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I just checked this morning and it's 2 days away from a month (banded 10/10). I've lost 15 lbs. I haven't had a fill yet but do still feel some restriction (seems to come and go) and I'm pretty mindful about what I stick in my mouth. The fact that I spent so much money is a pretty motivating factor when I think about going overboard with food. I haven't been able to bring myself to get on the torcherous treadmill yet though and that would probably help accelerate the process. God I hate exercising.

I had my surgery on Oct 19. I weighed 277lbs then. Today, 10 days post-surgery, my bathroom scale reads .... drum roll please....260lbs. I am very skeptical... and since I have an appt. with my surgeon tomorrow, I'll wait for him to confirm it. I started my "mushy" period on Tuesday and all I have been eating is oatmeal in the morning and homemade bean Soup (Goya) for lunch and dinner. I ran it by my dietitian and she approved it because of the Protein in the bean.

I haven't post anything since my surgey on April 10, 2013. I was sleeved with Dr. Aceves in Mexicali. Amazing doctor and great experience. Let say these past few weeks have been the hardest. Still not able to get in my protein or water. Started puréed yesterday, went well. I have lost 20 lbs since surgey date. I weighed 187 lbs the day of surgery also 5'2" tall. I am happy but also miserable. I just hope it gets better. I have days when I regret I had surgery. My husband very very supportive but it's soo hard when you have no energy. Tell me it will get better.

My preop diet started after my first visit, so I was on it for 10 months prior. Lost almost 45 pounds, so that wasn't so bad.

I have so much pain on my left side more than 4 weeks out. Went to the doc last week. Had an upper GI anc blood test. Ruled out leak and infection. But the pain is still unbearable. I couldn't return to work as scheduled. back on Narcotics. And to top that all, I have only lost 10 pounds so far since surgery. So sad and depressed! Any ideas for managing pain? PLEASE HELP!

Your story is similar to mine as well. Lost 10 lbs before surgery. I was sleeved December 7th 2016. I have lost an additional 43 lbs which is 50% of the xcess weight. Started working out, jogging, and yoga. I feel amazing. I agree best decision EVER! Congrats on your success and keep up the good work. Hard work=success. Sent from my iPad using the BariatricPal App

My surgeon warned me that I could feel a little depressed after surgery . Well... I’m not feeling necessarily depressed but so frustrated with everyone around me. My patience is at an all time low. I rarely fight with those at home. Typically glass 1/2 full type of girl. My grandchildren moved out 1 year ago so it’s just the 4 adults left here at home. I’m the one who has for the last 10 years been the “mommy” to all of us. I run the day to day “operations “, do all the cooking shopping etc. I’m the matriarch of my family . In general I do feel frustrated with the others on a regular but yesterday I kind of blew up... 1st yelling at them.... then crying. Holy moley !!! THATS NOT TYPICAL. Honestly I was a little justified because I wasn’t getting some of the help I needed but my delivery was definitely out of character! So yes.... we can have have some emotional upheavals . The temporary hormone changes are real!! On a positive.... today I’m one week out from sleeve & down 9 lbs. I’m getting better every day at taking all my meds. For a few days that was rough. I’m getting in my protein & my fluids. Thank you all for listening!!! 👍👍👍

had covid test- i was scared ass hell. however when they called me i told i suffer from anxiety and panic attacks . they has me supervisor nurse and she said we will hep you. we will do the throat swab or you can have blood talk throat was fine in and out in 10 secs

I am only 10 days out today and lost 15 pounds. Excited about that.

Hi there, I was banded Dec 13, 2011 at 225 lbs, I quickly hit 175 on August 1, 2012. I then slowed down weight loss wise, it took me another year to get to 160. It was a very easy surgery and recovery. I just followed my Drs rules about protein, water and exercise, and so far I have'nt had any problems. I love my band !!! As far as my average daily diet ? I can eat 90 % of what I ate before, I eat fairly healthy, mostly home cooking. We eat out maybe 1-2 x a month. So, here goes.........6:30 am - hot tea, 8am Belvita breakfast biscuts (4 in a pkg) and a piece or 2 of turkey jerky. 10 am Swiss Miss ( made with water), & 4 wheat thins w/ PB. Lunch- usually fish, chicken, or small piece of meat, with fruit or raw veggies, Or today spinach salad with chicken , strawberries, tiny amt of cheese and almonds. 4pm -snack , small fruit or cookie (sigh.....my sweet tooth attack), 6 pm same as dinner. Very easy, no weird foods etc. Hope this helps !! Im very glad I was banded, im healthy and happy again !! Good luck !!

I'm going in on July 1st too!! One week from today!! I'm 3 days into my required 10 day liquid diet; feeling a little bit in a "fog", but not as hungry or cranky as I expected to be. I had a couple "food funerals", but didn't go overboard with quantities when I did. I gave up caffeine, alcohol, and carbonation just a couple weeks ago, and have been cutting back on sugar but didn't fully cut it until I started the pre-surgery diet. Good luck to you! I'm feeling very nervous and hopeful too.

I just got banded yesterday 10/25. I am trying to stay up and moving around but I am still very groggy from the anesthesia. I still have over half of my protein drink to get down today, but I have had not problem sipping water all day. I feel like I just finished 500 sit-ups. I get a little down when I think about the next full week of just clear liquids but my husband keeps reminding me that this part is only temporary. I am hoping to return to work 11/08 but today I am torn between staying up and pushing myself or just lay around and rest for the next couple days.:thumbup:

@llali82. Congrats. My very first consult was with Dr. Spiegel. He did seem kind of cold but their process seemed like it was very fast. He wanted me to get the sleeve because I used to be a power lifter and carry a lot of muscle mass. They just didn't take my insurance. The Army base I am going through has already contacted me three times in a week and set all of my appointments. My last appointment for the checklist will be June 10.

hi , i to am new to this site-i have been waiting on my date for a couple of months and to my surprise i received a call on 11/22 to let me know my surgery will be on 12/6 wow 12 days from now-anxiously i have been waiting and now i am in shock-but i know to go into this with plenty of faith-i am also a diabetic and currently inject myself 10 times a day with insulin-so i will surely be in heaven when that daily routine will no longer be yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh can't wait.

My mom and sister had RNY 15 and 10 years ago respectively. Both drink diet pop without a problem. I'm 7 weeks vsg post op, and tried a few sips of Diet Coke. I felt awful!

Hi everyone, I feel blessed to report that I had surgery on 9/17 and I came home 9/19. I have no memory except waking up in my private room. I wanted pain meds because my belly ached. I was moderately thirsty not hungry. I have not had any problems with vomiting except with a liquid pain medicine. I stopped that and now am just taking oxy here and there. But overall I am doing very well with keeping down liquids, soups, water, jello. Home and walking up and down stairs and resting but feeling great! I lost 10lbs just doing the cleanse but haven't lost much yet otherwise that I can tell. I am taking gas-x around the clock but the pain is minor. I hope everyone else is doing just as good!

Who doesn't have second thoughts about elective surgery? I was walking 3 miles about five days a week BEFORE surgery and since surgery I haven't done any exercise, as it's been very cold here. I've still managed to lose weight. Sure I know exercise is important for weight loss and weight maintenance and I will get back to my walking. What do you expect a personal trainer to tell you? A surgeon does surgery so they think surgery is the answer, the trainer does exercise, they think exercise is the answer, the nutritionist thinks food is the key and they are all right, but it's a balanced combination that makes this work. Some band people will use both food intake and exercise equally, some will use more exercise than less food and some will lower food intake more drastically and exercise less. We each find our own path. I thought I could avoid surgery and do this myself. I worked hard for 10 months at dieting and walking and lost 30 pounds. I then regained half and knew I was just fooling myself and I needed help. Before I could regain the other 15 pounds, I had the surgery. I have lost almost 30 pounds in a little over three months, that before took me 10 months to lose. Obviously the band is the difference I needed. Just my personal experience.

So I am now 4 weeks post-op (surgery was 02/05). I am a low-BMI bandster; paid for the surgery myself because my insurance would not. Most of my pain from the surgery is gone. It really took me about two weeks to be able to "do" for myself (getting out of bed, driving to work, etc.) I can do most things now; just still sore around my port incision. I go for my first fill on 03/12! I can tell I already have some restriction; not everything goes down easy. I had a piece of sausage two days ago that I thought was going to be the end of me! Ha! It got "stuck"- - it hurt so bad! All I could do was to wait for it to pass, which took about 10-15 min. OMG! I'm learning what I can and cannot eat!

I just started the couch to 5K on 9/15. I am amazed that I can actually do it so far...I know it will get harder, so I will keep looking at the posts to this thread for motivation. Thanks for the site info. Also today at work they are starting the biggest loser. If you participate, you throw in $25. We start on October 3rd, our first weigh in. We will have weekly Friday weigh ins. The last on Dec 19th. The winner (biggest loser) wins 70% of the pot, 2nd place gets 20%, and 3rd gets 10%. So I am gonna go for it. I am half way home and I am gonna run the rest of the way!

Op March 31, 2009 I have been taking potassium M-20 tablets almost two years along with a diuretic, torsemide 20 mg. I continued to take both during the pre-op 10 day liquid diet. My hospital admittance blood work showed a high potassium level, so I have not taken the potassium since resuming the diuretic. Obviously, my potassium needs to be carefully tuned.

I still feel fat myself. I still need to lose at least 15 more pounds. But I am wearing a size 10 pants and I am 167 lbs down from 251 lbs. but it seems I got smaller but my body is still the same shape as before. The fatter places are still fatter. I take a bath and still see rolls of fat only smaller. I want my body shape to change. In clothes I feel thinner but without clothes it is like nothing changed. Cheri

My surgery is scheduled March 1st but I will be there from Feb. 28 - March 10 because I am having some dental work done as well. So I will see you there! Do you know which hotel you are staying at? I will be at the Lucerna. Can't wait to meet you there! Tracy

I wanted to say thank you to every who has "liked" my story or left a comment. I never realized how important the comments are until today. I realized that I read over them every now and then to kindof refresh my motivation. It's been a FaceBook heavy day today and I really really realized how much the support means to me... especially on days when I'm fighting myself, I'm down, or just not motivated to exercise. In my constant search of the web to learn everything I'll ever want to know on every topic, I found an exciting sleeved foodie blog. I was so very excited to have found until I realized I had read the entire thing in about 5 minutes. This person was sleeved and in 1 year went from a size 30 to a size 22/24. I was so shocked I re-read it a few times... I checked the dates... I looked at the photos. I was very confused. She's happy with her loss, says she'd do it again in a heartbeat. And in the 1 year follow up post mentioned something about never getting around to incorporating exercise into her daily routine but "maybe one day"... I realize I have no room to criticize anyone... I know this could very well be me one of these days... all of that being said... I have to say... this has been the biggest kick in my rear to find my motivation to exercise. I'm self pay. I'll be paying my parents back for the rest of their lives for the $12,900 that this surgery cost me/us. This is a major surgery and I cannot take it lightly... and I refuse to fail because I'm too lazy to exercise. Over the last two weeks I have been walking the dogs to the lake and back (about 1.7 miles... but more importantly, about 45 minutes per trip). My little Corgi dog Zoee has been the most motivating workout partner I've ever had. Those big brown eyes guilt trip me into taking her for a walk any time I'm thinking about weaseling out of it. I'm always glad we went by the time we get to the corner of the street. Today I bought a bicycle (Huffy Cruiser) to keep variety in my options... Or really, just to keep me moving. I took it for a maiden voyage around the block (about 2 city blocks). I survived and made it home safely. Scared the boyfriend half to death because I am a very clumsy girl... he said he gave me 10 minutes to make it back home before he was going to drive around the block to find where I wiped out. LOL! Just buying the bike was an experience in and of itself... I actually had the guy ahead of me at the check out flirt with me. Such an opposite of a teen experience I had (being ridiculed by a truck full of guys for taking the dog for a walk). All in all, I am very happy with the experience. I keep finding myself making future plans that involve seeming dangerous items... I want a set of quad skates so I can get the puppies running. Once I can make the walk in about 20-25 minutes I want to start the C25K program. I want a Kayak so I can work my upper body and enjoy the lake. These are insane exercise thoughts... I feel possessed! LOL! I hope they stick around. So while I'm really sorry that sleeved foodie blogger didn't have the results that I want for myself... I am grateful for her blog... it's really been the boot in my tooshy that I needed to really realize Sleevie is not going to do the work for me... But Sleevie is my friend who will handle the food part... This will leave me open to find the physical activities that I enjoy. =)

My stomach didn't like pills of any kind for the first 3 months, so I did liquid, gummy, or crunched up tablets. I was a bit more sensitive than the norm in most ways until I was fully recovered at the 6 month mark. Now I can take my supplements in pill or capsule form, no problem. Although, when taking a handful of my herbal supplements, even 3 years later, I have to do it over the course of 30 minutes to an hour, just because of the large amount of Water it takes to get 10-20 caps down.

I was taking care of my two children the day after the surgery; well, to the extent that I took them to daycare that morning. Seems to me a 10-mo-old isn't that strenuous to care for, so unless the baby is already mobile and needs to be chased I'd say you'll be good to go the following day. Especially since there are two of you. Congratulations on your banding and good luck!!