june13sleever

I fear dating more than I did before. I am thin now...like really thin...the skin is pretty gross. At least when I was fat it wasn't like a man had high expectations for a super model body, but a man would look at me now and think I was normal. I am all skin and bones. I will have to have plastics. I am going to make a firm decision in December. I am paying all my debts off so if I do go for it I can afford it. Now the time away from work is going to be the bigger dilemma.

I saw that most people start seeing regrowth at month 9 or 10. I am working towards month 12 and my hair has not started growing back and I am Still losing more than normal. I hope that I get regrowth again soon. I am so small now that a pixie cut might look good in me so please let the regrowth begin hopefully soon...but if it never grows back let me find peace with the seriously thin hair I have now.

Ok ladies. I literally went eBay nuts and should have just waited... I have a bunch of dresses size 10/12. $7.00 each plus shipping. They are all too big for me. I would just give them away, but I bought like 30 and probably paid $30 a piece, plus two dresses for $100 a piece for special occasions. Ralph Lauren size 12 and laundry size 12. I just want $7.00 for those too. I seriously am not buying anything else until I stay the same weight for a few months. Even if I have to wear the same 5 outfits a week. Let me know I take PayPal and have ok taste I think no crazy flower moo moos

The smallest I ever was was a 14. I got up to a 20. I am an 8/10 depending on the clothes. I am 5'11". I am 178 on my scale, but my doctor's is 5 pounds less. And I bet 10 pounds is just skin. I probably will have to see someone. I am trying now to up my intake, but it is hard and I feel like I am over eating. So if I go by my doctor's scale I have really lost 118 pounds. I am in month 11. I could keep losing. 140 is still within normal range so you can see I am on the high side, but I feel so thin. I am at a normal BMI now. I just never saw my bones before. Do all really thin people see their pelvic bone?

I need it..lost weight in places that I never thought. I just don't want to go through another surgery, but also just want to wear a bathing suit without shorts. Will wait until December to make a decision.

I think you really need to say what you are eating and how much of it? If you had a bad day why was it bad? What did you eat to make you feel like you did not eat right? At first I beat myself up over a piece of pizza, but not anymore, but that is because no matter what I ate/eat the weight comes off because I don't eat too much of anything. You say your eating is out of control so what are you eating? I lost 113 pounds without doing anything physical. Good program on HBO about metabolism...part of a series on obesity in America. Really brought into perspective our metabolisms when we are losing weight. You might really need to cut back more on what you are eating or find a better schedule for when to eat.

This is so crazy...I have never been this thin. I am not feeling like a woman. My boobs are smaller, I though I had hips, but I don't and my butt is gone. I feel like before at least I had curves. I know I am healthier and never wanted to be as fat as I was, but this thin is something I just do not know how to take in. I can grab my pelvis bone...I see it right through my skin. My shoulder blades are also easy to see.

Yes. Take a nap

11 months out and it still happens. That reminds me I should probably go drink something.

A girl who lost the weight on her own and then gained it back said I was an inspiration when she saw my photos. I told her that is was the surgery, not me. I am grateful for the surgery, but I didn't have to do much to lose the weight except for have the surgery. I don't think it was an easy way out, but I don't want to be an inspiration. The surgery is a difficult decision to make and as long as you make the decision to do it you are now a risk taker and there is no reward without risk. I not an inspiration. I am a mirror that you look into giving you the vision to see that you can take the risk too.

Eat whatever you want, but keep your portions under control if your sleeve has more wiggle room. It was one piece of chicken. My sleeve doesn't like fried food anymore. But it loves ice cream! I still eat the stuff that I love I just don't eat a whole gallon! A pint could last me four days!

Dense protien. salad...I didn't eat it until 6 months out. I am a weird person though.

You will enjoy them. I enjoy my 3 baby back ribs everytime instead of a full rack. Feeling full doesn't happen that soon out. It is not the same feeling, but I have it now finally. I probably got it it at about month 7. Like the satisfying full feeling. I really loved soup for the first six months. Everything else was so hard, and I hated eating. At 11 months out I am still not really eating everything because it just seems weird...like burgers or sandwiches or tacos. I still feel really weird about those items because they have more than one element...like bread, burger, lettuce, ketchup, tomatoe, pickles...Like how am i going to get a bite of all of that. So I typically just stick to one kind of meat and then a side. So baked chicken and potatoes. Not too many elements It is really weird. i want to have a taco, but the meat, shell, cheese, lettuce, tomatoe, salsa it all seems like to many things at once. I missed food too, but I don't miss the remorse after stuffing my face with pizza and tacos and wings. You will get the satisfaction back, but it will be a long while before you are there. i am going to try a taco this weekend. I can tolerate everything now...even pasta which I couldn't a few months ago. I just try to make sure I eat protien so all the other things are really extras.

It is so funny that I am posting this because I am so scared to lose too much, but you are tall like me...I have one inch on you, but I weigh in at 179. I am ok to go to 160, but will take it day by day. You could go to 160 too...so you really have 20 more to go...I would weight lift...I just started, but I am still not trying to force myself to eat more food just yet. I will keep going down. I still feel like I could go down more...I just hope that my body image isn't so messed up that I become so tiny and can't even tell that I am that small...Because I do not see a small person at all, but I am actually sort of thin.

I eat those things. The problem is I eat as much as I can and even in my 11th month it is tough to get it all in. I ate some ice cream...I just can't finish it. I guess I will just keep losing, but I really would like to know when people stopped. I am still ok with my body and wouldn't mind losing more, but I just would love to not be so scared of becoming too skinny. I am 5'11"

So yesterday was my 11th month! Weighed myself...179. My restriction has consistently been the same for 4 months. I already add gravy, I don't drink only diet, and I don't eat anything light. I feel ok.. Not too thin yet...but I am worried...when does it stop?

I have pretty much been on different sites everyday for the past month. The doctor with most of the videos is dr. Agah. He is super expensive. A lot of people who have never even had weight loss surgery have a lower body lift. The lower body lift does not address the inner thighs which is my main concern. Realself.com addresses all the procedures and is sort of like this site. You can ask questions and doctors will respond. I am going to try my best to work out until this winter before I make the decision, but I am leaning towards a medial thigh lift first and then maybe a lower body lift in the future. It does look scary. I just watched the show the real skinny. I think we can make it through anything. Keep us updated on your surgery!

I just got rid of the size 14 pants I had from 2004 which I thought were so small! They are now huge as I just bought another pair of express pants yesterday...size 10! Sell them on eBay!

Just wait until you are cold all the time

The soups also worked for me. I loved soup!

I didn't like eating until month 7! Nothing felt right except for chicken chilli and chilli so I literally ate it everyday. Now I can eat anything. Eat soup! Not canned soups with no meat...find a good deli or fresh soup with a lot of meat!

Month 11 no regrowth yet . Still losing, but it seems to be the normal loss now. Just waiting for it to come back. Heard some people never get their hair back. Bought some clip in pieces

You get through it. Live in the moment and embrace the pain... It will pretty much be the only hardship in your fight to lose weight. Then a year from now you will be trying hard to remember what you went through.

5'8" and 137...You are a tall skinny thing! I am 5'11" and weigh in at about 180. Still loosing...Probably won't lose that much more...Maybe 10...But at 137 do you feel super thin?

My friend in Saudi Arabia just had the balloon done. No scars, no cutting, big in Europe, not offered here. They place a balloon in your stomach then fill it up with air??? Not sure what they fill it up with. In 6 months the balloon deflates and you pass it through your bowels. He was able to lose the same amount of weight as I did, but could easily gain it all back. I think this is a great alternative for someone with 40 to 60 pounds to lose. His wife had the bypass and is already gaining weight back after 3 years.