Easy Way Out!

[sraebaer]

Sraebaer,
Thanks so much for your uplifting posts. You are such an encouragement and echo so many of my feelings. I'm so grateful to have you sharing your experience here. Please hang in there with those of us about to take the big plunge!
DHB

Glad if I can help others, but It also helps me being here. It keeps me accountable and the sleeve on my mind. I've been here since September 2013!

[Cherub]

Interesting posts! I would not consider my experience with the sleeve as easy or hard. I do look at it as a way out. For the it was THE way out. I could never have known that it would work for me. I did my due diligence and I certainly qualified with co morbidities which are now all gone except for slightly elevated cholesterol and a lowered BP pill. What a ride it has been. I have had not complications. I do have to work only head hunger. I have mad sit through numerous stalls and and still losing one year into it all. Slower now but still losing. I can exercise. That is easier now. I look at my surgery as providing me enough weightless to feel well enough to walk more. When I walk now and my legs don't rub together. I almost feel like I am flying or something. It is the oddest feeling. I also enjoy walking, That is never something I said prior to surgery as I huffed and puffed and dreading walking to the car to drive home from work. Those were the days I felt like it would be easier to stay at work instead of going to the car to drive home. I know that sounds extreme to some but that is how bad I felt. So i feel like the surgery was a way OUT! Not easy not hard just a way out. It worked for me. I found it all so far manageable. Not without challenges and some sadness and grief. My health is so much better. I feel better. I am so happy I made the choice. Good luck to all of you and keep having hope!

[Stacey03]

Seriously? Isn't FINALLY finding a way to lose weight and keep it off exciting! You will be thrilled beyond your wildest dreams. (I know I thought I would be obese my entire life.)

YES! I totally know its going to be the thing that cracks it :-)

[Ann2]

VSG is the ONLY thing that has ever helped me solve my weight problem.

It really (excuse the expression) tipped the scales for me. I always worked HARD to solve my weight problem. Really hard! Never gave up. But this time, VSG + commitment + personal accountability + being open to learning new behaviors + therapy (hey, that was a new thing, too) = success, thus far.

Again, being normal weight and active and able to do anything I want to do feels like a miracle. A bloody miracle!

At nearly 72, I really do feel like I am "living happily ever after."

[Stacey03]

VSG is the ONLY thing that has ever helped me solve my weight problem.

It really (excuse the expression) tipped the scales for me. I always worked HARD to solve my weight problem. Really hard! Never gave up. But this time, VSG + commitment + personal accountability + being open to learning new behaviors + therapy (hey, that was a new thing, too) = success, thus far.

Again, being normal weight and active and able to do anything I want to do feels like a miracle. A bloody miracle!

At nearly 72, I really do feel like I am "living happily ever after."

Love this post Ann :-)

[sraebaer]

I'm actually grateful for these two different perspectives. I'm nearly 64 and I, too, have spent more money than I can count on Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, Phentermine, etc. When I went to my GP for my pre-op check up I asked him if he had any concerns and he said, "You've done your due diligence. You have tried everything else possible. Your best chance of having good health for the next 20 years is to get that weight off and this is the best way to do it."

I do appreciate that there will be some challenges. My surgery is 10 days before Thanksgiving and my family will all be home. I've place my order for a pre-made dinner(first time ever) and am prepared to miss some of that joy that comes around the hour+ long lunch. But I will be thankful to be starting my new life, one in which I don't hide behind family members in photos or miss events because I don't want others to see me. That takes a mental toll, too, and I'm tired of paying it.

So thanks for both the encouragement and the warning. I needed both as I head into this last stretch.

DHB

It may be 2 different perspectives, but mine is from over 4 years experience living with the sleeve, and the other is from about a month and a half of being sleeved. So I do think I'm looking at the bigger picture.