G'day Greg

Thanks for the contact. You know I need to write the book. The experiences I have had over the last 12 months have been surprising and incredible. Its amazing what the human mind can do.
I will let you know once I have written it but its a must do.
Yep I have 76 kgs to go and I'm done.

Cheers

Gary

Gary,,

congratulations what you have achieved in the past 12 months.. You still have a bit to go but a kilo and a bit per week is awesome..Have you got any tips for a novice? and have you put pen to paper for that book you were going to start..

Keep it up, and post more, novices like to read about successes like yours.. Some of these weomen just go on & on don't they?????????....only kidding girls

Cya

Greg

Thanks Deb

Yep feel like half the man I use to be !!

That's wonderful Shrinking. You must feel like a completely different person. You have lost a complete person in weight anyway! Really happy for you.

Hi Guys

Yesterday was 1 year since my op. Total loss so far 59kgs !!
Looking forward to my result in another 12 months from now!!

Regards

G

Hey guys!

Also been away for a while! Recovery is going well, and I can pretty much eat anything I like! just tiny portions, even though I find I am eating more and more as time goes by. Xmas was a breeze, I actually lost 3 kgs over Xmas! Just the damned refluzes keep me up sme nights.. the gym is going well, and am losing volume as well as weight and adding muscle. I shaved my goatee after 11 years with i, and some people dont recognise me now! And I am fiting into my "sjkinny" jeans.. as all my more recent clothes are HUGE! Oh and the sex is great now.. much more drive and stamina!

Fantastic work .well done and keep it up...thanks for the progress report

G'day dudes. Just checking in. Weight loss so far is 52kgs - yahoooooo.

Hi Guys

Just checking in. Looks a bit quiet in here. Loss to date 44gs. Only 101 to go !!

I can think of a name for you.......it starts with "B" !!

Hi Legless

Sorry I fell off the radar. This silly thing called work and travel keeps getting in the way. I can only aspire to be the weight you are right now (bragger:) but my time to shine will come when I am 80kgs again. Something to think about while your are drinking your optifast is that I am about to sit down to Breaky. Mushrooms on toast and coffee !!! Have a good one !

G

My surgeon's allowed me to cheat by permitting one small meal per day - as long as that meal is only a grilled or roasted skinless chicken breast or piece of fish, (or similar), served with a salad or mixed vegetables. You've no idea how much I look forward to that "meal"!!!

Oh.....BTW....the endoscopy was a breeaze!!
Waiting around to be discharged was the biggest pain. The proceedure itself was a piece of cake. A canula in the back of the hand then the aneathetist starts injecting some stuff that looks like milk into the canula. Before he's half way through the injection you're waking up in recovery with this young filly of a nurse smiling at you. No, you haven't died and gone to heaven but I wonder if that's what it's like?!?!?

Hey Oldfart it's perseverence that will get you through just do what applesauce did at our house, clear the fridge & pantry of ALL picky bits, remove the temptations for a week to get your body used to the optifast & after that it's a breeze.

Well guys I am afraid to say I can't even manage to go two optislim meals without picking at something ..... and I have tried three times already so my chances of losing much weight before surgery are a lot slimmer than Captain Legless's 5kg's loss already .... er if that makes sense

Yeh after suviving 3 months on opti-puke (with a little Tony Furguson soup mixed in for good measure) even the post op liquids & mushies diet was heaven! But it achieved what I wanted which was a surgery that was a doddle (I did it in my sleep!) & a fast post op recovery as I was up & mobile 2 hours after the op as well as no post op complications.

3 months of Optifast!!!!!!!!! :[img]http://sm

Sorry fella's I've been a bit remiss at keeping tabs in here but I'm back now.

Hiya shrinking, man what a start to your journey that was my biggest fear waking up like that so hence the 30kg weight loss pre op 3 months of optifast & excercise were worth it. And your loss post op way to go! keep it up!

HELL !!

Hopefully I won't encounter any problems like that. I'm 110kg so in comparison to yourself when you went in I guess I'm a lightweight eh?

Hi Legless

Try and lose as much as you can. I was 226kgs going into the op. Part way through the op they decided to slice me open as it was too risky to continue. 4 hours in recovery and a night in intensive care was not fun. It added 6 weeks of total discomfort to my recovery. So try and lose as much as you can.

Greetings "shrinking".

I'm just 4 days into the pre-op Optifast diet and it's bloody well killing me!!!!!!! I could it my mouse pad with slop of sauce on it.

By the time I get to 15 weeks like yourself I would hope to be eating a full T-bone steak with a serve of chips and baked beans and still have room for some pavlova.

Hope you can act as a mentor for us.

The oldfart over there seems to think I'm going to lead the way for him.......pfffftttt!!

Exercise? Let me look that up in the dictionary :)
No actually that does not look like my cup of tea.
Actually its just the restriction and inability to breath my food in that has created my loss. However I am going to give this exercise thing a fly when it warms up a bit.
I eat normal food - nothing special just like the rest of the family but smaller amounts of it.
I also make better choices and drink more water than ever before.
I must say I am very pleased with the results even though I have a long way to go !!.

HiYa Shrinking!!
Nice of you to think of us and call in ..... gotta say I am impressed with the loss and can only hope I can match it in less time ;-) though over two kilos a week might be a hard act to follow. Did you follow a low joule diet as well as exercise routine?
how about letting us know what you did or didnt do.

Hey dudes. Just thought I would stick my beak in to see whats new. I am 15 weeks post op and lost 36kgs.

I tried to get done on the 28th of August so me n the Captain could do a buddy shift thing but it didnt work out ..... my surgeon didnt do surgery on that day so I am a a week later .............. sorry Captain Legless!!

ooooh yes! that is exactly what I meant ........ but I know that is why I am having the sleeve cause I would eat the whole bbq!!

I've an idea where you're coming from "oldfart". It seems like it would be criminal not to be able to finish that big plate of fish n' chips, curry, sirloin steak, shepherds pie......etc etc. :shock:

How bad must it be standing beside the BBQ turning over steaks and snags knowing you can only suck the juice off one sausage and take a smell at a steak before you're feeling full?!?!

How do you stop your mouth from watering and drooling when the pavlova and cheese cake gets dished up?!?!?

Why am I going to do this thing called "sleeving" ???????????? :affraid:

Hi All???

That means both of you guys hey! :)

Hey TBAs, I was wondering if there was a super man "high" after having the operation? I mean haven been given "the" power to be able to control what you eat did this give a bit of a rush to start with but now that you realise physically you cant fit in what you wanted to fit in, has it become harder or easier for you ........ has there been any frustratiion because you cant eat as much etc I am not sure if this is making much sense or not ............ how you are doing mentally regarding food eating (for me I have always been addicted to it, were you??) ie: I cant stop at one lolly in the bag etc, so how has it effected that attitude mentally for you.

Yep it's just starting up give it some time tho.

Just thought I'd stick my head in the "Blokes Room" and see what's going on. Not a lot really eh? Looks like more members are needed.