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Is it just me or does your belly button look different post op. I hope I'm not being paranoid but it looks like my belly button is in a complete different place and it isn't as deep.

They didn't go through my belly button, but I've had surgeries that did and mine is totally different and more shallow and distorted... I'll never rock a bikini so I'm not too worried :)

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Ok, so I want a tracker thingy...lol- how do I get one! :)

Started the couch to 5k program this week- Monday was day one, walked yesterday, today is day 2 for the program- seems to be going well- I like to feel motivated and that I'm accomplishing something, so this is new and exciting for me! :)

Highest 255

Pre op 240 (no preop diet)

Today's weigh in 216

woop woop!!!

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Ok' date=' so I want a tracker thingy...lol- how do I get one! :)

Started the couch to 5k program this week- Monday was day one, walked yesterday, today is day 2 for the program- seems to be going well- I like to feel motivated and that I'm accomplishing something, so this is new and exciting for me! :)

Highest 255

Pre op 240 (no preop diet)

Today's weigh in 216

woop woop!!![/quote']

We have nearly identical stats but I am only 219...Not gonna complain... I could gain that much in 5 weeks and I've lost!

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Ok, so I want a tracker thingy...lol- how do I get one! :)

Started the couch to 5k program this week- Monday was day one, walked yesterday, today is day 2 for the program- seems to be going well- I like to feel motivated and that I'm accomplishing something, so this is new and exciting for me! :)

Highest 255

Pre op 240 (no preop diet)

Today's weigh in 216

woop woop!!!

Which couch to 5k app are you using?!?

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I just types in couch to 5k in thr Google store and opted for the free one lol. It's called RunDouble.

:)

So far I really like it!

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Hey everyone. I am ready to go but my surgeon is suggesting I do the sleeve instead of bypass. Is it true that sleeve patients loose weight much slower and it's able to stretch much easier?

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Everyone is different, the future risks of malnutrition and restriction on meds you can use later, added with the fact that the part of your stomach left behind can't be accessed after surgery- I opted to sleeve.

My bmi was low for the surgery, only 36. I was 5'7 240#, sleeved 2/28- down 24# as of today...not even 4 weeks out. (That's all post-op loss)

Good luck whatever your decision is, and congrats on your new life ahead!! :)

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Tomorrow I will be 4 weeks out, have lost 23lbs but have been stalled almost 3 weeks. Really??

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Tomorrow I will be 4 weeks out, have lost 23lbs but have been stalled almost 3 weeks. Really??

Yep! Same thing happened to me. It will pass.

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Yep! Same thing happened to me. It will pass.

Thanks.... I hope it comes soon!

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Thanks.... I hope it comes soon!

Take measurements! Even though the scale didn't move I lost a lot of inches!

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Take measurements! Even though the scale didn't move I lost a lot of inches!

I feel like that too. Went from size 22 to an 18 and I feel like ill be in a 16 soon

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Tomorrow I will be 4 weeks out' date=' have lost 23lbs but have been stalled almost 3 weeks. Really??[/quote']

Tomorrow is 4 weeks for me too. Been stalled for 10 days. Hanging on there

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Going in on 2/14. I'm down 25 lbs from pre-op dieting that started on 1/31.

Wow, please share your preop diet! I'm scheduled for 4/21 and planning to start the diet 4/1

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Hey everyone. I am ready to go but my surgeon is suggesting I do the sleeve instead of bypass. Is it true that sleeve patients loose weight much slower and it's able to stretch much easier?

Actually it is the opposite. Bypass patients can stretch their pouch. Initially there may be a difference in how quickly weight is lost with the sleeve vs. RnY. However the gap between percentage of excess weight lost between the two procedures is narrowing.

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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

        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.

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