Hey gang,

I was sleeved on 12/22 with an umbilical hernia repair and it has been an excellent experience overall. Since I'm keeping the surgery a secret (I have a lot of judgemental people around me), im looking for some folks to go through this journey with.

If you were sleeved in December of 2014, please friend me on here as well as on Myfitnesspal.

My user name is ChrisJane180.

Thanks, and I'm looking forward to encouraging each other!

I kept the surgery a secret from most as well. I am on my fitness pal and just sent you a friend request.

We are all December Sleevers !!!! I can't believe it's been a year since we had the surgery !!! Amazing how fast the year went !!!!!!!!!

Hello all. I was sleeved on 12/30/2014. I too am falling back into old habits. I restarted my food journal. I find that I am eating around 2k a day. Still working on getting the protein up though. Does 2k calories seem normal to any of you? I travel quite a bit for work and I have been unable to make my support group meetings. If anyone has suggestions please let me know. Thanks you!

Hi all, I was sleeved Dec 30, 2014 and pretty much failed.

I was hoping the sleeve would curb my tendency to eat the wrong foods or eat too much and it did work for awhile in the beginning by making me vomit. I would then cut back. But, I fell back into old habits eating the wrong foods and I fear I have stretched my stomach back out because I can hold/eat about the same amount of food as I did before surgery.

I have not lost any weight since about a month after surgery and it's been over a year now that I have been beating myself up because I felt this was my last resort. I know it's my fault. I haven't done much research if there is anything I can do about it now.

I hope that anyone thinking about doing this surgery and feels they can 'work the system' to just get it realizes, like I do now, that you really need to change the way you eat for the rest of your life. I thought differently and failed.

Glad to see others who have succeeded though!

@@prez

40 lbs down in a little over a year? Wow, when was the last time you did that?

Believe me, I'm not lighting the world on fire either, but I'm sure a heck of a lot better off now than I was before surgery.

I know more than I did before, do you?

The 40lbs lost was pre-op.

Currently I weight 360lbs. I haven't updated the tracker.

@@prez

You write about failure, but you can't fail unless you give up. Since you wrote on this forum maybe that means you might not be ready to give up yet. I could ask you all the obvious questions, but I'm not going to. I'll ask this one though, have you considered a revision from sleeve to bypass? Would that be an option you would be interested in?