Hello everyone, I am thrilled to have come across this support site. I am new to this and have not had the sleeve done yet. Still in the screening process. I am thankful to be starting this journey with my sister. We have both struggled with our weight our whole lives. So of course we talk about it alot. She brought up the gastric sleeve and has spoken to many people about it and they all have no regrets. So we started the process a few weeks ago. We are both very excited and scared at the same time, as we are both tired and scared of living like this. We both go through same things, the weight holding us back from all the things we enjoy in life and just normal activities with our children. The health issues are scary as well, we lost our father at 34 years old from a massive heart attack he was overweight also. So we are both in our 30's now and that weighs on us constantly. It is great to find this group with all the information and support and love seeing everyones success stories and cannot wait to share ours!! Thanks for reading:)

What a great opportunity to share this with your sister! You have a person share the milestones with, complain about the bad stuff and Celebrate the victories! That is so awesome. Even though I had this site and a Facebook group, having someone close that is going thru the same thing would have helped.

Welcome to the site! You will find lots of valuable information on this site. Ask lots of questions and search the site for past posts.

Best of luck to the both of you!

My sister and I got banded at the same time back in 2008. It was wonderful to be able to share the experience together, even though we live on opposite coasts, we would talk all the time. We had very different experiences which was surprising. I lost more at first, but then I developed complications and gained it all back. She lost about half her excess weight and has kept it off. We need to be mindful of competition, but for the most part we're happy for eachother's successes so we deal with it. Wishing you both the best!

I'm am glad I have you to go through this with!! Your the researcher of all this stuff I have not thought about. It's nice to have someone to talk to who understands this also.

Thanks to everyone here also. It's so nice seeing stories of what everyone went through. We are scared and worried about every thing . I have seen a lot if good and little bad. I can't wait to have this done and start losing .

My husband had the sleeve in May. I was banded in August. You definitely have to choose what's right for you. Glad to have the support at home. I have learned that each of the procedures has it's ups and downs.