{"id":823,"date":"2013-02-08T07:38:57","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T15:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/?p=823"},"modified":"2024-08-30T02:23:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T09:23:54","slug":"erikas-lap-band-to-sleeve-revision-surgery-before-after-photos-and-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/erikas-lap-band-to-sleeve-revision-surgery-before-after-photos-and-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Erika’s Lap Band to Sleeve Revision – Before & After Photos and Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hello Ladies!<\/p>\n

I hope you are both doing well and had a lovely Thanksgiving! I wanted to let you know that I am officially at 50 pounds lost! I feel amazing! The sleeve is my dream life! It is not a panacea, I am continuing my therapy with a psychiatrist who specializes in weight loss surgery patients. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I am 20lbs over what I had lost with the band. I haven’t weighed 210 in about three years! I can fit into a size 16 jeans very comfortably now, and I have bought a few 14’s as well! (I was a tight 18\/2XL at surgery time). I went shopping last night and I can fit into size large at many stores! My boobs unfortunately are still gigantic so that makes it a little difficult! Hopefully they will shrink soon.<\/p>\n

I love that my co workers are constantly saying how amazed they are at my weight loss. I know it won’t be easy forever, but it still has seemed like a piece of cake. Saying “no” is so much easier these days. Food has lost that “fun event” feeling it had before for me. I am used to the new, smaller portions I eat now and rarely eat until stuffed like I did at first. I learned my lesson with the band….absolutely no ice cream, milk shakes, mashed potatoes, or cream soups for me this time around! (No slider foods!) I’ve been eating a lot of fat free Greek yogurt which is yummy and has lots of protein.<\/p>\n

I’ve had no hair loss yet, though I confess I would love to lose some! (Ahh!) I have SO much hair! My hair dresser keeps laughing when I tell her that its possible that I might start losing hair! She says it won’t matter on me! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

I will try and take some pictures this weekend. I did something two weeks ago that I haven’t had done since my wedding day over four years ago. I arranged for my husband, me, and our two dogs to get family pictures taken for Christmas. I should get them back today or tomorrow, I will pass them along. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Thank you so much for enabling me to change my life for the best it could be! I am a happier, healthier person!! No blood pressure meds for me now either!!! I have had it checked since at the doc twice and it’s been NORMAL! Praise The Lord! My outlook on life has improved dramatically! I have more energy, more happiness and my husband and I barely fight anymore. I can’t see this going anywhere but better and better as I continue to shed the weight that’s prevented me from living life to the fullest.<\/p>\n

We are going to Hawaii in June and I can’t wait!!! I will feel proud of myself whatever I weigh. I know I will feel marvelous! Four years ago my family went and I weighed 180. I hope I can weigh that or less this time around!<\/p>\n

Enough blabbering! Thanks for your support ladies, and god bless BELITEWEIGHT!!! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

xoxoxo<\/p>\n

Erika L<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello Ladies! I hope you are both doing well and had a lovely Thanksgiving! I wanted to let you know that I am officially at 50 pounds lost! I feel amazing! The sleeve is my dream life! It is not a panacea, I am continuing my therapy with a psychiatrist who specializes in weight loss […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[917,12,45,13,46,10,8,919],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gastric-sleeve-surgery","category-weight-loss-surgery","tag-gastric-sleeve-surgery","tag-gastric-sleeve-testimonials","tag-lap-band-to-sleeve-revision-surgery","tag-laparoscopic-vertical-sleeve-gastrectomy","tag-revision-weight-loss-surgery","tag-sleeve-gastrectomy-surgery","tag-vertical-sleeve-gastrectomy","tag-weight-loss-surgery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","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=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9461,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions\/9461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}