YES, I had weight loss surgery....ANDDDDDD
JumpingJacs
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I get so sick of people saying, "that's not healthy" Are you kidding me? It saved my life and put me in a mode of thinking that has turned me around. If you know nothing about it, why speak on it? I'm happy, healthy, relieved and sleeved! I'm not shame and where were you when I was 304lbs and hot mess? Child please, get your life!
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Honey, I agree. People that have never had a huge amount of weight to lose have no idea what it takes to get up and just move. Move to the shower. Tie your shoes. Be with your family. Just Live. They want to keep us down when we are big, and push us back down when we are trying to get healthy. They are the wrong kind of people to help you. move on.0
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My favorite is if you would just eat right and exercise.....HMMMM I wish I would have thought of that....oh wait I DID!!!
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You are so right, my friend! I'm embracing my life and freedom....my way! :flowerforyou:0
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So very true. Everyone has a solution and no one offers to help! Over it. :noway:0
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eat right and exercise? no kidding? that's what i do. everyday! have the surgery just gave me a little jumpstart. the rest of it is hard work all the way.0
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Got my sleeve about 9 weeks ago and before surgery I could NOT walk to the end of my street without experiencing significant leg and low back pain. Yesterday, I walked a mile and felt just fine. Getting the sleeve isn't taking the easy way 'out' but providing a road I can travel to get my health and life back. Thanks for sharing!!0
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Congrats!!!! And yes, we were sleeved and now we're living a better life. Have a good day.0
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Exactly!! So happy you're here. Enjoy your day.0
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Eat right and exercise?! Yep heard that one and "eat less", sure! My surgeon said once you hit a certain point in obesity, diet and exercise no longer work. I believe that! And when I started this journey at 386 pounds, I knew that to be true! I love your phrase, "relieved and sleeved"!! That is so me! I'm 2 years out and now it is all about diet and exercise. After a certain point for all of us, those are the only things that will keep the weight coming off and staying off, but I know I could not have lost any of this weight without the surgery! Praise God for this kind of help!!0
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Love this, and YES ME TOO!!!0
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My favorite is if you would just eat right and exercise.....HMMMM I wish I would have thought of that....oh wait I DID!!!
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Ha, yes! My other favorite is when someone appoints themselves as your monitor. "Are you allowed to eat that?"0 -
My favorite is if you would just eat right and exercise.....HMMMM I wish I would have thought of that....oh wait I DID!!!
:mad: :explode: :grumble: :noway: :huh:
Ha, yes! My other favorite is when someone appoints themselves as your monitor. "Are you allowed to eat that?"
Oh yes! I still get some people who watch me like they are amazed that I am eating something. Even skinny people eat the occasional cookie thank you! I know what I'm doing here! It has been two years and I am still losing you know! :mad:0 -
I get so sick of people saying, "that's not healthy" Are you kidding me? It saved my life and put me in a mode of thinking that has turned me around. If you know nothing about it, why speak on it? I'm happy, healthy, relieved and sleeved! I'm not shame and where were you when I was 304lbs and hot mess? Child please, get your life!
relieved and sleeved! LOVE IT!!0 -
I am 3 months sleeved and have a question. My surgeon told me my loss would slow considerably in the next 3 months which I understand, but then went on to say that would more than likely the end of losing! Please tell me it isnt so......0
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I am 3 months sleeved and have a question. My surgeon told me my loss would slow considerably in the next 3 months which I understand, but then went on to say that would more than likely the end of losing! Please tell me it isnt so......
It is only so if YOU choose to make it so. As my doctor has told me, once the "easy" weight comes off and I get used to the sleeve it will be 100% up to me to eat right, exercise and do what I need to do to get to the weight I wish to get too. I'm not sure where you are on your loss journey. I'm 4 months out and still not at 50% loss yet. My wife, who was sleeved at the same time I was, but has much less to lose is losing slower than I am but is over half way there. My doctor thinks I should be able to lose steadily if not as fast through the 18 month mark.
Sounds like your doctor is counting on you doing nothing after the easiest period is over. Simple enough; Prove him WRONG!
My doc says I won't get below 200. My reply, We'll see. I'm looking for 175 or lower. May take me a while, but the time will pass either way.
Good luck, 54debs.0 -
I lost throughout the first year. It is only in the past few months that things have slowed down but that is probably because I have lost 80% of my excess weight now! If I excercise and watch what I eat I lose half a pound a week, less than I am used to but still a loss. I am now 14 months out.0
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Do not buy into that...mine told me something similar and I went into a tail spin until some good friends and people I know from this group brought me out of it. Keep vigilant, watch your calories, fats, sugar, etc and keep moving. It may slow down and you may have to increase your exercise, but you will lose all your weight! Feel free to contact me anytime you start to listen to crap like that and we can support one another. It's hard not to listen to a "doctor" because they are supposed to be the experts, but believe in yourself and you will achieve your goal with hard work and time.0
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I'd have to ask 'What is not healthy?' Let them speak and then ask them to cite their source. They've been removing tummy's for decades for stomach cancer and ulcers. I have a relative that due to ulcers had quite a bit of her stomach removed over 30 years ago. I have no idea what they called it back then, maybe a life saving technique....she lost weight although she was never really heavy, just larger than she is now. She has always felt good and has never gained any of the weigh back, She will be 84 this coming January.
It's not 'healthy' to be diabetic or at risk for all the other things we were at risk for. I had NO health issues, but obesity run on my father's side of the family. Six of his seven sister were FAT - BIG - I was fat when I had surgery, but I was NOT as big as the majority of my relatives on that side of the family. Preventive maintenance, that is what I call it. I have a cousin, early 60's, and big as a barn, she had a major stroke ten days ago. 'Nuff said, I KNOW I did the right thing!0 -
We DO have a honeymoon period, every doctor says a different thing....anywhere from six - 18 months. I took this as the gospel and treated my surgery as the most important diet of my life.....my last ditch effort. I had ups and downs, up a lb or two, then down....some times did this for up to ten days, but it was fine, that is just the way I lost weight. I KNEW I would lose, I did NOTHING I shouldn't do until I reached goal, since then I feel like I eat like a naturally thin person. I reached goal in six months, I've been maintaining for over 2.5 years. I have what I call my dashboard, my new life. This is forever, it's not the newest fad diet that we get bored with and quit. If we do, we are sure to fail again. That is MY truth, I know I must always be diligent.0
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I am 3 months sleeved and have a question. My surgeon told me my loss would slow considerably in the next 3 months which I understand, but then went on to say that would more than likely the end of losing! Please tell me it isnt so......
Month #1 was 30 pounds for me. Month #2 was 13 and Month #3 10.
It does slow considerably and even fluxuates up and down. you may have a stall or two................. BUT KEEP PLUGGING AWAY!
You will get there. I found myself complacent at 75-80 pounds of weight loss, but luckily it kept coming off a few ounces at the time, now that Im close to 100 pounds I'm totally back in the game!0 -
Does anyone have thyroid issues and have had
VGS? Is it a slower process ?
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Does anyone have thyroid issues and have had
VGS? Is it a slower process ?
Thank you.
I have hypothyroidism (low thyroid) and I have lost over 100 lbs in the last year. I think it is a bit slower, but that may be because of my age and other issues that tend to limit my exercise. Still...100+ lbs is nothing to sneeze at and I am pleased as punch with my progress. I am 9 months out and have lost 80 lbs since surgery. This truly works and it is for the rest of my life, so if it takes a little longer....who cares?0 -
I haven't come across anyone that hasn't been happy for me. When I tell them what I had done, every single answer so far has been " congratulations! Good for you!"
Everyone knows I have been struggling with my weight, and how unhealthy I was. I had been really struggling the last 5 years after I had an injury to my neck and back that caused me to be sedentary and gain more weight. Then - I got pregnant. A complete surprise. I was 36 when I pregnant (am 38 now) and gained another 40 pounds during pregnancy. Ugh.
I had my sleeve 1 year after the birth of my fourth child. I told everybody in my family what I had planned, and have best support system ever. Even my Husband came with to most appointments so he knew what to expect, and how he could help.
I dont know if I would tell anyone that wasnt close to me that I have been sleeved. I dont think it is any of their business.0 -
Love that I found this group! Finally, people that get it!0
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I have hypothyroid, I have since I was in 5th grade. I have my TSH levels checked every 20 lbs and my surgeon said today I'm losing at a normal rate.0
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Our sleeves are a tool for us to use. It helps us to eat healthy and quickly get to a weight where we can safely exercise. It's not easy and it's not magic but for many of us it was a critically necessary starting point. There will always be those who feel the need to disparage the decision. I believe that mostly they do this to affirm thier own situation. What we are doing is not easy and will require a lifetime of discipline (MFP is a great help). If you ask me "can you eat that?", I will say "Yes". I can eat anything I want, just not nearly as much as I used to. Be positive and proud and the naysayers will come around. If they don't, remove them from your life - they are poison.0
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I love this topic. I was sleeved on 10/02/2013 and before I was sleeved I was at my highest weight. I have asthma and hypothyroidism, and was starting to have problems with my sugar and blood pressure. After thinking about doing this for 6 years researching and hem hawing around I decided to go for it. I couldn't be happier and have had mostly good feedback from people that know I had surgery. I did however have one person tell me that they were interested in doing this themselves but they felt that it would be wrong to remove a part of the body that God had created for her. I just quoted scripture to her...
Mark 9:43 And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
I told her my big ole stomache was offending the heck out of me so... She just laughed
Everyone has an opinion but the fact that I finally eat like a healthy person and feel good enough to exercise and walk in the park with my family makes it worthwhile to me.
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My favorite is if you would just eat right and exercise.....HMMMM I wish I would have thought of that....oh wait I DID!!!
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I am exactly one week out of surgery (today). In the 2 weeks before my surgery, when I started telling some people what I was going to be doing, I had someone almost every day say:
1. Why are you doing this?
2. What? Do you want to be a toothpick? (hard to be a toothpick when my top weight was 273)
3. Why don't you just eat less and exercise more?
I had no answer - the explanation is so long and involved and complicated. I just sat with my mouth open, not believing that these people, many of whom I considered friends, would question my decision about my own health! Finally on the last day of work, I was telling a woman whom I had known for 8+ years and she said "Good for you!" I almost cried.
Now I am 1 week out and my focus is strictly on my healing. Everything those people said is behind me. I know that already my neck and ankles feel better from the weight I lost on the liquid diet before and the liquid diet of the past week. That's all I need to know.0 -
I get so sick of people saying, "that's not healthy" Are you kidding me? It saved my life and put me in a mode of thinking that has turned me around. If you know nothing about it, why speak on it? I'm happy, healthy, relieved and sleeved! I'm not shame and where were you when I was 304lbs and hot mess? Child please, get your life!
Yes, an slow suicide by knife and fork was SOOOO much better! NOT! So relieved to have a tool to help me maintain a healthy lifestyle!0
