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I just had my "regular food clearence" appointment yesterday. My Nut was saying that they expect people to lose between 15-25 pounds a month for the first 3 months, you've already lost 19 you're ahead of the curve! Have you read up on Glycogyn? It made me feel better to read about it when I was in my stall. Also it was helpful to realize that after your big initial homone weightloss you will likely be loosing 2-5 pounds a week, which is a much smaller number when you break it down that way - I was being bad and weighing everyday, I've been losing about 3.5 lb a week the last couple of weeks, but when you're seeing that daily that's less than half a lb a day! Which especially for us bigger people who are used to a 10lb Water weight swing can seem like nothing if you don't think it through! If you're only 2 weeks out I wouldn't do a ton of exercise yet - make sure you're walking as much as you can but seriously, this will stop soon. Then it will happen again later, you can't focus too much on it or you'll go crazy!

Congrats on the 11 that is awesome! I really want to end up at a 10 I think...it's hard for me to imagine since I've litterally never been anywhere close to that! I'm short so I would also be thrilled if I could fit into normal petits and not have to get everything hemmed! I wonder how long that awkward feeling will last? I was seriously blushing as I walked through the department - I'm not sure how long it will take for me to get my nerve up to go into one of the little boutique stores or some place like Gap or whatever. I am so excited to have non-department store shopping options!

Yes! My husband (who as I said is really supportive and wonderful BUT...) became very withdrawn and disinterested in anything to do with the surgery for the 2 weeks before surgery. He didn't even realize he was doing it (he's not the most connected with his emotions sometimes) but it was totally his way of being scared about the surgery and about me being in pain or dieing or whatever else could have gone wrong. So it could be understandable - but it's also understandable/reasonable to expect him to put in some effort towards understanding his emotions and channelling them more effectively and appropriately!

Please consider seeing someone, either a support group or an individual therapist. This is not something that you just have to put up with, or is "understandable" My husband is naturally skinny, and he's from a naturally skinny family, he has been very supportive and his whole family has been supportive and complementary and understanding. What your husband is doing and saying is not supportive, no matter how he tries to defend it. Be confident and strong and find some in-person people who will model what actual support looks like. Maybe if you find a support group you can even bring your husband so that he can get a lesson in what actual support looks like, some people just don't know how to be helpful and involved, if you explain it to him and find him some examples to model support after maybe he'd be wiling to work on it.

1. Are you really not loosing anything at all? I slowed way down around week 2, but I actually still lost 2 pounds that week, I just felt like it was nothing because I was expecting a huge number like I got week 1. 2. Yeah, the stall is a thing, if you're getting your Protein and your Water in try not to worry about it, the scale will start moving again soon!

So I'll be 2 months out Monday. Yesterday I decided to go try on pants, didn't think I would actually buy since my "skinny" pants aren't *that* loose. Today I'm wearing a brand new pair of size 16s! The last time I was a 16 I was a sophmore in high school. I shopped in the "regular" department - I don't know the last time I even went in the regular department! I was kind of embarrassed to even be over there at first, I felt like people would see me and think "who does that fat girl think she's fooling?" I'm so excited, I think maybe there was a part of me that didn't really believe the sleeve would work, even though I've been loosing weight - somehow new pants make it real!

People react differently. I was super restless after waking up, and very gassy. My stomach felt like 2 days after a killer ab workout. For me personally I never got to "pain" , mine was always very achy. The worst part for me was the no drinking after surgery, I was doing my level best to eat the sponge lollipop things because my mouth was so freaking dry!

Hey date twin! How are you feeling? Are you having a lot of difficulty or are you getting your nutrition/liquid/protein in? You moving around okay? Eating so much you're making yourself puke everyday? If you're doing okay, getting your minimums in and moving around there is 0 reason to dwell on a possible complication, could it happen? I suppose it could, but we're at 4 1/2 weeks, our sleeves are getting stronger everyday. If you're doing well there is no reason to think that will change out of the blue. Focus on the good stuff, how much have you lost? I'm down 37 lb (from my all time high) and 25lb (from day of surgery) I've lost 6 INCHES off my waist! That's the stuff to dwell on - how freaking cool is that?

I wasn't a particularly heavy child. Which is funny for me to realize, because I remember always thinking of myself as plump. The very first time I remember being aware of weight and body shape I was 6. I was friends with a very slim girl named Lisa, who had straight stick legs. Even at 6 my legs had a bit of shape to them, and some stray comment made me aware of this difference, in a negative way. I went on with my childhood, being relatively unselfconcious about anything to do with my size until about 5th grade (age 11) which is when I started to develop. By this time I was definitely one of the thicker girls - not really anything you could even call pudgy, but there was definitely more of me then some of the slight little things in my classroom. And that's when I started having the self-defeating thoughts that would eventually lead me to be 300lb. I remember very clearly being 12 and walking to the freezer for a second popcicle and pausing to think "hey, you just had a popcicle, do you really need another one?" and then immediately, like an evil pixie sat in my brain thinking "you're already fat, there's no point - why not just have the stupid treat". And from that moment on it was like a switch had been thrown. I didn't eat to try to gain weight, but what was the point in trying to moderate myself, I was clearly destined to be fat - so I might as well enjoy the journey. So I didn't. I weighed 200lb by graduation, and 220 by the time I got married right after college. 270 by the time I had my baby at 26. And then I was good, I didn't gain weight for close to 5 years. I didn't loose either, but hey - who's counting? But something else changed. I had always thought I was ok with my size. I mean, I would prefer to be thin but why be upset about things you can't change right? But slowly I realized all the ways my weight limited me. Slowly I realized how embarrassed I really was by my size. Slowly I realized all the little things I had compromised on, so that noone would ever point out to me my size. Things like never admitting I liked a boy in school, because why would I dare to think someone might find me attractive? Or not taking care with my clothes/makeup because what was the point in looking like you tried when you were just going to be fat in the end? There are other examples, but those are the clearest. These weren't things I did, or realized I did, they were just who I was and it really started to bother me. I needed to make a change, but how?

I don't have an online source, but that's the info I was given by the hospital nut, my drs Nut, and my best friend is a personal trainer/nut and agreed with the assessment when I was nattering on about the plan they'd given me.

I've had people notice already, I'm about 30 lb down and 3 weeks out. BUT I lost an entire inch around my neck the first week and a lot of puffiness in my face. I don't think people would notice/comment on the difference in my body if I hadn't carried so much weight in my face. I've always heard its closer to 60 lb when people really see a difference. Good luck!

The first weekend is when my hunger hit too- for me it was mostly being over the sweet everything. I made "cream of chicken" soup with the Unjury chicken powder and skim milk and added a splash of v8 - it got me through while keeping me on my liquids.

Oh wow, that sounds amazing- is high protein tomato soup a "thing" or do you just mean tomato soup and protein powder?

I'm 31, I kinda wish I had done this 3 years ago, but I was scared an the stigma was really strong. I am SO excited to lose the weight and have more kids- I cannot wait to experience a "skinny" pregnancy (I was 280 w/my first) I don't know if "targeted" is the right word, but I do think removing the stigma, so people don't suffer with reduced functionality for 20 years before they feel its socially acceptable to get the tools they need.

OMG I would just about kill for anything actually savory. I want fish, I want eggs, I want a hot dog, I want almost anything that is not a frickin frackin protein shake. Gaaaaaah.