#bariatric surgery

[ahappybeginning]

I just hit a major milestone: 200 lbs down. In 13 1/2 months.

I’m honestly just…crying with relief and joy and pride and so much love for myself and this journey I decided to take. 🥹🥹

At the beginning of this year, I set a series of goals for myself. Some were weight-related, some were non-scale victories I wanted to achieve. This particular milestone, based on what I was predicting my rate of continued weight loss would look like, I had put as wanting to hit by my birthday, in September. It’s exactly 3 months from my birthday today, and I’m already here.

And this puts me only 10 lbs from the lowest (recorded) weight I got to during my first weight loss attempt in 2018. So soon, I will be in completely uncharted territory with my lowest weight as an adult, and I’m so freaking excited.

I’m going to Disney this weekend to celebrate. Just got a brand new annual pass, so this trip will mark my triumphant return to my happy place that I haven’t been to since 2019. And honestly, that last trip was anything but happy for me due to some unrelated bullshit happening in my personal life at the same time, so I’m very much looking forward to reclaiming my joy and making it magical for me again. I’m gonna get a celebration button, take allllllll the professional photos, ride the new rides that have opened since I was last there…basically I’m gonna celebrate my face off because I FREAKING LOST 200 POUNDS AND I DAMN WELL DESERVE IT!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

#weight loss milestone #200 lbs gone forever #bariatric sleeve #bariatric surgery #weight loss journey

[ben-c-group-therapy]

Surgery went well Monday, I came home Tuesday afternoon. I still have lots of pain but pills help for now and I’ve managed to not take any until nighttime. The sensations of not feeling hungry is very odd to get used to. I hate all the meds I have to take now but I’ve been working on it. Every day is a learning experience and something new. Trying to learn new signals from my body, trying to deal with odd pains and sensations I hadn’t ever felt in such a way before. It’s also incredibly exhausting, I feel I should have more energy but can’t wait for the day I am back to my old self. No, better than my old self.

#hospital #personal #weight loss #surgical weight loss #bariatric surgery #tw hospital #trigger warning #tw surgery #tw weight

[ignitesthestxrs]

i haven’t posted a photo of myself here for a long time, mostly because i find it very hard to take photos of myself in general, and specifically it's hard to feel good about throwing your fat body up to be looked at by strangers.

an understandable tradition with bariatric patients is to post before and afters. obviously i understand the urge to post what feels like progress, and to show off a visible change in your body that you feel good about, but the idea makes me deeply uncomfortable. multiple people asked/ encouraged me to take befores 'just in case', but ultimately i don't want any happiness in my current body to be tied to disdain at the shadow and state of my body before

the language used is often extremely othering - referring to the way you used to look as 'your fat self' or in the third person, even if you're trying to express some kind of self love (eg 'that girl was trying so hard').

i don't want to discard the body i had like in living in a new body now. it's the same body. it's going through some changes - i have changed it - but this is the body that was very fat and the body that was young and the body that has a history of kidney disorder and the body that I've pulled the hair out from strand by strand. I've had this body for thirty one years. i have tried my best with it, even though at times my best effort was just waking up in the morning.

i can't pretend to be devoid of fatphobia - i don't think anyone can. there is a clear and obvious reason that i feel more comfortable with the idea of posting a photo now than i did x kgs ago. but i don't need to induce a competition with myself to feel good about the way i look now. i can choose to enjoy that in this moment, without making it publicly contingent on how i looked before

anyway i gave myself a haircut look how cute

#weight loss #fatphobia #weight loss surgery #bariatric surgery

[jellyroll72]

7/27/23 is the day I started my journey

#bariatric #bariatric surgery #weightloss small goals lead to big success #weightloss #inspiration #gastric surgery #gastric sleeve #vsgjourney #body positive

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[goldyke]

Anyway back to medical fatphobia,

When I was admitted the hospital the ER could not weigh me because I was writhing in pain and I didn’t know my weight because I intentionally don’t track it. The admitting nurse GUESSED my weight and put it down as fact. A week later, a surgeon not only denied me surgery based on this GUESS but recommended a second weight loss surgery based on it.

He recommended life altering surgery to, in his medical capacity as a surgeon, after a 10 minute telehealth appointment in which he never even saw my body, based on a guess about my weight made by an admitting nurse who saw me for under 5 minutes. A guess which by the way, was 30 pounds off (I was weighed at an appointment today and the weight was revealed to me against my express wishes).

Anyway fuck the fatphobia medical system and everyone who perpetuates it. And especially fuck “bariatric” surgeons and anyone who recommends their “care”

#weight mention #medical fatphobia #bariatric surgery

[n-0-e-m-i]

I'm looking forward to next wednesday

There will (🤞🏼) be a new chapter of Spellbound by @katnissdoesnotfollowback

I'll be able to get back into (semi) solid food, after the obligatory 8 days of liquid diet after my surgery

#gastric bypass #bariatric surgery #not eating cheese is the worst part

[sparrowsingsstories]

Welp - I'm bariatric surgeon is So Happy with my weight loss - looking at my chart, it's like 100 pounds in a year - that it's time to refer me to the cosmetic surgeon to discuss skin removal. So things like: what I need to work towards, what the surgery(s) look like, and seeing if insurance will cover it and what they will cover (it'd be great if we can throw in my boobs so I can have them reduced as part of all this) - and what I'm saying is, I'm absolutely amazed and excited and scared...

And also my GOD will I be a lot smaller...

@alder-berry will need to tie a balloon to me when we go out or I'll get lost!

#weight loss #bariatric surgery #skin removal surgery #it's CRAZY

[draciformes]

#Fatphobia #Tiktok #Bariatric surgery

[ahappybeginning]

Copying this from my IG (sorry to those who’ve already read it) :

That feeling when you strike the final, deadly blow to the last of the demons of the past, crossing into the future with the knowledge that it’s YOURS, finally. After years of struggling to regain everything that was lost, today I have officially stopped catching up, stopped retreading the same path I’d taken many times before, and have finally broken into the new and exciting ground of being at my official lowest weight as an adult. I’m finally free from the memories and parallels to what I tried five years ago, and I can bask in the peace of knowing no one else gets *this* victory. It’s all mine.

I have this image in my mind, of past Laurel sitting in the middle of a road, stuck, waiting, a dark shadow looming over her. And then me now, walking up behind her, stopping as I reach her, leaning down and giving her a long, tight hug and a grateful smile, and then turning to face the brightest, warmest ray of sunshine and continuing to walk forward, swallowed by light.

I couldn’t have gotten here without that past version of myself. She taught me so much, even though I spent so much of my life hating her and being ashamed. I don’t feel either of those things anymore. I feel strength, I feel compassion, I feel gratitude, and I feel love. For all of the past versions of myself that worked together to bring me to this place. Onwards and upwards, no more looking back now.

This truly is my happy beginning now. ✨

#bariatric sleeve #bariatric surgery #weight loss journey #onwards and upwards #living my best life

[space-brood-moon]

Alive!

I am alive. Again. Work and school has swallowed me up completely. I am almost 3 months post-op and nearly 80 pounds down. Having weight loss surgery was the best decision I could have ever made!

#bariatric surgery #duodenal switch #weight loss

[ignitesthestxrs]

staring contest with my meals for 3 weeks as i prepare to prepare for surgery

(the gist of this is: im fat and don't want to be anymore. I'm having a gastric sleeve, and a part of this process involves eating the above for 3 weeks before surgery in order to shrink my liver. i am both very fascinated by the whole process and want to talk about it all the time and also have no idea how to talk about it without feeling like I'm showing my ass in public. so here we are in the parentheses)

#weight loss #food #kind of at a loss how to tag this lmao #it's not fatphobia but could certainly be upsetting to fat people #bariatric surgery

[livlifehospitals]

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[allid87]

Moving forward in the bariatric program! I was cleared by the social worker, and I'm about to see the dietician again.

I've been working hard to do the lifestyle changes needed for post-op.

Next step is being contacted by the surgeon!

I'm so excited. It's getting closer!

#bariatric surgery

[drapurvaradiance]

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[chris-sales-belly-ring]

In the bariatric surgery world we have a concept called “onederland.” It’s celebrating when your weight finally has a “1” in front of it.

Most of us have been 200+ pounds for the majority of our lives, so it’s a major milestone for us.

I stepped on the scale this morning and I almost cried seeing a “1” in front of my weight for the first time in 3 years!!

I was so disappointed with myself for letting my emotional eating get so out of control for the last 3 years. I literally undid all of the work I did to lose weight from 2016-2018.

I didn’t just gain a little weight, I actually got up to 8 pounds heavier than my surgery weight last year!! I was absolutely mortified with how I ate myself to that point. I was honestly disgusted and it was my rock bottom moment.

I could’ve felt sorry for myself and given up. I felt like I was drowning and I truly lost myself in the process. I decided to put on my big girl pants (quite literally 😂) and change my diet and become more active. Two things that I committed to when I decided to have surgery 5.5 years ago. I knew it wasn’t going to be easy, but I knew it was the only way to change my situation.

I’ve been busting my ass and I’ve lost 50 pounds so far! I found myself again. I feel like “me” again and like I have my life back. I let myself down and I wasn’t sure if I could get myself out of the mess that I made. I turned a story about failure into a story of triumph. I’m not at my goal weight yet, but I’m not stopping until I get there. And when I get there this time, I plan to stay there. 💪🏾

#Personal #My Weight Loss Journey #It’s a post-op thing #Gastric Bypass #Bariatric Surgery