I am scheduled for gastric sleeve on July 25. One week from today I will start the liquid diet. I am 58 years old, 5'1" and currently 306#. My highest weight in 2008 was 401. I spent years in the 380# range until hysterectomy and chemo for uterine cancer in 2014, when I lost to about 340. I started working on this surgery plan in January 2018 at 343# and have lost to my current weight. I am hoping to be below 300 on my surgery date. I am a nurse, and not a support group kind of person in general. I tend to be the one answering questions rather than asking them. I have been fat my whole life and my weight has always been a huge embarrassment to me. I am not looking to be thin, but I would like to be healthier and better able to get around. I don't see many people my age/size being successful at this. I hope I can be an exception to the rule. I know what I need to do, but putting that into action has never been easy. Hoping this surgery is a tool to help that happen.

2 hours ago, tammyt5760@yahoo.com said:

I am scheduled for gastric sleeve on July 25. One week from today I will start the liquid diet. I am 58 years old, 5'1" and currently 306#. My highest weight in 2008 was 401. I spent years in the 380# range until hysterectomy and chemo for uterine cancer in 2014, when I lost to about 340. I started working on this surgery plan in January 2018 at 343# and have lost to my current weight. I am hoping to be below 300 on my surgery date. I am a nurse, and not a support group kind of person in general. I tend to be the one answering questions rather than asking them. I have been fat my whole life and my weight has always been a huge embarrassment to me. I am not looking to be thin, but I would like to be healthier and better able to get around. I don't see many people my age/size being successful at this. I hope I can be an exception to the rule. I know what I need to do, but putting that into action has never been easy. Hoping this surgery is a tool to help that happen.

Congrats and good luck, and there are quite a number of successful folks in your age bracket...

Tammy,

I am 62 & had sleeve on 6/5. Been a compulsive overeater all of my life - emotional eater. I have lost 27 lbs so far but one thing I have learned is that this is not a miracle fix - it’s a tool to use along with diet & exercise. I just joined Weight Watchers (again!) just to be accountable to someone! It’s a journey & there are ways to get around the surgery but you have to really change your life - really! I wake up every morning & have to remind myself - Oh yeah, I had surgery. I can’t just eat whatever I want anymore. I have to pay attention & plan what I’m going to eat. And when I eat on the run, I pay for it big time!

It is not easy but it is worth it so far. Just wish I had done it 20 years ago!

Good luck & don’t give up!

It can be done, it will be done and just watch me , I am 72 and I will succeed! My peer group maybe small but we are and shall be committed!???