Fazzini Bee

298 to 178

Wow! That's some progress!!! I'm stunned! So happy for you!

Thanks for the optimism. I can remember when I first got home from the hospital and basically the first month when I was worried the surgery didn't work. And now I have a fear that any day now I'll be done losing. I'm 30lbs till ultimate goal. And 3 lbs from my "first" goal. I set my goals in increments!

I'm 3 months post op.
My best NSV is that I have been cleaning my Amazon shopping/ wish lists and I was able to take all of the plus sized clothed off of my wish list. I have also been blessed to have cleaned out my closet twice. Now, I'm running out of stuff to wear and am apprehensive about buying more. ❤️

Me at my heaviest 250 and me 3 months PO. I'm 4ft11 and still have a way to go, but I'm feeling proud and happy.

Me at my heaviest 250 and me 3 months PO. I'm 4ft11 and still have a way to go, but I'm feeling proud and happy.

Me at my heaviest 250 and me 3 months PO. I'm 4ft11 and still have a way to go, but I'm feeling proud and happy.

Thanks for the optimism. I can remember when I first got home from the hospital and basically the first month when I was worried the surgery didn't work. And now I have a fear that any day now I'll be done losing. I'm 30lbs till ultimate goal. And 3 lbs from my "first" goal. I set my goals in increments!

Wow! That's some progress!!! I'm stunned! So happy for you!

I'm 3 months post op.
My best NSV is that I have been cleaning my Amazon shopping/ wish lists and I was able to take all of the plus sized clothed off of my wish list. I have also been blessed to have cleaned out my closet twice. Now, I'm running out of stuff to wear and am apprehensive about buying more. ❤️

Went for my 3 month post op check...I am happy to report I am down 42 lbs. I feel great!!!
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I had to take off my wedding rings and bought silicone ones a size smaller. I bought boots that actually go up my calves.


HW: 282.2
SW: 255.4
CW: 226

Mine went down. Way down. Drastically better and improved.

it does weird stuff to your liver values, too (ALT and AST). I had mine tested for some other reason, and they were really high. My doctor said rapid weight loss is really hard on your liver, thus, you get some crazy readings. Mine were back to normal once I was about 18 months out.

I suffered from bad breath for a while. I seriously think that it's ketosis. It really helped when I got a tongue scraper. It seems that with protien shakes and things like that - they really coat your tongue.

So I got my 3 month lab results today and my cholesterol is elevated! The doc said that it could be because of rapid weight loss..has anyone expirenced this?

I bought the black cherry chewable vitamins and they are good too. I'm sticking with the chewables

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I use the PatchMD Patches. I take way too many other pills. The patches are so easy!

I use opurity sleeve and bypass optimized multi and opurity calcium citrate both chewable. They both actually taste good and I do not get nauseous as long as I take the multi with food.
They are both made by Unjury and contain no ingredients from China. Very well priced too.

Funny i just changed my Vitamins today to the bariatric chewables. I'm 5 weeks postop and i started with the Multivitamin pills, they are too large for me to swallow. I have a hard time swallowing medium - large pills. Then i tried the multivitamin crystals, you mix with Water. This took forever to drink. So now I'm trying the chewables. We'll see!!! I think it's important to find the right combo for you. The Patches might work for you too.

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I ordered the Bariatric Pal calcium chews in the caramel flavour and they are so good. I am going to see what other ones they do, because this is really helping me to get my Vitamins in where before I really struggled.

Thanks for your kind words. I definitely need them. I guess I worry because it is lasting so long.

some people lose weight in a stair step fashion (lose some, then stall, lose some, then stall - rinse & repeat). Others don't stall as frequently and have bigger drops between stalls. You may be one of the former. You don't have a lot of control over your pattern of weight loss - the only thing you have control over is whether or not you stick to your plan. So just stick to it - the weight *will* come off. I didn't have a ton of stalls (maybe 3 or 4?), but I was a slow loser from the get-go. I just stuck to my plan throughout the whole weight loss stage. It took awhile, but the weight eventually did come off - all of it!

I had a 10 week stall and thought I was in maintenance even though I thought I was doing everything right, getting in my Protein, exercising, getting in Water, 800 calories/day. Then I started on a "diet" with my husband, sort of like Atkins, and I'm eating MORE calories and the weight is finally dropping again. Maybe I was in starvation mood with too few calories? Bottom line is that stalls are frustrating but inevitable and you can't give up but have to keep following the program.

you're the billionth person to hit that early stall. almost all of us get that. It's called the 3 week stall, but it can happen anywhere within the first 4-6 weeks of surgery. Just stick to your plan and it'll eventually break