#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

[evilejfan]

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

[abodybuiltlikeagoddess]

The squish delicately kisses the protruding bones, as if to say

You’re beautiful and deserving of gentle love.

[low1expectations]

Your girl is gettin SNATCHED ⏳ 🤎 💙

318 lbs - 179 lbs

[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!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[msaturnb]

METAS

72kg 🐽 65kg🫠 60kg🥲

55kg🥹 50kg🌷 45kg 🦋

[harmcityherald]

I love that they are called dome wreckers.😆 500mg each then add the indica hybrid making tonight's dinner of stuffed clams and buttered pasta seasoned with rosemary from the garden, basil, onion flakes, salt and pepper, well it makes that a feast of kings and to artemesia's credit I feel so much better than last night. The cramping in my stomach was pretty bad came with a side order of projectile vomiting free of charge. 24hrs later I'm stuffed to the seams but not uncomfortably so. This is why I continue to tell my doctors there needs to be more study into medical cannabis related to stomach cancer, appetite and pain relief and calming of the stomach as well. I lost 80% of my stomach and was told I would never be able to gain weight on my own. today I'm twice as heavy and relaxing from a meal where I ate significantly more than everyone else. sure last night I was sick. but tonight all systems are operating at peak efficiency. I can directly draw a line from my use of edibles to my success at regaining weight and stretching out the remaining tissue to form a quasi-stomach, with which I now eat normally. The doctors agree with me. They have to stop short of recommending their patients utilize it, but trust me, anything you can do to improve your mood and condition they will appreciate. I gained weight when they told me I couldn't. They continue to be pleasantly surprised by my success. So I'm a big advocate of medical cannabis especially when it concerns stomach cancer and similar maladies. I can say I have added years to my life thanks to good old Mary Jane. All those years of self medicating with the only anxiety medication that ever worked finally paid off. it helped me to eat again when that seemed bleak and out of reach. it's helping me tonight. its helping artemesia with her restless legs and getting some semblance of sleep.

I'm thankful for the help it most certainly provides.

I totally support recreational legalization everywhere, all the time but I believe that it's criminal to not provide this medical option, so valuable in many different ways to someone like me whose life would have been shortened without it.

free the weed.

[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

[adobephotoslop]

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

[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...

[abodybuiltlikeagoddess]

This is me,

All of me,

My flesh,

My vulnerability,

And I give it all to you.

[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

[danny-pino-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.

[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.

[swankytigre]

Honestly, losing 15lbs in a week has been great… but I just want a fucking taco 🌮