Hiya!

My name is Karen and I was sleeved on May 10th, by Dr. Nick Nicholson here in Dallas, TX. My recovery has been fairly uncomplicated and I have amazing support from my husband and family. I am a nurse and I went back to 12-hour shifts after two weeks. I still am not hungry and I have lost about 35lbs since pre-op. My husband jacked my scale and hid it from me because I was weighing myself everyday and I had a stall for about four days early on. I now weigh once a week (wednesdays) and I concentrate on the NSV's that seem to happen daily.

The decision to have this surgery has totally changed my life and I am so thankful that it actually happened! I was a cash pay and there were many times when I doubted that my sleeve would ever happen.

For anyone whose on the fence about this..get off on the right side and change your life for the better...forever. I am happier now than I have been in literally years!

Here's a pic of me four days into my pre-op diet and one that I took this past Friday! ( I hope these pics load!!)

Have a truly blessed day, my friends

Wow, that's such an amazing difference. You look great Karen!

Wow, congrats on the great NSV. I think sometimes those are what are really what makes the surgery worth while.

Wow! What a difference 35 lbs. have made! Congrats!!

Yayyyyyyyyyyy! Congrats!

Congratulations Karen - you look wonderful!!! I celebrated one year yesterday! I've lost 94 lbs give or take a lb or two. I reached goal in just under five months. I too was a cash pay patient - and feel just like you do, it's the best thing I've ever done!

Someone suggested I take a picture every month on my anniversary for the first year....so I have. We bought a disposable camera and took the first picture the morning of surgery and have taken a pic the 11th of every month since then. We took the last picture yesterday and ran the camera up to Wal Greens. What a difference a year makes!!!! It's fun looking at my transformation!!!

My life has changed so much, I'm 51 yrs old and for the first time in my life, I LOVE TO GO SHOPPING. I use to buy clothes because I needed something, now it's fun. I am just now getting to the point that I feel comfortable tucking a shirt into jeans! Never in my life, even when I was 'small' back in HS did I tuck a shirt in...I wore a 9 then. Now I'm wearing size 4 and 6's in jeans!!!

Good luck to you.....I hope you have as easy a time. I love my sleeve...and highly recommend this surgery. It's been disgustingly easy for me!! BTW - I weigh every single day, I have since I got home from the hospital....I knew the scale would go up and down and would stall. I knew that I was following the 'plan' and it would move again....I just had to keep an eye on it, now I do because I don't want to lose any more and if I start to gain, I want to nip it in the bud! I know how you feel about your cheekbones, one of the most exciting things that happened initially was when I could see my collarbone!!!!!!!!!!! Cheekbones, collarbone....my legs feel boney some times and I have hip bones and I can actually feel my ribs. It's soooo weird, in a good way!!

Enjoy the journey.....it's a blast!

Hiya!

My name is Karen and I was sleeved on May 10th, by Dr. Nick Nicholson here in Dallas, TX. My recovery has been fairly uncomplicated and I have amazing support from my husband and family. I am a nurse and I went back to 12-hour shifts after two weeks. I still am not hungry and I have lost about 35lbs since pre-op. My husband jacked my scale and hid it from me because I was weighing myself everyday and I had a stall for about four days early on. I now weigh once a week (wednesdays) and I concentrate on the NSV's that seem to happen daily.

The decision to have this surgery has totally changed my life and I am so thankful that it actually happened! I was a cash pay and there were many times when I doubted that my sleeve would ever happen.

For anyone whose on the fence about this..get off on the right side and change your life for the better...forever. I am happier now than I have been in literally years!

Here's a pic of me four days into my pre-op diet and one that I took this past Friday! ( I hope these pics load!!)

Have a truly blessed day, my friends

Your cheekbones are beautiful Congratulations.

You look great!!! Congrats! I'm a patient of Dr. Nicks as well

Thanks to everyone for the kind words!!

Congrats, you look fabulous!!

Congrats! You look great!