june13sleever

I had no gas or nausea. I just had pain where the incisions were for 5 weeks. The pain was pretty bad for me. Guess I don't do well with them cutting through my muscle.

I am on this site a lot. I lost a lot! I am pretty thin now. A lot of people struggle. At first I thought maybe those people who were struggling didn't make the first six months count because they were told to eat 1200 calories. I DO NOT advocate eating that many calories!!!! But besides the fact that I did not eat that many I looked at what other people say and in another way I differ from some people is that I would never sit around eating for an hour in order to get all my food down. I literally eat 10 bites of food...pretty quickly, and I stop. I feel satisfied and in two to three hours I am eating again, but again I eat a couple bites, quickly and then stop as soon as the hunger is gone. I also remember my nutritionist telling me to eat slowly, chew my food and that a meal might take a long time to get down. Just a theory that maybe you shouldn't eat for so long just to get your meal down. You can eat again later.

Now that I am a year out...I eat. I just stop after a serving because that is enough to satisfy the craving.

Maybe that is why I am 5'11" now! I swore I was 5'10"!!!

Mine is still falling out. No regrowth. 1 year and two months out. Still losing too.

My boyfriend was eating my Protein Bars, and if I hide them he says...why are you hiding them! So I buy my yummy clif bars and I buy him whatever is on sale! It irked me because I would buy just enough for the week then he would be up all night just eating all the stuff I bought so I would have to go to the store again. Thank goodness he doesn't eat my cheese sticks or Chobani!!! Those damn Protein bars are expensive! I created a snack drawer for me and one for him. He gets whatever is on sale!

I said 170, my doctor said 180. I am over a year from surgery and weighed 169 today and now I want 150 to 160. I am 5'11". You should be happy wherever you are, but push yourself for more. In order for me to get to 150 at this point I would have to eat like I did the first couple of months...800 calories. I might try it, but I think I might be too hungry. We shall see.

Started at 291

Weigh 171 now

120 down

1 year and one month out

5'11"

Want to lose 16 more, but ok where I am.

Will start to finally work out this week coming up. I hope I stick with it. Skin is pretty bad. Going for consult in August 3rd for inner thigh lift. Wouldn't have the surgery until January.

I want to enter the whillimeana 30+ model contest. I actually want to model...which is what I should have done had I not been fat.

I miss my butt

My skin is horrible...Probably not as bad as some people and probably worse than some. My butt is all saggy. Looks like a granny butt. Then my hair has not grown back. My thighs are all wrinkly. I am just have a bad day. No regrets at all, but it just sucks. I lost all my muscle. I can't even lift what I used to. Pity party for me today. I wore a bikini on the beach and still felt so self conscience. I don't think I can go through a lower body lift or thigh lift or Tummy Tuck. I want them, but surgery is not easy. What if the scars look terrible. I wish I never got fat when I was a little girl. All the damage, stretch marks...It sucks.

This will all change eventually because there are seriously a lot of fat people out there. Not big big, but chunky and big big. I know that movie fat head said the obesity epidemic is a lie, but if you ask me...yo! There are sooooooo many big people. It is going to be a big problem!!!!! So someday we will all be just like the fat people in wall-e!

I have no regrowth on year and one month later. I don't mean to scare you, but I did some research and you may never get it back. Some people, most people's hair grows back...I just am one of the ones who has nothing yet. I was upset, but what can you do. I always say prepare for the worst and hope for the best.

ok give me your address too. I will mail them all out next week. They are really more for a 12. I am fitting into size 8 now, so I have EVEN MORE! I have probably 40 dresses. OUT OF CONTROL! Do you want maybe 5 dresses or 10 dresses? Also I think they will fit in a flat rate shipping box I might even get them shipped out tomorrow if you can get back to me today!

If you are a size 10...These will be too big for you.

Still like the big oversized handicap bathrooms. I only ever notice big people going into them, but even though I can fit in a small stall - why!

My hair has not grown back yet. My skin is yucky yuck. I am a little over a year. But neither of those things make me cry like being a fatty did.

I am not the type that can let go and just be that strong. So there is nothing I can say that is going to help you. Cry, cry and then cry some more. Blow up his phone. Whatever you do is what you do...I do know that in time...you won't be this devistated...but no one can tell you any different. I just always tell my friends...don't risk losing your job! Bright side: At least you can't drown your sorrows in a bowl of ice cream! THANK GOODNESS FOR THAT!

In my pics I seem almost tiny, but I don't see it in the mirror - just in pics. I feel like I could lose more, but I am somewhere between 168 and 174 and 5'11". Something like 70% of the population at my height is heavier than me. I will just keep looking at the pictures and hopefully something will click. I look down and still feel like I could lose a lot more and that is JUST NUTS. I am not sure it will ever really click.

The really weird thing are the jean sizes. I am like what the hell is a 31 or 30? What does that mean? I am still confused. I did just go from a 31 to 30 and fit in size 8 of some brands...size 10 for others. I have to get the thigh lift! My thighs are yucky too. I can wear bermuda shorts

These are the best bars I have tried to date.

About 3/4 down I do get the I don't want anymore. They are quite big bars!

I think I had lost 70 at 4.5 months. You lose the most in the first six months. I am going on month 13 and am still losing, but my restriction is still crazy and I am only hungry sometimes. I probably ate 600 to 800 calories at 6 months, but everyone is different. I didn't work out, and I never stalled. Things will slow down so that is why the first six months are so important to get the bulk of the weight off.

Just watched it! While Morgan Spurlock may be pushing a vegan agenda, I do think there is a problem with our food industry. Hormones, GMO's, anti-biotics...I am not going to be vegan, but I do like organic meats. McDonald's uses fillers in their meats...Gross. I just like fresh foods. I also wonder if my success with the VSG is also due to the fact that I pretty much ate Protein most of the time. I do eat sugar, but not a lot! I eat chips sometimes, but not a lot! I don't know what is right or wrong, but the paleo diet seems right.

I think there are no set standards and doctors have all sorts of different rules. Some people are allowed to eat right after surgery and some follow a stricter diet. Some drink sodas and some do not. While I have a great deal of respect for doctors I feel I still have to do research and know for myself what I should do because only I know my body. I didn't follow the liquid diet because the liquid diet is to help reduce the size of your liver pre surgery. My liver function is normal. I cut back and did not go crazy, but I also did not go liquid all the way. I lost 6 pounds that week I don't drink soda. There are people on here that do. The theory is it could stretch your sleeve. I am not sure if the doctor's are right, but I don't mess with soda just in case they are. Many people say soda is ok, but I am too chicken to take that risk. I don't do everything everyone tells me and I question the system a lot, but I know too many times where my grandfather would be like no you asshold doctor I have this and they wouldn't listen. A eye doctor blinded him, he had a heart attack while the doctor was telling him it was a panic attack. I will never be an uninformed patient.

3. I probably could have had bypass or the band, but I was really scared of those two surgeries. The day I applied for care credit, thinking I was going to get the bypass surgery, is the same day I found out about the sleeve. The only doctor who took care credit was Dr. Salameh and it was on his site that he spoke about the sleeve. I was sold immediately! Not one doubt about the sleeve, not for one second!

4. I miss nothing about my former life. Nothing. I was a slave to food and now I can actually keep a pint of ice cream in the freezer for a long time. It is liberating. I can eat whatever I want, but just not a lot of it. I don't miss anything. Even right after surgery I didn't miss anything. I occasionally miss chugging Water down quickly...I loved fluids...but now I can do better than sip, just no gulping. I don't even really miss fountain sodas. I sometimes want a ginger ale, but the thought passes quickly.

1. I had no choice but to self pay.

2. I am so glad I had good credit and get most of financed through care credit. If I couldn't get the financing I would have felt hopeless or would have really starting saving all my $.

I was following the liquid diet, but then I read on here that a lot of folks didn't even have a pre-op diet. I did follow it, but not all the way. I had really good blood work so I wasn't too worried about my liver.