{"id":813,"date":"2013-02-07T16:54:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T00:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/?p=813"},"modified":"2024-08-30T02:24:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T09:24:16","slug":"marlees-before-and-after-gastric-sleeve-surgery-photos-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/marlees-before-and-after-gastric-sleeve-surgery-photos-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlee’s Before and After Gastric Sleeve Surgery Photos & Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For years I’ve accepted my being overweight as my curse. I tried everything to lose weight including the popular and fad diets. I approached my doctor about having weight loss surgery only to have my health insurance deem me not sick enough to qualify for surgery.<\/p>\n

When I heard about BeLiteWeight it was like my prayers had been answered and I decided to go with the gastric sleeve procedure. I approached my husband and even though he was apprehensive about me traveling<\/span> to Mexico he supported my decision completely. Once I filled my friends in on my decision, it was met with mixed reviews. Although they all supported my decision, they too were concerned about me traveling<\/span> to Mexico to have it done. Before I knew it the day had arrived for me to fly out to El Paso, TX. I flew on Christmas Day and spent the night at a hotel and the next day I was picked up by the shuttle driver who took me straight to the hospital in Juarez, Mexico.<\/p>\n

Admittance<\/span> went very smoothly. I was taken to my own room and had some testing performed. There was a communication barrier with some, but at\u00a0any time I didn’t understand something there was someone who spoke English<\/span> to explain what was going on. My surgery took place the next day. Surgery was a complete success!! As with any surgery there was pain and discomfort, but very minimal. The stay in the hospital for the next couple of nights was very nice, but I looked forward to getting home. Before leaving the hospital they had to do a post-surgical x-ray showing how my stomach had changed from it’s original shape.<\/p>\n

Following the post surgical<\/span> diet was a breeze and within the first month I lost 35 pounds. I am very strict with my portion sizes and try to eat every 3 to 4 hours to keep my metabolism going. I drink at least 48 ounces of water a day. I no longer consume ANY caffeinated<\/span> or carbonated products. I cannot believe that a year has gone by and I’ve lost 125 pounds. I’ve gone from a size 24 to a size 10! I thank BeLiteWeight and Dr Rodriguez for giving me the tool for me to get my life back! Before surgery I used to dread going clothes shopping, but now I look forward to trying on clothes! I would highly recommend this to ANYONE!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For years I’ve accepted my being overweight as my curse. I tried everything to lose weight including the popular and fad diets. I approached my doctor about having weight loss surgery only to have my health insurance deem me not sick enough to qualify for surgery. When I heard about BeLiteWeight it was like my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,9,14],"tags":[917,12,13,10,8,19,919],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bariatric-surgery","category-gastric-sleeve-surgery","category-weight-loss-surgery","tag-gastric-sleeve-surgery","tag-gastric-sleeve-testimonials","tag-laparoscopic-vertical-sleeve-gastrectomy","tag-sleeve-gastrectomy-surgery","tag-vertical-sleeve-gastrectomy","tag-weight-loss-2","tag-weight-loss-surgery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10542,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions\/10542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}