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Wow,  its been 2 yrs since i had my sleeve done.   Hard to believe how time has flown by.   I am sorry to say that the surgeon who did my sleeve was not experienced and i am sure i have a HUGE sleeve. He wouldn't tell me what size bougie he used, he says its a different tool that he designed, but a gal who had surgery two weeks before me said her paperwork said size 60 french :o( People will say the size doesn't matter but i strongly disagree with that statement.   I have always had a larger capacity than most but i am many lbs down and grateful.   But i am now re-committing to getting back on program and losing the 20lbs i have gained back.   I have been eating like i did pre op.  Maybe not quite as much but making bad choices.  This has caused me to be disapointed in myself and that is not a place i want to be.   So this is me on my 2 yr surgiversary recomitting to getting back to my lowest which was 162lbs.  So i will be doing low carb and start using my kettlebells again. 
I've been gone from here for some time.   I feel a little guilty becuase of the regain.   A good friend suggested getting back on OH for the support but I don't really know anyone on the main board these days.   So this is me back on the wagon.   This really is a life long journey and a fight i guess i will be fighting for the rest of my life.   I thank God for my sleeve,  i wouldn't have gotten all of my health issues resolved without it.  No longer have to take blood pressure pills,   my triglycerides are good,  no more borderline diabetes and my pain that was debilitating, arthritis in my hip is all gone.  (Pre op i couldn't walk around the block,  these days i walk 3 times a day. ) These were the reasons i had this surgery and so in this respect it has been a huge success.  So my desire now is for cosmetic reasons, but that's good too.  If you took the time to read this,  thanks.   This site,  the people on it have been life savers for me. Good luck to all of us  :o)  Jeani

wow,  how did that happen.  well i am amazed at how quickly this year has passed.  I'm thinking back to last year.  I was brave enough to post a before and now picture in my thread, would never have wanted a picture for all the world to see but i am so happy with my now picture.  i do look good  haha       ok  started out at 240 currently claiming 162    (altho i fluctuate up a lb or 2 or 3 i never up my numbers and i always come back down to it)  my body seems to like it here but i do eat too much,    its a constant battle with me,  head hunger,  boredom,  combination,  feelings about myself.     yes i have lost weight and i'm different,  but i'm also still just jeani,  my core is the same.   oh well,     a work in progress.  so i still need to lose more weight and i'm gonna really work on that, this is a promise to me. loving my kettlebells and do them faithfully,  just can't do it a long time yet but i'm much stronger now.  i have so much to be thankful for and i really am,  anyone reading,  good luck on your journey :o)

Ok so i have  been kinda at a standstill.  In the past several months i have only lost 14 lbs?  so finally today the scale is at a new all time low,  165 this morning.  15 lbs to go and my new plan of attack it to go back to basics.   I'm thinking of trying to do the liquid diet again.   I lost quite a bit doing this pre op so i'm hoping for the same success this time.  Once all the groceries in my fridge ard gone I'm thinking of doing this.  Everyone else has lost so much more than me and even tho i'm the first one to say this is a journey not a race i'm starting to feel a little embarrased by my standstill.  So this is me recommiting (again) to finally cross the finish line.  I'm pretty good at maintaning,  but i'm ready to get to goal and then maintaining.  So wish me luck y'all  :o) Jeani

Ok so,  i have been stuck between 175-180 since the end of October.  Those of you who know me know my best friend Sondra died Monday after Thanksgiving, and i went into a pretty deep depression.   I didn't really care about much of anything, was feeling pretty sorry for myself and was eating whatever i wanted and making bad food choices.   We have been best friends for almost 30 years and she was a very sick puppy so i would go and stay with her a lot.  She was bedridden for over 15 yrs and we hung out and ate a lot.   So finally i decided to put on my big girl panties and quit feeling sorry for myself and get back on track.  Well in the past couple of weeks i'm down finally to 170  160s here i come.   Everyone on OH has been so sweet and it means more than i can say all the love and support i get from you guys.   So i'm very pleased with myself and i'm back on my journey.  150 here i come.   :o)  jeani

Hello boys and girls,  i hope everyone is doing great.   My five month anniversary is on the 28th, however i started losing on 5/14 when i found out i won my appeal and started the liquid diet so i consider myself pretty much 5 months out.   I started out at 240 day of surgery 222 and i am now 180.  When i did the bmi calculator i realized i am no longer in the obese catagory now i am overweight,  yeah who would have thought that would make someone happy,  but i am.  i went to the surgeon on Monday and he said i should have lost more weight,  about 15 lbs more and that i probably won't lose anymore unless i really buckle down.. He says the best i can hope for is 160?  i picked 140 since that would be 100 lbs and at my smallest i was 132 but i was a lot younger and think 140 is more realistic.  Well at first i was really ticked off,  i think 60 lbs in 5 months is good, considering i have a bigger sleeve than a lot of you.  However, thinking about it rationally now i see that i do eat too much and probably could have lost more if i had made better choices so i am back on track and exercising more and plan on making much better food choices.  All the bad food is gone from my house and no more coming in.  I am also concentrating on getting a LOT more fluids than i have been and have been told that this will help greatly with the hunger.  For me it seems to be head hunger, at home at night i want to eat because that is what i have always done.  I am also now concentrating on exercising more and hope to see great results from this.   So i have gone from a 22/24 to a 16 and 3-4x tops to xl or large and have lost several inches from all parts of my body.  Sorry if this is too long but i wanted to share where i am at 5 months out.  I feel better than i have in years and i'm so happy that i was given this gift and need to take full advantage of it.  i want to say thank you to all of you who have supported me on this journey,  its been such a great help to me and i love you all so much.  I won't say i couldn't have done it without you( altho that may be true) but it certainly would have been a lot harder than it has been.  So onward and downward.   :o)  jeani

So its gonna be four months post op on tuesay the 28th of September.   I have been eating carbs and just being bad,  no other word for it.  So i'm getting back on track and will start going to the gym again.  I've been slacking off big time and my weight loss is suffering because of it.  I am officially 185  so 55 down 45 to go but my ticker is not updating.  Oh well.   Back to basics for me.  I'm thinking of doing the 5 day pouch test to get over my carb issues.  Big issues is having this stuff in the house.  Left over donuts from my daughter's visit last weekend,  yep  they left so i ate them,  and the list goes on but i'll spare you the details.  So onward and downward for all of us,  this is me  re commiting myself to finish this journey to a healthy weight and then i'll commit to staying there.  :o)  Jeani

ok three months ago today i got my sleeve.   I cannot believe how the time has just flown by, its really amazing.  So starting with the 18 lbs lost on two week liquid pre op diet, i have lost 50 lbs to date.   I fealt i was losing slow,  it seems that way when going through it but looking back now it seems to have happened fairly quickly,   I couldn't be happier.  i feel better, i look better and life in general is good.  i want to thank all of my friends here who have been so supportive and i love paying it forward.  I'm gonna work on upping my exercise and will try to get some pictures so people can see the before and after.  I can't do this myself so i will be asking my daughter and sil to help maybe next weekend if i go for the labor day weekend. 

Well i am doing great and so grateful for the wonderful gift of the sleeve.  I seem to have hit a rut in the road.  I know this is my own fault as i have been slacking off seriously on my eating.   I have said all along that i have a bigger sleeve than most of you and that is something that i just have to live with.  I hit onderland in July and now i'm 194 which i am thankful for but i should be weighing less.  So this is me committing to getting back on track.  Just because i can eat more doesn't mean that i should. I have been consuming more calories than is recommended so i really need to get back on track.    I feel so much better than i had been.  i couldn't lift my left leg to wash my foot in the shower, i had to use a long handled shower scrub brush to wash my foot and yesterday realized that i'm able to bend and lift my foot to wash it without the brush.  I have arthritis and the pain shows up in my left leg/groin area so not sure when i started washing my own foot with my hand again, i just looked down yesterday and realized i was washing without the brush,  yeah for me.  So this is me recommiting to measuring and logging my food.  This is just for me so i can look back on my journey and see where i was so i can see where it has gotten me.   I couldn't have done it without all the great friends i have made here on OH.  Thanks to all of you,  Jeani

well i finally hit 199 this is day 2 so i'm claiming it as my own,   I am so happy.  I'm very proud of myself.   I need to up my exercise so that is my new goal.  Try to get up to 1 hr of cardio a day.  Hard to do with arthritis,  pain in my leg is pretty bad,. But i will do it,,, I love my sleeve,  and i love all of my OH family,, couldn't do it without you    thanks  Jeani

Hi guys,  i'm doing really well,  I started out about 240 and today i am 203 so i'm very pleased.  I started eating real food last weekend when i went to visit with my daughter and some other friends over the July 4th long weekend.  So my weight loss has slowed down but its still going in the right direction so i'm very pleased with life right now,    I need to get back on track as i'm eating things i probably shouldn't.  I went out to dinner last night and had chicken enchiladas  oh man it was good, and i only ate about half of one, but i had some chips and salsa also so i'm gonna get back on track now.   i wanted to post this in case anyone was interested in the protein shakes i drink.  I love the Nectars and this is the info to get 11 samples for $11  that includes shipping and handling, 
Nectar Syntrax
You can get a box of all 11 nectar protein flavors directly from Syntrax for $4.99 plus $5.99 for shipping. Contact Rick Davis Medical Sales Manager [email protected]1-866-333-7403 ext. 803
so i wish all of you the bes luck,  i love my sleeve,  this is the BEST thing i have ever done for myself.