fit2Bme2014
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3x5 eating is rather...interesting. It's not helping my hunger though.
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Another 4# gone for a total of 18# pre-op!!!
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Baby food spoon... Yes? No?
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Just eat slow and listen to your body. If you feel full and you still have an ounce left, leave it. That was the most challengeing for me. I still battle that. I take a 4oz serving and feel full sometimes after 3oz. Then I will have a whole conversation in my head rather I should just finish it since it was such a small portion to start with. I usually end up leaving it.
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Came home from Bari support group @ the hospital really 'needing' to stuff the 'monster'... Help!!
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Endoscopy shows 'erosive gastritis'. Hope it doesn't prevent me from having surgery.
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Frack it! I wanna eat! My tummy is all grumbly. But I don't want to go over 600 cal today. I wonder if eating some tums will help… Sometimes it does.
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Freaking out!! Surgery is 2 weeks from today!!
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Got my stress test report back. Doesn't look like anything significant other then I am very, very, very out of shape. Not even sure where to start trying to get my endurance back.
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Dee_1111, I hate even saying this, because it feels like a copout and a really bad excuse, but I have severe stenosis in my low back and walking any distance causes my legs, specifically the right one, to go numb. It helps when I can use a shopping card so I can lean on it and lean forward a bit. I'm thinking the pool might be a good thing to try.
just feeling frustrated and whiney. Lol.
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Had my first appointment with my surgeon - it was AMAZING! I now have a binder that I need to carry around with me to all my pre-op appointments. Still haven't been officially 'approved' for surgery; I guess that's what all the appointments are about.
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Hernias... yeah, just add that to the list of recent findings. Both stem from my hysterectomy last year: one is 4 inches and the other is 2 inches (Seriously!) and they are side by side with FAT coming out of them... WTH! I guess it's better than bowel, THAT surgeon would like me to wait on corrective surgery until I've lost some wiehght, unless I end up having to have emergency surery... smh. I'm falling apart.
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I find it less helpful to hear about the journey of somebody who's under 250 and having the surgery. I've seen so many people just under 200 pounds having the surgery and I am horrified. I guess everybody's journey and reasonings are different. It just seems like such a drastic surgery and if I were 200 pounds I would be thankful… At least this point my life. But just to lose 50 pounds, I have a hard time wrapping my head around it.
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Here's my reality: I have just about every co-morbidity on the list. Every one. I was 210 pounds and being eaten alive by my autoimmune diseases. This surgery has saved me--the gut hormones caused a lot of my health issues. So I get what you're saying, and I tend to be a very judgmental person, but I've come to understand that we all got here for one (or several) very personal reasons. Hope this helps!
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Kata13, there is a group that's designated for different weight groups. And, I do visit those. While you get discouraged by those heavier than you losing weight quicker, I get discouraged when I see posts about people losing very slowly. And, then I remember to go to the side and see if I can tell what their starting weight was...and pray the reason is just because they started at a lower weight than someone like me, and that it's not something worse like the sleeve just not working...
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I go in on April 2. Really trying not to freak out. I just keep reminding myself what my life was like before I gained weight and what my life is like now. I want my old life back, cuz this, this isn't living.
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I LOVE MFP: It's actually helping, and I love the support of others I am getting...BUT...I just feel so compelled to put stuff in my mouth, to eat. I know in the past it's like a switch and it's gone off, the switch, and there is such relief, and peace there. I just wish I could make a turn off.
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I have an addictive personality & food is my drug.Looking ahead @ the long haul,this will prolly be a lifetime battle.From what others who have been successful are saying tho is don't fuel the addiction with certain foods that make it that much harder on yourself such as carbs.Once I wake that ugly beast up with cookies sodas,etc.it's much harder to gain control again.So none of that!! Also,the successful folks have upped their protein intake with good protein supplements...
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I miss the girl who could spend hours in the gym and take a 3-4 mile walk afterwards. I hate knowing that even after I lose weight, because of damage to my spine, I'll probably never meet that girl again. That's not going to deter me from looking for her. I'm just very disappointed in the person I have about myself to become.
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I'm being released!! Other than feeling a bit weak and wonky, I feel good! Pain is controllable and nausea is very, very minimal. Gas pains, when they shift, are awful, though. Oh, and my whole body is swollen, especially my face, from all the IV fluids I received. Thanks for all the prayers and good thoughts! Hope you are all doing well. ❤
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I've been extremely tired and light headed. Ugh! Surgeon was up set when I told her I lowered it that far. She was worried it might kill my metabolism. I wonder if that's whats wrong.
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Sorry... I'm preop. They put me on 1200 cal diet and I wasnt losing, so I switched it to 500 to 600. My surgeon was quite upset with me about that. She says I will burn out my metabolism before surgery. However, after surgery I'm going to be having so few calories, right? Why won't that burn out my metabolism? I don't necessarily "feel" like eating. And want to continue losing until surgery. I feel really off today. I have five more days left of the anabiotic pack for h. pylori, maybe it's the medicine.
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It just hit me.... While I've been excited that I have my first appointment with my surgeon, and I'm anticipating being given my pre-op diet and appoints scheduled... she still may not 'approve' me. That would be devistating.
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It's a new day...
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It's weird. Other sleeve patients don't seem to want to hear the I've had it as easy as I had it. No vomiting, minimum nausea, able to do self-care: clothe myself, I get off the pot myself, in and out of the shower myself, make my own meals myself. It's almost like it's a badge of honor to have had some sort of complication or malaise after surgery. No wonder the nurses made the comment like they did. No wonder they were so impressed and so surprised I was getting out of bed and walking without prodding and prompting. Smh
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Just did the Biggest Loser, CardioBlast warm-up...yes, warm-up and I'm worn out. Due to health issues, I have little balance or stamina and it's difficult to stand straight without my back/legs going out. It wasn't longer than 5 min. Feeling pretty low abt myself right now.
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Looking forward to my appointment tomorrow and getting my 'official' before weight so I can post it. I really want to lose about 50# prior to my surgery, but doubt that's obtainable. Just want to get a jump start.
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My praying friends, I ask that you say a little prayer for me and my surgical team. I'm having a procedure done this morning. I really appreciate it...and all of you.
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My praying friends, I ask that you say a little prayer for me and my surgical team. I'm having a procedure done this morning. I really appreciate it...and all of you.
