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raisa.jorge    15

raisa.jorge
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Hi all,

It's been almost 8 months since my gastric sleeve surgery.

I am sharing this because just like I find inspiration and motivation in people’s stories, I think I could be a source of those too.

I had A LOT of trouble after my surgery. I stayed in the hospital for almost a month due some complications and my life was at risk. I questioned myself so many times if going through all this was worth it and today I can totally say YES.

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Yes, it’s me in both pictures. The first one was taken exactly 10 years ago. That was my ‘heaviest’ year (134.8 kg). No, I wasn’t happy, but I had in my head ‘I was born this way’, ‘that’s my karma, there is nothing I can do about it’. Oh, I was so wrong!

I lost some weight on the following years. I reached 116 Kg and I kept it for like 4 years. But my mind remained the same: unhappy, but conformed. It took MANY years – basically, my entire life – to me finally accept and love myself just the way I am. But the funny part is that when it finally happened, I decided I should do something.

"Obesity is not a matter of appearance. It is a disease and should be treated like one. I simply refuse to let my body suffer anymore", I told myself. So I took some action.

Does every fat person have to follow the same path? NO! That was MY choice. I chose this way because I thought it was better for me, but you go to any direction you want, dude. You OWN YOUR BODY. As cliché as it sounds, it comes from someone who truly knows how is to wear those shoes: They will try to bring you down. Sometimes they will make it. But put your sh*t together and demands the respect you deserve. They cannot reach you once you get to the top. It takes time, and a lot of patience. But I like to believe everybody can get there.

Yet, don’t think you will find heaven on this path. It’s more like the highway to hell, but it feels so good to kill some demons.

I did my sleeve weighting 126.6 Kg, in June 2016. Today I'm 82 kg.

I officially ditched obesity and now I am 'just' overweight. It's pretty much the first time in my life I reach this point. I cannot explain the feeling.

Ah, there is another thing I cannot explain: My eyebrows on the fist pic LOL.

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Lariska    36

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Picture is not showing. :( Other than that very inspiring post. Thank you for sharing and good luck in losing more weight and keeping it off!

Sent from my Pixel (Los Angeles)

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raisa.jorge    15

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Picture is not showing. :( Other than that very inspiring post. Thank you for sharing and good luck in losing more weight and keeping it off!

Sent from my Pixel (Los Angeles)

Oh, no Lariska. I will try again:

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Can u see as attachment?

Thanks anyway

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Malin    470

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You look fabulous..... and your brows are on point!

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Berry78    4,261

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No smile?

I think you are beautiful in both pictures.

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raisa.jorge    15

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No smile?

I think you are beautiful in both pictures.

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Haha just posing, I guess. But the happiness is expressed with words ((:

Thank you!

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CStoned    155

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Go girrrrl, looking good & ur eyebrows are on fleek boo! Congratulations!

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TinyLittleFractures    33

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You look amazing! When was your surgery?

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kimberb    323

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Congratulations for all your hard work and taking care of yourself.

Would you mind sharing your complications after your surgery? Are you still experiencing any complucations?

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raisa.jorge    15

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Congratulations for all your hard work and taking care of yourself.

Would you mind sharing your complications after your surgery? Are you still experiencing any complucations?

Hi there,

I had Sepsis, a severe blood infection. It affected my left lung and although I don't really have any problems now, I feel my lung is not the same. But exercising helps.

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BelgianGuy    350

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Impressive work! You look good :)

Too bad for the complications, hope everything will remain fine for you.

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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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        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.

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