heftyhoosier

Been back on nuvaring for a years and no weight gain

5 day ouch reset was a game changer for me. I feel like I've gone back to very early restriction levels. Give it a shot.

I told nosy people at work who kept asking "how are you losing all that weight?" that I had a cocaine problem. It quiets them very quickly.

This is a bit off topic, but I was so crazy hungry the first month. That will pass and you won't be thinking about your first cheat food. ????

Learn to love wine or sobriety. Champagne is uncomfortable but beer is worse.

I tried it this week and I have noticed a huge change. I haven't been eating as much and the cravings are gone. It does bring back the head hunger battle, which is good. It's worth a try - I recommend it!

I was drinking quite often and it slows your weight loss and makes my stomach hurt. I've been super strict on my diet (sans alcohol) and have still lost a lot of weight but it's better to avoid the booze - sorry to say. For the rest of you - no lectures, please. I've reformed.

I just have a harder time knowing when it's going to hit me and I seem to get reoccurring drunk with it. I'll be buzzed then be fine, then have another drink and end up being drunk unintentionally. I could always hold my booze before surgery but I have to be careful now. Two glasses of wine is pushing it, three is probably a mistake. Hard alcohol is way less predictable for me for some reason.

People are going to judge with me saying this, but I drink probably a few times a month. I entertain customers and as much as people say you can fake it, it makes things awkward in my industry if you have always drank and all of a sudden stop. I haven't had any issues - just take it slow because it hits harder and faster and goes away sooner than before (for me). I haven't lost as much as I thought I would have and I'm sure drinking had something to do with it. But so do the long hours and the travel and other life circumstances. I'm following my diet very closely but still have problems with hydration (yes I know alcohol makes it worse). Hard liquor had been a bad idea. wine has been fine. Good luck and you do you.

I travel a lot as well. It is much easier when you have a rental car and can go get things or if you are staying in one city for the week. I was doing multiple cities in a week without a car and it was brutal. I was dehydrated, couldn't find decent protein shakes anywhere, etc. I pack some protein with me at all times and if I'm going to run out of bars I will ship them to the location I'm headed to. It can be difficult though. My nurses said to wait a month before flying but my doctor said two weeks was fine. Do get up and walk around to prevent blood clots.

I thought I had wasted my time with the surgery until I started eating real food again. Now I feel the restriction. I wouldn't let the first couple of months scare you. The restriction comes. Just stick with the plan!

I'll be on it a year after surgery.

No catheter for me - I needed to get up and walk around, even though I had crippling nausea for the first sixish hours and would dry heave every time I put my head up. But then they put a little anti nausea mix in with my pain meds and I was golden. The point is - if you at all can, you want to be up and moving (my opinion).

Maybe...I saw my doc as soon as I got home and he just told me to get back to my routine. I was only home 2 days out of the last 30 so it was rough...

I'd go to the doctor.