Hello everyone!

I was approved a few days ago (after only waiting a week) and received my surgery date for December 12, 2018! I chose this date out of the few offered to me because I am currently in college and I will be able to finish up my classes prior to the surgery (which was a huge worry of mine.) It's about two weeks before my birthday too!

Anyone else scheduled out in December?

I’m brand new to this site as of today. Had my sleeve on December 4th. Have lost a total of 38 lbs as of today. Can others who had surgery on the 4th share their weight loss? Thought it would be a little faster.

Congrats on your new life

I’m brand new to this site as of today. Had my sleeve on December 4th. Have lost a total of 38 lbs as of today. Can others who had surgery on the 4th share their weight loss? Thought it would be a little faster.

Congrats on your new life

Thank you! So happy I found a support group for sleevers .

Edited December 31, 20187 yr by Deblearn

Happy New Years everyone, been having a tough 2 week period have been stuck in my first stall for the last while. But today finally scales started to move again. Dropped two pants sizes though now i'm a 38" waist. Reaching my goal ever so slowly. As many of you have also said I wish this would go faster.

Had a tough time with Christmas at home and all the food around have been keeping this private so pretty much everyone thought I was being a weirdo and not eating my food. I guess this is the hard aspect when you can't eat the same as you did before but its my journey and I will achieve my goal that I set out to reach just like everyone else on this forum. Heres to 2019 and a year of reaching our goals.

Happy New Years to us all

I am in the pureed stage, but I am still eating to fast and taking to much in at once. I know I am supposed to take 20-30 minutes to eat my 2-3oz, but I take about 10 to 15 minutes. I think it's because I hate cold food. Anyone have any hacks or tips to help me figure out a way to slow down? I tried the baby spoon method, it kind of worked but not really.

Use your timer on your phone chew chew chew .Im like almost 9 Months out and still have Days where I eat way to fast

1 hour ago, irish_sleever said:

Happy New Years everyone, been having a tough 2 week period have been stuck in my first stall for the last while. But today finally scales started to move again. Dropped two pants sizes though now i'm a 38" waist. Reaching my goal ever so slowly. As many of you have also said I wish this would go faster.

Had a tough time with Christmas at home and all the food around have been keeping this private so pretty much everyone thought I was being a weirdo and not eating my food. I guess this is the hard aspect when you can't eat the same as you did before but its my journey and I will achieve my goal that I set out to reach just like everyone else on this forum. Heres to 2019 and a year of reaching our goals.

Happy New Years to us all

Patients is virtue weight didn’t come on over night it isn’t gonna dissapear over night .I looked in the mirror today and said to myself Damn now your thin enough to go to the gym ,like joe sad is that .

2 hours ago, drop the beat said:

Congrats on your new life

Slow is better I know it can be frustrating.Ive had up to 2 weeks with 0 weight loss but did reach my personal goal in 8 Months .Hang in there one Day at a time ?

3 hours ago, Deblearn said:

I’m brand new to this site as of today. Had my sleeve on December 4th. Have lost a total of 38 lbs as of today. Can others who had surgery on the 4th share their weight loss? Thought it would be a little faster.

I wish mine was that high. I had mine on December 4th and have only lost 21# in that time. However, in the last 6 weeks I've lost 45#

Edited December 31, 20187 yr by VSGDavid

Happy New Year!!!! It's true about sleeve and alcohol. I am bit f---ed up on a couple of drinks. Well worth it!!!!!

I had my sleeve 12/11 and my surgeon said no alcohol for six months and honestly I can’t imagine even trying alcohol so soon after surgery. I am down 30 lbs and I don’t want to mess up my momentum.

On 12/19/2018 at 8:40 PM, SteveT74 said:

Anyone care to show their battle scars??

I can't even stand up straight or take off my stomach sucker yet to see them.

44 minutes ago, SteveT74 said:

Happy New Year!!!! It's true about sleeve and alcohol. I am bit f---ed up on a couple of drinks. Well worth it!!!!!

I can’t even do a few lol

I had my Sleeve surgery on Dec 5, so I’m now 4 weeks out!

Ever since my sleeve I noticed that my taste buds are over sensitive. Example I opened a Premier shake and drank half, put it back in refrigerator, after several hours i went back to drink the remainder and I couldn’t it picked up all the scents and flavors of other items in the refrigerator. I thought it was just the shake but today I noticed I had a partially opened bottle of water and I am experiencing the same issue. I had to throw both out. Anyone else had this happen to them?