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PrincessMiranda

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    OMG your doing awesome!! What's your secret? My surgery was 11-8 started at 282 currently 219.. I know we lose at different paces just curious to know what you have been doing to drop so quickly :) Congrats!!! Keep up the great work!! :)

    Awww, thank you!!!! No secret really, I am still drinking a Protein Shake for Breakfast and one for lunch then Protein for dinner like chicken, turkey or eggs. I spend at least 2.5-4.5 hours in the gym 4-5 days a week. I usually do an hour and some change on the treadmill, a yoga class, a zumba class, a 30 minute strength training class, or Water aerobics. I lost a majority of it the month after my surgery..I am now averaging 3 #'s a week loss now. It has def slowed down but would love to be at goal weight by August 1st. Thanks again for the compliment!!!

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    Guys I eat everything nowadays!!!!some fats also!!but too less!!!i am scared that my weight is nt gng down bcos of that!!but my doc told me to eat what I like but little!!

    I can't figure out what to do I keep my calories at 800 drink Water get in my Protein and I'm so stalled its ridiculous !!! I too eat food and I can't stick to just liquids. I'm at a stall for three weeks now! My biggest problem is eating late that's when I want to begin. All day goes easy. I'm afraid I'm stalled forever??? I take a long walk everyday just can't figure out what to do? Help me please

    I hit a two week stall and just started on dandelion tea this morning. It's a diuretic, a natural diuretic, and so far today I've she'd three pounds of Water weight...I'll you know if it stays off! I finally hit 176 today from my surety weight of 265.4 on 11-27!

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    I read on here a LOT that if someone has a higher BMI to start' date=' that he or she will almost automatically lose more quickly than someone with a lower BMI. This has actually made me feel a little bit worse about my relatively low rate of loss because I started (and am still at) a higher BMI. Anyhow, I am wondering if anyone who has made this observation can point to any scientific studies showing that this is the case?

    I asked my RD about it, and she said with her patients, the ONLY time she has sometimes seen this theory hold true is in a bigger guy who has lots of muscle mass (in addition to fat). She said it's not even always true in this type of patient.

    I'm not being critical of anyone who has made this statement about high BMIers automatically losing more quickly, but usually it seems like those who are referencing it have lower BMIs and are talking about their own weight loss being slower than they would like. Obviously my heart goes out to anyone, high or low BMI, who is losing more slowly than we would like or more slowly than others seem to be.

    On a completely different topic, another thing that I've wondered about with people who lose really quickly--sometimes it seems like that happens at times in people who didn't have a really healthy diet before surgery--like those who drank a 1,000 or more calories/day in sugar soda alone or ate lots of processed stuff. Obviously no one here, including me, had a perfect diet before surgery, or we wouldn't have needed surgery--but I think some of us just tend to gain more easily (especially if hypothyroid) even on a fairly healthful diet, and that's part of how we ended up being overweight or obese. So those who had a super-unhealthy diets who cut out sugar, processed carbs, increase Water and Protein dramatically due to surgery--they may see a more dramatic fast weight loss, especially right after surgery. They are shocking their bodies more than someone who comes from a baseline that is somewhat closer to a healthy eating plan, if that makes sense. No science behind this btw--just anecdotal in having read a lot of posts and blogs.

    I would love to hear from low BMIers who have had fairly rapid weight loss and high BMIers who feel their weight loss has been slower than average. My surgery was on Feb 5, so about 7 weeks out. I have lost about 20 lbs post op and 18-20 lbs in a 6-month medically supervised diet before that. Though my loss is slower than others, I am going in the right direction! And 7 weeks vs 6 months to lose 20 lbs is a vast improvement. Even if I go at my own pace, I know that I am headed in the right direction and my goals are attainable.

    Again, I want to emphasize that I'm not trying to start a low vs high BMI war here or something--I think we all have the same types of struggles and successes. I want everyone to succeed and be happy! The goal here is to increase a sharing of information so that if there are some myths floating about we can understand others' situations better and not necessarily make assumptions/generlizations. Or maybe the assumptions are true and I'm the exception. Would love to hear others' perspectives and observations on this topic. Thanks![/quote']

    I have found for myself, that when I first started on the treadmill about fifty puns ago, I'd burn at least 920 calories an hour, but now it's only about 650 an hour. That's just walking at 4.5 mph. I can still burn the 900 cal-hr if I keep it at a steady run. The less I weigh, the harder I have to work to get this butt off!!;)

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    Checking in this morning I weighed at 187, my sw was 265.4 on 11-27. I'm working out, and spend about three hours at the gym, five days a week, an hour on the treadmill and do a mix of an hour of yoga, an hour of zumba or Water aerobics. Still only at about 600 calories a day, at the most I can fit in about 800. I'm burning on average about 1200 calories a day at the gym. Almost to a size 12 now!! Hip hip...

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    Lmao, great thread!! I lose about two inches a month on my body except my boobies and last month I lost four inches!! They won't be boobs for too much longer, I'm just going to have pressed Bologna slabs on my chest!! I started out at a 44c and as of today, I'm three months out and am a 38a!!! I'm asking Santa for tits next year!!

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    Yes!! Mine was driving me crazy then I recently went on another thread about lotions and tried one that was recommended. I'm using Palmers Cocoa Butter and it is awesome! My skin feels so soft' date=' my dry Patches are going away and I've only been using it for 2 days now.

    How about chapped lips? Mine are so bad I constantly have Chapstick on them![/quote']

    Clinique or mary Kay have really great lip exfoliating creams!!

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    Yes, and it gets worse!! I got a Clairisonic face and body scrubber from Sephora. It's pricey at $225.00, but so incredibly worth it!! I use the body scrubber once a day in the shower and the face scrubber twice a day! It really does a wonderful job of exfoliating the dead skin off and keeping me silky smooth! As far add body washes, I use origins perfect weather wash for my face and neck. (I have really dry Patches and really oily t zone and it really balances me out! Add fat add body washes, I use the clarisonic refining skin polish, or a sugar scrub from victorias secret or bath and body works!! As far as moisturizers, fair my face I use the sephora brand oil free instant moisturizer, it doesn't make me feel greasy but really moisturizes me all day and night, on my neck, I use time arrest v zone neck cream by dr brandt from sephora, then I follow up with a thin layer of truth serum collagen booster from sephora. I've noticed a huge difference since I started adding the truth serum! I also do a honey-egg homemade mask every other night for twenty minutes and really keeps me soft! For body moisturizers, I switch it up everyday. I use cocoa butter at night and during the day, I use either Victoria secret body cream then put body lotion over that, or I use cream extreme buyer from bath and body then use a lotion on top of that! It takes time to do my daily and nightly lotioning, but it will be well worth it!!!

  18. Posted

    I carried a lot of my weight in my gut' date=' I had a big hanging belly. It has gotten much smaller and I van deal with it cause I look pretty darn good on my new size 12 jeans. But I can't handle whats happening with my face! Under my chin is looking like crinkle paper

    And I have more wrinkles under my eyes. I can't afford plastic surgery probably never, so anyone have any suggestions for a neck and eye cream that will tighten me up?[/quote']

    Have you tried a chemical peel on your face? I recommend a trip to sephora at the mall and see what would be best for you!! Also, my neck started to get crinkly and I do a 1 egg-1 tablespoon of honey mask every other night, leave it on for twenty minutes and it has really made a huge difference in my hydration and crinkles!!! I also use the clarisonic face cleaner from macys...I really recommend getting one! It's totally worth the $200!!! It really gets all of the dead skin off!!!

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