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missdeeAus

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    missdeeAus reacted to clk in Seven Years Out   
    Life for me at 7 years is pretty similar to life at 2, 4 or 5 years post op. It's still maintenance. For me, it's been pretty simple. Eat the program most of the time so you can be flexible when you want. Don't graze. Basically, you know what made you fat, Cheri, so don't do that. So I don't.
    What will people ask? Loose skin, have it. Much less than I had early on. It rebounds enormously in years one and two post goal. I never wear Shapewear. Want plastics, don't need them. Have a little panni, but in anything but the sheerest leggings it's pretty flat. I'm not bothered anymore.
    Restriction is still really strong, but many sleeved shorter times than me say they can eat more than me. Half a burger, I'm out. One slice of pizza, few ounces of Protein, or a cup of Soup or chili - that's it. My hunger never returned.
    I'm 5'1" and 116 pounds but I solidly stick between 116-118. I had surgery at 242, started researching the sleeve in late 2009 weighing 286 pounds. I'm down 126 from my surgery date.
    My diabetes resolved post op. No more high blood pressure or cholesterol.
    I was a slow loser. Slow loss is still loss, I firmly disbelieve that one year nonsense as I took 17 months to reach my initial goal.
    Keep pushing, no matter how long it takes you to get there. I had later loss, after a sleeve baby. Your sleeve will work however long you do.
    Cheers, and here's to sleeve success. Mine's been amazing.
    Cheri

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    missdeeAus reacted to LIA-70 in Hey Beautiful.....   
    Walking down the street as usual with my earphones on ( u know, the fat blockers .. to fake like u didnt hear the fat commentaries ). Instead i walk past a really cute guy, much younger than me and i hear, hey beautiful. Of course, its not to me, my fat brain says. So i casually look over my shoulder to see who he's talking to.... wait a minute, holy crap, there's nobody behind me, wth, is he talking to me, huh??? So he must've seen the dumbfounded look on my face and says... you look beautiful in that dress. Awww, I smile, say thank u, wave and move on. Lol. HOLY CRAP, i just got a hey beautiful.
    .... she gets home, lol, shakes booty.

    GASTRIC SLEEVE.. U ROCK.
    Hope you all have a great "hey beautiful" weekend.
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    missdeeAus got a reaction from Iscarelys in Powdered Peanut Butter!   
    Could u make a satay with it?



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    missdeeAus reacted to OutsideMatchInside in Almost 2 years out and gaining   
    You can't stretch your pouch. I was sleeved on 7/15/2015 and my restriction has been the same since the 1 year mark.

    Eat dense Protein only. Steak. chicken breast. Pork chops. Cod. Salmon. Dense protein.
    Do not fad diet with these pouch resets and other nonsense. liquids go right through a sleeve and you will still be hungry. 4 ounces of dense protein will have you full for a couple hours, your stomach has to work harder to process it a day move it to the intestines.
    DO NOT FAD DIET. If you can't live off liquids for the rest of your life it is just a fad diet. Dense protein is what we are supposed to be eating for the rest of our lives and if people ate dense protein the whole time instead of sliders, carbs and other junk food, they wouldn't be in the position of regaining.
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    missdeeAus reacted to Womanvsmirror in JUNE 2016 SLEEVERS CHECK IN!!!!!!!!!   
    Thank you, have not seen you in a while. Yes its low here too. Feels like before the surgery now. But i'm still pushing.
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    missdeeAus got a reaction from Jinyinjin in Should I be concerned   
    Initially I was able to eat that amount and I worried my sleeve was 'too big' or something. 8mth on I find that that is just pretty much the amount my stomach holds. I think I was lucky to heal fast and be very well from early on, but am super relieved that as time has gone by I can't actually eat too much more then what I was able to eat from a few weeks out.



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    missdeeAus got a reaction from Jinyinjin in Should I be concerned   
    Initially I was able to eat that amount and I worried my sleeve was 'too big' or something. 8mth on I find that that is just pretty much the amount my stomach holds. I think I was lucky to heal fast and be very well from early on, but am super relieved that as time has gone by I can't actually eat too much more then what I was able to eat from a few weeks out.



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    missdeeAus got a reaction from Syaniya in Changes and Shape   
    Today I discovered that at 32 I now fit back into my high school formal dress again.
    I'm am amazed.
    But what I do notice is how different my body looks though it is a little hard to recall my 17 yr old body.
    I really feel that I am still much larger now than I was then and yet that dress fits with ease.
    Perhaps I filled that dress with more lean muscle and far less fat?
    Anyone else find along the way?
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    missdeeAus reacted to shawnak911 in Changes and Shape   
    I'm only four weeks out and I've gone from a size 22 jeans to 18 already. It's crazy.




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    missdeeAus got a reaction from Syaniya in Changes and Shape   
    Today I discovered that at 32 I now fit back into my high school formal dress again.
    I'm am amazed.
    But what I do notice is how different my body looks though it is a little hard to recall my 17 yr old body.
    I really feel that I am still much larger now than I was then and yet that dress fits with ease.
    Perhaps I filled that dress with more lean muscle and far less fat?
    Anyone else find along the way?
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    missdeeAus got a reaction from Syaniya in Changes and Shape   
    Today I discovered that at 32 I now fit back into my high school formal dress again.
    I'm am amazed.
    But what I do notice is how different my body looks though it is a little hard to recall my 17 yr old body.
    I really feel that I am still much larger now than I was then and yet that dress fits with ease.
    Perhaps I filled that dress with more lean muscle and far less fat?
    Anyone else find along the way?
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    missdeeAus got a reaction from Syaniya in Changes and Shape   
    Today I discovered that at 32 I now fit back into my high school formal dress again.
    I'm am amazed.
    But what I do notice is how different my body looks though it is a little hard to recall my 17 yr old body.
    I really feel that I am still much larger now than I was then and yet that dress fits with ease.
    Perhaps I filled that dress with more lean muscle and far less fat?
    Anyone else find along the way?
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    missdeeAus got a reaction from Syaniya in Changes and Shape   
    Today I discovered that at 32 I now fit back into my high school formal dress again.
    I'm am amazed.
    But what I do notice is how different my body looks though it is a little hard to recall my 17 yr old body.
    I really feel that I am still much larger now than I was then and yet that dress fits with ease.
    Perhaps I filled that dress with more lean muscle and far less fat?
    Anyone else find along the way?
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    missdeeAus reacted to erica_ozzy73 in Changes and Shape   
    Shit I have no clothes from that far back to even try lol..
    My necklace still fits though !!!! Lol
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    missdeeAus reacted to Rose1up! in One Year Surgery Update   
    I hit my surgiversary on January 6, 2017 with 100 lbs lost. I had a total of 4 surgeries last year which slowed my weightloss down. One of those surgeries was losing my gallbladder on Oct 1, 2016. Since my diet was small portions with high Protein, low carbs, and low fat, it wasn't a problem for me after my gallbladder surgery. I incorporate my daily activities with walking and when the weather is good, I ride my bike. Since my weight came off at a slower rate, I don't have a lot of sagging skin. I need to tone my arms. That's about all. A nurse practitioner told me that I need to only eat Protein and not worry about my veggies because I get nutrients from my Vitamins. I think that is bad advice. We get told all the time, protein first, then veggies, then carbs. That is what I follow. My protein is sitting at 60-65 a day. Since I'm high protein, I have felt so good through this process. I throw in my Fiber by eating oatmeal bars or chia seeds or veggies. This has been a great journey. It's gone by extremely fast. We all have our habits whether we admit them or not. Just be sure you always stick to the reason why you chose to have weightloss surgery. The best advice I can give you, is keep the inside of your body as clean as possible. Indulge in special occasions but get right back to your basics. Be sure to take your Vitamins daily and if you fall off the wagon, go back to your basics and look through all your nutritional paperwork that you were given. Don't ever give up on yourself once you hit your goal. Stay clear, stay strong, think healthy. If you've come this far, don't ever fall back. We always had this smaller version of ourselves inside the bigger version, so don't forget that you don't want to cover up your smaller version. People will get jealous of you and they will ask you, are you losing weight, it's your choice if you tell them the truth. Be careful of who you tell, as they may tell everyone. Remember to choose your food choices wisely and if you get bored of Protein shakes, buy the powders and make your own. Research other protein supplements to get your protein in. Continue your journey and pride and reward yourself for your accomplishments!
    I have 10 more lbs to go until I hit my goal and I know I'll accomplish it. Thank you for reading my post. I love myself and so glad my inner self is here!
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    missdeeAus reacted to Healthy_life2 in The need to eat until stuffed   
    @@nnagle323
    you haven't lost more than 2lbs in 3 months. You might want to call your dietician's office to reevaluate your diet and exercise.
    Check your dietician's instructions that you were sent home with. Make sure you are eating and getting the correct nutrition in. Check your Protein goals 60 to 100grams. check how many carbohydrates you are allowed on your plan. Carbs can trigger hunger and cravings. Carbohydrates will slow and can stop your weight loss. Extra carbohydrates will cause weight gain.
    In food stage, there is no need to get Protein by drinking shakes. Fish, chicken, turkey cheese yogurt eggs..etc...Only supplement with a shake if you're not hitting your protein goal for the day.
    Are you tracking your food and hitting your protein goals?
    Here is a link to my fitness pal to help you track. http://www.myfitnesspal.com/mobile/android
    4 oz Ruftys low car meat loaf = 243 calories
    string cheese = 80 calories
    Steal cut oatmeal = 152 calories
    1/2 subway multigrain flat bread = 110 calories
    fruit roll up = 80 calories
    PROTEIN = 36G (you didn't hit your protein goal of 60g to 100g) Protein will help you to feel full.
    CARBOHYDRATES = 73Grams. (Your getting more carbs than protein.)
    Calories = 665.
    hitting 800 calories is pretty normal in the first few months.
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    missdeeAus got a reaction from Dub in HELP! Freaking out - need honest feedback   
    I've had worse hangovers. Pain meds plus walking and I felt fine. The odd twinge. That's all.
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    missdeeAus got a reaction from natarshassleeve in From size 22 to 10 !   
    Man! So many dress sizes lost in so little time. Amazing
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    missdeeAus got a reaction from leonelbreton in 10 month out, and feeling good.   
    You look fantastic! Well done!
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    missdeeAus got a reaction from RussT in Exercise works!   
    Swimming is amazing!!!
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    missdeeAus got a reaction from OutsideMatchInside in Wasting food   
    I was asked by my psychologist- would you rather waste some food or waste your sleeve?
    And since then - I don't care about throwing out anything I can't finish or won't enjoy the following day as another meal.
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    missdeeAus reacted to Bufflehead in CONFESSIONS OF A BAD SLEEVER   
    First, I would stop using words like bad and good with respect to both yourself and food. It isn't helpful.
    Next, cut out high carb foods immediately and completely. The more you eat of them, the hungrier you will get. One of the reasons you are constantly hungry is that you are eating things like grapes (and probably even higher carb foods).
    Take three days and let yourself eat as much as you want -- but only lean, unprocessed meats and green vegetables. Throw away the high calorie foods like nuts and cheese. They are not helping you. Yes, they can be healthy parts of your diet, but not while you are getting back on track and trying to lose weight. Focusing on foods like lean meats and green veggies will help you re-focus on your restriction, make you less hungry, and re-establish the difference between true hunger and head hunger.
    Finally, you may have to get okay with the idea of being hungry and just waiting until your next scheduled meal. Being hungry doesn't mean you have to eat. It isn't any fun to be hungry but you aren't in danger of starving to death.
    If you are truly incapable of dealing with hunger in any way except eating, again, restrict yourself to lean meat and green veggies. When you get hungry, eat some green vegetables. If you don't want green vegetables or some chopped cold chicken breast, you aren't hungry, you are just experiencing cravings.
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    missdeeAus got a reaction from olivejuice in Breakfast?   
    I make a zucchini slice every Sunday to take to work and eat as breakfast. It's just veggies eggs and almond meals (sometimes some bacon or ham). I don't get sick of it as I switch the veggies around. Also u can add some plain Protein powder.
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    missdeeAus reacted to heidikat72 in Losing weight to slow after gastric sleeve?   
    sounds similar to my 3 month post op appointment. Only in my case it was the nutritionist who wasn't impressed with my 48lbs lost since surgery. She told me that was the very bottom end of where I should be. Now I will say, this was a new nutritionist as the one I had up to that point (who I loved and dearly miss) went to another hospital. So I asked this new nutritionist to go through my food diary with me - i had printed the last month's worth of entries from MFP. She refused and simply said I mustn't be logging everything - which wasn't true. I asked her for advice on where I should be calorie wise, carb-wise and fat-wise since I was meeting my Protein and Fluid goals. She said there weren't any guaranteed levels for carbs or fat regarding weightloss and that I had to figure it out myself. Needless to say, I wasn't impressed with her - don't tell me I'm not meeting expectations and then refuse to help guide me! Then my actual surgeon came in and was thrilled with my weight loss. And the fact is I was happy with that 48lb loss because I FELT soooo much better!
    However I'm not looking forward to the 6 month post op appointment in 2 weeks. I've lost 34lbs in the last 3 months. And I'm 160lbs down from this time last year when I had my first appointment with the bariatric team. I just don't feel like dealing with her!
    At the end of the day, I'm not trying to impress a nutritionist but rather my focus is regaining my health. And that I am definitely doing - my overall health hasn't been this good in decades. I am doing things that I couldn't even dream of doing this time last year. And that is success to me!
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    missdeeAus reacted to Bufflehead in Failure/Failing   
    The only way for most of us to stop craving high carb or high sugar foods is to stop eating them. It's hard to do! Here is what I do when I find myself going off the rails with high carb or high sugar foods:
    1. Get all of those "off plan" foods out of the house. You can't be tempted by them if they aren't there. If there are other people you live with, well, no one *needs* crackers or frozen waffles or chips or Cookies. If they want to eat that crap, they can do it outside the house at least for a little while.
    2. For five days, eat nothing but unprocessed meats (no deli/lunch meat, bacon, sausage, or jerky), green veggies, healthy fats (olive oil, grass fed butter), eggs, herbs and spices. No sauces, no cheese, nothing like that. But for those five days, you get to eat as much as you want, whenever you want! That way there is no way you can experience actual hunger. This will help you re-learn the difference between hunger and cravings, and it will also help you re-establish your restriction.
    3. For those five days, no liquid calories and especially no artificial sweeteners. This will help banish your cravings for sweets and carbs.
    4. At the end of the five days, commit to logging all of my food intake on myfitnesspal. Set a calorie goal that will keep me in a caloric deficit.
    5. Plan my food intake at the beginning of each day and pre-log it in myfitnesspal. This helps when I get hungry in between meals or Snacks. I can remind myself: "yes, I am hungry now, it is no fun to be hungry, but I am not going to starve. I will eat an apple and some turkey Jerky in a couple of hours and I can wait until then."
    Yes, this involves some planning, work, and change. But unfortunately at least for me there are no shortcuts or magic potions or tricks. If I stick it out, it works. Good luck!

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