Today is the day! I am leaving for the hospital in 20 minutes!

I would like to use this post as my daily update/journal for the first 30 days so everyone can see what it is like for me!

I'll be back in a couple hours with my first post-op update!!

I'm over the moon excited and just ready to have this done.

Another stall day, but it's okay, I'm finally feeling the change in my clothes. My pants are a smidge looser in the waist and a noticeable amount looser in the legs and some of my tops fit just a bit better. So woohoo a baby sized NSV.

Onto food. I tried something new for dinner last night, took me an hour to eat, but it was a Guy Fieri Nacho flavored Chicken sausage, it was kind of high in sodium but everything else was good (decent source of protein), and it tasted great. I only ate one (about 3 oz), when before I would have eaten 2 and on a bread of some kind with ketchup most likely and I was really satisfied for hours. I had to force myself to drink a half size protein shake before bed just to make sure I got at least 60g of protein in.

Oh I got a new shake flavor!! Body Fortress Strawberry (really like this brand so far, you can find it at Walmart). I had been drinking mostly the chocolate peanut butter and I was so tired of it. But the strawberry was a nice change.

And seriously to those that are reading this non-stop, it really means a lot to me and helps me stay motivated during this stall to know that you guys are all out there rooting for me!! I'll be posting pics when I have a more noticable physical change. If you want to see what I do post online I am on Instagram: MistyAnnMoon829 and my daily diet on MFP: MistyAnnMoon829 (Don't you love how original I am with my UN's? )

Thank you all for your respoThank you all for your responses!! It is really encouraging when stuck in a stall to know that people are out there supporting me! :)nses!! It is really encouraging when stuck in a stall to know that people are out there supporting me!

Hey Misty!

Glad to see you are feeling good and improving each day. Keep up the good work!

Nothing new to post today. Stall day #8. I ate ground beef for the first time last night, it was fine, no weird side effects or anything. Really enjoying my strawberry shake vs the chocolate PB! In a few months I look forward to adding fruit to them as well.

Nothing new to post today. Stall day #8. I ate ground beef for the first time last night, it was fine, no weird side effects or anything. Really enjoying my strawberry shake vs the chocolate PB! In a few months I look forward to adding fruit to them as well.

Maybe you aren't getting enough calories??? I'm wondering where your stall is coming from?

It is possible. It seems to be the 3 weeks stall, it just hit me a little earlier than others. I get under 500 calories on average every day. But I don't have the room in my tummy to eat more! There's no way it could last forever though. Eventually it will have to break. Then it will be like a slide for awhile until the next stall, which if I have been paying attention correctly should be around 3 months.

It is possible. It seems to be the 3 weeks stall, it just hit me a little earlier than others. I get under 500 calories on average every day. But I don't have the room in my tummy to eat more! There's no way it could last forever though. Eventually it will have to break. Then it will be like a slide for awhile until the next stall, which if I have been paying attention correctly should be around 3 months.

Hi Misty. We've talked a couple times and I just wanted to say I completely know and understand what you're going through. My stall lasted 13 days. I didn't loose any weight starting the 2nd week after surgery. Today is 3 wks, exactly, from date of surgery. This is a crazy process....

@@Dragonfly1111, Thank you for telling me that! I was beginning to feel like the odd man out!! I actually woke up and expected the same weight so it wasn't a shock to see it.

Same weight today, peeps. Hopefully this is the longest stall that I have. I guess since everything else about my surgery has been picture perfect that I needed to have something to make it not 100% awesome.

Tried the Dannon Light/Fit Greek yogurt, in Orange Cream and it was pretty decent. All my past experiences with greek yogurt had been terrible so that was a relief. Took me an hour just to eat 1. Then about an hour later I had some tuna so that I could up my Protein intake with out drinking a shake. I need to increase my protein, I think I will be going back to 2 shakes a day and a meal somewhere in there.

Good news, my stall finally broke. I am now 259. Amen, hallelujah, I can see the light, lol. It was a shock. I only stepped on the scale today out of habit rather than making it a priority. So I lost 1.5 lbs overnight. I'm so pleased.

Nothing else to report really. I tried carne asada last night, with some cheese, avocado, and sour cream. It was delicious and my tummy handled it fine as usual. It still took about an hour to eat. I also put two of my greek yogurts in the freezer so I will have some froyo for dessert tonight.

Congrats on your loss today! I've been following your posts everyday =)

Congrats Misty!!!!!

So yes, my stall is in fact actually over. I went down to 257.6!! Took my measurements and they really didn't change at all. But I do look a little smaller. I'm happy.

No move on the scale today. I hit it out of the ballpark on protein yesterday!! I went to a bbq at a friends house last night. It was super noticeable that I only took a tiny amount of food, so I came clean to the hostesses about my surgery (which didn't matter to me that they knew, I just hadn't told them yet). It was super fun getting out of the house. I didn't even eat a QUARTER of what I normally would have eaten. There was Kalua pig (huge favorite of mine) and Portuguese sausage, another that I like, and hot dogs. It was an incredibly fun night and I'm happy I went, and lil sleevie did her job perfectly.

So glad to see your thread. I was sleeved 7/21

I'm in that stall where the scale moves up 1 then back then does NOTHING! I've been stalled for 1 week now. I do get my proton, Water and 800 calories plus I walk 2 miles everyday. Just blah! I hate seeing other posts with these incredible weight drops. I'm so jealous.

@@allesun Don't sweat the stall, in time it will pass and then you will have a steady drop until the next stall! Trust me my stall lasted almost 2 full weeks and now I am in the 250's, I haven't been there in 5 years!