For the past 2 months, we've spent lots of time in the "pre-op" forum.... but we're all quickly moving into the post op category - YAY US!

Check in here and let everyone know how you are doing! :bored:

I am down 12 lb post op and 40 to date since my first consult (June,09) I lost 15 preop including the extra week I self started.

40 pounds! That's super amazing :thumbup: Good job, Happy!

I have lost 17lbs total, 2lbs pre-op, 15 post :thumbup:

thanks Jenibeni, I feel like I am coming out of a food coma after so many years.

I am so confused. I don't know if my port is close to my biggest scar or what that is. But I have something hard by the scar, and it is a little painful. I am scared that I have done something to hurt the port and cause it to move. Can someone please help me understand where the port is. I was banded on 11/25.

Thank you all!!

I am so confused. I don't know if my port is close to my biggest scar or what that is. But I have something hard by the scar, and it is a little painful. I am scared that I have done something to hurt the port and cause it to move. Can someone please help me understand where the port is. I was banded on 11/25.

Thank you all!!

mine is centered below the longer scar about a half inch . if you press in with a couple of fingers, like you are feeling for a baby in utereo you will feel a circle lump about the size of a quarter.

I weighed 202 this morning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thats 33.5 pounds gone since my first consult, 7 pounds of that is post op.

You and I are about the same S.E !! I weighed in this AM @ 202 and I am down 11 lbs since surgery, 2 weeks ago today, and a total of 29.5 lbs since my 1st visit.:thumbup:

Happy...you are doing sooooooooo great! Congrats! I am so happy for you, so happy for us all....next time you are down let me know! As long as its not pouring we need to meet up! By the time we get around to it maybe we will both be on soft foods...do you like sushi? We can have lunch!

I am down 12 lb post op and 40 to date since my first consult (June,09) I lost 15 preop including the extra week I self started.

OK GracesMom ... whats SE? But YIPPIE FOR US....just 3 more pounds and we will be 199! I havent weighed in the one's since college!

You and I are about the same S.E !! I weighed in this AM @ 202 and I am down 11 lbs since surgery, 2 weeks ago today, and a total of 29.5 lbs since my 1st visit.

I'm glad you guys are all doing so well. Lets keep up the good work. I am finally going to get back on the treadmill tomorrow. I just wasnt up to it. Has anybody on here had issues with just not having enough energy? I know that the lack of calories has alot to do with it. But geesh i just want to sleep all the time.

energy.... ya whats that? Its getting better but man I drag bad at the end of the day!

I am excited as most of you.....since my surgery I lost 26lbs but i really dont see it~! Many people that dont know I had it dont tell me, but i still have a hard time seeing it... does anyone have this problem? or when will I start noticing??

I am excited as most of you.....since my surgery I lost 26lbs but i really dont see it~! Many people that dont know I had it dont tell me, but i still have a hard time seeing it... does anyone have this problem? or when will I start noticing??

you will start to notice it soon enough the only people who have commented are my mom and dad not even the hubby has said anything and I am down 38lbs since my first consult only 14 post op but still thats dam nearly 40lbs lol.. The hubby likes thick women so i guess thats why he hasnt comented..

I have seriously noticed a lack of energy. About 6 o'clock everyday I find myself nodding off and I'm so tired throughout the day as well. -sigh- Maybe I need to work out more to help build up that energy.

@Socalchic - My husband likes me a little thick as well, but he'd much prefer me to be happy. He hates seeing me looking at clothes in the mall and then get depressed because I know they don't carry my size. He's been a big support for me during this whole process

My energy has been great since surgery, but that's most likely due to the fact that I've seriously restricted my carbs and when I do have them, I try not to have more than about 30 gm at a meal. Otherwise, within an hour I'm literally falling asleep in my chair and dragging around the warehouse.

For the last couple of days I've felt just overall sluggish but I think it's due to the weather getting colder. I think I was a bear in my last life and I just want to hibernate when winter comes.

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