Mayte

You know what cinward, exactly that! I keep the Atkins diet on my head. And when I hear no carb diet (or lets say 20 or 40grs per day), I keep remembering that in this diet if you fell off the wagon even once...it was "The kiss of Death", you would have to start all over again for your body to get into ketosis, and burn your storage fat bla,bla,bla....and you would have throwned away all your past effort. So I guess here the key is to change that in my mind, I´ll eat low in carbs as much as I can, but if i fall once, I don´t have to think it´s the end, and just keep on. I have not throwned away anything, nothing is compromised, I can keep on....

Please, anyone with experience on life after gastric sleeve surgery. I had mine exactly today 1 year ago (May 10th, 2012), it was self payed with a lot of sacrifice, and I´m now having a panic attack. I started with 264 pounds and now I´m at 198. I don´t know what is going on? Only 66 pounds down. I thought I´d lost much more. I see on internet people that has lost between 80 and 100 pounds by now. I was told this surgery was right for me but know I think i should have gone with the bypass. I´m so afraid of have throwned my money away. I eat good, a lot of Protein, veggies, brown rice, brown Pasta, hardly bread, and specially, I don´t drink soda. So i don´t know what is going on? I workout 4 hours a week, sometimes more, so I really DON´T UNDERSTAND WHAT IS GOING ON? There´s only 1 thing I haven´t followed instructions to the word, and it´s that right after dinner i drink half a glass of juice or Water. I don´t wait an hour. Every two hours I am hungry again. What am I doing wrong? Please anyone.....

My starting weight was 264 pounds

Thank you Benisa for your words too, i will keep on.....thinking I´m just half way there.

O.k. will do so I guess, there´s no other option, no carbs for me then...I wish I would have known this before surgery. No carbs "Is a diet". I was told and read on internet that I could eat everything healthy (no sugar, no fried food, no white flour, no sweets, ice cream, etc.) and that´s it. By juice I meant Clight, it´s supposed to be 0cals and carbs. About exercise I do 1 hour of spinning, 1 of Body Pump (weight lifting), and 1 hr of rowing. So I guess it has cardio and muscle work out. I can´t believe I have to go on a diet, a no carb diet. Thanks for the posts

Thanks Kulita, i know I would have never lost this pounds by myself, it´s a great way to go.....and I feel and look much better now, but it is discouraging when you see yourself behind the average weight lost. I´ll have to... don´t know, just live in a diet for the rest of my journey I guess....How sad!