VSG Maintenance Group
2 year surgiversary
Just a quick note to my OH family - I still lurk around and post from time to time, but felt a special need to say a brief hello today since tomorrow it will be 2 years out.
OK, I will keep this short because an English teacher taught me once "less is more."
1) Holy cow, I cannot believe I can still maintain a weight between 120-125. I tried on a designer dress the other day in a size 0 and the saleslady proclaimed it "fit me perfectly." Somebody, pinch me.
2) My habits are nowhere close to perfect. I should excersise more than I do. I should eat 3 square meals but I don't. I should ditch the candy every night, but I try to limit it.
3) What seems to work for me....skip breakfast since I am not hungry. Eat a reasonable lunch. Eat a reasonable dinner. Have a treat every night so I never feel "deprived" (god forbid I should feel deprived).
4) Weigh every single day, no matter what. If I am near the top of the range...cut it back...if I am near the bottom of the range...eat a few more milk duds.
Boy do I remember how it felt 2 years ago with so much uncertainty about this surgery and being totally sad about my weight, feeling hopeless, etc.. I could not be more pleased with the outcome. What a blessing.
The only thing I worry about is this pain that reoccurs in my left hand side often after I eat (and rarely when I don't). I've had two docs tell me that the location is where my intenstine track begins and it is not my stomach since the pain resides lower than my stomach just to the left hand side of my belly button...I don't know what it is...more tests have been suggested and I have yet to do them. It comes and goes and is not debilitating, so I keep ignoring it. Probably a bad plan...
Anyhow, other than that, all is well and I will continue to check in from time to time and hopefully find you all still inspiring me to be a better me. This board is invaluable. God bless y'all.
OK, I will keep this short because an English teacher taught me once "less is more."
1) Holy cow, I cannot believe I can still maintain a weight between 120-125. I tried on a designer dress the other day in a size 0 and the saleslady proclaimed it "fit me perfectly." Somebody, pinch me.
2) My habits are nowhere close to perfect. I should excersise more than I do. I should eat 3 square meals but I don't. I should ditch the candy every night, but I try to limit it.
3) What seems to work for me....skip breakfast since I am not hungry. Eat a reasonable lunch. Eat a reasonable dinner. Have a treat every night so I never feel "deprived" (god forbid I should feel deprived).
4) Weigh every single day, no matter what. If I am near the top of the range...cut it back...if I am near the bottom of the range...eat a few more milk duds.
Boy do I remember how it felt 2 years ago with so much uncertainty about this surgery and being totally sad about my weight, feeling hopeless, etc.. I could not be more pleased with the outcome. What a blessing.
The only thing I worry about is this pain that reoccurs in my left hand side often after I eat (and rarely when I don't). I've had two docs tell me that the location is where my intenstine track begins and it is not my stomach since the pain resides lower than my stomach just to the left hand side of my belly button...I don't know what it is...more tests have been suggested and I have yet to do them. It comes and goes and is not debilitating, so I keep ignoring it. Probably a bad plan...
Anyhow, other than that, all is well and I will continue to check in from time to time and hopefully find you all still inspiring me to be a better me. This board is invaluable. God bless y'all.
Congrats! Thanks for posting.. I remember you, of course, and love to see people from back when I first had surgery doing so well..
Also, go get your tests.. Better safe than sorry, yanno?
Also, go get your tests.. Better safe than sorry, yanno?
I am still loving life with my sleeve! Been maintaining at or below goal for over 4 years!
"People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within." - Ramona L. Anderson
Congrats on great success. You are the perfect example of how this is all supposed to work. Wishing you many years of a slim and happy life. don't you just feel like a million bucks? YOu should!!! Check in once in awhile. Diane
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