Are there any Australian Sleevers out there, Would Love to hear from you.

Dean - I don't own scales. Even now although the temptation to buy them has been great. The reason I don't is that I know I wouldn't be able to keep checking my weight I work at a hospital so now that I am back at work' date=' I just nip into the office and weigh myself once per week. It's not for everyone but it works for me [/quote']

Lila,love the latest pic. You look younger already and I am glad you survived the social outing tonight, even though you didn't eat. You are doing so well. Can't wait to meet you in the future looking all skinny. We all feel like we've been on the journey with you so far so are very excited to see your brilliant progress now.

Lila' date=' it is quite common. It is empty looking for food..I still get it sometimes.

In other news, guess I have moved into the next phase, have been diagnosed with gallstones and will be getting my gallbladder removed the first week of Jan, could not face missing out on Christmas events

Apparently gallstones are quite common with people who lost significant amounts of weight quickly, so I guess it was only a matter of time. One way to loose another 100gms or so [/quote']

It's a pretty simple operation these days. I had mine gallbladder out years ago and have never missed it!

Hi ya west Aussie here sleeved 15 days ago

Welcome shabby to our great forum.

Ok the verdict - i have to go for an endoscopy in 2 weeks because i suffer from heartburn. He wants to check that there is nothing sinister going on before the surgery' date=' i was disappointed but when i thought about it i'm glad he is being careful. So at the moment we are still looking mid to late Feb next year pending the endoscopy is good.

Thanks for all your thoughts you are all so lovely![/quote']

Hi mimz, better to be safe than sorry. Hopefully all will be clear or resolved i time for your surgery early next year. Keep us posted.

Guys - I'm about 17 days post op and things seem to be going really well.

One thing I have noticed is that sometimes I feel a little light headed (I wouldn't go as far to say dizzy) if I stand up quickly.

Do you think it's a blood pressure thing' date=' or is it normal with the very low calorie intake?

My blood pressure has always been perfect and I've never felt light headed pre surgery.

Hope your all having a good weekend, I'm working

Deano[/quote']

I am working all weekend too, but it's normal for me. I am flying to Port Douglas though tomorrow to work for the week, so will pretend the travelling time is a day off.

Hi I'm doing pretty good ' date='im on purée food still can't tolerate chicken though so mainly mashed veg and Soup etc . Craving real food though .[/quote']

Listen to your body. It will soon tell you loud and clear what you can tolerate. Found the puree stage the most difficult of all as I disliked the tex

I get sleeved on the 11th dec and start preop Monday' date=' it's my chrisas party tonight so my last time I chewing food for a while[/quote']

Welcome to our Aussie forum and good luck for your prep and surgery. Are you having non starchy vege and berries during your Optifast prep? It varies from person to person as to the instructions

Is this what you meant?

Thank you, that is exactly what I was talking about

Thank you' date=' that is exactly what I was talking about [/quote']

No worries, I just googled samon and wild rice Coles and looked at images, it was blue so thought maybe it was it lol.

Lila,love the latest pic. You look younger already and I am glad you survived the social outing tonight, even though you didn't eat. You are doing so well. Can't wait to meet you in the future looking all skinny. We all feel like we've been on the journey with you so far so are very excited to see your brilliant progress now.

Thanks Kelli! I can't wait to catch up with you all next year when we're all at (or close to) our goal weights!! it will be amazing!! We should all bring our before photo's to show where we have come from

I am working all weekend too, but it's normal for me. I am flying to Port Douglas though tomorrow to work for the week, so will pretend the travelling time is a day off.

Does that even count as work??

Hey do you think we should start an Australian VSG group? I think it might be better than using the one thread because you can have different topics, is that right?

I'm thinking it might help down the track if people are trying to look things up.

Deano

Hey do you think we should start an Australian VSG group? I think it might be better than using the one thread because you can have different topics, is that right?

I'm thinking it might help down the track if people are trying to look things up.

Deano

I think that's a GREAT IDEA, no offence to the rest of the world....it would be great to read more local experiences, without having to scan through the multitudes of o/s posts. Weights in kgs not pounds! Etc.

there is one called Gastric Sleeve Forum..it too is a worldwide one..but I must have only registered for Australia or something, as it seems. Most posts are from aus.

Cheers

I think that's a GREAT IDEA, no offence to the rest of the world....it would be great to read more local experiences, without having to scan through the multitudes of o/s posts. Weights in kgs not pounds! Etc.

there is one called Gastric Sleeve Forum..it too is a worldwide one..but I must have only registered for Australia or something, as it seems. Most posts are from aus.

Cheers

Sorry ...that's Gastric Sleeve Support! Not forum ...

There is a gastric sleeve support group in australia but I find it very hard to navigate around that site, so I only use this one on VST and I am in the Gastric Sleevers Australia group on Facebook which is also great. Otherwise if you are looking for a specific topic, go to the GSS group as it has threads to all different topics..I go there is after specific information on a topic