Had my surgery on 3/14...but latley I am so blue. Is this normal? I feel like the best part of me was cutout right along with 80 percent of my stomach. I am adapting well to my new lifestyle and honeslty somewhat impressed with my self. Had a few bumps but caught my self real quick with the new rules. However I feel so out of sorts and and blue...to the point where I dont want to get out of bed much less anything else.

Is it normal to be this blue 4 weeks out of surgery. Why I am going crazy? I thought things would be an adjustment but now I am really starting to regret my choice to get the sleeve.

any ideas? I feel like I am holding on by a thread.

I am right there with all of you. Man I've been messed up emotional since this all began. I mean I hope everything stabilizes and I feel normal again

I am right there with all of you. Man I've been messed up emotional since this all began. I mean I hope everything stabilizes and I feel normal again

You really will, just take it one day at a time and try and keep things that you can as normal as possible. I enjoyed visiting friends or having a change of scenery for an hour or 2 a day as it broke the monotony and my obsessive thinking of what I had done to myself. Chin up and you will be fine. Xxx

I really had no concept of the mental/emotional part of this choice. There have been some tough spots along the way. The second week was especially horrible with the hormone adjustment and physical trauma recovery. Then there was the adjustment to being in constant ketosis. Then there were those days that I snuck some carbs in here and there when I knew it wasn't a good choice then felt bad. Then the frustration and disappointment that comes with the stalls. Then the after effects of the tough love sessions with myself when I said "NO" to ice cream or chocolate even though I wanted them so badly. Then my body getting so squishy with fast weight loss, even though I exercise. Then the whole mind not keeping up with the body thing where, even though I have lost several sizes, my body is still pretty much the same shape so the difference is relative. All of those "thens" have a reason behind them that I can pinpoint and rationalize. That makes it fairly simple to understand and then get myself busy and spin out of it.

The hard part are the blues that crop up out of nowhere and don't seem to have a reason attached. It may last part of a day or several days, sometimes even a whole week. Haven't figured out the magic bullet to banish those. I'll vacuum or go take a walk around the lake, text a friend or read the news online, but they stick like Gorilla Glue. I don't have much patience for the whole poor pitiful me thing, even with myself. But I do believe in self care and everyone should have it. The part about the blues that frightens me a little bit is that I think maybe I am subconsciously looking for a replacement addiction for my previous obsession with food. I wish I could remember who posed about this recently on another thread. She said she recalled this from her psychology class that addicts don't really get rid of their addictions, just replace them.

If surgeons prescribe for anti-depressant materials it is not current. It is because it will only affect your mental health. You need to have courage from inside your heart only so that you can succeed in a better way.

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