Did you ever want a divorce from your sleeve?

WOW NO WAY NEvER EVER EVEN ENTERED MY MIND  Hate to say it but I love my sleeve and don't feel like a prisoner at all I fell in control it is an awesome feeling.

Best thing I have ever done I would marry my sleeve all over again

There has been times when i wanted to eat more because the food tasted good not because i was hungry because even at the times when i have wanted more there is no way i could have physically eaten more if i had tried.

those feeling i dont get as often anymore, i have never regretted having my sleeve from the time i woke up until now and dont for see any reason to start regretting it from this point on.

would i divorce my sleeve if i was humanly possible??

  hell no, not at all, that would mean all my weight would re appear and my high colesteral would be back, along with my border line diabates.
that would mean i would lose the want to get up and be active and return to wanting to do nothing but stay at home because i could not walk great distances with out taking breathers or having lower back and hip pain.
that would mean losing the want to take care of my appearance and going back to dressing sloppy because nothing looked good on.
and worst of all that would be knowing that i was headed down the same path as my dad who died of a stroke because i was getting most of his symptoms
.
i had my sleeve to get healthy, sure that comes with losing weight and feeling good about my self and feeling like i look good in clothes again. and enjoying life why would i ever want to go back to being so unhealthy i hated me and i hated my life in general??.... im  so thrilled that this is a permanent thing yes i could eat around it if  i chose to and grazed all night and day but no one can  ever give back what has long been thrown away and i have no regrets about that what so ever.

ps  great question i love it.

 

I am only 7 weeks out but I can say NO WAY!!! I looooove my sleeve!! I do have challenges (getting in enough protein and fluid) but it's way better than being fat and hungry all the time. I'm extremely happy that I had it done. = )

 Not a divorce...perhaps an open marriage. You know, the kind where you can sleep with other people OCCASIONALLY. If I could have one tryst a month I think it'd be perfect.  

But do I regret it? Hell no. I really do LOVE my sleeve and to me, the benefits of this marriage FAR OUTWEIGH the drawbacks. As with any relationship, of course there are drawbacks.

To take the "marriage" metaphor even further, I feel like I ended an abusive relationship by having my sleeve. Do I miss that old, destructive relationship sometimes? Of course. But do I wish I could go back to it? HELL NO.

That's EXACTLY what I was trying to come up with in my own head!   And I love Chey's way of looking at it as divorcing the old stomach... I constantly felt like crap because of that sick, lying, manipulating, ghrelin-overproducing acidic old scumbag and I couldn't wait to get rid of the thing.   

I've never found myself wishing I could stuff more into my sleeve, although there have been times when I've thought "gee, it'd be nice to take my son to the Chinese Buffet today" like we used to all the time, and then I think "No, that's what got you [and him] where you are" and I realize I'm so THRILLED that I can't eat that way anymore!  And those special occasions and holidays where there's an overabundance of food, so much it makes your head swim?  Easy... a few bites of all the good stuff, and then if there's room and I still feel like it ('cause once you're full with this thing, you're FULL... there is no "oh, just another couple of bites", you just don't want it) then maybe I'll have a bite of the "bad" stuff -- and I'm satisfied with a bite, not wishing I could have more.  

It's just awesome.  Awesome, awesome, awesome. 

Hi!  I'm about 5 weeks out..

I feel liberated!!    I love my sleeve and am sooo happy I did this for myself...


I see food I can't eat.. I'm not even tripping.. because I know I can't eat it!!    How liberating!! 

Any other time.. that food would sit there calling my name till I had no choice but to cave in!

Not now.. not even an issue.. Woot!!     I'm thrilled!!    Oh.. now I have acid indigestion so bad in the mornings it's not even funny.. but all in all.. I'm good.. in this marriage for the long haul  ;  )



Kelley

Oh!!  and about 24lbs down.. not bad at all!!

At just a little over 5 months and down 74 lbs (17 preop) I can honestly say i haven't regretted it for one minute. ONce in a while i wish i could eat a full serving of a dessert ( just settle for 1 bite or skip it) but its not enough to wish i didn't have the sleeve. in fact it makes me more glad that i can't eat that stuff that was destroying my health. I was very fortunate to have about as easy a surgery and recovery as is possible and to have few issues. the worst time was the first couple of months when i got tired of protein drinks and had trouble getting enough protein in. Now that thats resolved and i can eat at a restaurant or at someone's house, its great. But I thought about it long and hard for many months and mentally worked on letting go of food - reminding myself that eating really doesn't solve problems or fix stresses and that i have had plenty of good pig-outs in my life and can manage fine without any more. one advantage of doing this at an older age. Had pretty much accepted that i was going to spend the rest of my life significantly overweight but then health issues began to surface and I just got sick of not being able to move around and do anything. Tonight was at a friend's for dinner. Roomate's pet rabbit got out. We were all out chasing it around the neighborhood. six months ago i couldn't have done that.Rabbit was caught safe and sound. no longer have to miss little adventures like that. So no, i don't want to divorce my sleeve. I am glad I got rid of part of an organ that was damaging my health.  It will be interesting to see how I feel in a year but I know i won't want back that 74 lbs. not a day goes by that someone doesn't notice my weight loss and i love it! d

I feel like Misseye.....I found myself after my sleeve surgery......I can say I'm the real Dinnorah now and I feel like if all that time I was so obese it was me inside drowning in despair!!! Now I feel free, I jog (NEVER IN MY LIFE HAD I DONE THIS) 3 miles a day almost daily....what can I say...I LOVE my sleeve, it gave me my (and mostly my family's) life back =)

I had not doubts from the very beginning. I knew that the Sleeve was my only chance at a healthy life and a bright future. I have lost almost 80 lbs, and I still have a really long way to go. Many people start this journey weighing less than I weigh now. Even if I didn't lose another pound, I don't regret a thing. I would do it over in a heartbeat.

I can shop at regular stores. I am educating myself about the nutritional value of things and making good choices. I am moving more. Playing with my toddlers more, working in the yard, going out, dancing, having better sex...I have much more energy. I don't have a body like a super model, but this journey has been about getting healthy; looking great is just a bonus...one I hope to achieve soon. Thank you, this was a wonderful post. I don't have one regret...not one!

I never wanted a divorce but sometimes I get pissed at it. Kind of like my husband, when he's done something to annoy me.

I went through a pissy period from about 7 weeks to 3 months where I was annoyed at how little I could eat and kept trying to eat more with the usual bad results. But after that, we settled in with each other and it's been pretty smooth sailing.