desertmom

O and 63 in such a short time is good,it really is.Remember the body does need time to ajust after big losses. And I am still wearing my same clothes and not a single person has commented about my weit yet...which means they dont notice it yet. Now in the next 20 pounds it will become visible for sure and the size should go down. xxo

I can relate to this. BUT I know I do not only eat Proteins.I eat a little of the food my family eats which is veggies,Protein and something like a tiny piece of sweet potato.Every now and then I have a bite of noodles.Some days I have a slice of toast.My calories are still super low and I cannot understand why did I lose wieght so much faster when I did a 1600 calories normal eating plan.I did exercise a lot more then though. I have come to understand that I have to learn to eat normal in the first year of this journey....the moment I diet I will fall off it again.Falling off means cheating is involved and I am done with all that. Every time I start exercising for a few days my weight really just stops going down.So,the muscle must weigh enough to do that for a little while though. Dont worry,my coach tells me every day...slow and steady is real and permanent.Do what is normal for this far out with your sleeve and you will lose weight. So,slow and steady is good not bad.Frustrating but not bad.Just keep on chugging away at the Water and the exercise. Good luck to all of you!

This blog has saved my life this morning. The sleeve is seriously messing with my head.I thought I was in a looooong stall.In the mean time I have only not lost for 5 days. The pattern with wich I lose is so different from before.I usually drop a few 100 grams every day,or most days. Since being sleeved the weight will stand completely still for a week,sometimes a little more and then I drop about 4 pounds.But I mean completely still....not down even 100g. Somehow my head is seriously done in by this.I just dont get use to this.My obsession with the scale is somehow more in control.It is not a matter of jumping on the scale every time I walk past it anymore.But I still get very anxious if I dont weigh every day.Cannot figure what to eat as I doubt myself so much,even when I track the food on fitday.Keep thinking maybe I had more,maybe Im not real about it...even when I weigh the food.Somehow when Im not losing I feel like I am doing something wrong even though I know Im not. I suppose my fear that I will fail is still huge as I still feel I failed with the band as I did lose the weight but regained it.I am so resistant to believe that this will work as my big yap coudnt keep shut about the surgery and everybody knows.Maybe that is also why I havent climbed on the intense exercise band wagon yet. Anyhoo,upwards and onwards christian soldiers....lol

Ok,but how much have you lost? xxo

so for the past week I have been exercising seriously.With that goes the weight that gets stuck even though you expect to lose load just by sweating..lol I am learning to make peace with the slow weight loss.I srill second guess myself all the time about food but I guess I am doing fine when all is said and done. Now I just have to keep it up,eating good proteins and fresh veggies. xxo

Hi gr8 going.When was your surgery?

But it would ne interesting to see how much more the volume is at a year out. xxo

Crazy thing for me is if the scale would just have gone down 200g every 2 days I would have been happy....but it doesnt.It is when I get on the scale and it is not moving when my anxieties of the stresss at the moment in my life gets the better of me and I feel so out of control. When people have had only food as there default or addiction it is one thing but some of us have had several of those and not reverting back to the others is even harder,because unlike eating,which we cant do anymore....the other ones I still can. I have been smoking for the past few days even though I know it is super bad for my sleeve and now he catch 22 is,when I stop I want to eat even worse than before. Crazy the stupid things we do to ourselves when we dont use externals,good things as coping skills. Aviiva,gr8 idea to help people thats sleeved.You know what the difficulties are and every sleever needs some sort of therapy I believe.

when I am "good" and eat mostly proteins and little bit of carbs but snack my food during the day to get my calories my weight stalls but when I eat 3 carb rich meals per day,dont count cals or anything for that matter my weight starts coming off much faster...until I get paranoid and think I shouldnt eat carbs and change what I do......and then I stall. Normal,very little amounts with protein shakes just seems to work better. Weight 111.5kg's today The sleeve rocks even though it completely confuses me. xxo

Hi Hang in there it gets better.I got some serious bad news and heard that we are moving countries at about 6 weeks and the emosional side of not being able to eat away my stress was a nightmare.Did some emosional eating...a hand full of popcorn,a few crisps,had a few glasses of very very diluted wine in the 2 weeks after that but found that didnt help. It is now week 9 and everything feels so much better.The problems didnt go away but somehow the stress and anxiety did.I have come to accept that 1. If I want to I can snack all day and out eat the sleeve 2. It is my choice,which was the hardest thing to accept. Also I have found that I can eat slightly more now (more kinds of food) than at 6 weeks and that helps. Tis surgery is hard.I often envy people that say they dont feel hungry and dont think about food eanymore.Or they forget to eat and dont make the calories per day...hehehe....I have to have a brake on all the time as I would snack way to much if I allow it. Just be kind to yourself at this point,dont be to tough about the eating and weight loss,dont create expectations that makes the emosional issues more. And do let us know when it gets better.I whine in my blog and at seems to help as well. xxo

Hi After my surgery,for about 6 weeks,I was very very anxious.As I don suffer from depression or anxiety it must be something physiological.It drove me insane feeling so bad and worried an not coping....and then it just disappeared. Hang in there,it will get better. xxo

from tomorrow I am eating only food that come with a label to tell me the exact calories in it.That way I wll be sure that I dont overshoot on calories.100 ml milk only.No string cheese. In all my life I have never felt as powerless as right now.I have always been abl to lose weight at a faster rate than now and no matter wha I do....it is just super slow.Up the cals down the cals,exercise, no exercise,more protein less protein....nothing helps. I am feeling very frustrated about it and it is not even like a diet I can fall off of....lol

Hi You know,maybe instead of feeling different than others let me suggest something different. I have a tall beautiful skinny friend living with us at the moment and she is teaching me that skinny people have to look at what they eat and not eat to much or to often all the time.So,maybe,seeing as you only have 40 pounds to lose you are now a normal person needing to lose some pounds.Not a morbidly obese person trying to lose weight. It seems to be a lifelong struggle for most women and as my friend says,it is not only me that spends a lot of time thinking about food,most of them spend a big chunk of time each day thinking about what to eat and then eating it. Maybe you should see yourself as a normal healthy almost skinny girl,battling the bulge like everyone. As for the skin.I already look like I am going to smack myself unconcious if I move my arm to fast..lol.I have no plan for that plastics is the only thing that helps. Good luck and tackle that weight again as if it is the first time in your life you have to. xxo

My weight is 112.8kg

At the moment I have to just sit down.We played squash for and hour and 15 minutes as hard as we could.From this day forward this excuse that I am tired,dont have energy,have pain has got to stop.A friend that never ever use to beat me now whips my behind.When I have played a hard game my toes are usually sore( bumping against the front of the shoe when I break suddenly..lol) and I havent had a sore toe since surgery...so exercise,here I come. Tomorrow morning I am starting pilates classes,Monday night I've got a game lined up,Tuesday I will just do walk away the pounds,and so on and so forth.I will also start doing some light weight training as my arms are so flabby they seem to be getting bigger!Exercise might not help for the skin but it does make them thinner. I keep wondering why I am so resistent against the exercise after the surgery.I always use to joke I am the fittest fat person on earth and yet since surgery I just dont feel like exercising.

http://www.fitday.com/fitness/FoodLog.html I decided to put my food log in my blog and on my signature to help keep me accountable.I could do less calories by reducing milk,cheese and carbs in general.Why can I eat so much?

So my friend and myself are in a stall.She is back on liquids and I am eating more often and more from today!So for this day,no calorie counting. Tomorrow I will start with 1000 calories every day and maybe it will help. Xxo

Our house guests are leaving in the morning,jippeeeee! It is super difficult for me to eat out at present.I have to eat sooo slow when I do proteins like chicken breast or beef fillet everyone is finished long before I've had 2oz of meat. Also,I got fed up tonite and ordered a chicken wrap,its cut in 5,and I ate one.Of course, its 23:30 and I rally feel like eating....bu I wont. So,I have 2 eating out appointments over the weekend and one movie (biggest challenge ever not to try caramel popcorn... Hehe).Thank goodness going out will be with a future sleever and a RNY 2 years out friend...we can share,eat little and not feel strange about it. Ok,nou for some more water.It is really hot now,over 100 most days and I am not getting all the water I need.will step that and the protein shakes up from tomorrow.

Often I see posts on what happens when people take "one bite to many"....well,that has never happened to me.I can actually eat quite a lot.Usually I try not to but we've been entertaining a lot lately.Tonight after dinner I had something else to eat and for the first time I had a single hick up that I was wondering am I now full,is this it?that feeling of slight tightness in my chest and a hick-up? It is so crazy to hear people say they cannot make 800 calories when I have to stop myself all the time or I would usually average about 1000 whr I eat what I really want to. Then the thing of cutting carbs.I dont do more than 60 carbs on a high day but for me that is high in carbs for weight loss.When I low carbed before I had to stricktly stay under 20 for it to really work. When I do low carb I feel a little on the depressed side.The feel good factor just disappears from my life and I start craving crisps and chocolate badly. I am really worried that I will fail with this sleeve.I am not really dieting as I have this stange reaction of having no expectations so I will not be so disappointed.I suppose in a way after the struggle with the band it is normal to feel this but I will have to pull myself toward myself and start getting with the program and exercise and eat only the right food. I will do this.

first,the hotel stay was great.Buffets are just difficult now as of course I wanted to eat and in fact I had half a flat bread toastedwhich I wouldnt usually do. Anyway,it is what it is...we travel a lot and I have to get use to it. On the 5th I was 249 pounds.I find the weight loss painfully slow.I can not understand that I lose this slow.Whenever I diet I lose a lot faster and this is like a super strict mostly low carb diet,WHY IS THE WEIGHT LOSS SO SLOW? it drives me nuts.Having said that,I am not really exercising at all....maybe that really will make a difference. xxo

I must confess that I am seven weeks out and have had salad.Maybe because I have had the band for many years( and I know I really chew things very very well) I've had no problem whatsoever. Having said that I only eat a spoonfull of a green salad...not a lot.I also eat snap peas,green Beans,cabbage,carrots cucumber...but again,very very little at a time.I've just missed it too much and at least one meal a day will have something like that.I recon if you can at stuff like brussel sprouts and broccoli,which I do too,why not salad? just chew,chew,chew. xxo

well,tomorrow will be my first stay in a hotel since the sleeve so we will see how I handle the eating thing.I am taking stuff like beef jerky and string cheese for snacks and a protein drink,new one that comes in sachets from WIN.25g protein in 120 calories,very low in fat and carbs. I am so hopeful that I will have a big loss again soon. This coming week I will start doing some weight training and I am considering getting a personal trainer for a few months...I am goingto start reformer pilates next sunday as well. Ok,here goes self discipline over the next few days.thank goodness sweet stuff makes me feel sick at the moment.

First,Takingmylifebacc,of course we will lose.We just need to be patient. Tonight the topic came up again.Move,when,where,university,school,US/UK? And without realizing what I was doing it I told everyone it was time for bed.When the kids were in bed (and the grown ups in the villa too) I decided that I felt like something nice.I had heard that people will have some peanut butter,a tablespoon full I thought.But alas,me being me that wasnt enough. I actually got some fat free or sugarfree cool whip and scooped the frozen cool whip like ice cream in a bowl,topped it with the spoon of peanut butter, climbed into a hot bath and slowly finished it all.AND THEN I FELT AS SICK AS A DOG!In fact I still do. This sleeve is the most amazing thing.I will either learn or I will feel terrible...and it is great!Of course I will learn,I am not unteachable or stupid...mind you a week or 2 back I posted something similar I think...ok,so I hope I will learn!LOL Emotional eating is a terrible thing.It has ruined my life for many years.Now that I cannot eat I often feel like I am so bored and I am searching for something.I will have to start exercising a lot more to help counter these feelings. But,the sleeve rocks.Now that all this emotional stuff will be there all the time while decisions are made and with the move (difficult thing to do,very difficult this has been our home for 10 years,we love this crazy place) I will not be able to make myself fatter just sick if I dont listen...lol.but i will learn!

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My storie is almost exactly like cowgirljane's.I had my band for 7 years and it was empty for 5.Started getting way to tight for no reason and had to be removed. My dr is very experienced and he didnt think I was higher risk.A lot of his patients here are band to sleeve revisions. We are all fine. Good luck and I must confess I had to be very strong to do this surgery,I was petrified and thought it would kill me.I had to just go ahead and be brave. When you are ready you will to. xxo