POSTED UNDER Gastric Sleeve Surgery Reviews
Ready to be healthy! - Phoenix, AZ
UPDATED FROM sonylove3
3 months post
3.5 months out.
$43,000
I'm 3.5 months out now! I'm doing well. Eating everything (not all at once). No restrictions on what I can and cannot eat. I am down 55 pounds from where I started. I had to try on 4 shirts this morning before I found one that fit! It's a good problem... Everything going well :)
Bought a racquetball racquet and a new softball bat. Once it cools off here (in hot AZ) Im gonna go play!:)
Bought a racquetball racquet and a new softball bat. Once it cools off here (in hot AZ) Im gonna go play!:)
UPDATED FROM sonylove3
1 month post
Seeing the results!
I'm about a month out. I have moved to soft foods. I had pizza last night (shhh!). I have been loosing weight. Everyone keeps saying that they see it in my face. I finally decided to look at an older picture of me and oh man! There is 1 year between the two photos. My coworker told me yesterday that my shirt looked like a tent/poncho. I need to start going through my closet this weekend.
Feels good to see the results. I'm 30-45 pounds down from surgery. I haven't been on a scale, it's about health more than the #.
What do you think? :)
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June 16, 2016
You can totally see the difference! You must feel great dropping that extra load-that's between 30-45 bricks of butter! It's lots. How are your energy levels?
June 17, 2016
Thanks!:) My energy is okay. I already struggled with depression, so it's a little different for me ... and when I don't eat enough protein I get really worn out. It's hard to eat anything else BUT protein with my pouch. At work I helped prepare "grab bags" for a fundraiser sale, and after an hour I was so worn out that I had to sit. I was barely functional for the next 45 minutes after that. :/
June 18, 2016
You'll continue to get smaller and move easier. It's just the way it works. So the amount of energy you'll need to move when you're 60-80 lighter will be much less. You'll have energy to burn girl. And exercising....even just brisk walking will put that depression on the back burner. Enjoy!
July 28, 2016
First of all congratilations on the weight loss. Now I'm going to be very honest here, and I hope you take this the best way possible.
You cannot lie to yourself about the decicisions you are making in regards to your food. Yes, you might be able to lie to your doctor, your family and friends. But soon enough, the honey-moon phase is over, and so will the rapid weight loss. And that is when your new habits will start to reflect. The fact that you are already eating the kind of foods that led you to need the surgery in the first place, is only showing signs that it progress to even more wrong choices.
First, you will stop losing, next, you WILL regain some if not all of the weight loss.
You need to try to change your habits now. The healing time you have now is the only time you have where you are being FORCED to change them. You have this time to break the bad habits. You can seriously damage your internal organs by going against your diet.
Please, talk to your surgeon, be honest and maybe you can be referred to a dietitian.
You cannot lie to yourself about the decicisions you are making in regards to your food. Yes, you might be able to lie to your doctor, your family and friends. But soon enough, the honey-moon phase is over, and so will the rapid weight loss. And that is when your new habits will start to reflect. The fact that you are already eating the kind of foods that led you to need the surgery in the first place, is only showing signs that it progress to even more wrong choices.
First, you will stop losing, next, you WILL regain some if not all of the weight loss.
You need to try to change your habits now. The healing time you have now is the only time you have where you are being FORCED to change them. You have this time to break the bad habits. You can seriously damage your internal organs by going against your diet.
Please, talk to your surgeon, be honest and maybe you can be referred to a dietitian.
UPDATED FROM sonylove3
22 days post
Back to work!
Been doing well. :) Haven't had much pain. Just tired. Only sitting on an uneven surface or trying to twist (to see behind me). I am getting smaller. I have made the decision to not step on a scale for a while--my goal is to be healthy, not to be 175 pounds. I am taking my own photos, but am keeping them offline (at least for now). My favorite shirt is now like a dress though. I posted a pic. When letting it sit flat, it hits me at my thighs. my friend says I should wear it with leggings.
I went back to work on Tuesday. That has had its own challenges. I bring a lot of variety of foods I can have for lunch. The hardest thing is energy. I get home at 530 and I usually fall asleep until 730. I hope that this gets better because next week I'm going back to my 10 hour days. =/ I'm a little concerned about that. I'm not sure they'd appreciate me sleeping on the job!
I have moved past disappointment/depression from not eating and not being able to eat. this is the new me!
FUNNY STORY: last night my boyfriend made me dinner. He made me mashed potato with tiny pit of sour cream. After a bite --I realized he had heated up (microwave) my cut up pear and put sour cream on it. It was terrible!! Ha it was funny. Lmao xD
I went back to work on Tuesday. That has had its own challenges. I bring a lot of variety of foods I can have for lunch. The hardest thing is energy. I get home at 530 and I usually fall asleep until 730. I hope that this gets better because next week I'm going back to my 10 hour days. =/ I'm a little concerned about that. I'm not sure they'd appreciate me sleeping on the job!
I have moved past disappointment/depression from not eating and not being able to eat. this is the new me!
FUNNY STORY: last night my boyfriend made me dinner. He made me mashed potato with tiny pit of sour cream. After a bite --I realized he had heated up (microwave) my cut up pear and put sour cream on it. It was terrible!! Ha it was funny. Lmao xD
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June 3, 2016
You are doing great !!!!
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