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DOWN 52LBS- WHEN DO STOP SEEING YOURSELF AS FAT

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Godsfavoraintfair    3

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People keep telling me how great I look! How good I am doing, but when I look at myself sometimes( not all the time). I still see the old me and I always feel I am loosing to slow! I was sleeved Jan 26, 2011. When I have shared my surgury with some they say, you look great and that I don't look like a WL surgery person and that I must be doing something right. I guess I just want to make sure I keep loosing and to be able to accept my new self!

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DisneyAddict    10

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People keep telling me how great I look! How good I am doing, but when I look at myself sometimes( not all the time). I still see the old me and I always feel I am loosing to slow! I was sleeved Jan 26, 2011. When I have shared my surgury with some they say, you look great and that I don't look like a WL surgery person and that I must be doing something right. I guess I just want to make sure I keep loosing and to be able to accept my new self!

I was sleeved the day before you and we're about the same on the weight loss. I still see the old me as well most of the time but I get a glimpse of someone thinner here & there. Brief glimpses but I do. :)

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iegal    460

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I still struggle with that but I am getting better. Sometimes, I go into the big girl cloth section and select an old size to try on. Just habit.

Sounds like you are doing very well with the sleeve! Congratulations.

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ATLGirl    134

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I am so glad that I am not the only person feeling this way. I do think I am a slow looser but I am okay with that. People don;t ask too many questions and my skin is doing great. I went to visit my undergrad on Friday and all I heard was great things about how I look. I don't see it at all. BUT I will say that I wore some heels this weekend that were AWESOME and my feet did not hurt in 5 mins. 5 hours later was another story...lol.

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pneal    5

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I am so glad that I am not the only person feeling this way. I do think I am a slow looser but I am okay with that. People don;t ask too many questions and my skin is doing great. I went to visit my undergrad on Friday and all I heard was great things about how I look. I don't see it at all. BUT I will say that I wore some heels this weekend that were AWESOME and my feet did not hurt in 5 mins. 5 hours later was another story...lol.

Hey there, I was sleeved on the 21st. of January...1 day after you. I'm only down 40 pounds! YOU ARE DOING GREAT!

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Shan    2

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I had my sleeve on Nov 2, 2010, and I've lost just about 70 pounds now. I've gone from a jean size 20 Lane Bryant to a 8 Old Navy. Yesterday at church I had a lady ask me if I eat anything and told me I look like I'm about to blow away. I still look in the mirror and see myself as pretty darn fat. I have HUGE arm wings and a fat/skin apron on my gut that makes me have a huge bulge in my stomach area no matter what I wear. I don't think I'll ever feel particularly thin until I have surgery and get that excess stuff removed. Won't be doing that until at least the beginning of next year, and even then it will depend on my husband's bonuses. Don't get me wrong...I do feel like I look thinner...but still fat. If that makes any sense at all.

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ToDream    18

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I've lost 60 lbs before (2 years ago... and surprise gained it all back in 5 months ugh) and I had the same problem. People would tell me how great I looked and I just didn't see it. I could see that the size I was wearing was smaller but it just didn't compute in my head. I don't know how long it takes but I know that I have dealt with it before too. It sucks!

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Starry    6

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I went into work today after being out since the 5th of April... many compliments on how great I look.. I've lost 17lbs since surgery but I've lost 44 or so since March 6th but I DON'T see it either.. the only thing I noticed is I can reach my butt LMAO to wipe TMI I know sorry LMAO and I have knee caps like defined knee caps.. LOL But I still do not see a change.. My daughter made me get in a bra and panties and take pics and that just about made me wanna throw up 5 times over those got hidden in a storage drive on our home server never to be seen by ANYONE! But like many.. I don't see it...

My surgeon the wonderful Dr. Sashidar Ganta told me if I don't learn to control that fat demon, I'll never notice the change and I will never believe that I'm actually succeeding.. so I work on it every morning I weigh myself EVERY morning cause I'm anal like that... so I get up weigh and see i've lost a pound or two and I look at the mirror and say WAY TO GO STARR YA LOOK GREAT.. KEEP IT UP.. CHECK YOU OUT GIRLFRIEND!! Corny I know.. but affirmations are everything :)

Besides.. we ALL are beautiful women whether we were 500lbs or 100lbs.. it's society that is UGLY!!! :)

I think you're all beautimous!!!

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      Iʻm roughly 6 weeks post-op this morning and have begun to feel like a normal human, with a normal human body again. I started introducing solid foods and pill forms of medications/supplements a couple of weeks ago and it's really amazing to eat meals with my family again, despite the fact that my portions are so much smaller than theirs. 
      I live on the island of Oʻahu and spend a lot of time in the water- for exercise, for play,  and for spiritual & mental health. The day I had my month out appointment with my surgeon, I packed all my gear in my truck, anticipating his permission to get back in the ocean. The minute I walked out of that hospital I drove straight to the shore and got in that water. Hallelujah! My appointment was at 10 am. I didn't get home until after 5 pm. 
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    • BeanitoDiego

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      Oh yeah, something I wanted to rant about, a billing dispute that cropped up 3 months ago.
      Surgery was in August of 2023. A bill shows up for over $7,000 in January. WTF? I asks myself. I know that I jumped through all of the insurance hoops and verified this and triple checked that, as did the surgeon's office. All was set, and I paid all of the known costs before surgery.
      A looong story short, is that an assistant surgeon that was in the process of accepting money from my insurance company touched me while I was under anesthesia. That is what the bill was for. But hey, guess what? Some federal legislation was enacted last year to help patients out when they cannot consent to being touched by someone out of their insurance network. These types of bills fall under something called, "surprise billing," and you don't have to put up with it.
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      I had to make a lot of phone calls to both the surgeon's office and the insurance company and explain my rights and what the maximum out of pocket costs were that I could be liable for. Also had to remind them that it isn't my place to be taking care of all of this and that I was going to escalate things if they could not play nice with one another.
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    • BeanitoDiego

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      Some days I feel like an infiltrator... I'm participating in society as a "thin" person. They have no idea that I haven't always been one of them! 🤣
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    • ChunkCat

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      Thank you everyone for your well wishes! I totally forgot I wrote an update here... I'm one week post op today. I gained 15 lbs in water weight overnight because they had to give me tons of fluids to bring my BP up after surgery! I stayed one night in the hospital. Everything has been fine except I seem to have picked up a bug while I was there and I've been running a low grade fever, coughing, and a sore throat. So I've been hydrating well and sleeping a ton. So far the Covid tests are negative.
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    • BeanitoDiego

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      Still purging all of the larger clothing. This morning, a shirt that I ADORED wearing ended up on top. Hard to let it go, but it was also hard to let go of those habits that also no longer serve my highest good. Onward and upward!
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