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Expecting my sleeve mid July

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AutumnBlueCarmen    4

AutumnBlueCarmen
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Hi everyone,

My name is Carmen. I'm 37 yo, 5' 3" and almost 230lbs. I'm a carb and soda-aholic. I eat when I'm happy, sad, lonely, bored etc. I am so looking forward to ending my life long struggle with weight and using the sleeve as a great tool to get hold of my eating habits.

I am hoping to schedule my sleeve surgery mid July...already had a band surgery scheduled for Thur, July 21 and changed my mind. I'm hoping insurance passes and all will be the same and I can move my surgery to July 22 when my doc does sleeves on Fridays. I DO NOT PLAN to tell anyone. I have already told the few I'm telling and they include my husband and two very close friends. One who did give me a hard time about it not being healthy and she loves me the way I am....and the other friend who currently has the band and encouraged me after having issues to change to a "permanent" surgery.

I just moved to TX and have made a few friends now, but I have learned over the past few months that a few of my new friends are very JUDGMENTAL and I will not tell them at all. I am a soda-aholic and I will be only telling them that I am low carbing and cut out all soda. Which will not be a lie....but OMG....I can only imagine some of the horrible things they would say behind my back. I know this sounds like I should no longer be friends with them...but I'm kind of stuck for now with them and probably forever...because one of the two lives directly next door. Our front doors are 15 ft from each other. In addition...I will not be telling my sister, mother, brother or any other relatives besides my sweet hubby who knows how being overweight has affected me my whole life.

I look forward to getting to know you all. I love reading about all the progress on the boards. I've only been lurking for a day now. I watched a bunch of Dr. Alvarez's videos on Youtube and am ASTOUNDED! I can't wait to read more and see everyone's progress!!! :) Carmen

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wishes    125

wishes
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I understand you completely. I am 5'3" and standing at 245 pounds right now, I cut out pretty much all carbs so I don't go higher than 30g a day. AND IT WAS SO HARD, but I am glad I started two months ago. I also didn't tell anyone but my mom and boyfriend about me contemplating surgery. The rest of my family is really judgmental also, and I don't want to deal with that right now. I hope you hear back from your insurance soon and get your date! I am so excited for you, and just want you to know that whatever questions or support you have or need there is someone on this forum to help and listen.

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2sweetnsugarland    9

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Congrats on your decision and welcome to the board!!! I'm from Sugar Land, TX. I'm 51, 5'4" and used to weigh 260 a year ago. When I started this journey I was 242.5. As of this morning I weigh 212. I love my sleeve and you will too!!! Take care and keep us posted on your journey!

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

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        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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