thesuse2000

10 months out! Down 115 1st pic February 2nd August 3rd today #onewayjourney

Loving the new me I haven't been up here in a while but I just wanted to show how the Gastric Sleeve worked for me and loving every bit of it

Great - I will try to make it!

I'm ready!
Start weight: 179
Goal weight: 168

You look fantastic! Thanks for sharing your pics and experience with us.

I had to put my English Pointer to sleep last September. Her name was Belle and she was just 1 week shy of her 13th birthday. Even though I have another Pointer, Abraham, its been very sad and lonely without her. I volunteer at the local animal shelter, and have been watching an Australian shepherd mix for the last few weeks. I finally broke down and brought him home for a weekend sleepover. Of course it only took 24 hours to decide to keep him, so everyone, meet Isaac.....
(The second collage is Belle...still miss my sweet girl)
 

Final weigh in - back up to 180...
That's a 3 pound gain and a big bummer, but not unexpected after a couple weeks of travel, family stress and a little too much holiday fun. Home now and getting back on track!

Thank you Susan for continuing with these challenges! It's so helpful. I really need to jump into the next one after my holiday regain! I'll come back Monday to post start and goal weights. Hoping to be down a little by then...

I'm not done yet - but feeling good!
 

Well not really ran, but I never would have made the train 20 lbs ago!! I wouldn't have even tried.

I brought my mac to a repair place this weekend (Tekserve, for any NYC-based mac users out there) and you always have to wait at least a half hour to speak with someone and the chairs are kind of strange and small. When I walked in and saw how far my number was from being called and then looked at the seats and remembered not fitting into them in the past, I had a momentary panic that I'd have to stand awkwardly in the limited standing space, before realizing - hey, I probably fit in these chairs now - and I did! Total NSV!

I brought my mac to a repair place this weekend (Tekserve, for any NYC-based mac users out there) and you always have to wait at least a half hour to speak with someone and the chairs are kind of strange and small. When I walked in and saw how far my number was from being called and then looked at the seats and remembered not fitting into them in the past, I had a momentary panic that I'd have to stand awkwardly in the limited standing space, before realizing - hey, I probably fit in these chairs now - and I did! Total NSV!

Some ups and downs this week, but netted out the same - 177.
Happy holidays all!

I'm not done yet - but feeling good!
 

weigh in for Friday 12/12 was....(drum roll...) 345!!!! whoot whoot I am so close to saying good bye to the 300's that I could just cry!!!!

I'm almost 2 years out from surgery and hit my first goal of 185 a year ago. I've been bouncing around 185 for a year and trying everything I could to get in the 170s to my final goal of 173. I thought my body just wanted to be 185 and there was nothing I could do to change that (I'm 5'10"ish). Even with plastic surgery, I didn't lose anything... well, I lost 4 pounds of skin and tissue, but got breast implants and a butt flap implant, so I think the difference was about 0.
Well... the scale is finally moving!! I've gone back to the basics of what I was eating about a month or so out of surgery and doing high intensity interval training 3 times a week. I also had a stomach virus that helped take off the first few pounds. Today I'm 179!!! Going to push really hard to try to make it to 175 by Christmas.
I'm also losing out of all my size 12 jeans and large tops are looking kinda baggy. I love my sleeve!

Well here's their official "under 200 calories" drink list..... (The carbs can be found if you check the nutritional info for each individual drink)
Caramel Frappuccino® Light Blended Beverage. 100
coffee Frappuccino® Blended Beverage 180
Teavana® Shaken Iced Passion Tango™ Tea 0
Shaken Tazo® Iced Black Tea Lemonade 100
Nonfat Iced Vanilla Latte 120
Nonfat Iced Caramel Macchiato 140
Iced coffee (with classic syrup) 60
Iced Skinny Latte 70
Brewed Coffee 5
Brewed Tea 0
Nonfat Green Tea Latte 210
Nonfat Cappuccino 60
Nonfat Caffè Latte 100
Nonfat Caramel Macchiato 140
Soy Chai Tea Latte 180
Nonfat Caffè Mocha – hold the whip 170
Skinny Vanilla Latte 100
Steamed Apple juice 170
Caffè Americano 10
All suggestions based on a Tall serving (12 fl oz / 355 ml).

Oh and another one!!

Surgery date july 1 st 2014 highest 265 current 193 72 down!! Happiest ive been in many many years! new year new me

Before pic is me at 280. Surgery was 7/23/14. Took the after picture a few weeks ago at 220. I am now at 213

This is my first time posting pictures although I do have before and after photos in my gallery. I really don't know how to post pics. Hopefully the pictures come out right.
I was sleeved on 4/8/14. I am currently 8 months post op. I still have about 20 pounds more to lose until I reach my goal weight. The top photo of me in the black and pink dress was taken on 12/5/14 weighing 144lbs (my current weight). The other two photos are during the process, I believe sometime in July 2014. The bottom photo is from Nov 2013 when I weighed 219lbs. My highest recorded weight is 235lbs but when I began my weight loss journey in Sept 2013 my highest weight was 219lbs.

Hi all. The thread is quiet because we haven't had a support group meeting in a while. Apologies for that but it seems that life tends to get in the way. Lisa and I have been working behind the scenes though to come up with topics and venues and we hope to have information on the next get together shortly. Thanks for all your patience and please feel free to suggest venues local for you and topics you are interested in.
I think it might be worth investigating using this thread as a virtual venue between actual face to face meetings. I'll surely discuss it with Lisa and we'll keep you posted.

I had lost a lot of weight in the past (though gained it all back quickly & more) so I had to deal with a lot of very inappropriate comments about my weight loss and it always unsettled me. I hated my weight loss (and regain) always being the topic of the day wherever I went! So, this time, in doing the emotional prep work for this surgery, I've already come up with a response that I think will defuse some of the unsolicited & unwanted comments. If anyone goes beyond a nice simple, "wow, you look great". and starts in asking things like "how much has you lost?", or commenting on how fat I was before, etc, I will just smile sweetly and say "I am bored talking about my body, let's talk about yours now!" I figure that will stop things pretty fast. :-)

cw 247.4
I just want to thank all the people that post weight gain. It shows that weigh gain or stalls do happen. I had no weight loss last week. Took a look at what i have be doing.... lack of exercise. Started walking and went to the gym. This week I'm down 5 pound. I'm now under 250. My doctors goal is 225, only 23 more pound. My goal is 190...would like to see my BMI under 30.

I made my surgeon's goal this week. I'm currently at 135. I am so excited I want to stop strangers on the street and tell them.
I had set my Holiday Challenge goal a few pounds higher than my ultimate goal because I was afraid of failure. No more of that -- I would like to revise my challenge goal to 133. I might not make it because of my recent weight loss, but I'm going to work for it!