JupiterinVirgo

The last time I went to an amusement park, at around 300 pounds, I was allowed to get on the ride but as it Spohn, the little rocketship shape to seat I was sitting in scraped the floor every time it went around. I used every muscle in my body to try to hold myself to one side, but I had never been so mortified and all my life.

No one has given me any shit about my surgery, but I don't tell everybody I meet on the street about it. I wouldn't hesitate for one second the bitch slap anybody who tried to tell me what to do with my own body. At best, it is disrespectful, inappropriate, and absolutely too personal for anyone to comment on someone else's body. Let alone the choices they make for their bodies. Fat people need to ditch the shame. We are just as accountable, for letting people in our lives, and letting our culture bully us into feeling ashamed of our beautiful bodies. Fat bodies are soft, fat bodies around, fat bodies are shapely and and have been worshiped in every culture over many thousands of years. Our modern culture is sicker than morbid obesity makes us. We have every right to be who we are-fat or thin-and the road we have taken to get there, is ours alone. No one has the right to diminish you unless you give them that right. No one has the right to tell you you should be something different than you are. Only you can decide that. You are the only authority when it comes to your body, your soul, and your life. Do not give away the power that is innately yours!

My surgeon told me that the average weight loss over six months for bariatric patients is about 80 pounds. It seems to me you can get pretty close to your goals without doing anything extraordinary. But don't let the numbers mess with your head. Otherwise you're going to feel like you're on a diet The rest of your life

My Goddess, woman! You were glamorous before, but now you shine like the north star! Stunning. Congratulations… You must've worked so fucking hard.

I can honestly say that I don't regret the surgery, this sacrifice I've made to the me I always wanted to be. I didn't have any complications, so there's been the simplicity of simply learning how to live with my altered anatomy. Certainly, there have been times when I wanted to rip into a giant cheeseburger or a pizza, and realized I was physically incapable of doing so. But that's exactly why I got the surgery to begin with. It was definitely the right choice for me. I can honestly say that I have no regrets about doing this. It is opening up many doors for a life I could not possibly live at my former high weight.

Anywhere between 100 and $200 easy.

Most of us had to go through one of those ordeals to get approved for surgery.

I'm almost 6 months out, and I still take very little pleasure from food/eating. It still feels like a task I have to force upon myself. I still have no appetite. I still don't want to eat. From a weight-loss perspective this is a good thing, but it also means that I can go a week or two sometimes barely eating anything and not even noticing it because I'm busy, or in a creative whirlwind or just plain disgusted by the thought of putting food in my mouth. It's a weird dichotomy, because after stage like this, right around my. I suddenly become voracious because I wasn't getting enough nutrients during the fasting period. Lucky for me this is not hurt my weight-loss but all this is to say that you should settle in for the journey, because there will be a lot of times when you don't enjoy food, when you have no appetite. And there will also be times when you become voracious. The best approach to this is discipline; balancing out with good planning and follow through on the plans. Mine balances out because of these two extremes I go through, but I'm sure my body would feel better if I was eating three or four times a day every day.

I think it's very common for many of us to have difficulty seeing ourselves clearly, especially when our bodies are changing so much, and so quickly. Every couple of months I feel this way. I get to feeling frumpy and deflated, old or unattractive. I find it that would always helps lift me out, is doing something and seeing people who make me feel pretty, who is knowledge my beauty as a person. Just last week, I got a radical new haircut and color, then immediately did a photo shoot afterwards with full make up. I stared at those pictures for a couple of days, because I could almost not believe that that was me. I want to acknowledge the tenderness of this. But I also want to state, it is very unlikely that the people around you see you the way you do.

I found a great product for the interim. It doesn't grow your hair back, but it camouflages thinness and covers the scalp. I have used it personally and find it to be a fantastic product. It isn't a dye or spray. It's actually teeny tiny hairs that match your hair color, and the teeny tiny hairs stick to the downy hair on your scalp. Undetectable. Doesn't run. Makes your hair look so much thicker. I love it!

I'm almost 6 months postop and I'm about to take a year-long RV tour around the country, which would've been impossible a year ago. I think that is going to be my next best feeling. My most recent best feeling was buzzing one side of my head because I lost so much weight and my face that I can pull it off! One before that, shaking my hips.

When I went in for surgery I was not prediabetic. I am now 5 1/2 months out, and my recent bloodwork indicates My A1C was one point over the level where you are considered pre-diabetic. Has anyone else experienced this? It seems to me this is a condition that would be reversed with weight loss. Should I be worried? Will this go away on its own with the continued loss of weight? Or is this something that I should pay extra attention to? Diabetes runs in my family, and one of the reasons I got the surgery was to avoid becoming diabetic.

You look beautiful.

Riding the scooter at the zoo because my back hurt too much to stand up all day and walk around.

My hairdresser turned me onto this fabulous cover up product, that really helps hide the appearance of my thinning hair. I highly recommend it! You can't see it and it doesn't run or fall out. Tiny hairs that cling to your tiny hairs!! Awesome!

Thank you so much for your comments. That's very reassuring! They tested the A-1 C and said it was one point past the line between normal and prediabetic. I'll just keep an eye on it for now.

I got that too!

Who's your doctor and where is your doctor? It appears to be an amazing job! Holy cow!

There are ways to speed up your metabolism. I lost a huge amount of weight many years ago by eating in a very balanced way, keeping my saturated fat intake under 17 g a day, and eating on the schedule. By eating every 4 to 5 hours religiously, never after 8 PM, I never counted a card or a calorie and lost 100 pounds. I lost weight almost on a daily basis. I never stalled. Eating on the schedule let your body know that there's no danger of starvation, and it causes your metabolism to work in accordance with the abundance of the food that is available. Because your body needs more than 17 g of saturated fat to run every single day, the extra few grams gets burned up from the stores of fat in your body instead of your muscles. This gave me a very fast metabolism. So I'm not overly concerned about my low caloric intake now, or the rapidly of my weight loss. I will restore my metabolism through the same technique I've used in the past. And to be honest, I'm much more concerned with getting my body to a comfortable weight that doesn't hold me back, then being able to eat so much more later on.

Coming up on six months out of surgery, and find that sipping on coffee or tea with protein powder in it throughout the day keeps me from being ravenous or hungry even at all most of the time.

I really agree. The first time I had fallen into port eating habits I was so incredibly grateful that my temporary madness was tempered by the size of my belly. I realize that I was not on a diet. So what I did to my stomach is permanent. And so there was no giving up or feeling discouraged. It was simply a meal that didn't have enough nutrition. By the time I could eat again I often regain my sanity!

Thank you all so much for your encouragement and support! I'm so excited about my hair… I would never have been able to wear it like this at my former weight without looking totally Butch!

Hilarious.

It is crazy to me how it feels like the body isn't doing anything and then it suddenly changes dramatically. These dramatic changes should be visible on their own, but it usually takes having my attention brought to it. Early nsv's included fitting into a diner booth, and under growing my clothes. My newest non-scale victory he is a pain in my ass! Literally. I sit down too hard because my body memory this program to throw down over 300 pounds which takes momentum. Today I went to a doctors appointment what to sit in the chair, and I could feel the bones in my butt-they actually hurt against the seat. Stuff like this really helps me realize throughout this journey that the hard work pays off!

I completely agree that the markup on plus sized clothing is ridiculous. I completely agree that the industry takes advantage of the limited choices currently available plus sized people. I have been repeatedly appalled shelling out $80 or more every time I bought a piece of clothing, and although paying top dollar, the quality of the material was probably only slightly higher than what you would get from Walmart at about 20% of the price. In our culture, anyone outside the box of so-called normalcy, which in my opinion doesn't exist, has to pay for it. And the real cost, isn't measured in dollars and cents.