suejersey

Just had my one year surgiversary on Friday. 124 pounds! I would like to lose about 5 pounds more and use those as my "bounce" Going to doctor on Wednesday for my one year check up and am going to ask him how to STOP losing weight now.
Working on building muscle and contemplating plastic surgery. So happy and blessed to have taken this journey and now it is perseverance to maintain good health and strong muscles!

It's a journey.....it's a bummer when there is a week with no loss, but you will catch up. You may have just caught your weighing at a time when you were holding Water or needed to have a BM or whatever. I found throughout the journey that I would have a no loss week (but no gain) or lose just a pound and the next week I would lose double my normal loss, it was usually just catching the scale and the wrong time.
Before you know it you will be 6 - 8 months out and be like, "Wow, when did I lose all this weight." Keep at it, enjoy the journey along the way. I special event is SPECIAL, don't beat yourself up for it. Get back on your normal routine again and keep on keepin' on!

You're not missing a thing. Think about all the food that others are having as having a selective poison. It won't hurt them if they eat it, but if you eat it it will cause you harm. Because that's the truth. When you ate it before your surgery it caused you harm, and if you ate it after your surgery it would cause you harm. It won't hurt them, but it will hurt you. Why would you want to eat anything that is a poison.
It may be hard to change your attitude about this, but if you try it will really benefit you.

any time i grab anything from the kitchen he follows me and sits patiently at my feet. he knows he's about to chow down on whatever i can't eat! haha. he really loves licking the yogurt container after i'm done.

Yep, yep, yep. And I would wake up feeling guilty and then relieved that it was only a dream LOL!

The entire time I've been on the liquid diet I've had vivid dreams about eating food. In some instances I felt like I could taste and it and would occasionally wake up in the panic thinking I'd cheated. I find this weird and hilarious.
Has this happened to anyone else

My mom passed away yesterday, after being sic for a very long time.. my heart and soul hurts and I miss her, but I know she was so proud of me and what I was accomplishing she called me her skinny son..lol. im so glad she got to see a healthier and happy me. plz tell your loved ones you love them often and hold each other tight. make memories and live a good healthy life good luck and God bless you all Frank

The higher temp may be your body working to heal. Use the breathing tool they gave you. I felt the same. Take your pain meds. I wasn't out of pain for 2 weeks. All different challenges, but now I feel great three weeks later. It's all normal and you will get through it. Hang in there.

The first two are me 3 weeks or so before surgery September, 2012 at 278 pounds
The second two are me now August 2013 at 173 pounds

Oh sheesh I don't know how to load pictures. sorry.

My one year surgerversary finds me short of my weight goal but at my size goal. Going shopping today to Celebrate. This journey has had its ups.... a lot of ups and its downs, especially the last couple of months but I am so glad I made this decision. A before and after pic.
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Hi Susan - luck you....HAWAII!
No vacations on the horizon for this girl, unfortunately!
Hubby had a serious car accident a month and a half ago so it has been a bit crazy around here doing both mom and dad duties. He is on the mend, but out on disability and getting bored.
I want to lose about 5 more pounds and am also working on building muscle. I go to the gym 4 days a week (it's a love/hate relationship) and am going back to the doctor next week for my one year check up. Hoping to find out exactly how I go about MAINTAINING. I think that is what I am stressed about, being able to maintain.
I have definitely made habit changes and Protein is always number one but I do enjoy some dessert here and there.
If you are happy where you are and can lose whatever else you want to slowly, then by all means, don't deprive yourself. I don't want to obsess about being thin like I obsessed about being fat, either way is a bondage that I don't want. So everything in moderation and enjoy your health and HAPPINESS! We rock!!!!!

First, congrats on ur success! 200 lbs is a huge deal! I was gunna say the same thing about upping ur calories, especially if ur doing bootcamp. It's pretty strenuous. Also, u might just be at a plateau. If this is ur first one, congrats. Thats amazing uve gone for 2 yrs without one.
Onederland is right around the corner. It'll be amazing when u get there!

May sound strange but you may want to up your calories if you can. With you working out as much as you say you are you may not be getting enough. I would try to up to like 1200 for a few weeks and see what happens. Cant hurt right?

I do either 1 or 3 from above. Either way I get usually 3 meals out of a meal and since I love to get a "good deal" it makes me very happy!

The biggest reaction I get when I eat out is over the fact that I order, specifically, no drink. This simple request causes a great deal of confusion and even occasional concern (i.e. "Oh my! did your waitress neglect to get your drink?! Can't I get you something? Not even Water? ").

Coming up on my one year 10/11 I have lost 123 pounds. I hit my first goal 155 but decided I wanted to go down to 150 to have a bounce between 150 and 155. I have added 10 plus pounds of muscle since April. So very happy!!!

Coming up on my one year 10/11 I have lost 123 pounds. I hit my first goal 155 but decided I wanted to go down to 150 to have a bounce between 150 and 155. I have added 10 plus pounds of muscle since April. So very happy!!!

Coming up on my one year 10/11 I have lost 123 pounds. I hit my first goal 155 but decided I wanted to go down to 150 to have a bounce between 150 and 155. I have added 10 plus pounds of muscle since April. So very happy!!!

Show confident in yourself as soon as u walk in that Gym IM 265pds coming from 325sleeve day and I walk in that Gym like IM at my goal weight I smile at everyone and put my earphone in my ears and turn on my workout music and I own that treadmill for a hour ,and when IM really pump with a song I feel myself doing a little dance on the treadmill ,IM there for a reason to lose weight and get healthy like everyone else in that Gym I belong there u belong there don't let no one stop u from getting fit and healthy

I was sleeved 10/4/2012. I finally reached my goal!! I feel wonderful and have sooo much energy! Congrats to everyone and Good Luck to the people about to be Sleeved. It's worth it!!

Start wt. 451 current wt. 245. Surgery date 10/10/13 I've went from 56 pants to a 38. Shirts I've went from 5-6 xl to 1-2x depending on ****.

My surgery date was October 25, 2012 and my weight 316. As of today my weight is 221

Down 80...size 6/8. Yeah. HW 222. 10/24

Ok...so have been feeling "pretty good" about my weight lose but not really excited until I saw myself in a picture. Then I compared it to last year and damn I felt good. So far I have lost somewhere between 80 and 90 lbs (my scale bounces all over the place, so I just wait until I go to the drs and get an accurate weight). This is the best thing I have ever done!! I see all the pictures of everyone on this site and am so proud of all of us!!