Heyher

My consult is the 16th too!!!!! Did the seminar in July. Had my pcp meeting last week. Go for psyche eval tomorrow. Get blood test Saturday. Then I get to go back to pcp to get my referral next Friday!
Getting sleeved in sept would be so awesome !! Good luck!

So I am sorry if this upsets anyone, but before you say "I only lost 20lbs" or "I only lost 2lbs this week" maybe take a step back and remember the excited thrilled feeling you got when you hit 20lbs at WW. Or how great it felt to go down 2lbs in one week with Atkins...
Just remember this is a tool, and you get out what you put it. Also remember there will be stalls. This is a tool to help us lose the weight. It's hard not to be discouraged, but maybe count each day with your sleeve as a victory. If you tumble, pick yourself back up and we have this amazing gift that each day is a new opportunity to do the best we can. One step and one pound at a time. Marathon... Not a sprint.
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To get my toe ring off I use windex. As goofy as it sounds it really does work.

Yeah I'll have to take mine out. Fiancé is bummed, be he agrees a healthier me is worth it. Had mine three years, so who knows how fast it might close.
But don't want the catheter getting tangled up either.
And if I decide, I can always have it redone.

So I am sorry if this upsets anyone, but before you say "I only lost 20lbs" or "I only lost 2lbs this week" maybe take a step back and remember the excited thrilled feeling you got when you hit 20lbs at WW. Or how great it felt to go down 2lbs in one week with Atkins...
Just remember this is a tool, and you get out what you put it. Also remember there will be stalls. This is a tool to help us lose the weight. It's hard not to be discouraged, but maybe count each day with your sleeve as a victory. If you tumble, pick yourself back up and we have this amazing gift that each day is a new opportunity to do the best we can. One step and one pound at a time. Marathon... Not a sprint.
:-)

I'm sorry, but that is the absolute stupidest thing I have ever heard of. Honestly, anyone who does that is just asking for problems.

WHAT??? I am a smoker who is struggling to quit. Third times the charm. Couldn't imagine STARTING after surgery.
Smoking doesn't suppress appetite. It doesn't increase metabolism. There is SUGAR in the cigarette. Yup. In the tobacco, on the paper, on the filter. Ever wonder why it leaves that brown spot in the ash tray? It caramel. Literally burnt sugar. so how does decreased lung function with sugar spikes stimulate weight loss. That is such an outdated myth iris laughable.
Nicotiene isn't as addictive as the habit or "ritual" of smoking. Those "cravings and withdraws" have the same exact sensation of hypoglycemia. So if they start, what will they replace the habit with? The only motion that mimics the act of smoking is, yes you guessed it, eating. All the bad toxins in the smoke...
Sorry, but why the h-e-double hockey stick would someone use that as a weight loss tool? Take up Zumba or yoga for faster weight loss. Add in lots of Water, and that is WAY better then inhaling tar, arsenic, sugar, and every other poison used in there.

Wow, no offense here but that is absolutely obsurd! Why would anyone want to take such a drastic measure (VSG) to get healthy just to start smoking? I have never heard of that, but I am completely shocked anyone would consider that.
Now, I do understand if you were a smoker before surgery and had a hard time breaking the addiction, but to just start smoking is sheer craziness in my opinion.
Just my 2 cents...

So I am sorry if this upsets anyone, but before you say "I only lost 20lbs" or "I only lost 2lbs this week" maybe take a step back and remember the excited thrilled feeling you got when you hit 20lbs at WW. Or how great it felt to go down 2lbs in one week with Atkins...
Just remember this is a tool, and you get out what you put it. Also remember there will be stalls. This is a tool to help us lose the weight. It's hard not to be discouraged, but maybe count each day with your sleeve as a victory. If you tumble, pick yourself back up and we have this amazing gift that each day is a new opportunity to do the best we can. One step and one pound at a time. Marathon... Not a sprint.
:-)

So I am sorry if this upsets anyone, but before you say "I only lost 20lbs" or "I only lost 2lbs this week" maybe take a step back and remember the excited thrilled feeling you got when you hit 20lbs at WW. Or how great it felt to go down 2lbs in one week with Atkins...
Just remember this is a tool, and you get out what you put it. Also remember there will be stalls. This is a tool to help us lose the weight. It's hard not to be discouraged, but maybe count each day with your sleeve as a victory. If you tumble, pick yourself back up and we have this amazing gift that each day is a new opportunity to do the best we can. One step and one pound at a time. Marathon... Not a sprint.
:-)

So I am sorry if this upsets anyone, but before you say "I only lost 20lbs" or "I only lost 2lbs this week" maybe take a step back and remember the excited thrilled feeling you got when you hit 20lbs at WW. Or how great it felt to go down 2lbs in one week with Atkins...
Just remember this is a tool, and you get out what you put it. Also remember there will be stalls. This is a tool to help us lose the weight. It's hard not to be discouraged, but maybe count each day with your sleeve as a victory. If you tumble, pick yourself back up and we have this amazing gift that each day is a new opportunity to do the best we can. One step and one pound at a time. Marathon... Not a sprint.
:-)

So I am sorry if this upsets anyone, but before you say "I only lost 20lbs" or "I only lost 2lbs this week" maybe take a step back and remember the excited thrilled feeling you got when you hit 20lbs at WW. Or how great it felt to go down 2lbs in one week with Atkins...
Just remember this is a tool, and you get out what you put it. Also remember there will be stalls. This is a tool to help us lose the weight. It's hard not to be discouraged, but maybe count each day with your sleeve as a victory. If you tumble, pick yourself back up and we have this amazing gift that each day is a new opportunity to do the best we can. One step and one pound at a time. Marathon... Not a sprint.
:-)

So I am sorry if this upsets anyone, but before you say "I only lost 20lbs" or "I only lost 2lbs this week" maybe take a step back and remember the excited thrilled feeling you got when you hit 20lbs at WW. Or how great it felt to go down 2lbs in one week with Atkins...
Just remember this is a tool, and you get out what you put it. Also remember there will be stalls. This is a tool to help us lose the weight. It's hard not to be discouraged, but maybe count each day with your sleeve as a victory. If you tumble, pick yourself back up and we have this amazing gift that each day is a new opportunity to do the best we can. One step and one pound at a time. Marathon... Not a sprint.
:-)

So I am sorry if this upsets anyone, but before you say "I only lost 20lbs" or "I only lost 2lbs this week" maybe take a step back and remember the excited thrilled feeling you got when you hit 20lbs at WW. Or how great it felt to go down 2lbs in one week with Atkins...
Just remember this is a tool, and you get out what you put it. Also remember there will be stalls. This is a tool to help us lose the weight. It's hard not to be discouraged, but maybe count each day with your sleeve as a victory. If you tumble, pick yourself back up and we have this amazing gift that each day is a new opportunity to do the best we can. One step and one pound at a time. Marathon... Not a sprint.
:-)

Went PCP, and he is behind me getting the surgery!! I get blood test next week and have to set up psych eval before I go back on the 10th. He will give me the clerence letter at that time to take to pre-op on the 16th!!!

I'm so excited I met with Dr Yu here in Houston yesterday and i have all my nut classes set up as well as my psych eval. I'm so ready to get this ball rolling! I'm so thankful for this app gettin to read all of yalls journeys has been so encouraging!!
I've been told that if all goes well with Cigna (fingers super crossed) I could be sleeved as early as October!
Also, a little fun and amazing thing I learned yesterday with JUST giving up cokes I've lost 10 pounds in a couple weeks!!! Yay! Anyways thanks for reading this if you did and best of luck to everyone

Stopping smoking starts over tomorrow. Not gunna beat myself up because this is fricking HARD!!! Just pick myself off dust off the smoke and ash and start over.
:-/

Stopping smoking starts over tomorrow. Not gunna beat myself up because this is fricking HARD!!! Just pick myself off dust off the smoke and ash and start over.
:-/

OMG I'm 37! I totally had to ask my family- oh oh

Good things come to those who wait.
Good luck!!!

Just want to ask for prayers for my fellow coloradans who were affected by last nights tragedy.

Just want to ask for prayers for my fellow coloradans who were affected by last nights tragedy.

Just want to ask for prayers for my fellow coloradans who were affected by last nights tragedy.

Just want to ask for prayers for my fellow coloradans who were affected by last nights tragedy.