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Hi, The first few months are the hardest, but you will loose the most weight then too!! Stick to your diet, you are doing great! I'm 8 mo out and if we are out with the gang for pizza, I go, I eat a small salad first then the topping off a piece of pizza. Then I don't feel like I am missing out. You just have to plan ahead, so that you get the protein in that you need for the day. It's still hard, there are a lot of temptations out there and I wont' say that I have always been perfect, far from it. But after a miss you just have to get back on track. Fortunately what I have found with the sleeve is that even after a cruise vacation I only gained a couple of pounds and then was able to get them back off in a couple of weeks. Still have a lot to loose and not following my diet perfectly has slowed things down, but it's a new year and now I'm ready to get back!

You look great! I bet you feel so much better too!

Wow, that is terrific! That is a lot of weight in a short time. Wish I could loose like that.... sigh.. Great job! How many cal are you eating a day?

Congrats on the weight loss, best problem to have! Better than ripping out too tight pants ha ha! Keep up the good work!

Congratulations, glad to hear you are still loosing. I'm loosing the same way, about 1lb a week. I do log all my food on my I-phone app ("nutrition" if anyone wants a good app) and I'm eating close to 1000 cal a day (if I go much lower I'm very tired), I work out. Love the Zumba classes. If anyone has never tried those they are way fun. It's going to take a while to get all the weight off, but that's ok, I hope my skin will shrink more along with it. anyway, keep up the good work. gotta Love the sleeve!!

Great job!! you are really rocking that sleeve!!!

I agree with thinoneday. I keep seeing postings where people are only eating 600 cal a day. That is not enough!! I am eating around a 1000 cal, 60+ gms of protein, try to keep my carbs and fat low, usually I am about 30% for protein, carbs and fat on the graph my app shows. I'm working out, I am 5'6"not small boned or anything. I feel good, sore from the exercise, but I feel good. If I drop down below say 800 cal I get really tired! Have to take naps! And I'm loosing wt. about 1lb a week. It's not terribly fast, I get stalls, then drop a few lbs. Was down 2 lbs yesterday after 2 weeks. It works!

I've been like oregondiasy, seems I hit a stall every month for 2 weeks. I did the same thing when I would diet before, at least this time I'm not giving up. Can't get depressed and go pig out. ha ha, That's why I had this surgery. Anyway, it has been slow, but I am loosing wt every month. Started working out which help me loose the last 4 lbs, but now I've been the same wt for 2 weeks. I've got my husband dieting now too, so that helps. He can't understand how I could not be loosing more, but I tend to retain fluid.

Seems like everyone hits a plateau after starting solids. Are you constipated? Could be why you are nauseated if you are. I got very constipated when I started solids, had to add some fiber in just to stay regular. I seem to hit one plateau every month for a week or two, seems I retain fluids and then don't show any loss for a while.

Very true. The fact is, we are the same people after surgery as we were before. Same issues, same wants and desires. We can't pig out like we once did. That in and of itself is a great blessing and if you did nothing else you would loose weight, but very slowly. This is a diet tool, we still have to diet. If I could diet successfully I would of not needed the surgery. Thing is, when I would hit these same stalls dieting before surgery, I would get discouraged and give up, go out and eat 1/2 a pizza. Now I can only eat the toppings off 1 or 2 slices. ha ha. Anyway, we still have to work at dieting or it will take forever. Exercising pushed me out of my slump, lost 4 lbs in 2 weeks. I'm 57, I have bad knees, ankle, shoulder, hips, and have found a way around it all. Just have to change things around, can't go for an hour on a treadmill. So I do a little bike, a little eliptical, a little treadmill, etc and get it in without causing to much stress to any one joint. I hope that getting the rest of the weight off will really help these weight bearing joints. Find something fun to do is the best thing, I really liked the dance classes, made me very sore for sure! ha ha I can't move like the instructor does, but I keep moving something! ha ha lol, what a riot!

very true! Glad you will be ok, I'm sure just knowing everything is ok makes you feel better. Less stress and all. Things will be a lot better soon!

yea I did Zumba, what a riot. Very fun. I did a yoga class Sunday with swimming. today I did weight training and cycling. Been trying a little bit of everything. I think the Zumba and yoga were the best. Wore me out! ha ha. I switch my machines with cardio as for some reason my feet go numb, so I bike for 10-15 min, eliptical for 10-15 min, treadmill for 15-20 min, and sometimes swim for 20 min. When I do the treadmill I'm only at about a 3, then increase the elevation instead of speed as my knees are shot. I'm going about 4 times a week, would go more but I'm watching my grandson too so have to work around that. Of course he is getting to be a lot more work. He is starting to crawl now and weighs 23lbs, big boy!! I hadn't really worked out for 8 mo. I broke my ankle about 3 yr ago, gained 30lbs, so now I finally have that weight off. I had been trying for 3 years to loose it. Thing is I had just joined a different gym right before I broke my leg because I needed to loose weight. So I'm back where I started 3 years ago, only more pain. ha ha. But I feel that every pound I loose is not going to come back. It's great!!

Walk walk walk, sip sip sip; that was my mantra. First week is the pits, but it gets better. I felt a whole lot better when the JP was pulled.

Hi, my sleeve date was 5/17 and I really hit a stall last month too, I finally joined a gym and started exercising, not just walking and the first week I lost 2 lbs, and 2 lbs the second week. It seems to really make a difference. I didn't want to, but it's very true what they say about exercising and dieting at the same time. Just have to do it. It works!!