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March 11th is my date! So exctied!

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SBH622    0

SBH622
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March 11th was my surgery date. I started this journey at 242 pounds. I entered surgery weighing 238 lbs. Today I am 222. I'm growing frustrated because I am not seeing the scale move. Trying to be patient.

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Para-thighs Lost    125

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The best advice I got was from my daughter. She suggested using another method to track my success, other than the scale. Try measuring yourself once a week. You know your clothes are getting loose. Also, weighing once a week instead of daily.

By all measures...you are VERY successful. Twenty nine pounds is great!!! Try to remember that for most of us, it took years to gain the weight...it will take a little time to get it off.

Best wishes on your journey to a new you!

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March 11th was my surgery date. I started this journey at 242 pounds. I entered surgery weighing 238 lbs. Today I am 222. I'm growing frustrated because I am not seeing the scale move. Trying to be patient.

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I agree with other users. Try not weighing yourself as often. Plus I measured myself (arms, bust, waist, thighs, hips, etc) early on to help motivate me when I saw changes. I also had my hubby trace my outline on paper. I payed down and he traced my core (bust to hips/legs) to see the changes visually. I plan to retrace on the same paper after 1mth post op to see if there are changes that way. I might not consistently see a lower number on the scale but using these tools, I KNOW my body is shrinking. Keep your head up! :)

P.s. I was sleeved on March 11th too. Feeling stronger everyday!

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SBH622    0

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Hi Everyone! Thought I would check in and see if anyone is still having discomfort around their main incision. Of my five incisions, the main one is really sore. Laughing and sneezing are the enemy right now. LOL

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Hi, SBH! My seem OK, the two larger ones and medium one are still sealed with glue. The quarter inch ones lost the glue and seem fine. Although for a week or so my medium bothered me a bit.

I'm curious, did your surgeon use the DiVinci machine?

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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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      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

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        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.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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