Sometimes I Luv The Forums Sometimes Not So Much!

[Musharooni 62]

I can totally see how the forums can confuse you and make you second guess yourself, but DON'T!!! Your sleeve will make it impossible for you to overeat and, as with anything new, there is a learning curve. Immediately following the surgery, I was obsessively weighing myself--can't remember the last time I saw the numbers on the scale actually going down. Heck, to be honest, I had to buy a scale preop because before I began this journey, I did not want to know what I weighed. I realized that sooner or later the weight loss was going to normalize and I was setting myself up for disappointment with my frequent weigh-ins, so I cut myself down to a weekly weigh in.

Between week 1 & 2, I saw "only" a 6/10 of a pound drop in my weight and FREAKED. I contacted my nutritionist the next morning and, after providing her detailed menus from the week, she determined that I was way below my calorie level thereby causing my metabolism to slow way down. She also explained that I had the sleeve, not a RNY, and I would not see huge, rapid weight loss, but would instead see a steady progression--as long as I ate within the guidelines given to me (Protein and calories) and drank my Fluid and did not graze. She reminded me that this was a tool, not a magic bullet, and I was 100% in control of my destiny.

Needless to say, I'm back on track and know that I am the Captain of my ship and Master of my destiny and with this wonderful tool, I will achieve my goals and you will, too!!!

[BlackBerryJuice 349]

Honestly, I think 99% of people lose lots of weight. Yeah, if you are 350 lbs, you have to make peace with the idea that you probably won't make it to 110 lbs, but you will certainly lose way more with the sleeve than you ever would on your own, and with WAY less effort. Even for people who complain that they never reached their goal weight, you will usually notice that they've still lost staggering amounts of weight. The ~1% who fail are comprised of people whose doctors did a crappy job (leaving too much stretchy tissue from the stomach), who have major emotional issues that lead them to give up on themselves and load up on slider foods and liquid calories, and people who are cursed with a very slow metabolism.

[jubjub07 5]

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

-- Mark Twain

If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones.

-- Don Herold

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which will never happen.

-- James Russel Lowell

People gather bundles of sticks to build bridges they never cross.

-- Unknown

Some of your hurts you have cured,

And the sharpest you still have survived,

But what torments of grief you endured

From the evil which never arrived.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

-- Edgar Watson Howe

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

-- Thomas Jefferson

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

-- Josh Billings

There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.

-- Seneca

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

-- Michel de Montaigne

Pick one.

:)

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[Sharon's last chance 88]

A scarier what if would be...what if you let your fears get the best of you and miss this opportunity to change your life. Just reading about so many success stories, and that most people had the same fears before surgery have helped me get past those fears. My surgery is this Thursday and although I know it wont be easy, I KNOW I am going to be successful. Like my user name says, this is my last chance, and I refuse to let myself mess it up. I sure hope you can get past your fears and that you will have great success.

[Calicolea 38]

I KNOW I am going to be successful. Like my user name says, this is my last chance, and I refuse to let myself mess it up. I sure hope you can get past your fears and that you will have great success.

WTG Sharon...... that's the right attitude!!! Best wishes on your upcoming surgery.