Tanyac

glad youre feeling good get some good rest!

I did great hun thank you for thinking about me my tummy is sore but i'm moving around.. i'm gassy and bloated and I haven't pooped yet, I know tmi but other wise ok. working on getting the liquids down. I get to go home on Saturday pretty excited

Going to barranquilla, Colombia to be sleeved by Dr.Cure

I'm ready! Mine is going to happen on 10/7 in Barranquilla, Colombia by Dr. Cure. I will be going back home to Chicago on the 12th where I can hope to meet some weight loss buddies or maybe join a group.

I'm getting sleeved 10/7 in Barranquilla Colombia. I start my liquid diet on Monday. I'm nervous and excited, getting that "what the hell am I doing" feeling.

I gave up craft beer. I tend to smoke when I drink and only like one ot two cigs. And when I'm drunk and in the right company I've smoked weed too. That being said, I'm looking for a different life. I want to do this surgery so I can be healthy, not be in PAIN, have energy, be athletic, feel good about myself, and look good for once in my life before I'm too old. All of the things (besides the flesh sacrifice of the stomach) the over indulgences of alcohol, laziness, food, drugs , ect... will ALWAYS BE THERE! They aren't going to stop making any of these things any time soon. There will ALWAYS be cheesecake and fried chicken and pop. Just because you don't or shouldn't indulge right now doesn't mean that you never will again. Do your body the favor and give it a chance to thrive and heal. It's a temple. I'm not judging because I've taken my temple to the hood and have had bums living in it too long lol! And it's easy for me to speak not because I'm still presleeve. I know that this os only a hell I can imagine and I haven't been through it yet so I hope I can have the strength in my conviction. Good luck and even though you can smoke and it hasn't hurt you yet, you know it hasn't helped. Later in life vices will be there waiting for us all. Just my 2

Wow 3 months did you good sweetie keep up the great work! What's your secret for the extra loss?

Thank you for the reminder of why I'm doing this :-) I love that you're my size in the b4 pic. What size did you start and are now? Bless you woman keep up the good work!

Foxy lady :-)

I feel like it's almost too good to be true, in fact I feel like I'm gonna get in the bed and they're gonna bust out laughing and say"you think you're getting away with this"! I guess I've been fat for ao long and I've made a prison out of my body. The mere thought of being a normal size it completely hysterical. I mean really it's like lane Bryant is going to send me cheesecake and death threats. It's almost to good to be true for me. I know I'm going to lose the weight and I am confident that I can stick to this new lifestyle but my little brain has a quirky imagination. Also, anyone run into not "having to be nice cuz we're fat" thing to pleae skinny people that think it's ok to walk on us cuz we let them? Have any relationships changed because of it? Just my random thoughts. I'm kinda going a little crazy with fear of the unknown. As always thank you for reading ♥ be well

I'm going to Colombia because my insurance doesn't cover it, I'm 1/2 Colombian and I have family there, the Dr I'm going to has sleeved 3 people I know personally and they highly recommended him and it's cheaper, he's only charging me 5,700 (I get the family discount). I'm so nervous and excited at the same time. I leave to Colombia on 9/21 to visit family in another city before my surgery. My aunt will put me on the liquid diet there and that helps a lot! No temptation cuz she will kick my ass lol. Colombians are famous for being on a diet. 10/7 is coming up quick! 30 day count down

I haven't been sleeved yet but hell yeah I wanna get hit on! I can't wait to see people I haven't seen in like 2 years and have my "suck it" expression on my face! I live in Chicago I can't wait to be skinny and go to a bears game in a tight walter Peyton jersey and jeans. I'm married and I can't wsit for my hubby to be proud of me and show mw off

Did anyone have ulcers before the vsg? If so what if any impact did it have on your surgery date and how did you get rid of them? Mainly asking because I'm self pay and I haven't done my endoscopy yet and I have a history of ulcers

I have a surgery date 10/7. I live in Chicago I could use somebody! :-)

I'm getting bigger and bigger by the day.. stepped on the scale and it read 322 lbs. I'm dying on the inside and out. My DH sees my face and his heart is breaking for me, all he says is "this is why we're doing this baby". I'm not gonna sit here and say that I've been doing any sort of diet, because I can't. I've been eating the things I'll never eat again. As I eat it and taste it I look at the food and think how the hell did I do this to my body!? For this? I gave up so much of my life to my fat? I don't know what is wrong with me, I'm in so much pain my body is screaming at me every time I move. I hurt when I lay down too. My biggest fear is that I'm going to be this way always, that the surgery isn't going to work. I'm scared that I'm so friggin huge that even after the surgery and after I lose some weight it won't be enough to be in a normal size. I'm tired of being stared at I'm exhausted of feeling like a failure and a quitter. I've done and failed every diet I've tried. I just want so bad for this to work I want the hunger to go away. I want to eat just to survive. I really want this action to be a goodbye letter to my finding comfort in the 5 minutes of flavor in my mouth. Like it's the solution to every problem in my life. Oh you're mad? What do you want for dinner? I think deep down that I just maybe can't string positive thoughts about my body image because I've always doubted myself. I really want that size 8 has anyone ever gone from 322 to 150? Is this even possible? I'm also scared to death of being a deflated fat girl. I'm afraid that I'm still going to be out of energy just from going up the stairs and walking. Im scared that I'll still be in pain and I'll be in bed because it's hard to be active. I'm sorry I know I'm whinging and this all sounds so negative but it's been a hard day this is the day that I have honestly been my biggest and I'm tired of seeing the number go up. Please get here 10/7!!!! Thank you for reading. I'm very grateful that this site exists.

Thank you Mrs.Fuller, I think we kinda look alike and i have to admit that in this pic i had professional hair and make up done. I won a contest, I am not one of those lucky housewives from Bravo tv that has people come to the house every day lol

OMG! thank you so much! I really needed this Y'all! K you look amazing!! All I can say is WOW! Yes, I agree, counseling is in my future and you're absolutely right Laura-Ven I do need to stop already I'm very blessed that I'm about to have this surgery and all the support I'll have with it. thank you again y'all, I feel a lot better already.

Thank you all for your responses. I'm so grateful to have the feedback. I'm very excited about the "full feeling". I know that my cravings may or may not go, I'm just going to have to deal if they don't. I'm looking forward to exercising again, I live in Chicago and I used to run along the lake and loved it. I agree even when I was 250 I felt fabulous and I looked pretty okay too As far as the "deflated fat girl" thing goes, it's mainly because I've always had big boobs & curves and I've grown attached to them over the years and I feel like besides the food it's another comfort I'm giving up. My DH said he will "buy" me some if they go away and he assured me that we will have a "tit" jar (sorry if this offends) that all the money I save from going out to eat and my "treats" will pay for a mommy makeover and even if i didn't I'll be happy to be saggy and feeling great. I'm planning on doing a lot of working out I'm looking forward to reintroducing food into my life, I like the fact that my taste buds will change. My fear is that everything with be the same I know it's irrational. it is just a bad day I'm self-pay because my insurance doesn't cover wls. Just wait till they get the bill for my new knees (I'm also emotional because I suffered from endometriosis for many years and I recently had a total hysterectomy (including ovaries) and I gained some of this weight as a direct result of being in menopause) I'm going to Colombia S.A. for the surgery. My surgeon is Dr. Cure in Barranquilla. I'm very lucky that I have family in Colombia that I can stay with and I'll be with my DH as well. I didn't mean to sound vain about being a size 8, it's just a number just like the scale, I know that the numbers on the lab results are the most important. It's just a dream to be a size 8 if you've never been there thank you all again for listening to me, I promise to pay it forward! I feel so much better now knowing i'm not alone in this. i don't want to go back to the food. i really never want to see it again. I'm happy to leave it behind. I'm just praying that I'm strong enough in my convictions.

I'm getting mixed anxious/excited/scared/joyful I'm going to be exhausted by the tine the 7th gets here!

Hello all! I'm self pay so I actually don't know who to talk to about this but I'm 5'5" size 24/26 315 lb I'm guesstimating that I'll hopefully be right under 300 on the day of surgery 10/7/13. I'm thinking that I hope to make it to 170 when it's all said and done and be a 12/14. I feel like I'll never be in single digit sizes. Has anyone my size gotten down to like a 8? And if you are a size 8 how much do you weigh?

Congratulations! Great job :-) how is the food going down?

Did anyone actually get "taller" after the sleeve? I feel like being so fat has kinda smooshed me down over the years and when I starting gaining I was only 18 and 5'5". Either way it's nothing a pair of heels can't fix :-) I am doing this surgery because I NEED to, being in constant pain physically and emotionally combined with starting to snore is scary. Getting my sexy on is just a major bonus.

AMEN!!! I wanna be a size 8 sooo bad! I want my tall boots and high heels! I wanna wear tight jeans tank tops and cowboy boots to summer festivals and be stared at cuz my a $$ is so damn fine yes for once I wanna be looked at! And I wanna look like that for a looooonnng time so yes, for my health too! I really I wanna be 160 and I'm starting at 300 has anyone lost that much and how much does one weigh at a size 8?