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Your food always looks so good!

Nail envy 😭

My usual home remedy is a phone... To call my Surgeon 😂

Hi Kimyana First, I just want to say that I completely sympathise with you. I'm 5 years out from my surgery and I've gained back about 8kg (or 17lbs). It's hard to shake and it feels awful. I do think, however, that you need to be really really strict with yourself about how you're recording calories. Can you tell us here how you record them? Are you using an application like myfitnesspal? do you use the exact item/brand you ate to track? Are you breaking down each meal you cook into its parts and weighing them to track? To be accurate with calories, you need to weigh and track every single item that passes your lips throughout the day. Including all drinks. I say this because I'll be honest with you.. it's basically impossible for a person, at any weight, to be eating 600 calories a day consistently and not lose any weight. And that's when they're sedentary. 600 calories is a staggeringly small amount of food. To compare, 3 of the VLCD Optifast shakes made with water only are 500 calories a day. Unfortunately, underestimating our calorie intake is very easy. I often will think oh, I can't have eaten more than 1400-1500 calories today. If I add it all up, on a day where I haven't been taking much care etc, I can easily have eaten 1800-2000 calories. It's not as much food as it sounds, and I cook all my own food and eat lots of veg. It's just easily done. Without getting into it, I'm a doctor and I have seen people starve in the beds on calorie intakes more than 600. Even a person with underlying medical issues like PCOS or thyroid dysfunction should easily drop weight on 600 calories a day, especially when they're significantly overweight like you are (at 195lbs) or exercising. I know it's not easy to hear and it's not easy to say, to be honest. But I think you need to be really honest with yourself about how you're tracking your calorie intake and aim to track by weighing every single thing you eat and tracking it accurately (ie if the item is not listed to track, then make your own item with accurate calorie content and then track it) so that you can get a true sense of what you are taking in.

Congratulations! Yeah the first 6 months are the easiest, and its great you took advantage of it so well As for the exercise (unless you are an endurance athlete or serious weight lifter), it doesn't really contribute much to weight loss, its more really for overall health, well-being, body contouring. Food intake is the bigger determiner of weight loss. I hated exercise in beginning also. I basically forced myself to do it though (and I was really mad about it!). Now I actually love running and other cardio activities (who'd have thunk?), and I do it almost daily. BUT i still hate weight training. I figure it is a necessary evil and I force myself at least 15-20 minutes of it a day. It helps that Mr. is a fitness freak and is around for support & motivation (ie., physically dragging me to the mat, lol). Maybe get a workout buddy if you really want to get into it? P.S. do we get to see some Before and After pics?? We LOVE Before and After pics!

I’m 7 months out. HW 286 SW 245 CW 179. I only started to exercise now that in isolation. So most of my weight loss was prior to exercising. I’m in So FL where its hot & sunny. I’m fortunate to have pool. That’s where I do most exercise plus using hand weights. Haven’t seen big difference in any weight loss. But do see tighten of legs & some muscles developing! I don’t think muscles are so big that this is reason not seeing bigger weight loss. But do feel better. FYI- I do NOT like exercising. Never did. But slowly pushing myself.

This looks delish! Such a pretty presentation, too. ;]

That's so nice! I figure the isolation will give me a chance to lose a lot of weight and then surprise everyone when we finally get released. That's a great idea with the clothing though, it must be so cool to see it coming off so quickly. I've lost a lot of weight thus far, but aside from some shirts fitting more loosely I'm still wearing the same clothes, ah well, I'll get there:) good luck with the continued loss!

Hi had my op Jan 8th. Very happy but missing cola a lot xx

so lucky - mine has been postponed twice now with no penciled in date yet