#bariatric-surgery

[stargirl-power]

On Weight Loss Surgery: three years later, pt. 2.

At some point I have to stop fussing and editing and actually post. Weight loss blog part 2, now live.

There are huge benefits to having the surgery but I would be lying if I said it was all sunshine and roses. Some drawbacks or things to be aware of are: Not everybody has as ‘successful’ an outcome as I did. Patients who have the sleeve can hope to lose 50-70% of their ‘excess weight’ where the excess is calculated as the weight over the goal weight, which itself is calculated as the weight…

[happyhideoutcheesecake]

Bariatric surgery, also known as weight loss surgery, is a medical procedure that involves altering the digestive system to help patients lose weight.  Indicure is a leading medical tourism company that offers a range of healthcare services to patients worldwide. Based in India, Indicure provides affordable and high-quality medical treatments, including bariatric surgery

[lem0nademouth]

i think maybe if the only thing that makes you lose weight is removing part of your stomach or altering your body’s natural hormone balance and thus disrupting homeostasis, you were not supposed to lose weight

[makiruz]

I actually hate Bariatric in the United States; a 220 lbs person does NOT need a bariatric surgery

The way these people talk I'm not even sure they're real healthcare professionals, and when I know for a fact the weight of a person they're not that fat

[evilejfan]

What difference 2 years and 200 lbs (between us) makes... @toniaandhercats how far we've come! Never let you go kiddo!

[wetandweepingwillow]

i wish i could show off pics of myself on this page </3 i’ve lost so much weight in the past few months i actually look kinda hot now

[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!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[impulsive-contradiction]

Weight loss and body positivity is a journey. The first two pictures are at close to my highest weight, somewhere between 275 and 300. The third picture is a side by side at 6 months and 12 months post-weight loss surgery. The fourth picture is probably at my thinnest on NYE 2021(into 2022) around 125-135 and then I’ve gradually gained weight back, and the last picture is NYE 2024(into 2025). I need to get back on track but what’s different is I don’t hate myself now. I’m still confident even though I’m back up to 190. Because now I know that if I put in effort, I can get to 125-140 again. Because I’ve done it before.

[msaturnb]

METAS

72kg 🐽 65kg🫠 60kg🥲

55kg🥹 50kg🌷 45kg 🦋

[captivemuses]

Yall the post op fatigue is killing me, like I was not prepared to be so down beat p much every minute of every day, it reminds me of the first time I had the rona and man I hope this passes sometime soon I hate wanting to sleep all the time srsytsrsdygohugui

[evilejfan]

Tweeking the look. @toniaandhercats got a vest and pants combo and ditched the dress. A lot more folks recognized us this time! Also I've already lost enough weight that I will have to take up my costume...

[adobephotoslop]

Surgery scheduled May 6th 🥳 I am only moderately scared. Mostly just bad at waiting...

[rabiesofficial]

i remember when i talked to one of the nutritionist (idk if that was her title) people and I was like, "yea so basically I need help figuring out what i need to feed myself, i am not interested in bariatric surgery at all" and she said something along the lines of why are you here 😭 did i literally... not just say that in the first part of my sentence.... are you upset i dont want surgery??? 💀

and then my cousins got the surgery and i could just tell my mom wanted to say something to me but then she saw a clip about how a mom pressured her daughter to get the surgery and the daughter died and she rethought it all but also like... do you really think... in a test of will... you would beat me on this one.... i'm glad you reconsidered for your own peace, but this was never gonna happen for me

[jasminextea]

100 Pounds Down: A Retrospective

TW: weight loss, surgery, specific numbers

STATS:

F/24/5'5" [273 > 173 = 100 lbs]

How I Did It:

I had bariatric surgery on 12/20/2024. I had a surgery called the SADI.

The Good

The majority of health issues I had as a result of my obesity have reversed. The insulin resistance I've had since I was a preteen - gone. Sleep apnea - gone. My triglycerides went from 280 to 131. My HDL (bad cholesterol) went from 151 (HIGH) to 56.

My ease of movement is so. Much. Easier. I can walk for miles without being phased. No pain in my calves/ankles/etc. I can walk up an inclined sidewalk without even noticing. I went for a run the other day. FOR FUN.

Clothes are of course much easier to find. I love to thrift, but before I almost never found anything worth buying in my size. Now I find stuff almost every time. I love fashion so I'm enjoying this a lot.

The Meh (Not So Bad, Not So Good)

I have a TON of clothes to get rid of. I find clothing selling very tedious and Plato's Closet won't take any of of my stuff

I get more male attention. This would be a plus, but I have a boyfriend, and I've never had to deal with it before, so I just feel awkward. Like I went to the club for my birthday and this man would NOT stop trying to grind on me!!!

The Bad

I have iron deficiency without anemia. It really sucks. However I did have this before I got surgery. It's just harder to correct since my surgery makes it harder to absorb iron. I'm getting an iron infusion next Wednesday tho!!!

My LDL cholesterol (good cholesterol) is a little low.

Loose skin. It drives me crazy. Makes exercising especially hard.

I no longer absorb enough birth control for it to stop my periods, and instead I get a period like every 2 weeks. This is hard because I have heavy periods which make my iron deficiency worse. I also have PMDD and BC basically stopped it. So now I have to seek out an alternative and it's annoying/scary.

In general, it makes medications harder to deal with because I don't absorb them completely, but there isn't a ton of research into exactly how this works. As someone was disabled before finding the right medication, this is very scary. I feel like this risk was not adequately communicated to me pre-surgery.

The Ugly

I've gotten a little too obsessed with my body lately. I've been weighing myself a LOT, body checking constantly, feeling super insecure... my body occupies my thoughts the majority of the time.

Overall

I don't regret getting bariatric surgery, but I do have a lot of work to do still before I can consider myself healthy, both physically and mentally.

[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