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Awesome nsv!

Ok, so after a fairly dramatic fall down the stairs back in December (skinned knees, 1 broken toe and torn rotator cuff - ouch!), I FINALLY got my 1st physio appointment yesterday. I arrive, and to my horror the physio is like an adonis (who I have to be undressed in front of - eek!). So I'm blushing away, and he starts to run through the standard questions; ethnicity, religion, allergies, height, WEIGHT! Immediately I think, oh no, what should I round it down to (I've never answered that question without knocking at least a stone off the real answer)??? Then after a moment of hesitation, I realised I didn't have to lie. The truth is fine!!! This NSV felt quite daunting, but I loved it! x

Simply fab! x

Ah, that is still my favourite NSV to date, and it takes a while to sink in too, I still think of myself as bigger than my husband even though I am over 35lb less than him now. Enjoy it, it just gets better and better! xx

Well I've been at goal +/- 3lb since mid December, and it took me 11.5 months to lose 82lbs. I feel slightly lost now that I'm not focussing on losing, and I think I am really starting on the psychological journey now. Anyway, it is all good and I have no regrets, I have gone from UK size 24, to a 10/12, and from 48-42-48 to 38-30-36 (although at least 3in of that is skin now). I may be tempted into trying to drop another 7lb or so to give me a margin of error, but things are pretty static and comfortable at the moment. Good luck in your journey, no matter how long it takes, it is totally worth it! xx

Fantastic! Well done x

I had this problem too, but rather than pay someone to take gold OUT of my rings, I got my husband to finally buy my eternity ring now I am at goal, and my new little ring holds the others on!

Oh, this is a tough one! I dont see the new me 90% of the time, very occasionally I see a photo of myself though, and that is when it hits me - like someone has photo,-shopped my head on another body! In fact saturday I was talking to 2 skinny friends, both of whom are shorter than me, and we ended up arguing about size because I just couldn't accept I now weigh less than 1 friend, and the same as the other, although apparently this is now the case! It probably sounds pretty bad, but I sometimes play a game with my husband called bigger/smaller/the same, where I'll identify someone I think is approx my size, and my hubby will then have to tell me if I was right - invariably I am wrong tho!

I think my favourites are; 1: (A male friend, on seeing a new profile pic of me on facebook) "Jesus, Claire - cheek bones!!". 2: (A different friend on seeing me after several months), "You look amazing, did Richard stop feeding you?" - I howeled at that one! 3: (A comment made to my hubby by a colleague) "You can't be married to her! - She is bang tidy!". And sometimes actions speak louder than words; 4: My husband now picks me up! 5: My clothes keep ending up in with my kid's because they dont look big enough for me. 6: My daughter (who is 8), now begins every card, note, or letter to me with "To my Beautiful Mummy". It still makes me cry every time! Oh,this is a great thread, and I love my sleeve!!!

Well, I've managed to catch a hideous throat infection which has been making me feel crappy for the last 4 days, however its taken a whole new direction today, and I've felt foamy and sick all day, with my stomach feeling really off key. Basically I'm wondering if post sleeve we are more prone to infections sprading to our stomachs? Typical, its my birthday tomorrow, and I'm booked into a spa, I can't afford to be ill now!

I think I am right in saying this happens when you have eaten something your sleeve struggles with, or whrn you have eaten too much. If you are getting it a lot, I'd suggest going back to the basics, eat more slowly, chew very well, and stop when you think you are getting close to full, it is better not to keep stressing your stomach. Alternately if you are doing all of that, and it is still happeninh, I'd say steer clear of the foods which are triggering it for a while, as your sleeve matures you can usually tolerate a greater variety of foods, so it is probably not forever anyway.

Well, despite everyone's good advice, I didnt feel brave enough to do "before" measurements, or even to keep the biggest of my clothes for comparison, and despite having been at goal for 2 months now, I've had a few weeks of feeling really fat recently (the power of my stupid psyche eh??) Anyway, I googled what my starting measurements should have been based on dress size, and am TOTALLY AMAZED. Thighs and forearms aside, I have shed 34 inches!! I am so happy looking at it like that. -12 inch hips, -10 inch bust, and -12 inch waist (if I cheat and pull my gut in that goes up to -15 inch!) I dont consider myself to be thin, (I'm 38-30-35 now), but I'm certainly not as big as the person I imagine in the mirror either. I <3 my sleeve xx

A clinic near me has an offer on at the moment, and i am very tempted to try this, but I'm not sure if it really works, or if I'll just be swapping a perfectly good cow fr some magic beans! Any experiences would be very much appreciated. Thanks folks

That is great! My hubby did something similar the day after I reached goal - was kind of weird that it took 13 years for him to lift me up for the first time - next I'll work on him finally carrying me over the threshold!

I can actually sympathise with your viewpoint, my husband was mortified when i first spoke of wls, and was terrified for me, and I was fortunate that I started off with 'only' about 80lb to lose, not big enough to qualify for surgery on the nhs, and thankfully not big enough for any co-morbidities (yet!). However my quality of life was poor, lacking confidence, avoiding tonnes of different situations because I was too fat, or just afraid of being too fat, I was wasting my life to years of abject misery, and I was a ticking timebomb waiting to get bigger and bigger, and less well with every extra lb. Thankfully my husband saw that, and although he was afraid of losing me during surgery, he knew that my long term aim was to hopefully buy more fit, active happy years with my husband and children. I've spoken to my husband at length about how my journey has affected him, and he says he has NEVER regretted my decision, he loves me being; more confident, more involved in every element of family life, and happier. My husband never noticed just how fat i was or badly affected i was until that started to change and he had the comparison. If your wife takes this step, she is not chosing weightloss over you, she is pusuing her right to be happy and healthy (yes there may be other ways to get to that point, but that makes them neither right nor wrong), and only you can chose to make that a marital issue.

Wow coops, well done. What do you count as lady push ups?? I'm going to start this in the morning, but from the little bit of abdominal work I've done I know that my c-section has undone something fairly essential which I need to try to re-gain!