kyleebean

I am super impressed with you and you are my new (s)hero..... I have been contemplating c25k and honestly it seems daunting. I'm still really overweight. Although, I can walk a couple miles with no problem, I worry my joints will rebel! But you have given me some motivation.

I read your question and kinda wanted to laugh and say "hell, no." BUT I am new into my journey. I'm only 9 weeks out from revision from lapband to sleeve. With the lapband I lost 100 pounds and then gained it back when I started having serious problems with it. The sleeve has been what I hoped it would be. That said, I too, wish my weight loss would hurry up and i'd be at or close to my goal. I think you hit the proverbial nail on the head when you we need to try to live in the present. I guess my take on it is that I cannot wait 6 months or a year to enjoy myself and my family; I need to do that now while still losing weight. But man, I wish I could blink and the 100 pounds I need to lose would just be gone...If it were that easy, I wouldn't have needed surgery!

259~ losing so slowly is frustrating.

I was sleeved 11/27. My calories average about 800/day. Sometimes a little more if I've worked out hard and sometimes a little less. My NUT said to try to stay under 800/day.

I'm 8 weeks out and I felt like that initially~ I was sleeved the day before Thanksgiving......What a cruel joke for this fat girl! It was super hard for me over the holidays but it probably would have been hard regardless of when it was. I was MAD at the world.... I knew it was my choice to opt for the surgery but it just didn't seem fair that my DOG is able to eat more than I do!! The anger passed.... I think a lot of it was surge in hormones and loss of my best friend, food. You are feeling completely normal, although it probably doesn't feel like it.

I had revision from band to sleeve 11/27 and am down 51 pounds!

Honey, I am right there with ya. I'm 8 weeks out today and have lost quite a bit but its sporadic. I wont lose anything for a week and then the scale goes down 5 pounds. Sometimes it's just plan ass hard to stay on track.... but I do, for the most part. I hate that I can't lose as fast as I want. However, I also know it wont take as long as I think!

My goodness, I agree with many of you, as I was angry at Penny too. BUT... I was angrier at her husband for enabling her. What others have mentioned needs to be kept in mind; Penny is seriously mentally ill. I question how she passed a psych evaluation for bariatric surgery. As a mental health professional, I see Penny as delusional, an addict and suffering from blatant body dismorphia. In addition, she receives attention for being ill and immobile which is a form of munchausen. Meanwhile, I am going to use my visceral reaction to this show as motivation. I may not always follow my plan 100% (but I do 90%) but I will always be accountable for my choices. Over the holidays, my daughter (she's 24 so clearly she knows everything) kept saying, "you can't have that". I kept responding to her by saying, " I can choose whether or not to have this". Most of the time I chose not to. But when I do chose to have something that isn't the best choice, I record it in my food log and it counts toward my calories for the day. Thankfully, most of us do not have her mental health make up. While I am not religious at all, the thought that goes through my mind is: "But for the grace of god go I." How many of us could have gone down this unhealthy road? I am sure many of us are thankful we were able to receive the wake up call that each of us needed to regain our health and control over our eating.

I use the EAS carb control and I haven't had any problems with them. I can't drink milk based anything.....

I am doing really well but am having a horrible time controlling "head hunger". I feel like I get the munchies and get frustrated because they don't go away. I know I have been under some stress and that has always been a trigger for me to eat comfort foods. I find myself staring in the fridge or pantry looking for something to eat. Thankfully, I don't have any crap food in the house, but I can see myself grabbing a Protein bar, or a pudding or whatever else looks good and eating it. Any helpful advice would be welcomed.

I finally fit into my leather jacket (it's been about 5 years) and my very favorite pair of Jeans~ both in the same week. I finally feel "pretty" and am enjoying putting on makeup, picking out my clothes and am no longer just throwing something on and running out the door.

sorry, Jan 10th I was 264

currently 260

I can't stand that man. What an emotionally abusive relationship. I want to shake her and yell "you deserve soooo much better than his sorry ass"

I'm entering my 7th week post op and I am stuck at 264 pounds. I realize I have lost a lot of weight but on the other hand, I don't understand why I haven't lost any this week. I am averaging 665 calories a day. I am getting about 70 gms of Protein and I an hitting the 64 ounces of Water. I am working out three to four times a week and burn an average of 400 calories each time. How can I not lose weight? It makes no sense to me. I am aware of stalls and I did have one a few weeks ago but it didn't last more than a few days. It's hard to keep motivated when the scale doesn't move.

how do I find her blog?

CrissyRing77 I would love the recipe. I did mix some with sf chocolate pudding mix and it was pretty good.

Ok, so I bought the PB cookie Protein powder (syntrax) and I can't stand it. Any ideas to use it up other than mixing it with Water?

I'm 6 weeks out and have been to the gym every other day since week 2 or 3. I just walk on the treadmill or work on the elliptical. I feel like I can eat a good cup to a cup and a half of "soft foods" like yogurt, pudding, etc... but if I'm eating solid chicken or something like that, I can only eat about 2-3 ounces and 1/2 cup of veggies. I average about 700 calories, 70 gm of Protein per day and I get more than 64 ounces of Water in every day but it is a push. I'm down 46 pounds since surgery and couldn't expect more....

I was in 4 nights. I was a revision from band to sleeve and I had a lot of complications. the surgery itself took over 4 hours due to scar tissue (from the lap band and from a previous spleenectomy). After surgery I couldn't keep anything down because the swelling in my stomach and esophagus was so severe nothing was passing through. I also developed pneumonia and m y left lung collapsed. They also thought I had a blood clot (which I did not). So I had a lot of complications and still was only in 4 days.

here isn't one I'm particularly looking forward to. However, one happened over the weekend. I was shopping with my 23 year old daughter (who is a size 1 and I think maybe someone switched her with my real baby at birth or something) and I kept looking at size 3X tops and would try them on and she kept saying, "Mom you are drowning in those." She finally went and picked out some cute 2X tops and they fit beautifully. I guess I thought I was a 3X because I wasn't really fitting into the 3x's at Kohls before surgery so I thought they would fit now. Well, I was pleasantly surprised.

I'm going back tomorrow. I was off 6 weeks and am very grateful I was able to take the time to adjust and concentrate on healing, eating appropriately, drinking and working out.

I really want to try these but an skeptical because of what people have been saying about their nutritional value not being accurate. I'm not diabetic but do get dumping from excess sugar. Anyone have experience with Quest bars causing dumping?

I had my revision from band to sleeve In Milwaukee, well, because I live here. Froedert has a really good program, have you looked into it?

Oh and I think I paid around 50 for it