Michelle M.

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I feel like these pictures really don't due justice because I still look really large. I for got to take my five month photo so in a couple weeks when i make it to month 6 I will post those. It seems that my weight loss has been really slow but then I think that it has only been 5 1/2 months and I have lost 86 lbs. And I am reminded that no matter how slow it seems, I certainly couldn't have done it with out my sleeve. I have less then 40 lbs until I make my goal weight of 150. It is so close I can taste.

I have finally made it past the hurdle, I am officially in onderland and it is such an amazing feeling! I never thought that I would make it to this point and no I am more determined then ever to make it to my goal, I have 23 lbs untill i have lost 100lbs and I have 48 till i reach my goal of 150lbs. Loving life right now.

I have been teetering between 201.0 and 203.0 for three weeks now and it is starting to drive me crazy, Onderland is so close and yet I can't seem to get passed the 200 lb hurdle. I was really trying to make to make the goal of 100 lbs by six months, but every week that goes by i see that goal slowing fading away. I have one month and two weeks before I hit my six months and I am feeling like 25 lbs is impossible right now. My total goal is is 52 lbs away and I feel like I will never see that either.

I am not as active on this site as i should be but I have found that my life is so much more active, I have gotten bored with sitting at the computer  and I am ready to be outside playing with my kids. I am 3 months and 3 weeks post op, I have lost 68 lbs so far. I am probably not the fastest loser but it is steady and I am happy with my progression. I am flirting with wonderland I can't wait to take the plunge. 8 more pounds and I will be there. . . . I was hoping that I would make it by 4 months post op but  8 pounds in one week seems to be a struggle for me. I am not considering it a failure just a slightly delayed goal.

Just a quick update for all of you who have been following my stall. After 3 1/2 long weeks the scale has started to move again. I have lost 4lbs in the last 48 hours. Wohoo. I am soo excited to see the scale move again.

Okay Guys, I will be three weeks out on Tuesday but I haven't lost anything in a little over a week, I haven't gained anything either. This has been since the doc told me that I could move up to soft foods. I haven't had that much though. I have been sticking to half an egg (hard boiled) I have had a half a scrambled egg but that doesn't seem to sit as well as the hard boiled. Then some diced lunch meat salad. For dinner. Lots of fluids; Water, SF Kool Aid, Crystal Light. but having a hard time with the protein shakes.

I lost 12 lbs the first week and 6 the second week.

Is this normal? Should I be worried about this?

Thanks Everyone

Okay, I need some encouragement. I am on day 4 of a two week liquid diet and I am sooo hungry! I have read a bunch of people say that it gets easier after day three but really I am not feeling like it. I feel like if I could go 14 days without eating then I wouldn’t be in this situation to begin with. I know the purpose of this is to shrink the liver so that it is easier for the surgeon to get to the stomach, but why do some require so long and some require little or nothing.?   It is so hard to pack lunches and make breakfast and dinner and know that I can’t even sample it, that the only think I have waiting for me is some sugar free pudding, jell-o, popsicles, oatmeal (gross) or broth.  I know that I will get through this but today has been a bad day. Nothing is satisfying the noises in my tummy! Thank you for listening.

Provided that I can make it through this diet, 11 days left!

I have found that thoughts of surgery are constant. I am day dreaming about it, I am dreaming about it while I sleep. I can't seem to stop thinking about the what ifs and the good along with the bad that may come along with it. Am I loosing my mind? is this normal? Has anyone else had this happen to them? I am nervous and anxious all at the same time, but i would think that would be normal.  

My sleeve has officially been scheduled for march 12th.

I got a phone call today from the nurse at my surgeons office. She wanted to confirm that I still wanted the sleeve and hadn't changed my mind and selected a different surgery. She said that she had all my paper work in order and was getting ready to send it to my insurance company for approval and that it should only take a day or two for her to hear back from them. She said that she was sending me a script to have a nicotine screen done and once those two things were back then we could go ahead and schedule my surgery. I am sooo excited. I know that I am coming into the home stretch and getting ready to start anew.