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I really does matter how much you have to lose but I don't think age has anything to do with it. I too wish I would have done something sooner! At my age now the skin doesn't go away as easy! GOOD LUCK on your JOURNEY!!! We are HERE if you need advise or just need to VENT!!!

AWESOME NEWS!!!! I'm EXCITED FOR YOU!!!!

WOW that is WONDERFUL!!! GOOD JOB!!! THANKS FOR SHARING!!!

GOOD JOB isn't it a WONDERFUL FEELING!!!!! KEEP IT UP!!!!

Every day gets BETTER!!! Remember to SIP SIP SIP and MAKE sure you WALK!!!

This is the BEST THING I've EVER DONE FOR MYSELF!!! NOT my husband, NOT my daughters, for ONCE I thought about MYSELF!!!! Hands down this SAVED MY LIFE!!! I'm 8 weeks out today and have lost 50 pounds! My family didn't want me to have the surgery either but I did it anyway and now they are SHOCKED at the change!! Not ONLY my weight but my attitude! I FINALLY had to sit my youngest daughter and husband DOWN and told them IF THEY DON"T HAVE ANYTHING POSITIVE TO SAY THEN DON'T SAY NOTHING AT ALL!!! I NEED SUPPORT NOT NEGATIVE FEELINGS!!! It was an EMOTIONAL ROLLER COASTER and I needed HELP!! This website was my LIFE LINE!!! They HELPED ME LIKE NO OTHER!!! You can ask ANY QUESTIONS YOU HAVE, ANY FEARS YOU HAVE, and NO ONE JUDGES YOU!!! GOD also played a HUGH ROLL. I prayed and prayed about it and he was with me every set of the way!!! I was up and walking down the hall 3 hours after surgery!!!

I was getting to a point I would come home eat and go to bed with a bottle of wine! Now what kind of life was that!! Now I come home and eat a bite...can't eat more then that LOL...then go work out! I FEEL GREAT!!!!

Your wife is the one being selfish but she will come around! You NEED to get healthy for your family. Everyone is scared of change and TRUST ME once she sees the change in you she will want the same. Everyone just has to hit ROCK BOTTOM first! It sounds like you did and you are ready to BETTER your LIFE!!!

GOOD luck and HANG IN THERE!!!

Good Job Kim!! I'm sure you were sore from being out and about. The same thing happened to me and I was scared but someone told me on the website it was because I was moving around more.

Keep up the good work!!!

AWESOME you will LOVE the SLEEVE!!!

I would put Miralax in my drink....any drink is fine. It really helps and has no taste! GREAT job on the weight loss!!!

thinoneday .....THANK YOU SO MUCH you are SO SO SO SO RIGHT!!!!! I've been eating between meal...like a cheese stick or two and then yogurt or pudding in the afternoon. The thing is I'm NOT REALLY HUNGRY I just THINK I need it! I am going to try to BUCKLE down and do EXACTLY what the NUT told me NO IN BETWEEN MEALS!!! Maybe it will come off faster during my HONEYMOON stage. OLD HABITS are SO HARD to break!!!

Chilo1 I sure hope this helps you too! I will keep you in my prayers that we can OVER COME this food DEMON!!!

Thinoneday I found it....I hope you don't mind me posting it for Chilo1

From: THINONEDAY

I can so relate to what your saying and it's not fun. . .unfortunately we are given this sleeve as a tool only, what we do with it is our decision. . . since last october i've fallen off the wagon pretty badly and gained quite a bit of weight (not tons but enough to shock me) and i had to think about what it was that i had been doing wrong. . . i found that i've come under A LOT of stress both at home and at work. . . so being a emotional eater, guess what????? I was eating all the time not realizing what I was doing. . . it didn't seem like much at those times, heck a small bag of pretzels here and small bag of licorice there. . . Pork rinds EVERYDAY up to 2 bags of them, lots of alcohol, going out to eat more often. . . you get the picture. . . well i would weigh myself and couldn't understand why the heck was i not moving off the same weight i was on for the past few months so I stopped weighing myself as well. . .(oh and to mention I stopped exercising too) well then here at the end of february I got up onto the scale after not being weighed for a few weeks and oh my god I thought i was going to die, have a stroke, or both but I had gained soooooooooo much weight (25lbs, no the scale was not wrong). . . but how was that possible? Well it is and it will happen to all of us if we don't get a handle onto it. . . the sleeve is only a tool it's not a miracle thing that will make us loose weight we are the ones who have to work with it in order to loose the weight. . . well i got back to basics (and let me tell you it's extremely hard now) but since i have i've lost 4 lbs in 3 days, i will continue to eat Proteins first and ONLY 3 meals a day without Snacks like it was recommended by my nut back in the beginning. . . This is a big set back for me, I was soooooo close to my goal and now have to work 2x as hard to get there but i will get there. . . I didn't spend $15,000.00 of my hard earned money to regain my weight!

So I hope that this story helps you out a bit, maybe scares you a bit, but it's true and very real. . I'm living through it now and was really embarrassed to talk about it, but the best therapy is to realize what is happening and get it out into the open . . . so here I am telling you to be really careful. . . don't sabatoge yourself. . it's a lot harder if you do. . . good luck to you and to EVERYONE here. . . .

Girl you are NOT alone!!! The "food DEMON" is HELL!! I'm 7 weeks out and can eat pretty much ANYTHING and not get sick....which is BAD!!! Well I haven't tried Sweets and I'm NOT going too because I'm SCARED they will do just fine too! I SO HOPED that when I got sleeved I would get sick from the food and not go back to my old habits. I mean THANK GOD I can't eat as much!!! chips has ALWAYS been my WEAKNESS. SO I bought pork rids but I ate too many of them so I stopped buying them. Found Baked Cheetos ...just had to have my CRUNCH! I just HATED MYSELF afterwards...How can I be SO STUPID!!

Sorry just venting!!!! I hope someone out there can give us some advise!!!

You have GOT To get up an MOVE AROUND!!! SIP SIP SIP Come on you got the HARD part over with...EVERYDAY will get BETTER and BETTER!!! I did a heating pad every night but I did SIP as much as I can...that is a SIP not a GULP but a SIP very small amount. In a few days you are going to see how much better you feel and the more Water you get down the BETTER you are going to feel!! WALKING around helps too because you have a lot of gas right now....this causes a LOT of pain!

I PROMISE you one day SOON you will wake up and say WOW I FEEL GREAT!!!! Good luck and HANG IN THERE!!!!

Way to GO!! Hey just getting out of our old routine is a NSV!!! GOOD JOB!!!

Yes for the first few weeks you have to do the sips and do it often! It will get better around your 5th or 6th week! Everyday gets better!!!

GOOD LUCK!!!

I UNDERSTAND the NIGHT TIME EATING!! I do SO GOOD during the day but at night I want food. I'm 7 weeks today so it's NOT that I'm hungry it's just what I did before surgery. I'm a CHIP eater so I bought some baked pork rids but then I could eat a whole bag in one day...so stopped buying those. I'm CRAVING WINE and Tiff I LOVE LOVE LOVE Moscato..in fact purchased a bottle for my Sister in law to try and had to have a sip! mmmmm Was thinking about it ALL NIGHT last night but I know I CAN'T have it yet!!!

So I went to BED and got on my laptop and got out on the CHAT line on this website. We had a good chat last night! LOL

If ANYONE can tell me how to control my HEAD CRAVINGS I would LOVE IT!!!

I'm SO GLAD I'm not the only one wanting some wine but I will wait....I'm only out 7 weeks and today I got this from my Prevention Mag email....Skip the second cocktail. When you have a drink, you burn less fat, and more slowly than usual, because the alcohol is used as fuel instead. Knocking back the equivalent of about two martinis can reduce your body's fat-burning ability by up to 73%.

After I read this I thought CRAP, no wonder I gained so much weight before my surgery. LOL Just thought I would share!

Well put Tiff and Julie!!

This really isn't the easy way out I had to do a LOT of SOUL searching first to even HAVE the surgery. If I wouldn't of had the surgery I would have DIED at a YOUNG age...per my Doctor!!!! So for me it was the BEST THING I ever DID for myself!

You are SO RIGHT about things I LOVED to eat before don't taste good now. I tried BEEF for the first time in 7 weeks today...had a steak 4 days before surgery! LOL Anyway, I didn't like it....took one bite and I didn't like it! Now I was a HUGH Beef eater before this surgery and I'm sure I will try it again but for now I will stick with my Fish and Chicken!

No quilt here because I'm a MUCH HAPPIER PERSON today then I was 6 weeks ago!!!

I was able to drink broth and eat popsicles and Jello on my TWO WEEK Prediet!!! I did MILK TOO!!! That really helped with the hunger.

If I had to do it over again i would make up some creamy Soup and put them up in 3 oz containers and freeze them ahead of time. I did this afterwards but HAD to go to the store to buy the food and then make it. I now just take a container out and bring it to work for lunch. After surgery I was so weak and you can't lift ANYTHING so it was hard. I found some good Soups just for WLS and they gave me MORE energy then the Protein drinks. Also, I was SO SICK of the Protein Drinks afterwards I couldn't get them down. sugar free Popsicles helped A LOT TOO!

I did a mushroom Soup with some carrots and a broccoli soup with carrots and avocado's....put EVERYTHING in my Magic BULLET and blended it until I call it my MYSTERY food!! LOL sugar free pudding is good too!!!

http://www.bariatriceating.com/BErecipes/

http://theworldaccordingtoeggface.blogspot.com/

Yes my NUT didn't want me to eat between meals but I get hungry too. I do a cheese stick in the morning and yogurt in the afternoon. Just a little bit makes you feel better. I'm 6 weeks out now.

I've NEVER been told this.....but it would have been NICE if they would have. I woke up ONCE when I had Kidney Stones removed and I've NEVER forgot it! Next surgery I told the Doc PLEASE don't let me wake up with the tube...he said YOU REMEMBER THAT and I said YES I will NEVER FORGET THAT FEELING. I only woke up for a SEC and I heard she is awake and then that was it....gone again! LOL

This DID NOT happen to me when I was SLEEVED....didn't even get told it MIGHT happen!

Plus we don't eat much!! I know for me what I'm eating isn't as HEAVY as the food I ate before I was SLEEVED!!! Just my thoughts on it!!

WOW that is FANTASTIC!!!! GOOD JOB!! Keep it up!!!

Don't you DARE let THEM change your mind!!! IF you do THEY WIN!! I too have the in laws from HELL and my HUSBAND is the one that told me not to tell. I didn't listen and HE WAS RIGHT!! My Mother in law was NOT NICE about it at all! Didn't call to wish me luck or anything...in fact she called two days LATER and asked if I was ready for my surgery?...ONLY CALLED because she had something else to say!

I was SO UPSET but my oldest daughter told me, "MOM what will it matter in 5 years!" I'm like what and she said what will it matter in 5 years....what she thinks about me really doesn't matter!!! I did this surgery for MYSELF NOBODY else! I wasn't happy with MYSELF!!!

Your Mother and Father in law are just JEALOUS because you have their BOY!!! You be TRUE to YOURSELF and YOU WILL FEEL BETTER!!!! DON'T let what OTHERS think bring you down!!! My Mother in law WANTS me to fail so it is making me work that much MORE!!! She told me "I can't see you skinny you have a pretty face and ALL fat girls have a pretty face!" YEAH I about LOST IT...WELL I did LOSE IT! She KNEW EXACTLY HOW I FELT!!! LOL

GOOD LUCK and remember we are ALL HERE for you!!!