
I'm just so excited that I made good choices around all that ton of food on the cruise ship and still ended up losing weight! Hooray! Yippee!
Here's a photo of me from the cruise - I've lost 25 pounds since surgery 12/11/18.

Outlinedspider, no the egg drop Soup I get is only scrambled eggs in thickened chicken broth. it still needs to be pureed, but it doesn't really affect the flavor or the consistency.

Congrats on getting to goal.
Maintenance takes time to settle into. Sounds like you are getting your weight to slow/stop by adding the calories and carbs ratios you need.
First year out, was an adjustment for me. I’m almost 5 years and life is normal.

Mine slowed down when they inserted my PICC line November 29th, probably lost some of my Golden Weight Loss Time. Well the line got pulled out last Tuesday February 26th, was some concern I might have developed an infection there that was going to go systemic. I had gotten pneumonia and swollen right shoulder joint within a week previous. Had to have shoulder joint drained so three areas at once? Spooky how sick I suddenly got, 3 things being cultured , let's see what the reports say. And now I am trying hard on taking food p.o. once again, hard when you have Food Apathy, nothing sounds good, few things taste good, and honestly I have no real desire to eat I knew Food would stop being joy and completion to my spirit, but now it doesn't even feel like fuel, about as appealing as mud! 😰😧😬

If I ate the way I eat now I could have lost weight without the sleeve too . . . But suffered from flat out hunger. Some background. I’m 57. At my highest weight, I have been in the 320# range several times. I started medical weight loss in my 30’s. Got down to 250 with Ally. Regained and ended up with band. I easily dropped to the 220’s and stayed there effortlessly for years. Then slip, esophageal dilation, etc and band was removed. Back up to the 300’s.

I attempted more medical weightloss. Several types of Rx and dietician visits.

My basic problem has always been hunger. Ravenous. Then I had to eat a lot to be satisfied. Ok - there’s a chocolate and cheese issue too.

My hunger is much more manageable since the surgery. I take a reasonable serving now and pay much more attention to recognize when I’ve had enough. I have tweaked meals to help me stay full. I tried scrambled eggs with chicken Breakfast sausage and some cheese. Delish but I was starving at 3 hours. I added some bread and it bought me 60-90 minutes before I became hungry.

I started doing Noom this January which is helping me with my relationship with food. It has gotten me out of that “I’m a failure” mode if I don’t eat perfectly. My eating focus has strongly shifted from “don’t eat this” to “what healthy food can I eat that tastes great “. I choose to drink my wine, go out to dinner, entertain, Celebrate birthdays, etc knowing full well this will slow my weight loss. But I’m not going to wait to enjoy living.

Also, I spent some time researching metabolism and weightloss. The research that showed the biggest loser contestants wrecked their metabolisms and have regained the weight scared me. I love exercise. But I have not gone full throttle on exercise. (And 50 hour work weeks don’t help.). I’m not doing punishing 60 minute interval treadmill workouts this time around. 30 minute enjoyable DVDs (Jessica Smith are my favorites) and a dog walk are just fine.

I’m also not focused on a weight or size goal (though onederland sounds great). If my body is able to live the life I want to live, all is good.

Best wishes on your journey!

Excellent quote!!! I love it