sassypants

Your fat cells have a buttload of stored hormones in them so as your body uses them for fuel these hormones are released and flood you it throws your levels out of whack for a while. It’s the same reason you have major mood swings for a while too its just hormone overload and your body processing them and getting to grips with it.

I would if I knew them lol Its not something I kept track of honestly I just knew I lost weight every time I was weighed and that was good enough for me. The only time I happen to write anything down was when I was 2 months 8 days out and I had lost 106lbs in that time 119lbs pre and post overall. On the 20th I was at the docs and I was down another 11lbs, which took me under 200lbs and a total overall weight loss to date both pre and post op of 227lbs

heres mine me at my biggest of 425lbs, then a the full body was oct of 2013 and the head shot was new years eve

You ladies look frigging great and everyone looks younger! I love looking at pictures its fascinating and so good to see!

that looks like a mother and daughter picture! thats crazyyy you look fantastic btw

Yeah I have honestly not been shy ever not at 425lbs or less like I don’t hang at the beach in a string bikini but I never hide away or was shy about myself I am 6ft tall and was about 6ft wide it was hard to miss or hide so F it lol So with the incredible shrinking woman thing going from one month to the next I look smaller so its like in my mind I think by the end of it I will be completely different so who cares if you see me in the flappy stages lol He reason I go to the ladies only night is men are typically more aggressive swimmers been going to the same pool off and on for years and they are mostly stronger swimmers, to start I didn’t want to get hit or kicked by a passing swimmer and my mum and sis in law are weak swimmers so on ladies night only half the pool is used for swimming about 8 of us seem to use that half of the pool to swim each week the other half is about 30 woman doing aqua aerobics. So your in your own lanes and don’t have to deal with sharing lanes with other people who overtake you or swim up right behind you.

I go on a ladies night well me my mum sister and sister in law they all go with me now to get fit lol Its ladies only you wear what you want its also the night when they do Water aerobics so pretty much its all big woman the skinny ones go to the gym its amusing to see! I go in my swimsuit no shame flappy thigh skin on show and all I don’t care lol Maybe you can find something like that where its ladies only and they let you wear stuff to cover up. Here they will allow t-shirts and leggings plus swimsuits all the time for ladies because of religious reasons and showing skin.

Thanks hun that’s nice of you! We just have to adjust things to fit us and our needs 10mins of something is still something 10mins a couple of times a day is more than I know I ever did every little helps in my book and you just try and see what works for you. You don’t even have to buy weights you can use bags of flour or tins or pots you know stuff that has weight to it that you can use, I happened to buy the set of hand weights about 2 years ago so I had them to use now lol

I do very little one of the reasons they agreed to me having the sleeve and not the bypass (which I didn’t want) was because of my back and knee issues, my doctor said its better to have the sleeve if you have mobility problems its not such a drastic op as in after the bypass has a lot more going on with the intestines move so sleeve is better if you can’t be hitting the gym. My first instructions were just to walk around my house as much as I could without hurting myself. Then after 8 weeks I was cleared to go swimming once a week, which I do and I have just been re refereed to physiotherapy again to work on my back, right leg and knee the left knee is fine now so that helps lol I am allowed to lift my 2.5kg hand weights which I do every day for my arms as long as I don’t strain myself or over do it, I do 50 arm curls that’s it I am not allowed to do anything else. I seem to be doing fine not stalled once (well I don’t weigh myself anyway to know if I did for a week or whatever lol ) always lost weight when the hospital or gps weigh me once a month, 106lbs down at my last weigh in. I did look up chair exercises but I aint allowed to do things yet till physio says coz my right leg keeps locking and I can hardly move it so I have to wait but you could google see if there is any that works for you.

If people see you every day its not as easy to notice one day they will take a look at you and go oh you lost a lot of weight! It’s like when your putting weight on no one notices till one day your 50-100lbs bigger than you were. It’s also considered rude to ask a person if they gained or lost weight. Another thing you might find about family and friends if you yo yo diet and go through stages where your on a diet and loose up to 50lbs than stall then slowly put it back on and do this over and over they might not say anything incase its one of them yo yo diets again and no point saying anything coz you will just put it back on again. More people may say things when you keep on getting smaller and not putting weight back on.

I have a love of them too! Saves me buying new pants and when they fall down I just pull them tighter to keep them up lol

Diet and zero sodas were allowed on my pre op diet no full sugar drinks though.