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You and I are exacts, well almost only I am two years ahead of you. My surgery 9/17/10. My height is the same. My starting weight was a few pounds above you. My optimal goal weight is the same as you. Went down to 138 and looked gaunt, guess you can be too skinny. HA HA
Love reading about your new attitude towards how you celebrate.
Congratulations and HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

You and I are exacts, well almost only I am two years ahead of you. My surgery 9/17/10. My height is the same. My starting weight was a few pounds above you. My optimal goal weight is the same as you. Went down to 138 and looked gaunt, guess you can be too skinny. HA HA
Love reading about your new attitude towards how you celebrate.
Congratulations and HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

You and I are exacts, well almost only I am two years ahead of you. My surgery 9/17/10. My height is the same. My starting weight was a few pounds above you. My optimal goal weight is the same as you. Went down to 138 and looked gaunt, guess you can be too skinny. HA HA
Love reading about your new attitude towards how you celebrate.
Congratulations and HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

I say this with love. First of all, you have just gotten out of a major surgery... your stomach was ripped out less than 3 weeks ago. Think on this. If someone had their leg amputated, would you expect them to be able to run a race in 3 weeks with a prosthetic?
You have written the answers down in your post on how to break your stall. You are smart. shake it up.
at only 300 cals a day...Up your calories. Double calories, you body is in serious starvation mode. It is trying to heal and needs energy.
I am getting in my water, my protein and some exercise. How can you be getting all of your protein at 300 calories a day? How many grams of protein...be honest. What kind of protein, whey or isolate or ? Are you eating any carbs? How many a day?
I am jumping on the scale every few days (I know I know too often) Divorce the scale. Stay off the scale for a week, no cheating. Think of this as WW and if scale does not move "skip" a weekly weight in. Yyu are beating yourself up with this pattern. Stop it.
makes me feel like a big fat f-ing failure. ARGH - stop talking to yourself like this. You can do this, you did not gain the weight in 2 months, nor will you lose it in 2 months.
press on and try to keep the faith that this will work. Yep, keep smiling, you will lose the weight.
Or what if you are one of the "slow" losers? We will find this out in 5 months, not 3 weeks or 4 weeks.
There are some slow losers on this site. COOP & PamelaAM to name a couple. Look up their posts. They struggle often, but guess what? They keep on plan and the scale moves, not as often as others or they would like, but it does move. I will be here to celebrate your loss, whether it be a pound or an ounce.
Either way - the scale has moved in the right direction. Give yourself the grace of time and patience. Start being kind to yourself and take better care of yourself.

This is all good news to me. Postive comments, need to buy new clothes, not needing a bra that looks like a medival torture device. We are so programmed to NOT hearing nice comments about our bodies, disguising our shape that our recations are skewed.
Ladies, what you rant about are all normal thoughts and reactions. At a year plus out, everything you have said, I have said before. All of them. Things will normalize, but it will be a new normal. Do not be frightened by how "easy" weight loss has become. All things will stablize. Take this time to learn new habits. Learn to love the morphing you.
Hugs.

I say this with love. First of all, you have just gotten out of a major surgery... your stomach was ripped out less than 3 weeks ago. Think on this. If someone had their leg amputated, would you expect them to be able to run a race in 3 weeks with a prosthetic?
You have written the answers down in your post on how to break your stall. You are smart. shake it up.
at only 300 cals a day...Up your calories. Double calories, you body is in serious starvation mode. It is trying to heal and needs energy.
I am getting in my water, my protein and some exercise. How can you be getting all of your protein at 300 calories a day? How many grams of protein...be honest. What kind of protein, whey or isolate or ? Are you eating any carbs? How many a day?
I am jumping on the scale every few days (I know I know too often) Divorce the scale. Stay off the scale for a week, no cheating. Think of this as WW and if scale does not move "skip" a weekly weight in. Yyu are beating yourself up with this pattern. Stop it.
makes me feel like a big fat f-ing failure. ARGH - stop talking to yourself like this. You can do this, you did not gain the weight in 2 months, nor will you lose it in 2 months.
press on and try to keep the faith that this will work. Yep, keep smiling, you will lose the weight.
Or what if you are one of the "slow" losers? We will find this out in 5 months, not 3 weeks or 4 weeks.
There are some slow losers on this site. COOP & PamelaAM to name a couple. Look up their posts. They struggle often, but guess what? They keep on plan and the scale moves, not as often as others or they would like, but it does move. I will be here to celebrate your loss, whether it be a pound or an ounce.
Either way - the scale has moved in the right direction. Give yourself the grace of time and patience. Start being kind to yourself and take better care of yourself.

I say this with love. First of all, you have just gotten out of a major surgery... your stomach was ripped out less than 3 weeks ago. Think on this. If someone had their leg amputated, would you expect them to be able to run a race in 3 weeks with a prosthetic?
You have written the answers down in your post on how to break your stall. You are smart. shake it up.
at only 300 cals a day...Up your calories. Double calories, you body is in serious starvation mode. It is trying to heal and needs energy.
I am getting in my water, my protein and some exercise. How can you be getting all of your protein at 300 calories a day? How many grams of protein...be honest. What kind of protein, whey or isolate or ? Are you eating any carbs? How many a day?
I am jumping on the scale every few days (I know I know too often) Divorce the scale. Stay off the scale for a week, no cheating. Think of this as WW and if scale does not move "skip" a weekly weight in. Yyu are beating yourself up with this pattern. Stop it.
makes me feel like a big fat f-ing failure. ARGH - stop talking to yourself like this. You can do this, you did not gain the weight in 2 months, nor will you lose it in 2 months.
press on and try to keep the faith that this will work. Yep, keep smiling, you will lose the weight.
Or what if you are one of the "slow" losers? We will find this out in 5 months, not 3 weeks or 4 weeks.
There are some slow losers on this site. COOP & PamelaAM to name a couple. Look up their posts. They struggle often, but guess what? They keep on plan and the scale moves, not as often as others or they would like, but it does move. I will be here to celebrate your loss, whether it be a pound or an ounce.
Either way - the scale has moved in the right direction. Give yourself the grace of time and patience. Start being kind to yourself and take better care of yourself.