21 yrs old and one week post-op!

[melng22 0]

Hello Everyone,

I am new to this site, and think it is an excellent form of communication for the VSG community. I am 21 yrs old, and recently found out at the beggining of this year that I have type 2 diabetes. My starting weight was 315 huge lbs., and I am now down to 269 lbs. one week post-op as of today. I have very mixed emotions about all of this. I was so determined to have weight loss surgery for about 3 years, I tried the whole 1-800-GET-THIN crap and it was a scam. I tried going through different places to finance and it never worked out. So, I finally changed my insurance through my employer, I got Kaiser Permanente and I found out through a co-worker who has been on the same journey as me that they have a Bariatrics Program; which is a 3 month program providing you with all the info you need about the Gastric Bypass, VSG, and lap-band. I did the classes and finally had my surgery. I was extatic and it felt so unreal because what I had been wishing for came true (nothing in my life happens that way), but now I feel like I don't know if I made the right choice, and I'm scared that people would think of me differently, and I don't want to change the person I was unknowingly. I just think I'm being very emotional and I don't know how to handle it because I'm so not an emotional person!!! So, I just wanted to ask you all to give me some feed back please! Did you feel this way? Like "OMG, I'm never going to get to eat those foods that tasted so good again!" And, "I'm not even going to be the same funny person that I've always been!" HELP please!!!

-Mel

[To Be Thin 2011 80]

Hi!

Congrats on your sleeve!

I find since my surgery that I have many mixed emotions like you - same thing... I think what your feeling is normal to have concerns.

Maybe I hid my true emotions more b/4 the surgery, maybe I just coped with things by over eating... dunno...

I get what you say about the old you, the fun you... I feel that way too and that people look at me differently now. I will be glad when my head catches up to my body and I begin thinking differently, more self confidence, etc...

Good Luck to you...

[razrbakcrzy 9]

You know I did not have that feeling at all. I can eat anything I want just, a much smaller protion of it. I just last weekend had buffalo wings and spinach dip at Fridays. Now I had about; 5 chips with dip and 3 or 4 wings and I was done. Before the sleeve, I could have eaten the whole order of both and drank three large beers with it..

Not anywhere near that now....