I can't believe that I can ditch the protein bullets!! It's been a week since surgery and I can have a real protein shake! Sweet!! It may seem strange to crave a protein shake but after a week of choking down the bullets-Wow, I'm ready.

It has been an amazing week. Already, I am waking up feeling much better and energized. No longer depressed about my weight problem, I wake knowing that I have finally done something about it and it is great to be done with binge eating and food hangovers.

Take care all,

Pennie

Pennie~

Congratulations to you! Keep up the good work...

Alright Pennie! You go girl! I'm glad your feeling so well. . . yeah, isn't the sleeve interesting? I mean you literally can't binge or gulp or overstuff or over eat or anything anymore. . . so you might as well just go with the flow, enjoy your new diet and do as your told. . . you'll be amazed how neat this thing is . . . in just 7 short weeks i lost 53 lbs! I nearly fell off the scale when i saw that . . . here is just a tidbit of advice, DONT WEIGH YOURSELF! Really don't do it, i threw my scale out the minute i came home from the hospital. . so without a scale in the house, I can't get depressed because i hit a stall or the weight is going up instead of down. . i just weigh at the doctors office and don't have anything to stress about. . . it's great!

Pennie,

I know what you mean about waking up depressed about weight. For so so many years I woke up telling myself that today is the day I'm changing my life, but by the time I got to the kichen, it all went out of the window. I was just sleeved on 2/5/10 and even though I've lost about 15 pounds already, I don't feel any smaller. People tell me it is probably still bloat from the surgery. I hope so. I want my pants to fall off!

Anyway, now I wake up and am so thankful I have finally done something positive about my weight problem. Today I have had about 1/4 cup grits for Breakfast, 1/4 cup crawfish bisque for lunch ( I work at a private dining club with an awesome chef!) and been sipping on Water or juice, taking my Vitamins and my Prostat 64 and I feel stuffed! Wow! Anxiously waiting to have eggs next week.

Wow, you sound great. My surgery is scheduled to happen in 2 weeks. I know it might be a little rough road to start out with, but reading comments like yours really help. thank you.

thanks,, your message helps to encourage..I have my sleeve surgery in 2 weeks. I had band done 2 years 6 months ago. Did great first year, down hill since. reading all these quotes help..Thank you