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I am struggling too but they say there will be times where the scale doesn't move. Just keep following your program and it will happen. Some of the reason mine is slower is this was a revision for me, plus I lost 80 lbs on my own before surgery and got an infection after surgery that landed me back in the hospital for 5 more days and another month of healing. I am now 3 months out and only have lost 28 lbs. I am going to pump up the exercise to try and get the scale moving more. Just hang in there, it will happen!
...is the day I had my surgery. I lost 29 pounds in the first month, and I've been stuck at that same weight for the last three weeks! I'm frustrated and exhausted. I'm trying to read to see what I'm missing, but no clues yet. I look forward to reading your posts!
I didn't know this board existed!!! HI!!! I had surgery on the 19th!
Brandi :)
Me, me on the 4th! Went really well recovered quickly , down 23 ponds since surgery. Yay!
I had my surgery on December 4, and we've lost about the same. Good reinforcement the we must be doing something right! Very, very best of luck to you!
I've been on OH hundreds of times since I started researching surgery and I just found the "December Sleevers" board tonight. I need to take more time to explore! Good to see a lot of familiar faces here. My " first day of the rest of my life" was December 4. Going into the hospital at 5am was like an out-of-body experience for me. I've worked in the medical field for many years, but that morning I was terrified. I honestly came close to just bolting. My last pre-op memory is scooting over onto the OR table, telling the anesthesiologist that he hadn't given me enough Versed. A blink of an eye later I woke up in some serious fricking upper abdominal pain, and I was begging for meds again. Now suddenly it's 5 1/2 weeks later, I've survived a 2 1/2 week stall (hard!), and am down 23 pounds from my day of surgery. I'm not nearly as far along as a lot of you, but this still feels like a miracle to me. I had fought an unending and unwinable battle against obesity for close to 40 years, and had very nearly just surrendered. Not sure where this motivation came from, but thank God for it. I'm still not convinced that I won't be the non-loser who gets left behind, but I finally believe that that MIGHT not happen. What if I persevere, succeed, actually lose a substantial body of weight? What if I actually get to spend my plastic surgery savings on plastic surgery. And if I can do those things, what is possibly to deter me from me from success? So carry on, December sleevers and fight the good fight! We've already won the battle; we now must win the war!!
2013: 20 Funny New Year's Resolutions
When it comes to New Year's resolutions, our family members and friends can get quite creative and even funny with what they resolve to do in the New Year. Here a few good ones I have heard along the way...Oh, and a few of my own!
1. I resolve to stop procrastinating about procrastinating!
2. I will stop sending Facebook messages and emails to my loved ones when they are in the same room as I am!
3. I will use my treadmill for something other than a place to hang my jacket.
4. I will not sit at the kitchen table in my PJ's all day. Instead, I will move my computer to my bedroom.
5. I vow to never take a laxative and a sleeping pill on the same night!
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Tammy Colter
Director of Media & PR
Editor-In-Chief
ObesityHelp.com
OH Magazine
I'm 10 days out. I still have incision pain in the belly button, but otherwise I feel much better. My doc has us on liquids only for 2 weeks. I ordered the unjury and syntrax nectar protein drinks. You can get them through Amazon. There are others, of course. My NUT says to keep them under 150 cal with at least 15 gm protein and under 5 carbs. Or something like that. You want as few carbs as possible.
Hope you feel better.
Lynn