ElyQuint

7.29.13 HW 288 SW 277 CW 199!!!!!!!!! Onederland!!!!!!!! Today will be known to my friends, family and coworkers as my most obnoxious day!!!!!!

Sppppp... if you make the banana egg pancakes spread Peanut Butter on them! Also, add garlic, and cold butter prior to cooking the carb quick biscuits. Yum!

Hello everyone,
It has become rather tiresome for me to hear the infamous question:
"So how much weight have you lost?"
Jeez, can we talk about something else?
I'm also now some kind of: "Maestro of how to loose weight" to some people. Well, DUH! I had 80% of my stomach removed to help me do so.
My former boss, whom I "fondly" refer to as "Chupaboss" came to me for weight loss advice.
OK, let me back up. In South Texas a Chupacabra is a mythical blood sucking creature that roams the woods at night, killing chickens and other small livestock by sucking the animal dry of blood. Thus my sarcastic term "Chupaboss" refers to a human form of the creature in a supervisor position, that sucks the very life out of you---only a little at a time and not in one night.
So (my former boss) Chupaboss, has high cholesterol and comes to me for advice. You have no idea the devious thoughts that ran through my head. "Yes, I'd LOVE to help you after you screwed me over without even kissing me first-sister", "How could such a thing happen to such a WONDERFUL person like you?"
However, being the "nice", "sweet", "polite" person I am--I didn't verbalize the sarcastic thoughts running faster through my head than a car on a race track. I told her to go with lots of non-starchy veggies and lean Protein. Cut out the carbs and sugars. This is what I did on the pre-op diet.
Other people have asked as well and I tell them to again, cut out ALL sugar, most carbs, (especially highly processed foods), eat lean Protein and load up on non-starchy veggies to fill your stomach up.
I just had to get this off of my chest. I'm truly tired of the question as if it defines my whole existence now and my new found position among a few of being a weight loss expert.
Have a good one everybody.
Kathleen

Today I reached my goal AND a normal BMI! Soooooooo excited!! 10 months and 1 week - 103 pounds down. Woohoo!!!!!!!

I've posted this before but if you take hemp hearts, chia seeds, Peanut Butter, mix in a bowl and eat hot or cold its a great low carb Cereal. caprese is also a morning favorite. I make a lean mean low carb hemp heart banana peanut butter muffin also.

This may sound a little risky but it often helps me. The key is awareness. Once you dismiss your attention you can put anything in your body. The problem is that you still think of your body as a civic but want it to look and act like a Benz. Stop feeding a Civic!!! Think of your food as fuel. The quality of that fuel is a reflection of how you feel about YOU at the moment you consume it. If your going to eat, eat quality. People who love themselves don't eat doritos. They eat avocado w/ cumin, imported cheeses and marconia almonds with sea salt, rosemary and olive oil! Doritos are cheap, fake food and your decision to have surgery was a decision to live a high quality life. When you feel the junk food impulse consult the snob in you and prepare a high class snack fest that you won't need to tune out while eating!

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This may sound a little risky but it often helps me. The key is awareness. Once you dismiss your attention you can put anything in your body. The problem is that you still think of your body as a civic but want it to look and act like a Benz. Stop feeding a Civic!!! Think of your food as fuel. The quality of that fuel is a reflection of how you feel about YOU at the moment you consume it. If your going to eat, eat quality. People who love themselves don't eat doritos. They eat avocado w/ cumin, imported cheeses and marconia almonds with sea salt, rosemary and olive oil! Doritos are cheap, fake food and your decision to have surgery was a decision to live a high quality life. When you feel the junk food impulse consult the snob in you and prepare a high class snack fest that you won't need to tune out while eating!

P.s. Love Seattle. Great city!

Ha! Seattle summers are the Best Kept Secret ever! No, controlling for weather, it's still a thing they haven't explained. It's just A Thing. Not for everyone, this is statistics...but it shouldn't be discounted or made light of. We don't know what's going on there... PS: It rains more in NYC than Seattle...

Further experience has shown me that a poor night's sleep is the number one predictor of mood swings the next day.

If you are low carber I highly recommend you go online and get some carb quick . It is the low carb version of Bisquick - you can make all kinds of things that you can tolerate.

I've let myself indulge in some unhealthy Snacks. I've not gone back to eating fast food, which I struggled badly with before VSG.
I'm 6 months out. Down 144 lbs since March 22, 2013.
Any tips on how to get back on track? I've scheduled to see a psych to talk thru some of the addictive issues I've been working on for the last two years.
Thank you!

7.29.13 HW 288 SW 277 CW 199!!!!!!!!! Onederland!!!!!!!! Today will be known to my friends, family and coworkers as my most obnoxious day!!!!!!

This statement really intrigues me. You have already assigned shame to your medical treatment by admitting to having been embarrassed for having the surgery. You seem to be the one who thinks its the easy way out. I suspect, like me, you sometimes feel like a fraud and are afraid other people will discover it. So here is my question, to you, me and others feeling the same. How much do you have to struggle in order to consider yourself worthy of success? How much suffering entitles you to a quality life? When will you start standing up to yourself? Why do you measure your own success by the level of difficulty exerted in order to achieve it? Now I have to blog all night. Lol.

I am sharing this because everyone has that relative with an unfortunate personality. I come from "hard huggers" but they always surprise me. Last night at dinner my aunt asked what I planned to do about "all that extra skin". When I said I didn't anticipate enough for it to matter she said "do you think that's realistic?". Now, I'm 5'2 and started at 288 aiming for 130 (anticipating a normal regain to 160). I expect flappiness but not medically damaging flappiness and I personally don't care. If hangies cause rashes i will have it removed. I'm just AMAZED that she thought this was a socially acceptable approach. To be fair, she was raised by hard huggers and consequently has poor social skills. I'm clearly laughing about it but I knew you folks would appreciate it.

I agree that the rudeness of others is just to mask their jealousy. I have made no secret of my surgery to friends, family, even my kids teachers know. Most people want to know what surgeon I used but I do get those questions about the extra skin, I just tell them that is what we have tummy tucks for, if I need it later I will get one, with my boob lift, LOL
Keep up the good work and just keep making them jealous!

I am sharing this because everyone has that relative with an unfortunate personality. I come from "hard huggers" but they always surprise me. Last night at dinner my aunt asked what I planned to do about "all that extra skin". When I said I didn't anticipate enough for it to matter she said "do you think that's realistic?". Now, I'm 5'2 and started at 288 aiming for 130 (anticipating a normal regain to 160). I expect flappiness but not medically damaging flappiness and I personally don't care. If hangies cause rashes i will have it removed. I'm just AMAZED that she thought this was a socially acceptable approach. To be fair, she was raised by hard huggers and consequently has poor social skills. I'm clearly laughing about it but I knew you folks would appreciate it.

Guess who is booking a massage today!!! 199!!! Waving at you as I cross into onederland!!!!

Oh, there'd only be one way to go for me on this one...
Humour.
In response to the question about excess skin, I'd get REALLY over-excited about it. I'd emphatically and conspiratorially touch her arm, leaning close to her face whilst giving a 'howl-at-the-moon-mad' maniacal grin and state in hushed determined tones:
Oh, I know, it's going to be BRILLIANT! I'm going to harvest as much as I can and have the whole thing cut off and transferred to my butt. Why? Because, and I don't know whether you knew, <looking to the left and the right> but I only had the bariatric surgery done in order to emulate my most favourite person in the world...
Kim Kardashian' <adding an extra sigh of hushed reverence>
At which point, I would produce a laminated picture of the following, press it into her hands and say whilst borderline shrieking
'I'll look amazing, WONT I?!!!!!'

Then I'd skip off into a different room leaving them dumbfounded....
(I know, I need mental help, but if you can't beat them - join them! )

@@covatila84 own your decision. If someone says that, respond that yes you did. It's okay to have WLS and you felt it enough to have it. The words out now so all you can do it own it.

@@ElyQuint Your weight loss is going to be the subject of others around you whether you like it or not. You're not invisible and you're pretty too, so you are going to get attention. In fact the smaller you get the more you will get remarks, some very nice and some catty. Try not to allow others unhappiness become your own. I liked your response, which was no response. I think when you respond unkind you are soaking up negativity and trying to release it upon others. Negativity is like a cancer it will grow and kill happiness.
You're doing fine and this is a really good subject.

Guess who is booking a massage today!!! 199!!! Waving at you as I cross into onederland!!!!

Guess who is booking a massage today!!! 199!!! Waving at you as I cross into onederland!!!!

ElyQuint, you go girl! Enjoy every second of this day! Congrats!