Anything shocking??
Hey everyone!! I just went for my 5th out of 6 diet & exercise visits to my pcp. Ahh!! One more! It's so close I can feel it! Anywho. I was just wondering if there was anything that completely shocked you during your journey. Good or bad, I want to know! I have been lurking here for a while, occasionally asking a question, but was there ever something that you really weren't expecting?
Thanks!
I wasn't expecting the emotions and pain to be so bad the first 4 weeks
i also wasn't expecting to feel so many positive changes in only 2 months. Shocked by how quickly clothes get too big.
37 y/o female 5'8" HW 355 consult 329 SW (3/7/2014)301 CW 168 goal 170
M1- 26 M2- 14 M3- 15 M4 -13 M5 -16 M6-12 M7-2 M8-5 M9-6 M10-8 M11-1 M12-5 M13-10 Goal reached 4/5/15 total lost 187 lbs total; 133 in the 13 months since surgery
I wasn't expecting my life to change so much so fast! I want to do ALL THE THINGS these days and it's so different from how I was a mere 3 months ago. I love it!
VSG with Dr. Salameh - 3/13/2014
Diagnosed with Binge Eating Disorder and started Vyvanse - 7/22/2016
Reconstructive Surgeries with Dr. Michaels - 6/5/2017 (LBL & brachioplasty), 8/14/2017 (UBL & mastopexy), 11/6/2017 (medial leg lift)
Age 42 Height 5'4" HW 319 (1/3/2014) SW 293 (3/13/2014) CW 149 (7/16/2017)
Next Goal 145 - normal BMI | Total Weight Lost 170
TrendWeight | Food Blog (sort of functional) | Journal (down for maintenance)
My disclaimer is that I am only five days post surgery, but in my experience, recovery has been so much less of an issue than I anticipated. I know everyone has different situations, but I anticipated being in more pain and being more nauseated than I actually am.
probably the biggest surprise is how much my taste buds have changed. I even read about it, and thought that would never happen to me. The reason I became 150 pounds overweight, was because I loved sugar. Now, anything too sweet makes my stomach turn. I don't have any cravings, except for maybe a small chicken breast with vegetables but I'm too soon to even think about that.
I tend to psych myself out, and my brain went to the worst-case scenario, which has not happened yet. I wish you nothing but the best.
HW: 345. CW 272
okay, because there is no such thing as TMI on a message board devoted to surgery on the digestive tract . . .
my tailbone.
I've been obese my entire adult (and child and adolescent) life and things like my collarbone and hip bones were things I knew in theory existed but had never actually seen or felt. I was delighted to make acquaintance with them, but I was expecting them. But one evening I was, ah, cleaning up immediately after using the toilet and found a strange hard, bumpy lump between my butt cheeks. For several seconds I had no idea what it was and the only possibilities I could think of were: 1. a bizarre deformity that will get me written up in medical journals 2. giant rock-hard tumor indicating some weird form of butt cancer; 3. some form of partial constipation that has my body storing up and calcifying poop instead of letting go of all of it.
Seriously . . . I had no idea what it was and was freaking out. But after a few seconds I figured it out. It still feels kind of strange to me when I run across it though!