Dragon Fly

Help Carb overload. The advise has been up-lifting. I'm 6 months out and at a stall for about 4 weeks. I've lost 40lbs from start weight 245 down to 205. I too have been eating way too many carbs. My nutritionist said carbs melt on your young before getting to the stomach is why you don't fill full like when you eat protien. When I stick to protien based foods I fill up fast, verses high csrb low protien foods. I buy Protein Drink boxes now with 30 grams of protiem you can get at Sams Club, Casco and Meijers. The brand is Premier Protein. I been contemplating going back to basics as one of have said, liquids for a week to break the habit of desiring old Carb habits and late might snacking
Thank God for these forums. Xoco

Help Carb overload. The advise has been up-lifting. I'm 6 months out and at a stall for about 4 weeks. I've lost 40lbs from start weight 245 down to 205. I too have been eating way too many carbs. My nutritionist said carbs melt on your young before getting to the stomach is why you don't fill full like when you eat protien. When I stick to protien based foods I fill up fast, verses high csrb low protien foods. I buy Protein Drink boxes now with 30 grams of protiem you can get at Sams Club, Casco and Meijers. The brand is Premier Protein. I been contemplating going back to basics as one of have said, liquids for a week to break the habit of desiring old Carb habits and late might snacking
Thank God for these forums. Xoco

Help Carb overload. The advise has been up-lifting. I'm 6 months out and at a stall for about 4 weeks. I've lost 40lbs from start weight 245 down to 205. I too have been eating way too many carbs. My nutritionist said carbs melt on your young before getting to the stomach is why you don't fill full like when you eat protien. When I stick to protien based foods I fill up fast, verses high csrb low protien foods. I buy Protein Drink boxes now with 30 grams of protiem you can get at Sams Club, Casco and Meijers. The brand is Premier Protein. I been contemplating going back to basics as one of have said, liquids for a week to break the habit of desiring old Carb habits and late might snacking
Thank God for these forums. Xoco

First of all, your restriction will never be where it was a 2 months, so you can forget that.
You're doing great on the water! That's not an easy thing to do, so I commend you for that! Why just turkey and cheese wraps? Do you not cook? (I know a lot of people who don't). I think if you can get some variety of some nice, lean Protein and veggies, you won't have room for carbs.
So keep up the Water, Protein and veggies with every meal. Start weighing and measuring everything. Just because you CAN eat 6 turkey and cheese wraps, doesn't mean you should. And if you just eat protein first, then a little veggies, you will have no room for carbs, because protein is filling! snack on only a little fruit, cheese, nuts, Jerky. For now, since you're having a problem, just stay completely away from all bread, crackers, Pasta, rice, etc.... if you do that, your cravings should diminish for them.
Good Luck! Hope that helps!

Congrats!

I'll be in 3days!!!! Can't wait to be on the other side. Congrats to all who have made it. And thanks for making this new one @@mduffield

Hi to us who've made it!! Officially post op and feeling great!

Congrats! I will have a date set when I see the surgeon on Dec. 5th but already know I will have to wait until the first the year for a date. Best wishes on your surgery, I know you're ready as I am too! Nice Christmas gift!

Pray for the doctors and anesthesiologist to have God in their mist and hands, and hand over your fear to God. Your in my prayers, God will be with you. Don't forget to thank him when it is over????

Pray for the doctors and anesthesiologist to have God in their mist and hands, and hand over your fear to God. Your in my prayers, God will be with you. Don't forget to thank him when it is over????

Pray for the doctors and anesthesiologist to have God in their mist and hands, and hand over your fear to God. Your in my prayers, God will be with you. Don't forget to thank him when it is over????

Very cool! Now the weight loss journey begins!

You're in my prayers!

Pray for the doctors and anesthesiologist to have God in their mist and hands, and hand over your fear to God. Your in my prayers, God will be with you. Don't forget to thank him when it is over????

Pray for the doctors and anesthesiologist to have God in their mist and hands, and hand over your fear to God. Your in my prayers, God will be with you. Don't forget to thank him when it is over????

Pray for the doctors and anesthesiologist to have God in their mist and hands, and hand over your fear to God. Your in my prayers, God will be with you. Don't forget to thank him when it is over????

Failure to lose weight and maintain all my life was the biggest reason I chose to have a bypass. I am almost two months postop now, and I'll tell you the weight loss hasn't been quick since. Rather its a slower but consistent loss, about 1-2 pounds a week. At that rate, it will take me about 9 months to hit my goal. That's fine with me.

Thanks everyone for all your replies. All your answers were encouraging and have relieved me of the doubt and fear I've had about losing the long a waited weight I've carried so long. I haven't got a date set for surgery yet but everything is on track so soon I should know. I will keep in touch, I see this is good place for support. God Bless all of you!

Thanks everyone for all your replies. All your answers were encouraging and have relieved me of the doubt and fear I've had about losing the long a waited weight I've carried so long. I haven't got a date set for surgery yet but everything is on track so soon I should know. I will keep in touch, I see this is good place for support. God Bless all of you!

I was a Weight Watchers retread for decades. The same thirty pounds lost over and over and over and over. Always regained with some bonus pounds. I'm so happy that this loss with my LapBand is the last time I'm doing this! And I've lost three times that thirty so far.

I will soon be 52 and was sleeved 8-26. I had 2 months of preop diet and lost about 30# but since surgery I have only lost about 20#. You will have to continue to follow your prescribed diet but it will be easier to keep things in check. Because if you don't you will pay for it with pain and discomfort and possibly other nasty side effects. I think that us girls that are in our 2nd prime it might just be a little slower than the newer models. So keep plugging along and we will get to the end of this journey and let our healthier, thinner selves out.

congrats, @@BeagleLover, on your surgery! you sound like everything's going well.

@@Dragon Fly, I had the same problem losing weight. It took forever to lose any weight and never stayed off.
Forget about worrying about weight loss anymore. Just keep on the program. One day it will be surgery day. I was sleeved last Friday morning. By Sunday my blood sugars went to normal (after having diabetes for 4 years), and I felt 99% normal. After one week, I lost 9 lbs. That has NEVER happened in my life! I'm following the program as instructed and will continue to lose. My surgeon said that I can expect to not have sleep apnea in 3 - 4 months. I am SO happy I did this. It DOES work. My obesity will not cause me to die 10 years earlier. You will lose lots of weight and be much healthier too. It truly is an incredible tool.

you are definitely not alone. i'm 57 (as of next week lol) and just finished my 3 month presurgery supervised weight loss, for a grand total of 10.5. i'm not sleeved yet, but i don't expect to have the same problem after surgery. that's why we're having it, right?
good luck! and don't worry, keep reading the posts on the forum, they're very comforting when you think you're alone in an issue.

pre surgery I went on a carb free diet. for surgery I needed to lose 5% of my body wt. it took me from sept. to may to finally lose 15 lbs. before I considered surgery I did nutrisystem, weight watchers, south beach diet,, I counted carbs and fats and calories and was gaining . I went from 240 lbs to almost 300 lbs. it took my heart stopping for me to seek out wls. the last recorded wt. I had was 296 but I know I was higher than that and this morning I was 213.