Hi Everyone,

For the first time in a long time, I want you to put yourself first. We all have taken care of everyone around us always putting ourselves at the end of the list year after year. It is time to STOP doing that. You are a wonderful, loving caring, beautiful, intelligent person. It is time you took control of your own life and that means getting serious about losing the weight forever. So, many of us have failed at diets and losing weight that we think that we will just give up and live the rest of our lives as an unhealthy fat person—YES I use the word fat because I was fat.

I am here to tell you that I did that for many years, then one day I woke up and realized that I had earned the right to have a good and healthy and happy life. So I started my search as to how I was going to do this and be successful. After 6 months of asking 100’s of question from people, doing my research on what I wanted and where I was going; I got brave enough to have “Sleeve” surgery and my choice was Dr. Aceves. He is fabulous and I highly recommend him.

This was the best things I have EVER done for myself. That was 4 years ago; I lost 105 pounds and have kept it off. YES, I did something that I have never done before and that is to lose the weight and KEEP IT OFF! It is an amazing way to live. I made a lot of lifestyle changes and I never consider myself on a diet. Yes, it requires work and effort on your part. It is NOT a miracle cure, but it does work.

It will work for you too! So stop sitting on the fence and making excuses why you are giving days of your life away being unhealthy, unhappy. I was 63 when I did this and I am now 67. I walk between 3 and 4 miles 6 day a week. If I can do this you can too.

If you have any questions please feel free to ask. I am here to help you and support you every step of the way.

If you have recently had this done, I am also here to help you with any questions that you might have.

Yeah for those of you who have had weight loss surgery and know how I feel!!!

Hugs,

Suzanne

Sleeved 10/21/2008

Lost 105 pounds

Wonderful! Thank you for sharing your journey. It is great to hear such positive messages from someone four years out! Congratulates on living and loving your life.

Thank you for your post. Can you share what your eating habits are now? Does the sleeve stretch over time where you feel you can eat more than in the beginning? I"m only 3 weeks out but feel like I may never be able to eat 'real food' again. When I try and eat or even drink a protein shake sometimes I get a 'stuck' feeling in my lower esphogus.

Suzanne, thank you for sharing such wonderful information and caring with us. It is great seeing someone several years out still maintaining. I don't often love myself and put myself first, but I'm working on that now:)