Was sleeved April 10th and I'm days into this. I have to admit it feels like eternity. Hard to drink hard to feel well. I feel a little depressed and have to kick my mind out of it. How long does it to take to feel like YOU again??? I have doubts and I don't want to live with regrets...food or no food

I had a terrible time emotionally the first week or so. I am 2 1/2 weeks out now and feel much better. It gets better I promise. Just hang in there.

I would say that you will feel more like you again soon, but the truth is that I still dont feel like the old me. I feel so much better! After about 2 months you start to feel completely better, but the old me is gone now. I feel so different on every level. This is a real life changing expieriance. I find myself discusted when I see other people eating so much. I was at a Dennys the other night and there was a guy sitting on the opposite side of me. I was able to see him down a whole basket of chicken wings, while drinking a soda. Then he got his burger and fries....the servings were SO huge. He ate the whole thing and I was feeling sick watching it. The really sad part was that before this surgery that would have been me, and I would have had a milkshake with it, as well as order some dessert. I would have also been staring at all of my familys food and waiting for them to be done so I could finish off their leftovers. I am soooo happy that I gave myself this gift.....that is truely how I view this surgery, as a gift. I no longer am haunted by food. I dont sit there and think about what I am going to eat next, and when I'm going to eat next. It truely is freeing. I was so addicted to everything about food, and now I view it as nutrition for my body. Sometimes I just dont even want to eat, and I have to force myself to get something so that I stay healthy. I still enjoy food...so please dont take it that way, but now it is no longer all consuming. It is so wonderful to be free! Sorry this is a book....but the ultimate message I am trying to say is that you will feel better soon, and then you will feel amazed at how you wonderful this gift is! I hope you have a speedy recovery! congrats on changing your life!!!

CONGRATS! People outside our circle think we took the easy way out. But actually this is one of the hardest things we can ever do. This will get easier for you as you heal and you will learn new ways to look at food. I too watch my hubby eat and get really frustrated when I see how much he eats. At restrants I am totally like amazed at the hugh amount of food others are consuming. Sometimes I have head hunger and I want to eat nore, but my sleeve stops me. I love my sleeve. I am sending some healing energy your way for a quick recovery. Enjoy your journey!

As you heal you will feel better, the first few weeks are hard but you can get through them, we are all here for you.

As for feel like me (you again), I hope never to feel like the old me ever again, hungry all the time, looking for my next meal or snack, never being full. I like the new me healthy, happy, and getting skinny with every day. Out with the old me and in with the new me.

This journey you chose to take is not a walk in the park it is a life change and well worth it. Remember we are here and have all been through similar things, I love the people on here and couldn't have made it this far without them in my corner.

I am sending you a ton of positive thoughts and a bunch of hugs. Day by day Step by step with Jesus in my prayer today.

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