Rita, I am so glad to see you are doing well. I have wanted to do the surgery myself, but have not been able to find someone who has had this surgery to talk to about it.
I hope you continue to gain your life back while loosing the excess weight.

Blessed Be,
Trish

OMG Rita I just saw this thread. I haven't had any time to get on GG recently and had a bit of spare time this morning. I am glad you are healing ok. Now I need to go see if I can find new pics of Rosie and Harry.
HUGS
Catherine

WoW! Rita, I just saw this. I am happy for you. Take care of yourself kiddo.

Thank you, Anita!!! In a few months, I'll post some before and after pictures.

Just a little update.....

I have lost 57 pounds since November 1st. Now that I am finally feeling healed (I had only had my surgery 3 weeks before Alan went into the hospital) I am so glad I did this. Even tho the first week was very painful - I would do it again in a heartbeat. Its as if something in me has been turned off - and I no longer need to fill myself with food.

I have to admit that while Alan was in the hospital, I did suffer from some "head hunger" because eating was how I handled stress. I found out the hard way that has been taken away from me and I cannot stress eat anymore.

My surgery was on November 17th and Im still not eating sold foods. I can eat 1/4 cup (no - this is not a typo!) of food right now and I am stuffed. My favorite things are cream of wheat with some chocolate protein powder - and EAS protein shakes. Also YoBaby yogurt, which has cereal, pureed fruit and yogurt. I also eat lots of pureed soups. There are certainly lots of meals in one can now! Campbells V8 Butternut Squash soup is my all time favorite!!!

I now have to eat by the clock since I never feel hungry. It still feels very weird not to want to eat everything in sight....

Rita that is wonderful, I hope you continue to enjoy this huge change in your life. Hey If you like Campbell's V8 butternut squash soup, you should try their mushroom soup, it is to die for.

I'm so proud of you I could dance....BUT I'll let my smiley friend do that since I'm tired. LOL Congrats, Rita!!! You're doing awesome!

Thank you!!!

That is awesome Rita! I am glad you are feeling so much better. Way to go!

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Rita that is wonderful, I hope you continue to enjoy this huge change in your life. Hey If you like Campbell's V8 butternut squash soup, you should try their mushroom soup, it is to die for.

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The next time I go to St Louis, Ill have to look for the mushroom soup. Here in my itty bitty town, all Walmart has are the Butternut Squash and Vegetable....

Rita I am not so sure I have seen the mushroom either. Hmmmmm. I will have to look next time I go. It sounds good! Want me to send you some if they do have it?

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Rita I am not so sure I have seen the mushroom either. Hmmmmm. I will have to look next time I go. It sounds good! Want me to send you some if they do have it?

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Christy - that is sooooo sweet of you! Im going to St Louis tomorrow to babysit Harry and Rosie. I need a baby fix to perk me up a little. So we can stop by Schnucks - I think they have it. They have lots of the V8 soup flavors!

I havent weighed myself in a week - but the last time I weighed I am now down 60 pounds!!!

Those big bones of yours are shrinking. You must have a calcium deficiency!

YaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaY RITA!!!!

Have you tried fly pupae? Lots of protein!! :D

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Have you tried fly pupae? Lots of protein!! :D

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To Rita - YEA!!!!!

Good Luck! I had cosmetic surgery when I was 18. It was on my face and honestly though Im happy with the results it did nothing for my health in fact it made me have chronic sinus infections and migraines.

Im glad you are choosing something for your HEALTH rather than my stupid 18 yr old reason of wanting to look pretty.


How on earth are you just having clear liquids for that long! I have stomach problems and when my stomach decides its going to act up Im hospitalized and only allowed clear liquid for almost a month. If I had to do it more than that I would go insane! Im impressed :)

Whoops! Just noticed this is an old topic!
hehe
anyways Hope you are doing well :)

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Have you tried fly pupae? Lots of protein!! :D

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I think I would be losing weight a whole lot faster if I had to eat fly pupae! The thought of it makes me gag! Hmmmmmm - a diet that might work!

I am now down 66 pounds!!!!

How do you feel?

WOOT WOOT! GO RITA!

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I feel great! Now I have to get the imagine of me at my heaviest out of my mind. I still want to wear those same clothes and everyday I go into work - the girls tell me not to wear things anymore - to put them in my give away pile. Im so glad they tell me as I really have no perception of how I look or what size I wear. I still see myself as being a much larger woman. Hopefully, that will go away soon.

I can kind of tell by my clothes. At my heaviest, I wore a size 22/24 pants and I am now in a size 16 - which will be to big for me very soon. But my brain doesnt believe I can fit into a size 16. Its really weird how my body battles my brain...

You sound like my Mom, Rita. My parents went on weight watchers over a year ago, and she dropped about 5 sizes. I've finally convinced her that we need to start an account at a nearby consignment shop and she's unloading all of her "fat" clothes there. It's so hard for me to get her into skinny clothes. LoL.

She wants to dress like an old lady, and I've just never seen my Mom as old. So I have to go shopping with her to keep her out of the old lady clothes. LoL.

Congratulations. I'm glad things are going well for you.

I hope things are going well with your family. <3

That's amazing Rita!!!! I can imagine that it IS very hard to get out of those old clothes! What you need is to go onto 'What not to wear' and have them give you a whole new make over and wardrobe! They can teach you what fits! Not that you don't have any style, I wouldn't know.

yay congrats!...my grandmother finally had her surgery 2 days ago im hoping she is doing alright she has sever diabetes so they wanted to keep her longer then normal and she is 4 hours away from home i hate it and she isnt conscious enough to talk on the phone yet but they did this microscopically and she doesnt have a very big incision site...but im happy to hear you are doing fine i also have a friend that went through this and she has lost 216 pounds she looks good and she ran for the first time in 12 years so this is great everyone is doing fine just keep taking care of yourself!

That's wonderful Rita! Congratulations!

IF you're comfortable with it, I'm sure we would love to see pictures! I was going to post that we wouldn't believe you without pictures but I don't want you to do it if it would make you uncomfortable or self-conscious in any way.

Rita that is just great news! I am very happy for you!!!!

BTW - did you find the mushroom soup? Everytime I remember to look somewhere they don't have it. It does sound very good!

Keep up the good work!

I haven't written here for awhile so thought I would write a few lines.

Things are going very well. I feel so good and so healthy for the first time in many,many years. I can move a lot faster. I'm off all my medications - diabetes, cholesterol, etc. I am now able to get down on the floor and play with my twin grand babies - and then get up without crawling to the nearest chair so I could heave myself up off the floor. I can climb the very steep 3 flights of stairs up to the 3rd floor of our office building without having to stop every other step and gasp for breath with my face red from not being able to breath. Oh, the list of successes go on and on. I don't worry so much anymore about what the scale says and look for other ways to see success.

But since this WAS weight loss surgery, I guess I should tell you my grand total as of today. I have now lost 76 pounds!!!! And I now wear a size XL womens blouse (down from a tight 3X) and a size 14 (down from a size 22/24)in pants. My shoes are even to large for me now! I wore my under panties until the morning they literally fell off of me. When I purchased new ones - they were 5 sizes smaller than the ones I was wearing. Can we all sing "Pants on the ground"?

I feel so much better, I cant even begin to tell you.. I finally feel "normal" for the first time in years - and I am still far from being skinny. I would like to lose about 50 more pounds before I turn 60, which will be in 2 1/2 years. So, there is plenty of time for that.

I now eat about 1/2 a cup of food at a time and eat about every 3-4 hours. In the morning, I have a protein shake for breakfast. About 3 hours later, I have some yogurt. For lunch I normally have either 1/2 cup of some kind of soup I have made or an order of Taco Bell refried beans & cheese or maybe a slice of roast turkey breast with some colby jack cheese. Later, I will have a small container of flavored applesauce and for dinner - soup, refried beans, Boca Burgers (no bread) or talipia, shrimp or some other kind of fish.

Honestly, I like eating this way now. My taste buds have changed drastically. I still haven't had beef, port or bread or any of kind - cant have them for 4 more months. My thinking is - if I don't eat them for 7 months - why start? But we shall see.

Any, I didn't mean to talk your legs off. But I'm very proud of what Ive done. It hasn't been easy for me especially since Alan ended up in the hospital 3 weeks after my surgery. I wanted to stress eat so badly but my body wouldn't let me - and I didn't know where to go with my stress. So I did a lot of walking while he was in the hospital for 3 weeks.

But all is good, Im enjoying the compliments, looking for new clothes, being able to sit in a booth - Ohhhhh - so many things!

This is absolutely the best thing Ive ever done for myself! I will post pictures soon - I promise. I will even put the worst picture of me in the whole wide world which is the one where I am at my highest weight and look my worst - Im using it as my before picture!