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I wish you luck on your journey! I had my surgery back in August of 2009, and this has been one of the best things I've ever done. Please let us know if you have any questions and keep us posted on how you're doing.

Are you exercising a lot? I find that when I'm doing a lot of exercise I tend to eat more. If you feel that you are snacking too much, maybe try to eliminate carbs?? I'd definitely follow Tiff's suggestion and keep a food diary (either on a free site or paper) to get an idea of how you could change things up. On a side note, around 3 or 4 months out, I noticed a much slower weight loss, but I still continued to lose. Based on what I read, I seem to eat a bit more than many. Good luck!

I got cleared at 4 weeks out. He said to listen to my body regarding abdominal work and weights.

That's remarkable. Congratulations on your loss!!!

WOW!!! You are totally rocking your sleeve! Congratulations...I'm soooooooooo happy for you!!!!!!!!!!!!

Glad the hunger went away for you and all the success you've had with the sleeve. Good luck with the last 5 pounds!

Wonderful news! I wish you continued success!!!

It's very flattering on you!

My major problems have been mental. I had never suffered from depression in my life, but at around 6 months out I was having a lot of emotional difficulties and went on an anti-depressant around 7/8 months out. I'm assuming the sleeve, rapid weight loss, played some role, but I also had many other things going on in my life at the time too (death of my grandmother, infertility issues creeping back in, etc.), so who's to say. Medically, I have low blood pressure issues, which I've always had, I'm just about 4-6 points lower now, and Vitamin D deficient, which I was pre-op as well. Good luck with your revision! I am so happy and grateful I had this procedure.

I agree with Tiff, contact your surgeon. You can definitely walk now though...maybe that would help a little with how you're feeling?? I began walking, like most, in the hospital and continued daily (or multiple times a day) from the time I got home. I started working up a really good sweat eventually. Even now I try to exercise daily and sometimes it's just with a pretty brisk walk, and I'm in pretty decent shape, but can still get in an okay workout from it. Good luck!

Great job! I remember my lack of energy (especially by the afternoons) was one of the hardest parts as an early pre-op, but started to get a lot better by 4 weeks out and I believe was pretty much back to normal around 6 or so weeks.

Congratulations on your great loss!

Finally had my blood work done this past week (had the order for the last 2 months, but I really hate needles) and the surgeon called to go over my results. I thought things would be much worse because I haven't been as good about taking my vitamins for the last month or so, but all my levels were normal except for Vitamin D. Last time (November 09) my iron was a little low, bad cholesterol was high, vitamin d was high, and b12 was high. Now my vitamin d was too low (22), but still higher than last summer (18) before surgery. As of today, I am recommitting to taking my vitamins daily. Still love this tool and am continue to happily maintain between 138-140 lbs.

Welcome to VST Dimitrios! You are so close and will soon be on the loser's bench with many of us here. You'll be in my thoughts in a few hours and be sure to update us when you feel up to it.

I can relate. I've done many closet/drawer clean-outs throughout my weight loss journey. I began in 22/24 and got rid of things as I started to go down in size. I told myself I'd hang onto anything size 12 and smaller, but just this weekend I decided that I needed to clean out my 12's too. I have a pregnant friend who is an 8/10 normally and I told her I'd bring my 12's next week so she could have them instead of buying maternity clothes. I NEVER thought I'd be at a place where I'd get rid of this size because it's too big:-) Good luck with your yard sale!!!

That's excellent news!

Welcome to VST Will! I wish you luck with your journey. Please don't be shy and feel free to ask anything that comes to mind regarding this procedure. Lot's of knowledgeable people here.

I pretty much exercised regularly since having the vsg. Started walking everyday from surgery and built up to about 3 miles before I started Jazzercise and tap class at a month post-op. I had short little stalls here and there, but I also wasn't as compliant with the post-op diet as others. I low-carbed (around 30 grams or less) it for 3 months, but did not always get my Protein in. At around 3 months I was over half way to my goal and decided to try and lose the rest the way I wanted to maintain. For me this included exercising 5-7 days per week and not tracking carbs. (I felt that I would burn them off with the exercise:-) I did notice that the couple of weeks I couldn't exercise as regularly (due to snow, illness, etc.) I seemed to have bigger losses than those weeks with lots of exercise. Don't know why this was...could have just been a change up to my routine that allowed me to drop fast. So I guess what I'm saying with all this rambling is that I don't think exercise was crucial for weight with the vsg, but I do think it was important for allowing me to lose it the way I wanted to (carbs and all).

That's great news! But you're making me so jealous with all the talk of Seattle. I find that exercise is so much easier the less you weigh and it's pretty fun if you find something you enjoy. Good luck on hitting the gym soon. Let us know how it goes.

At 4 weeks out I was able to resume a normal exercise routine, but was cautioned to listen to my body. I started with pretty low intensity aerobic activity (higher intensity than swift walking though) and light weights, but felt just fine. Good luck!

Thank you for the update. So glad you're doing well. Yes, I agree with Tiff, you must come back and share with us!

Congratulations!!! You'll be at goal before you know it:-)

Excellent news Rob!

It's a law here that we cannot start until after Labor Day. There's a really big tourism lobby that argues it's for the good of the economy. That also means that I won't be heading back until August 30, but I'd rather start earlier and get out earlier...my students feel (and act like) it's the end of the year now and we still have one more unit I'm determined to get done:-)

Congratulations Jenn! Thank you for sharing and I totally agree that our journey doesn't end when we meet (or exceed) our goals. I think you have done fabulous and glad you're out enjoying life!!!