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Great picture!

You're doing awesome.

Love reading posts from those further out.

Wow...that's awesome!

It seems so slow going that I wonder if I'll ever get there!

Did you ever feel like that in the beginning?

That is fabulous!

I'm 5 weeks out and I've only lost 22 lbs since surgery plus the 24 I lost before surgery.

I did do measurements last night and I've lost 24.25 inches since the night before surgery.

Pretty weird.

Well I talked to my surgeon's office today and she told me they want me to stay on the chewables for at least 3 months.

U G H.

Awesome loss so far!

Congratulations and glad things are going well for you!

When is your hubby having his surgery?

moving right along huh?

Sounds like you're doing great!

Congrats!

WOW! I wish they had something like that here!

Even though I"m not much of a cook, I still think that would be fun!

I'm glad you called! Thanks for the update too.

I was just worried because my nut made a pretty big deal about not eating the skin off of fruit for a good long while. I'm glad your doc says that's not a problem for you!

I can swallow pills just fine....I really want to know if I can go back to the swallow kind. I think I'm going to call my surgeon's office and ask them or wait until my next appt. in a few weeks.

I didn't even take them the last two nights because I was already not feeling good because of the pain I'm in due to my back. UGH.

Today is 4 weeks out for me....my one month will be on the 28th.

I hit my goal of losing 20 lbs in the first month this morning for a total of 44 lbs lost since I started on this journey.

I'm still quite tired most days but my back is out and being in constant pain is just exhausting.

Other than that everything is going great and I'm loving my sleeve!

Wow...that's AWESOME!!

That's a lot of weight in a short amount of time!

Way to go!

Congrats!

Congratulations!!

Welcome to the "other side"! :crying:

Are you sure you can have that? The skin?

well I took a Robaxin...hopefully it will help some.

I'm a big whiny baby tonight. Can't get comfortable at all...this sucks!

Does anyone know if it's ok to take a muscle relaxer?

I bent over to pick some clothes up off the floor this morning and felt my back go out. I went to a new chiro today and he took a bunch of x rays.

He actually thinks we can reverse some of the damage of the degeneration and also the bulging disc. He noted that my right hip is lower than the left and that the pelvis on the left side is tilted and that my left shoulder is higher than the right and rounding to the front instead of straight. Also the curves in my spine aren't where they're supposed to be since I'm all out of whack.

What does all that mean? EXTREME PAIN!

I normally don't like to take things that make me feel cuckoo but I'm really hurting here.

Glad to hear everything is going well for you.

That's awesome about your dad coming home early.

Lan..I just realized how close to your goal you are!! Awesome!

Did you use the same scale to weigh both times?

Did you have a pre-op diet and lose any then?

I think those who don't have a pre-op diet or just do one day of Clear Liquids the day before surgery tend to have a big loss right off the bat.

I lost 24 lbs pre-op. I came home from the hospital weighing 13 lbs more than I did when I went in and by my 1 week post op appt. I had lost that plus 8 lbs.

But I know several others who had lost a lot more than 8 lbs but they hadn't lost anything pre-op.

Did you really mean to type 22 crackers?

Congrats that's awesome!

I think it's normal to fluctuate...it could be Water retention.

wow...your post op plan progresses you pretty quickly to soft foods, huh?

I'm almost 4 weeks out and have just started being able to have those things.

I was so happy to get to that point too.

Sounds like you are doing great...congrats!

I've seen this question posted plenty of times and I've yet to see anyone answer that they were sorry they had the surgery.

:crying:Hey Gang, thanks for your prayers & thoughts. I made it through surgery without a hitch. I thought I was home free...until they took away the morphine. I was doing soul train walks down the hallways around 3am LOL. I'm home and was sent with tylenol w/codine. I'm in pain. Don't know if I'm just wimping out or need something more for tonight? Any thoughts out there???:001_smile: Happy Destiny

What KIND of pain are you in? Is it incision pain? Is it internal soreness? Is it gas pain?