Aussiegirl

Yay Birdie, glad you are safely on the sleeve side.
Have fun on Saturday all, I sooooo wish I could have been there Damn too many parties.
BTW if any of you read Take 5 mag, there are some articles on people with sleeves...you may recognize one of them.

Yay Birdie, glad you are safely on the sleeve side.
Have fun on Saturday all, I sooooo wish I could have been there Damn too many parties.
BTW if any of you read Take 5 mag, there are some articles on people with sleeves...you may recognize one of them.

Yay Birdie, glad you are safely on the sleeve side.
Have fun on Saturday all, I sooooo wish I could have been there Damn too many parties.
BTW if any of you read Take 5 mag, there are some articles on people with sleeves...you may recognize one of them.

Yay Birdie, glad you are safely on the sleeve side.
Have fun on Saturday all, I sooooo wish I could have been there Damn too many parties.
BTW if any of you read Take 5 mag, there are some articles on people with sleeves...you may recognize one of them.

Well today is my day due in at the hospital at 700am slept okay till 230 then have tossed and turned and dozed since! Wind is really bad in melbourne so that is to partially blame for my lack of sleep! Lol
I am excited to have this done little nervous but hey I guess that's normal!
See you guys on the flip side!

Wow Dean you look totally different to the man i met back in January. Congratulations on reaching goal. Are you going to join us at the get together this Saturday on the gold coast. misty, Lissa, Bec, Jen and i are going and everyone is welcome. Saturday 5 October, Providore at Marina mirage at 11am.

Hey guys. I've been dropping in now and again. Good to see everyone doing so well. Yesterday I reached my goal, which all seems very surreal. My numbers for those that don't know are - starting weight 138kgs, current weight 82kgs. 56kgs lost. I'm 183cms so that gives me a BMI of 25, which is what I was aiming for. My Crossfit gym had a big day today where that had a work out written for me that everyone did that turned up today. Now to work on my goals for the next 12 months. Thanks for all the support in here since November last year. Deano x

Hi everyone, I haven't been on line much recently because I have had my first full time Foster child staying with me for the past few weeks. And then my 'adopted son' decided he wanted to stay at my place for two weeks as well. I take my hat off to all of the Mums who who care for kids full time, whether that be as a Stay at home Mum or a Working Mum. I was exhausted at the end of every day and I am Retired. LOL .
Yesterday was my 5 month post op date and I have managed to lose 25 kg. I am so happy with my results and at this point I have lost nearly as much as I lost with the Band which I had for 10 years. I am halfway to my goal of losing 50 kg.
I am heading off on holidays on Wednesday morning...this is my 'Reward' for having the Sleeve. I was hoping to have lost a little more by the time I left, but as many of you will remember, I had some drama with an incompetent surgeon so my surgery was delayed by 6 weeks.
We have so many excited things planned for the holiday and I would never have dared to dream that I would even consider many of them 6 months ago. I will post pictures of my adventures when I get back.
To all those who are facing challenges, I send healing energy and ask the Angels to watch over you and help you get through the 'tough times'. To those about to embark on their 'Sleeve Journey' I hope that, like me, you can say 'I love my Sleeve'.
I look forward to posting pics of my holiday on my return.
Michele

Congrats Misty!! Well done also on the run!
Well I had my check up with my surgeon the other day. And I have now lost 28.6kgs since 20th May (pre op). 21.4kg since op 3rd June! Dr Daoud is over the moon with my weightloss. Plus all my bloods are fantastic!!
I'm feeling sooo great. Also my husband is finally coming home this weekend after 11 weeks away. I just hope he is surprised by my weightloss since we haven't seen each other lol

I ran 7.3 km in 70 minutes today!

Great work Misty - I have no doubt that you will make it into the healthy weight range no problem!
Yes Aussiegirl I agree, it is often just subtle changes to your confidence that make you happy to put yourself out there. I have found that I want to go out more and things that were an effort for me are not such a mountain to climb - even simple things like driving across town to catch up with old friends. I never wanted to do that and I think it was because I didn't want them to see how much bigger I had got since that last time they saw me...now I just want to show off how much smaller I am!
OMG - on a health note - I vomited the other day after eating a pear too fast.I think it was too fibrous for me so it just couldn't go down. Anyway, for the last two days after this episode I have found it difficult to eat - kind of a burning sensation when the food hit my stomach. I was really worried I had done some serous damage..anyway I seem to have come right. The moral of the story everyone is be very careful - here I am 14 months out and I can still make that mistake!
I am still on Nexium and tried to go off it but it was just too uncomfortable so it looks like I am one of those people that will be on it for the rest of my life. A pity but not enough to ever make me have any regrets. I will also be on osmolax for the rest of my life too...opposite problem to what you have Misty.
Other than that, all good here ...still maintaining at around 60 and eating what I like..except pears!!

You dont know what the new confident you can do. Not sure it was confidences but I did feel at ease with it, putting rumours to rest etc.
You can see all the changes people make when we feel better about ourselves

Also wanted to add, we all feel differently about telling ppl or not. I chose to tell a few people, some ppl assumed I was getting banded, as that is pretty accepted nowadays. I told people that supported me and knew my story, that at 150 kgs I had tried and failed so many times.
People often have different reactions, some out of fear for you or jealousy or any number of other reasons.
At any point you have to trust you are doing the right thing for you. Anything anyone says after that is just words.
Last year I officially outed myself, and had such a supportive reaction, of course at that stage I had lost 70 kgs and was living a healthy full life. But this I knew when I made the decision to had the sleeve.
Outing myself so to speak put to rest a lot of rumours, only you will know when and even if it should be done.

You dont know what the new confident you can do. Not sure it was confidences but I did feel at ease with it, putting rumours to rest etc.
You can see all the changes people make when we feel better about ourselves

I told everyone that would listen before and after - even shop assistants! I only had one negative reaction and the comment was they thought it was too drastic - I also had a phone call from one not so close friend which was a bit strange trying to talk me out of the surgery about a week before my op! However, like you, I was fully committed so nothing was going to change my mind - I knew I was doing the right thing for me! The first person has never commented on my weight loss so I get the impression that they think I did it the 'easy' way and didn't put the hard yards in! The other not so close friend did complement me - I think they were fearful of the operation not against what it was going to achieve.
All other people were supportive as they could tell that this is what I wanted - I think everyone is bit scared for you regarding the surgery - hell I was nervous about that too!
The sort of comments I got were - you are so brave and you are so determined and committed (if you can survive the pre-op diet then that is what I call commitment!).
Anyway, here I am 15 months later sitting at around 60kg (goal was 65) and maintaining and happy as a pig in you know what....no one has told me that I did the wrong thing!

I can't believe it's finally here... Tomorrow at 11am I "check in" to hospital! Laying here wide awake!!
I have been on Optifast for nearly 3 weeks & have lost 6kg! The FIRST time I have ever stuck to a diet for more than 2 weeks.
Can't wait for tomorrow to be over so I can get on with my new life!

Congrats!!! That's amazing!!! Have you reached goal? It's an incredible achievement!

Also wanted to add, we all feel differently about telling ppl or not. I chose to tell a few people, some ppl assumed I was getting banded, as that is pretty accepted nowadays. I told people that supported me and knew my story, that at 150 kgs I had tried and failed so many times.
People often have different reactions, some out of fear for you or jealousy or any number of other reasons.
At any point you have to trust you are doing the right thing for you. Anything anyone says after that is just words.
Last year I officially outed myself, and had such a supportive reaction, of course at that stage I had lost 70 kgs and was living a healthy full life. But this I knew when I made the decision to had the sleeve.
Outing myself so to speak put to rest a lot of rumours, only you will know when and even if it should be done.

Contract for new job now signed and I start on 2 December. I will be working at a major hotel on the Gold Coast in sales & marketing. Worked in hospitality for almost 20 years but have been out of it for the past 10. Thank goodness I now have the sleeve as I will be doing a lot of entertaining. I will still have to be selective but I am not as worried about it as I would have been pre sleeve. Love my sleeve!!!!!

Also wanted to add, we all feel differently about telling ppl or not. I chose to tell a few people, some ppl assumed I was getting banded, as that is pretty accepted nowadays. I told people that supported me and knew my story, that at 150 kgs I had tried and failed so many times.
People often have different reactions, some out of fear for you or jealousy or any number of other reasons.
At any point you have to trust you are doing the right thing for you. Anything anyone says after that is just words.
Last year I officially outed myself, and had such a supportive reaction, of course at that stage I had lost 70 kgs and was living a healthy full life. But this I knew when I made the decision to had the sleeve.
Outing myself so to speak put to rest a lot of rumours, only you will know when and even if it should be done.

Also wanted to add, we all feel differently about telling ppl or not. I chose to tell a few people, some ppl assumed I was getting banded, as that is pretty accepted nowadays. I told people that supported me and knew my story, that at 150 kgs I had tried and failed so many times.
People often have different reactions, some out of fear for you or jealousy or any number of other reasons.
At any point you have to trust you are doing the right thing for you. Anything anyone says after that is just words.
Last year I officially outed myself, and had such a supportive reaction, of course at that stage I had lost 70 kgs and was living a healthy full life. But this I knew when I made the decision to had the sleeve.
Outing myself so to speak put to rest a lot of rumours, only you will know when and even if it should be done.

Well I get to see my surgeon for a checkup today!! I'm down 27.6kgs in 19 weeks. I reckon he will be very happy! I got to my first personal goal of 115kgs (I'm now 114.9kg!) so I'm over the moon! I'll let u all know how I go. Oh and I'll see how my bloods went too


I haven't been able to wear this top in 6 years!