AshleyIrene

Thought I'd update since I haven't been on here for a good while. Very happy with my success. Right now I seem to be at a slight bump in the road, having really bad acid which is causing vomiting.. So it's been very hard to eat and I've gone back to the first stages of just soups and really soft foods. Also have an endoscopy this week so everything sould be cleared up soon. Besides that I feel pretty amazing and have lost about 120lbs since my journey started in the beginning of march. I really never remember being this small. Pre-op 328lbs Surgery (march30) - 308lbs Current weight - 212lbs Height - 5'9 I was busting out of a 24 size pants and wearing 3x tops when I first started.. I'm now in a size 14/16 pants and can wear a L/XL shirt. Best Choice I ever made for myself. Very proud of all of our successes!! Great job everyone! Ps. I can't explain how awesome it is to cross my legs like a lady!!! I sometimes do it while I'm driving just because I can! Haha.

WOW!!! your so beautiful!! GREAT job!!

I'm about 10 weeks post op. started at 330lb now down to 264lbs at 5'9. Thankfully no complications and feeling pretty good

There is also a similar product like chacha discribed. But I found it at costco. I wear one of the slimming tanks everyday, it's a lot more comfortable then spanks.

I’m feeling awful, not physically but emotionally. I am 2 months post op today. My first month post op I felt great. I recovered quickly & was learning quickly how to eat and drink afterwards. My sleeve seems to like just about anything unless I eat too fast and don’t realize it. Emotionally after surgery I also felt amazing. I felt better than I had in years. I finally felt like I was seeing progress and started to feel a lot better about myself and I felt as if I was dealing with my relationships with people a lot better (I always felt very anxious around people). I felt so confident about the decision that I made, that I decided that it shouldn’t be kept a secret. If someone asked where I’ve been or how I had been losing weight so quickly, I had no problem telling them about the surgery. It was the first time in a long period of time that I didn’t spend a couple days crying over things that hurt me, it felt freeing and I felt on my way to this ‘new’ life. But the last two weeks I have felt absolutely awful. I feel like everyone’s treating me like crap. My boyfriend was very supportive when the surgery happened but now continually tries to offer me food that I shouldn’t be eating. We went out to eat and over dinner I wanted to talk to him about how serious it was that I change the habits I had before surgery and how I didn’t want to get sucked back into greasy, fat, fried & fast food again. I asked him if he could please just eat a little healthier around me (ex: a sandwich instead of a burger) instead of asking me to stop at a fast food place when he gets into my car if I can just make him something when we get back to my place. He still didn’t understand after this conversation what I was saying.. He thinks its ok to eat that kind of food because I “can’t eat much of it anyways”, so he thinks it does no harm. Not even five minutes after this conversation he asks if I want to split a milkshake with him. *rolls eyes* On top of this, I have also lost all of my sex drive.. I honestly don’t know if it’s because I’m finally taking birth control for the first time ever.. or because I’m fed up with all of it. Other than that my mother has never been supportive of any kind of surgery and thinks it’s easy to just jump on a treadmill and eat some carrots in order to get down to the weight you need to. I moved in with my sister 5 days before I had surgery. She has always been the All-Star of the family. Skinny, dancer, beautiful, dresses & carries herself nicely & so on. I’ve always been very envious of her and always have looked up to her. These past two weeks have had me feeling so awkward around her and her friends. I just feel like that fat kid in the corner that doesn’t have a clue. Besides everyone else, I’m really not making myself any better. I get all dolled up and look in the mirror and sometimes I just cry.. I feel like I look awful and I get such anxiety just thinking I have to go out looking this way… I don’t have much support with the decision I made besides myself. I was comfortable with that but when people, a long with your own mindset try to throw you off the wagon.. It gets really hard to try to get back on.. I honestly don’t really know how to get my mind ‘back in the game’. Don’t get me wrong.. I’m still having all my protein and vitamins throughout the day. The only thing that has lacked recently is my exercising. I guess I just needed to vent.. but mostly was hoping for some feedback.. any suggestions on how to get out of this rut…

Thank you to all of you for your uplifting advice and comments. I stopped taking my bc until I go to appointment next week and see what other options are out there for me. I also saw my counselor today, who gave me a lot of good advice and helped me figure out my triggers through out this process with WLS and myself. This community is so wonderful, it felt like the only place I could go to feeling the way I did. I appreciate this site so much and the people here. So thank you all so much and best wishes to you and your journey! As far as the boyfriend I'll just have to see how it goes.. I've invited him to join the process with me since he is very over weight himself. But he's declined. Change is hard for anyone and you can only change yourself. Xoxoxo.

Everyone's plan is different but I was cleared for it at four weeks. I got the kashi cereal. I usaully measure out half a cup with nf milk.

Thats so great! You go girl, congrats!

Trust me, others can see the difference. I was sleeved the same day & my starting weight and loss are about the same as yours. I can't notice much besides in pictures and a cple things feel looser and are a lot more comfortable to be in. Your doing a great job, keep it up! Take pictures and I promise you'll start seeing some changes! Since we're "surgery twins" keep me updated on ur success

Thanks ladies for all your suggestions and encouraging words! I guess I do just have to take it a little slower and focus on myself. I only mention the excerise thing because where I have gotten my surgery at, they have a two year after program which involves nutrition and fitness updates monthly. I just had my first appointment with both and they wanted me to add atleast three days of excerise. I thought I could do it because it's just one hour out of the day but one hour is a lot in this busy world. But I will just have to learn how to slowly fit it into my life. Thanks again

I'm having a hard time trying to fit everything in. I'm about a month post op & I'm trying to add exercise into my life, three times a week, along with trying to plan out my meals each day so I can take them with me. More often then not I just end up taking Protein shakes which would be fine but I work 6+ days a week & some days 12+ hours. So honestly the Protein Shakes and Water aren't really filling me, nor giving me much energy. I also really need this energy so I'm able to exercise. I'm twenty-three, a owner of two businesses, a mother to three very cute dogs and I'm also trying to keep a relationship with my boyfriend of three years afloat. Along with trying to keep famly and friends intact. So how do you fit it all in? Before I was sleeved it was so easy for me to order out or go pick up food eat in my car while driving but now I just want nothing to do with that food. & exercise was never been a problem because I never did it, lol. Any tips or suggestions?

I have the same problem. It especially sucks when you eat peanuts or something dry and you can't drink anything afterwards. I never know what to choose. I guess it's just something to get used to but definitly one of the hardest things for me as of right now.

As everyone else said, WALK But also the doctors and nurses told me to cough often along with deep breathing. Hope you get to feeling better soon!!

Hello my fellow sleevers, I had my surgery on Mach 29th. I'm still getting used to all the changes but so far im very happy with my decision! This last week I had went to my nieces school concert and I was able to fit in the seat without getting stuck, it was a wonderful feeling. But what was even a greater accomplishment for me was when I put on my "only" pair of jeans that fit before my surgery (and even then they were so tight they looked like skinny jeans), are loose and keep falling off. I also fit into 7 more pair of jeans that I had hiding away! I just love clothes so I'm so excited to be able to fit into ones I've only been able to wear once and go shopping for new ones! Thanks to all of you for your support, positivity, wisdom & humor in all your posts! It's helped me through a lot of my days. Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend. Xoxo Ashley

Thanks Kathy! Love this, it's so true! Better than shopping because you know its cute since you picked it out, lol. Your style sounds so cute now! Love the belt & skirt sitch, I cant wait to wear belts! Yea, I have a good amount of clothes were im just "in-between" so they fit around the waist but baggie everywhere else, just not flattering, lol. Hey I'll take the inches off any day, the scale is my enemy so I rely on clothes to give me truth. You go girl, keep rockin that sleeve!

Wow!!! You look amazing!!! You go girl!!

Thank you Suzanne, I'll be looking into this

I was also sleeved on this day glad you are doing so well & congrats on the loss @Esheldon ; Also glad you doing so well after a short amount of time. Best of luck on your journey!!

I've had a huge problem with head hunger. So much so that I chewed a chip up & spit it out just to get the taste. But since then I have had the realization that that's not going to help my craving for it, I would just want it more. I found drinking a lot of Water, keeping busy & chewing sugar-free gum have helped me out a lot with this.

Your right! It is a big help with with energy. Before my surgery, I would eat a lot, drink soda, energy drinks or tons of espresso shots in order to get some energy but now drinking water has somewhat the same effect without the racing heart beat or a crash later on in the day. Crystal light has been a lifesaver since I havent been able to bring myself to drink anything else. I'm to nervous about the sugar content in all the juices. What exactly is a tumbler though?

You look great, what a difference! Keep up the good work

Thanks so much for the helpful facts, more motivation to make sure I get my daily ammount of water in. #2&4 actually are true for me & drinking water has helped the "hunger pains" a lot

I'm two weeks post-op. I'm on the puree stage. I'm having somewhat of the same problem. It just feels like nothing is as enjoyable. Everything I ate pre-op tasted great to me (which is why I ate so much) but now it's as if I'm eating just to get food in me but theres no satisfaction there. Everything seems just.. bland. Fustrates me because I have so much head hunger lately that I would think as soon as I get some food in me I'd feel a lot better. I guess it's just not the foods my body is craving for.

Wow! What an amazing transformation in just one year! You look great & happy!! Congrats =)

That's great! I had mine a day after you and I've been feeling pretty good as well & my intake of a food and water is a lot better. I am down the same ammount of weight as you, give or take a pound or two. Always is nice to hear from someone who has had the surgery around the same time, keep up the good work! =)