APRIL SLEEVER'S

The 20 th of this month makes me one year. How are all the April sleevers doing? I have lost 84 lbs s far.I would like to be between 130 to 135. Have about 10 more lbs to lose. Just would like to hear from the April sleevers.

God Bless
Evie

Hey there!   Good job!!!
I am 1 year this week and go for my yearly on my surgery anniversary.
I am down 111#, from a 248 a month or so before surgery to 137 now. .   Originally I set my goal @ 150, then lowered it to 140#.  

I actually bounce between 137 and 139 or 140.   

Trying this maintenance thing out - doing ok so far.   A little nervous about maintenance,  l like losing better!    But, I did lose the last pound about a week ago, without trying.  

April 11th will be one year, and I'll be below goal at that point if I can do anything about it!

1 year out on the 12th still not at goal but down 154 pounds lifes amazingly beautiful and my sleeve is wonderful to me currently 213 surgery weight 366

As a future April 2012 sleever - I really appreciate seeing your success stories from April 2011!

Great job to you all !

I echo band2sleeve_2012...

April 27th will be my year!! Life is good.  I can do so much more now! Still have 85 more pounds to be at goal of 115.  Happy I did it and would do it again just alot sooner.

I'm scheduled for April 27th of this year!  Way to go to you one year success stories!  I can't wait to start this thread next year. :)

April 29th will be my one year surgiversary  :)

I have had my hunger since about day 3 postop, even though I took a PPI.

As of today, I am down 129 lbs from my highest weight of 264 (the day that my 10 day pre-op liquid fast started).  I am under both my doctors goal, and my own personal goal.  I'm currently trying to get down to my "dream weight" of 130.  While parts of me are skinny (calves, feet, shoulders, neck, head), I still have plenty of extra weight in my abdomen...  so I'm going to probably try to keep losing until my body stops on its own, or until I feel like I'm looking unhealthy.

I now usually eat 1000-1200 a day, keep my protein around 100, and workout 1-2 hours, 5-6 days a week.  I eat every 3-4 hours.

I went through a period of hairloss, but it has been growing back since about month 9 or 10.

I still get head hunger, and sometimes grocery shopping is sad/overwhelming.  HOWEVER, this is still MUCH easier for me then when I was on other diets, like Weigh****chers.  Back then I'd get the same head hunger, etc, but it was much easier for me to "fall of the wagon".  Currently, I've only eaten off plan for less than 10 days over the last year- AND I've been able to get back on plan much more easily than in the past.

Hi Evie, Glad to see you're doing so well! 

I will have my one year anniversary on 4/28.  I reached my original goal of 150 on Christmas Day, and my revised goal of 145 in early February.  I find maintenance to be a curious thing.  For a while I was working hard to stop losing, then all of a sudden I gained 3 pounds and that freaked me out in a big way.  It did help me to firm up my maintenance plan:  if I hit 148, I eat super strict until I'm at or below 145.  I record my weights on the OH body tracker on the 1st and 15th of the month.  That feels like a comfortable structure to me.  Well, after my OMG-I'm-gaining freakout, got back to 145, then all of a sudden started losing again.  I was 144 yesterday, and 140 today.  I can't quite figure why these jumps up OR down are happening.

I'm really appreciative to have the chance to be thin and wear cute clothes, be comfortable and unselfconcious, but the surprising thing to me is to find myself as strong as a horse at 51.  That is shocking, wonderful, miraculous, amazing.  Truly a giant gift.  

Happy Anniversary, everyone, and best of luck to the 2012 April batch!

Jenny