Izuri

You look fabulous!

Sounds like the green-eyed monster for sure. I would confront her about it personally. I would say something like "I am happy that you notice my weight loss, I am feeling great. I have heard that you've been telling the office that I had my stomach stapled though, and I wanted to let you know that I don't appreciate it. If you would like to talk and get the facts straight, I'm happy to, but in the mean time I'd appreciate if you would refer people to me with questions about my weight." Maybe that sounds snarky - but my coworkers gossip like crazy and it drives me nuts.

Woohoo! I hope everything is going wonderfully =)

I'm about 150 pounds away from goal - but I'm going to get to 160pounds first (which is 125 pounds away) and see how I feel there. I'm not sure getting down to 135 is really realistic for me. Next poster: If you could have one superpower, what would you pick?

Oh and I forgot to add - PB sounds like a slider to me. Are you eating a lot of sliders? Maybe you need more dense proteins in your diet. Or things with more volume.

Only 98 pounds? Wanna trade? =p You are rocking your sleeve! You have lost: a small child, a big dog, 8 cats, 392 sticks of butter, 19.6 5lb free weights, I could go on forever. You have lost a ton of weight. Imagine what all that felt like on your body and you're now free from it forever. You hit a road bump, came to the forum for help - you are obviously still winning this battle - at this point you're just calling in a few reinforcements. You CAN do this. And I wholeheartedly believe that you will. A couple of ideas for hard times: - Diva's back to basics - Add more exercise - But try something new and totally different - zumba, running, hiking, salsa dancing - something that will get you reinterested in it - Search for great tasty alternatives: PB2 was a great suggestion. Look on the recipes forum, write a list of your favorite things and make a goal that over the next 2 weeks you will find a new, healthy, tasty alternative for each. Maybe it's not exactly the same, but spend some time and browse a store like Whole Foods or Trader Joe's to see if you can find something interesting. - Distract yourself: If I am bored I will eat til the sun goes down. If you are on the move, maybe it will help you too. - Get a hobby: This goes along with bored. Plus you will feel invested in something. Half of eating for me is the addiction, so finding another thing I love that is actually productive is killing 2 birds with one stone. My new favorites are drawing on the new tablet I got for my pc, learning to crochet, and trying to convince myself I love my homework =p (Totally not working) - Get a buddy: Every time you're feeling like grabbing the PB - text your buddy. If you don't have one, I am always happy to have more friends. If you do have one, or you have a friend IRL who is very supportive they can help even more. When you're having a hard time have them drag you out to a park for a walk. - Throw out the junk: If you don't have family that's going to whine about it, get rid of it. If it's too tempting to have around, then maybe it's just better off not to. The things that I can't throw out I try and hide from myself. Out of sight, out of mind. I haven't seen a donut in about 12 weeks now - and writing this post is the first time I really thought about them. Last year I used to eat one a day just about. Now they're just a faint memory like oh yeah those used to be nice. - Start a journal/write in your blog: Every time you wanna eat write about it. It's your blog, your journal, and you're free to write anything you want. Look at my blog - it's almost all whiney. And fifteen minutes after I wrote all that I had a big "PHEW!" thank goodness that's off my chest. Once it was out it was off my chest and I could start to go on with my day. I'll stop at that because I don't wanna give you like 3 pages of text - but I could go on and on. I hope at least some of it helps. You have stayed on the wagon before and you can get your butt right back on and start losing again. You are awesome. Don't beat yourself up, accept that you made some mistakes, and keep on going! =)

Everyone thinks their decision is the right decision. And it is - for them. I'm not surprised at all that they talk down about the sleeve - because for them the lapband may be right for their weight loss journey. It is interesting though. Something I hadn't really thought about. I have ventured over to the gastric plication forum to read through for curiosity before, but it's way less active. I may go look through lbtalk a bit just to read through their opinions.

I think that it would be nice to see a movement toward preventative care. We get so focused on curing people that we forget that we could avoid a number of diseases and ailments by pushing more preventative care. There is some movement toward it, but in the long run we could save ourselves far more money by preventing the disease in the first place. My surgery cost my insurance company about $20,000, but to pay for doctor visits, surgeries/amputations for necrotic ulcers due to noncompliance, hospitalizations, medications, etc for if I got diabetes would far outweigh the cost of surgery. But type 2 diabetes is preventable in a lot of people - does that mean that it should still be under the uncontrollable category? Or alcoholism? The list could really go on and on of self-inflicted ailments that are considered necessary by insurance. Personally, I don't feel that this is all that much different. Some of us are addicted to food, some of us have mobility limitations, etc. It may start out as something that is elective, but obesity is a large risk factor in an endless number of diseases. I do agree that that's how insurance companies see things like this nowadays, but I hope in the future we can see a change to them covering more preventative care - not just weight loss surgery, but other measures that help keep people healthy. OP: I would try to see if your HR has any kind of appeals process. The worst that they can do is come back and say no. I know that I - along with probably a number of people on this board - would be very interested to see the process and the results if you do. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you.

Yay!!!! Your patience paid off =) Today is officially the day you have LESS than a month til sleeve!!! Congrats =)

Lyndynojo - You look incredible in your progress pictures - and only 7 pounds from goal is incredible. Plus through your posts you are always kind and respectful while still offering your opinion. You are doing awesome, keep it up =)

Which stall? haha. Seriously though, first one was three weeks, second was a week. I'm 7.5weeks out. The drop after stall was drastic for the first one, slow for the second one. Hang in there, it happens to everyone! It will end eventually.

So I know some of this has already been said - but I feel similarly. I'm not down nearly as much as you are, but as far as what I have been able to figure out/decided about it: - The larger you are, the less difference you will be able to see/feel with losses until you are at a much lower weight. - Larger sizes have more room between sizes. - You may have been squeezing into the size you're wearing pre-surgery. So maybe they're fitting much better and you never noticed - You live with yourself every day - it's hard to see a difference when yous ee yourself every day - You may still be losing inches - measure? - Do you take pictures for progress? Maybe side by side you will see it - Have you lost from weird places? I always seem to lose weight from my bust first...I think all my 40 pounds have come from them lol It's frustrating, but there is a difference - and maybe some of it came from around your organs, which is actually even better for your health. Hang in there =)

I think this is an awesome thing. I would love to be involved in some way - like I said, I have no experience really doing web design, except home pages when I was young, but if there's any help with ideas, or compiling stuff I'd totally be up for helping. I love the friendship idea too - obesityhelp used to have a thread that would match you up with a random penpal, but I think the person kinda quit doing it. But maybe that could be something like it, like you could put in the options (ex: 100+ to lose, married, mothers, etc) and then it would give you the option to randomly match with someone or to be able to browse and pick. Anyway - if you can think of any way I can help let me know! I'm all for it.

I am still only a couple months out, but have noticed more attention from people in general. No dates yet - I haven't ventured on to online dating in quite a while. I think once I'm down about 50 more pounds I'll be ready to look into actually dating. For the time being I'm just open to possibilities - we'll see what happens. I too would love a WLS dating site. It'd be nice to be with someone who knows what I'm going through.

Are you still losing inches? Hang in there!! You will hit the other side of this stupid stall.

50 pounds is a lot! You are doing awesome!! =)

I'm so glad that he reacted well. It's such encouragement when we have those we love behind us.

Woohoo! I gotta say this cause it was the first thought that popped into my head and I hope it doesn't sound doofy or something - but your bum is shrinking! That's the last place my body ever loses weight - and the first place I always want it to. You are lucky! You look great, a big difference for 3 weeks! Keep up the great work. Plus you look sooo much happier =D

Haha - gotta love it! =)

Yay!!!!! Now all that extra cash can go to something fun maybe =) Or into an account you can save for clothes/plastic surgery/whatever else sounds good post-op.

I'm 25 and told my immediate family and told them it was okay to tell people. My mom is very close with my grandmother, and my grandmother is a chatterbox. As soon as my mom told her, my entire family knew. Like one day after she told her, I was getting messages from my cousins about it. Everyone has been really supportive. I haven't heard/seen everyone in my extended family yet, but I have a feeling they will all be happy for me. The classmates I have told in school all seem really happy for me. I just told another one of them the other day and he said that he knew I had lost a lot but wasn't sure if he should say anything - but that he was really happy for me. That was nice to hear. The only person that hasn't seemed as supportive is one teacher. I hadn't originally planned on telling her, just wanted to make her aware that I am 7 weeks post op from a GI surgery and she asked what and I told her and it was hard to gauge her reaction since I don't really know her. Either way, now she knows in case of emergency, so whatever. Oh, now that I think about it one of my friends was very unsupportive pre-op. I told him that I was doing it for my health and I appreciated his input, but that I would still be going through with it. And post-op I can tell you for sure anyone who says it's the easy way out (I got that a couple times) has NO clue what it's like =p I think it's easier to let it get through the grapevine than tell everyone up front - that way they know and if it comes up it does and if not then it doesn't really matter. I'm glad I told people, because eventually they will notice anyway and this way I've already dealt with the question of how I lost it. If they don't like it or disagree, that's fine,

Preop: 325 Day of Surgery (July 26, 2012): 321 Today: 284.8 Total loss: 40.2 pounds (including pre-op few) FINALLY hit the 40 pound mark today - I was beginning to think I'd never see it! Have had two long stalls so far. We are all doing a great job! Congratulations everyone =)

Over the years all of the research I've read on metabolism has pointed to the idea that small meals more often are better for keeping your metabolism up. The longer between meals and the fewer you have, the more likely your body will think you're going into starvation mode. What did your NUT say about this? I am surprised too, my NUT told me they want me to get six small meals in a day (3 meals and 3 snacks) and that's been difficult for me. Usually I get 3 meals and 1 or 2 snacks. On school days I only get in my 3 meals. Anyway, I wouldn't worry too much about it, if you're losing and you feel good you might wanna stay on the same pace you have been. Or you could try his opinion for a while and see how it goes. Either way 101 pounds - you are kicking butt! Keep it up =)

Yay Justine! You made it through =) It sounds like it's been a rough recovery, but it's all downhill from here. It's hard to see the good now when you're in pain, but it is there. It gets better, and before you know it you're gonna be like 6 weeks out and saying how great you feel. Congratulations!

Life has been pretty busy lately. Between school and work and having issues, there hasn't been a lot of time that I've been posting on here. I think it's been detrimental to me, so I wanted to post more. To warn you, this is going to be a bit of a rant, because I like to get stuff off my chest. I am starting to realize that my body has a pattern - and I hate it. It only wants to lose weight while I'm on my period. Not good since I was hoping I could continue my birth control through and get rid of a few periods every year. I am not losing on weeks that I am not on my period - despite having whole days of bleeding when I'm not on my period. It's so freaking lame. I am eating the right things. I am getting out doing stuff in my life and yet the scale is going up again and then wobbling, just like it did the stupid last stall. Am I going to go through this three weeks out of every month and only have one loss week per month? I really hope not, it's super discouraging. I am not even losing inches now. I was like well maybe since a couple weeks ago I've lost some inches. Nope. Zip. Zero. None. All my clothes fit exactly the same. =((( Come on body! Give me a break here! I eat like 1/1000 of what I used to, can we get back to losing??