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Hit 80 lbs down !! I feel amazing and it is surreal to try on any clothes I want to!! Super happy and healthy. So very grateful! Thank you to you all for being with me on this journey so far! You’re all an inspiration!

I also just dropped to that today!!! 39.5 for the first time in 7 years 😊

That is awesome! continue with all the good work.

Stay focused and ask lots of questions! Sleeves on April 25, 2018 HW: 256 SW: 238 CW: 222 GW: 165

@jezka62 you are actually thinking about being sleeved at same time as DH?? you have one year old twins? Are you on drugs? ROFLMAO definitely have WLS at different times. congrats on pending sleeve and those wonderful kids!!! kathy

@GFerg1986 welcome to our "small" group - we get "smaller" every day "slow loser, maybe that’s because I weigh myself every day, by the end of the week it feels like forever". or - weighing yourself every day - scale doesn't move, so you feel like you are always at a stall!! many of us have trouble staring/concentrating on the scale (I do/did) KNOCK IT OFF!! LOL - your weight loss is moving along steadily and fine read the boards, - questions, answers, experiences from all. you will probably see similar questions/thoughts that you have. Absorb all the info, comments from OP -BUT at the end of the day, listen to ONLY your doc and NUT) short for nutrition (and me too of course!! LOL) see you around the neighborhood keep up the good job kathy

i'd stagger your surgeries. Complications are real. They happen. I understand wanting to go through it together...and you still will....but I'd space your surgeries apart. One partner is the patient, one is the caretaker....then you switch roles. You're still doing it together. I would suggest you get help for your household, even doing it staggered. Twins are a lot of work. Cutting down from two caretakers to just one....is a huge difference.

welcome

Had the band in 2005, out in 2009. Sleeved 4/10/18. The recovery for the sleeve was much harder. Not sure if it was because I was a little older or what. I do know that my surgeon said that there was a lot of scar tissue from the band. That might have made recovery harder, they did more work in there. I am more restricted with the sleeve than I was with the band. I couldn't tolerate fills with the band, so never really had a lot of restriction. With the sleeve, I am noticing food intolerance that I never had with the band. Bread is not my friend with the sleeve. I can eat it, but must be committed to the consequences (it hurts and takes up a lot of room needed for proteins). One REALLY good thing about the sleeve is that I have very little appetite. At this point, I eat to live a happier life rather than living to eat.