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+2Bellaballerina33 roadtripmama 6 posters | Author | Message |
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lilac Part of the furniture
Number of posts : 374 Age : 52 Location : Australia Registration date : 2010-08-02
| Subject: Re: 5 years ago today Sat 31 Oct 2015, 11:13 pm | |
| I'll be 5 years out in the coming January. I'm also one of the lucky ones who has maintained weight loss. I was 108kg and now 70kg.
I believe that my success has partly been restriction but believe that most of my success is the result of the nature of sleeve surgery - the ghrelin reduction because of having lost most of my stomach. Ghrelin is the hunger hormone that is produced in the stomach. My belief is that once a person loses the drive to eat (cravings) then the choice of what to eat is granted. I can now 'choose' to eat healthily or not - as before, my cravings were so strong that I just couldn't resist. My addiction to food has been cured by this operation. If you don't have a good understanding of calories and what is healthy for you, then you will eventually regain weight. However for me this is not the case. I could be a dietician I know so much about health and dieting! 😉
My advice to new sleevers would be to know the calories of food you eat, learn about protein rich foods and include them at least once a day and eat lots of fresh fruit each day. Avoid too much snacking too - it all adds up. I think 3 meals a day and 2 or 3 healthy snacks a day, such as 6 almonds, a piece of fruit or a small yoghurt, is ideal. Also only drink water - avoid fizzy drinks, juices and alcohol. These are easy calories to take in. Remember - you can now CHOOSE your calories, as you are no longer a slave to addiction. This is why the sleeve is superior to the gastric bypass in the long term - the bypass retains the stomach and therefore the ghrelin.
Hope this info has been helpful.
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| Subject: Re: 5 years ago today Thu 15 Oct 2015, 4:19 am | |
| THANK YOU, RTM , for posting this - some great 'useful things' in there, and it's always so helpful to hear from long term sleevers. Very inspiring and motivating for someone who's about 4 weeks away from being sleeved. :-)
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| | | aussiearies Part of the furniture
Number of posts : 894 Location : Sydney Registration date : 2014-03-20
| Subject: Re: 5 years ago today Thu 15 Oct 2015, 3:35 am | |
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| | | KatyOverWeighty Newbie
Number of posts : 195 Age : 38 Location : Brisbane Registration date : 2015-10-04
| Subject: Re: 5 years ago today Thu 15 Oct 2015, 3:07 am | |
| As someone who still has 6 long months to go until surgery, I am glad to hear from long term successes... the longer the better!
I too am not ashamed of my plans to have the sleeve, my only concern being that I will become Sleeve Girl as mentioned elsewhere on the forum. I would hate to be introduced to people like "this is Katey.. she had Gastric Sleeve surgery and has lost heaps of weight.. you should have seen her a year ago!"
I am already prepared for my response.. something along the lines of
'Nice to meet you! I also enjoy online gaming, sleeping in on weekends and my cat is called Henry.
Oh sorry... I thought we were giving out irrelevant personal information...?' | |
| | | gingerchicken Part of the furniture
Number of posts : 432 Location : NSW Registration date : 2014-01-29
| Subject: Re: 5 years ago today Wed 14 Oct 2015, 2:40 pm | |
| Thank you RTM for coming back and posting your story! It is great to read of someone doing really well, 5 years on.
Congrats on your success!
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| | | Bellaballerina33 Part of the furniture
Number of posts : 205 Location : Victoria, AUS Registration date : 2014-10-13
| Subject: Re: 5 years ago today Mon 04 May 2015, 1:58 am | |
| Thanks for the share Roadtripmama, it's great to see people successfully maintaining down the track. I sincerely hope to one day be in your shoes in terms of maintenance success. Best wishes for a continued success. | |
| | | roadtripmama Newbie
Number of posts : 183 Location : Brizvegas,Australia Registration date : 2010-02-16
| Subject: 5 years ago today Mon 04 May 2015, 1:15 am | |
| Hi all,
Its been a good year since I even looked at this forum but I thought Id post about my success and how much I thank this forum for giving me the inspiration to actually do something about my morbid obesity.
So thank you all.
It was 5 years ago at Greenslopes hospital in Brisbane that I had my sleeve with Justin Greenslade.
I weighed 106kg at a height of 153cm and a BMI of 46.
I had an uneventful post op run but lost weight gradually, plateau'd often and eventually hit my goal weight/BMI around a year or so after.
I chose not to exercise until I hit 80kg.
My lowest weight was 52kg but I looked and felt a bit scrawny. I expected a 10-20% regain, and as expected I am now 60kg. Ideally Id like to be back to 55kg and fitting into the dress that my husband bought me as an incentive during the first year...but hey...life gets in the way.
Im not giving myself a hard time about this.
Thats been the biggest change.
I know I can lose that weight...and I know how. Its not an insurmountable number...not like before. And I thank my sleeve for that.
If youre sitting on the fence, well all I can say is it worked for me.
Things I found useful:
Daily weighs, but weekly charting of weights. I made up a graph showing different success zones( 10% loss, 65%loss(the average) and my best case of normal BMI) and I charted my progress (and occasional gains and plateau's) weekly....this helped as I was able to see a step pattern emerge and it appeared to be cyclical...it also made me annoyed enough to up my exercise regime to get where I wanted to. I gave myself 12 months to get to goal...I missed it by a few weeks but I got there in the end. I put this on my fridge and named it 'RTM's amazing weightloss journey'
In the early days I counted calories using the free fitday site...its american and things needed tweaking but hey, it was free.
This in itself was a revelation as I am the most disorganised, flaky and somewhat lazy person I know...but it helped when I was feeling like I was getting nowhere.
I still have some issues with alcohol however.
I am still in a comfortable rut careerwise....but today Im doing something about that.
I still get a bit down...but overall I am a much happier person than I was 5 years ago.
I never really felt ashamed that I needed this surgery. I was quite pragmatic about that part and so I told lots and lots of people about it...and still do...I love showing my before QLD licence to people and invariably their response is "OMG that doesnt even look like you!!"
Its weird. I remember being uncomfortable being fat. I remember baulking at a set of stairs, the anguish of shopping for a dress for an occasion and I remember the rashes but I dont remember, and have trouble even associating myself with being fat now.
I do miss my lovely big breasts though....
I wish anyone undertaking this journey the best.
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