Jerzygurl

Most Excellent! Keep up the great work!

I'm happy with my progress!

You're taking control of your health..nothing to be ashamed of..

Being a slow loser is actually of more benefit to your body. Your skin has more time to adjust, so it will come out looking better, and you may not start losing your hair like a lot of us that have wls do. Try to think of the positives in everything. The more that you stress out about how slow you are losing, may even make the loss slower, because stress tends to put our body into starvation mode, where it will literally hold onto as much fat as it can in preparation for whatever impending doom you are stressed about is coming. This is all part of our genetics handed down from when our ancestors didn't know when the next meal was going to be. Try to stay positive. It will come off, you will look great, you will be healthier....you will be happier! good luck!

yeah...what she said...lol. oh and plus I'm a 42 yo with type II diabetes, highblood pressure,high cholesterol, sleep apnea & asthma...I raised my two children ages 25 & 22 as a single mom, I never put myself as a priority during thier childhood, because life wouldn't allow it. I became depressed with the struggle of raising my kids alone and used food as my emotional crutch...I have decided that it's time for me to focus on myself and I really want to be healthy by the time my children figure out thier life path and settle down and make me a "glam-ma" one day! Whew..that was therapeutic
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So blessed!!!!
9 months out
Start weight 246
Today's weight 135
111 pounds gone FOREVER
NEVER looking back!!!! THIS is living!! We all deserve to feel this way!!!!

Don't stress it, do what you are suppose to and you will lose lbs. Sometimes it takes a while for your system to catch up. I know we all want it to come off immediately but your body will lose, sometimes we get stuck and nothing comes off for a couple of weeks but then you may lose 4-5lbs in one week. Good luck!

Ha Ha..love the analogy.. Sound like the American government of late..lol

It took me about a month to do all the pre op requirements. The office submitted on Monday and Thursday the same week I was approved. I have Empire bcbs, Anthem. Oo and my surgery date was given to me on my first visit with the surgeon after the seminar. They said if I wasnt approved by then, the date would change. Good thing I did lol. It seems all the offices operate so differently. Good Luck! I hope you get a date soon!

Your body does things in order. It is unfathomably complex and many departments have to do their thing before the scale moves. Sometimes a sluggard in one department fails to read the memo about hurrying from the brain and takes a nap. Eventually the calorie deficit comes in and kicks his butt into action.
It is impossible to eat what you are eating and hold on to your fat stores unless you have been diagnosed with some rare condition.

I've been obese since I had my youngest kid 23 yrs ago. I have always carried my weight well and others tell me I exude confidence, but inside I have all the body shame and critical self talk. I'm so sick of the constant struggle with food and the shame cycle when I indulge. I've done a lot of work on this in therapy and processed the pros cons of surgery. On top of the mental stuff, There's the physical. I'm tired of my back, knees and feet hurting. I have high cholesterol and all the women on my family have developed diabetes by age 50. I can't do the active things I enjoy as easily when lugging around 75-80 extra lbs. I've developed a bit of a waddle. I can't wait to wear cute clothes and have curves vs rolls and lumps. The list goes on...

I don't want to end up in a motorized scooter like my BFF.
I want to get into the bathtub and know I can get out by myself.
I want to get out and go sightseeing when I travel, instead of living on the sidelines.
I want to wear boots again.

At face value it's because I lost 90 pounds over a looong three years, then stalled for a year despite trying my hardest to break the stall, and then after going on a 1200 calorie diet recommended by my doic I started *gaining* weight back. That was it. I had tried for so hard, and so long, and I feel like I gave losing weight 'on my own' my best attempt and I was sick. Sick of being fat, sick of being undesirable, sick of society not accepting me (my main motivation for losing weight at all, really), sick of chronic knee and back pain...
Overall, I'm just over being fat and everything that comes along with it. I'm a big fan of fat acceptance and health at every size, but imo health includes mental health and at my size and my size-based self imposed prison, I was verging on tossing in the towel on life in general.
I have a history of depression. I don't think losing weight will fix that by any means, but even though I'm only 5 weeks out I have no regrets and I'm so happy and so relieved that I finally went through with WLS after researching it and skirting around it for 8 or so years. Losing weight may not fix my mental perception of myself, but I'll be happy if it prevents a knee-replacement in the future.

My sister had her sleeve done in March and didn't tell anyone except her son and our parents. I was so hurt that she kept it a secret. I really do not understand not telling it. My husband and I are going to be speeded in January. I won't keep it a secret. I am proud that I am doing something for myself.

It took me FOREVER to find the perfect Protein Shake. I HIGHLY recommend Premier Protein shakes. They are in packs of 12 and have 30 grams of Protein. I can only find them at Sam's Club and with membership they are $18.88, without membership it's and extra 5 percent.

Yesterday was 10 mons since my surgery. OMG, down from size 13/14 to size 4 pants & shirts from x-large to x-small. Unbelievable.

I finally made it to the DMV to renew my drivers license. Of course I could not complete my mission on my first trip due to the fact that I had to have two proofs of address, birth and marraige certificates, and social security card, first born child, DNA sample--ok so maybe not the last two. Anyway I was finally off on a day that the DMV was open, so I made a second trip. When I got to the counter and provided the necessary information the lady behind the table began entering the data from the form...She paused. Looked at my old license, looked at my paper work, looked at me...."Have you lost A LOT of weight. It is not very often we get to subtract 100lbs from someones license." I nodded and grinned. I proceded to the vision test. It was time for the picture. When they took my picture my previous picture showed up on the screen with my new picture. "Oh my goodness!" She proclaimed, she then beckoned the other ladies behind the counter to come take a gander." I get rather embarassed when attention is drawn to me, but it felt so good to see the difference, and to know the even greater difference in confidence I now have.

Yep. Call your insurance company. In fact, you probably can go on their website and find a doctor that is in Network... If the doc is that busy and you've got everything else lined up, I say try to find someone else in your area.
Good luck.

I am sorry to hear about your sister. Leaks are just one of the known risks of this surgery, and was a risk I was willing to take given the percentages of complications.
Everyone has their own reasons for having the surgery and each of us has our own risk tolerance. If your risk tolerance is very low, then I agree, don't have any surgeries. But, for myself, my quality of life was going downhill fast. A complication of a leak or otherwise was just another risk of being morbidly obese. I was willing to take the chance to fall into the 97% of patients who don't have these types of complications.
Again, I am sorry to hear about your sister and I will keep her in my thoughts.

That is crazy, my surgeon said that I will have like 3 more appointments before surgery and its with people I have already seen!! Makes you wonder. good luck, I know how you feel, jumping through hoops like circus dog!!

Why couldn't they have prayed for me when I was eating all those pepperoni pizzas?

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