ruthie74

I'm almost 4 months out and doing well. I've lost almost 74 pounds and my hair is falling out :-/ Other then that doing well! Feeling great! Still have energy issues but I know in due time I will feel 100% Glad everyone is doing well as well
My start weight 230 Current weight 156 my goal is 135.

Thanks for some new ideas I'm 1 month out. So glad I found this site!

Congrats on your progress....... Awesome

I'm almost 4 months out and doing well. I've lost almost 74 pounds and my hair is falling out :-/ Other then that doing well! Feeling great! Still have energy issues but I know in due time I will feel 100% Glad everyone is doing well as well
My start weight 230 Current weight 156 my goal is 135.

Don't be so hard on yourself! Pray and ask his for strength. We make mistakes but we have to learn to forgive ourselves so we can move on.

Krystamae, drink more Protein Drinks. It should help with the Hair loss

I'm almost 4 months out and doing well. I've lost almost 74 pounds and my hair is falling out :-/ Other then that doing well! Feeling great! Still have energy issues but I know in due time I will feel 100% Glad everyone is doing well as well
My start weight 230 Current weight 156 my goal is 135.

I'm almost 4 months out and doing well. I've lost almost 74 pounds and my hair is falling out :-/ Other then that doing well! Feeling great! Still have energy issues but I know in due time I will feel 100% Glad everyone is doing well as well
My start weight 230 Current weight 156 my goal is 135.

I agree this post is very helpful! Loved it!
I too am trying to increase my calories.
Thanks for starting this thread! Everyone's thoughts were very helpful as well! I lost weight I think very rapidly. I lost 70 pounds in 3.5 months and I'm 25 pounds away from my goal of 135. I felt like I need to start increasing my calories little by little but was so afraid to do it! Especially since I'm only 3.5 months post op.

I agree with JessicaAnn. Be patient. Don't work out for 3 hours a day. I don't think that's healthy. Just workout normal, get your Protein in and don't focus on the scale. Focus on healthy. Start those healthy eating habits now. Some propel lose weight right away the first months and others steadily lose and others stall and lose stall and lose....we all lose differently
Hang in there!

Get the gatorade in as much as you can.. Dehydration is dry mouth (first sign), headache, dizzy, weak, faint, rapid pulse, rapid breathing its no joke. Getting fluids in is your only mission.... little and often. Wishing you a speedy recovery x

If at any point you fe dehydrated go to the E.R.
I got dehydrated a few weeks ago and had to get some IV fluids in me. I wasn't sick. It was my fault for not drinking enough Water on a hot day.

I hear ya Ruthie. I have no confidence issue in any area of my life other than how I look. Just this weekend, I was wearing a pair of "regular" pants ( a first for me in my adult life) from the Gap. No wide leg, no Plus. And I tugged at them all day. No they didn't' feel tight, but I thought for sure I was rolling out of them. I asked my sister - we have a total honest pact thing going- if she felt they were too tight. She shook her head at me. Told me to get a grip and or a better mirror. I ONLY see a difference in pictures and because I all but hid from a camera before I have no good full body shots to really see. This struggle to see the new body will be ongoing, but it is getting better slowly. I'm not done losing yet, like Laura said, I'm embracing the imperfect me. Thankfully I get now get my arms around her.

I love the above response. I think therapy may help too, I fully expect to be where you are, and I've got my (food-centered) therapist on speed-dial! That being said, I am working hard to trust in the process...for me, still waiting for surgery.

Wow you lost that very quick! I think time will help heal that lousy self image some.
But the fact of matter is we all need to work on self love through this journey.
We need to love our imperfect selves. something I think a lot of us didn't do in the past, and possibly lead us to the weight gain..
Love your imperfect self take joy in moving, breathing easier and Celebrate the journey that you are on

I thought I was going nuts! I'm 3 months out and I am freeeeeeezing!

Or reasons why I cannot easily eat out.
[(Just posted to my blog at http://sleevers.word...y/restau-rants/) Tell you what, it's gotten so bad, I started a new category called Restau-rants ]
So yesterday, my husband brings me back a little hot & sour Soup, and minced chicken in lettuce wraps from a restaurant. Great! I eat 4 oz of Soup and then 2 hours later, I devour about 3 oz of the chicken with veggies. I’m a little suspicious about the calories in the soup but I’m feeling good about the minced chicken! Super Protein, tastes good, what’s not to like?
In the evening he decides he will make a light version of “Zucchini Alfredo”. I’m very nervous about the half and half, the butter, the parmesan cheese and everything else he’s putting in there. But I tell myself, lunch was healthy minced chicken. What could go wrong? Just to be cautious, I enter my food into myfitness pal.
Surprise!
The minced chicken from Pei Wei? Had TWICE as many carbs as Protein.< /span>
I kid you not. Minced chicken without sauce, had more carbs than protein, no doubt from the sugar they add to make it taste good. The small 4 oz of soup which was a third of the total serving? Had 127 calories in it. Had I eaten the whole soup in my pre-sleeve days, that’s 381 calories of soup I would have had as an appetizer!
In contrast, my husband’s Zuch Alfredo barely has 4 gms of carbs and very little fat because I ate a small, yummy portion over zucchini noodles and it was made from fresh ingredients with no sugar added.
When you’re only eating 700 calories and trying to keep carbs to under 40 gms, it doesn’t take much to sabotage your day. I need to enter my food BEFORE I eat it.
Really makes me wonder about all those times we THINK we’re eating healthily but the outside world is working against us, to feed us combinations of fat, sugar, and salt that light up our taste buds and ruin our bodies.
Enter every bite people, and if you eat out, get the restaurant's nutrition to enter in. Left to myself, I would have entered that as 3 oz of chicken and called it a day.

Did a lil shopping today I bought my first size of 14 jeans! I haven't done that since high school ! I wanted to cry tears of joy!

I've lost over 60 pounds since June

Working on a new me. 60# down now. Top photo 2010 my heaviest. Now 208. Surgery date 6/12/13.
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I've lost over 60 pounds since June

I've lost over 60 pounds since June