Lizabe

Came home from the hospital Tuesday. I had sleeve May 12 and emergency gall bladder surgery May 22. I went off all pain meds today. I went to my kids band concert. I'm functioning ok yesterday was brutal. A binder and stretch pants are my best friend. I went in sat to ER when I got the pain from my gallbladder don't mess around with pain

I know how you feel I got under 200 a few days after surgery. I haven't been that low in so many years. I'm down to 193 today a week out from surgery

May 12 for me I lost 48lbs before surgery in 5 mo Down 57 lbs now all together

I am totally sold on having VSG. I also have a guy in my area that had it done with great success. So it is nice to have someone to talk to. We met at a weightloss surgery support group. Man the bypass people attacked him, it got ugly. They got so mad because he did not have all the issues that they had etc.. I found out I can get it done at a military treatment facility and I have to live there for two months after for monitoring and have to go to all the follow up appts there for a year. No big deal for me. It is only about 7 hrs away. Right now they have approved me to do it. I am just jumping through all the hoops. Going to schedule all the appts coming up here soon to get it started. I have done my refferal and pre op clearance with the pcm. They called me to today and said it was a green light. My husband has been in the military for 21 yrs he is getting a promotion to O-5 this summer that I am very proud of him. We have four kids and I have been homeschooling for 10 yrs. My kids are 15,10,6,5. I only had a weight problem after I had my children and I have been struggling. I have been in to oraganic living and natural foods for 14 yrs. I juice and have a blendtec blender. I make all of our food from scratch and my husband has to watch his cholestrol and sodium because of family history. So we have a pretty bare bones diet. Very healthy and I still can't get the weight off no matter what I try. I work out three times a day. I do eat large portions since it takes a long time for me to get full and I eat fast as well and I know I need to slow down. Even when I do it is just so hard to get it off. I think I am having the surgery in Jan. Very excited!!!:001_huh:

That will be the first thing I will have done after I lose the weight. My mom had to have it done and a breast lift. It runs in our family and it is not even an obesity thing just issue if you have kids. Mine is the worst. I will have the breast lift and pannus done together.

Thank you so much! I hope to keep you posted on this journey and I am so excited for the rebirth to come. My friend had bypass and her life has been amazing 10 mo post op. She is in her 50's and she does rock climbing, paints and hikes every where. These are things she never did before.

I have a blendtec and it is worth every penny www.blendtec.com U can get them at costco as well and they are cheaper