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yep try to relax and let it pass. I know this doesn't sound helpful but you are in a marathon not a sprint. Follow your doctors plan and build those new and improved habits and the weight will come off. In 18 months you will not even remember this week or this stall. I know how focused on the now we get during the early parts of this journey but it is just a small part of the experience you will have during the next 18-24 months. Work to stay positive and upbeat cause this is more a metal battle going forward. good luck

yes, twice in 18 months. First time was sauce most likely, never figured out second one at all. walked around for 15 or 20 minutes and it all passed but was not fun at all and somewhat scary.

Learn to shop the 3 Walls. The layout of every American grocery store is stamped out in some factory somewhere. 1. Fruits and Veggies 2. Protein (meats) 3. Dairy Stay out of the center of the store. as an added bonus look at the Nutrition label and if it says ADDED sugar put it back 100% of the time.

every Saturday Morning first thing after getting up. You are right to avoid the daily weigh in. It can feel great to see those numbers drop but when it slows or stops it can really do a number on your head and so much of what you are doing is Mental

The last time i saw my surgeon i walked right by him in the hall on the way to the room and when he came in he sat down and turned his monitor around with my file pic on it and said he didn't even recognize my when i passed him. it was a nice feeling but that photo from my first visit will haunt me for the rest of my life.

i slept till 1030 pm after my surgery at 6 am best sleep i'd had in years. spent the rest of the night walking around the hospital nurse's station on my floor. went home at 10 am the day after. Good luck and i hope you have a great recovery

i hit the 100 pound mark at 6 months. It can happen. the more you have to lose the more you can drop in the first months. no matter if it takes you 6-9 or 18-24 months the only thing that will count is can you maintain the new life you are building in all the years ahead. this is a marathon not a sprint. Think lifetime

i was scheduled for by-pass and surgeon was not comfortable with my choice due to issues i have with circulation below the knees. He suggested i switch to sleeve because it doesn't have the absorption issues, should i have to use blood thinners. The sleeve worked very well for me so it turned out to be a great move on his part and i am very thankful.

that i would never have warm hands again. my hands are so cold all the time. It stopped being funny about 6 months ago and now is just one of those things i learn to live with. going from the guy that wore shorts and tee shirts in the winter to thermals, tee shirts with long sleeve shirt over that and a sweat shirt to top it off. Has taken some getting used to.

put me firmly on Team "No Snack" seems a little to much like the behavior i am trying to unlearn

My goal changed on a regular basis as i hit one milestone after another. My second to last goal was to get under 159 for the bmi of "normal" My current and last goal is to maintain my weight for the rest of my life, so yea this one i hope will take a very long time to finish

clear liquids 48 hours before and that was for the surgery itself not for any diet

If you remove the WLS from this post you are talking about Social Media in general and our current culture. Self selecting for the only the outcomes we agree with. So much truth in that post

Please don't give up on yourself. You are worth what this surgery takes from you in the very short term. In the long run you will get so much of your life back in the coming months and years. Right now you need to focus on why you started this journey. You need to be very selfish and do this for you, others will get the benefits later but you do this now just for you. spend a few minutes reading the non-scale victories and try to see yourself enjoying these small moments as they occur.

My 2 cents, Log your food - you cant fix what you don't measure. No snacks- log your food at the meal time and don't eat at non meal times Eat from the 3 walls of your grocery store and remember to pay at the 4th stay out of the middle of the store as much as possible limit your sugar intake to 10 grams or less per day limit your carbs to 75g if your maintaining your weight and under 50 if you want to lose weight. Never eat if your not hungry Dehydration can make you feel hungry so drink more then drink some more.

Amy, let me start by saying. Forgive yourself and let it go. The guilt and the mental anguish will do more harm than the cookies in the long run. I know the feeling from the sugar overload and it is the worst i have felt since having the flu years ago so i know you paid dearly for that. Don't forget that feeling but move on with lesson learned. If available to you go the gym when you feel that pressure and pound some weights till you can barely walk. it is a great stress reducer and lacks that post cookie guilt. One single day does not this journey make.

You had Major surgery and your body will take some time to get over that. You are/were metabolically broken. This will take some time to resolve and it varies by person but as your body heals things will adjust and it will start to happen and then it will speed up as you stick to plan and build upon the changes going on inside you. This surgery will be worth it You are fighting the real hard part right now and that is the head game we all play with ourselves If you win this mental game you will have a great outcome. stay on plan and stay strong you spent a lifetime getting overweight give the surgery time to work.

If not hungry i don't eat period. Once i removed the processed carbs from my diet, like we all did those first weeks after surgery, i found i wasn't hungry in the morning anymore. I have coffee with tsp of monk fruit (was black) then I eat when i get hungry around noon then around 3:30 then dinner around 7 p.m. back to coffee with monk fruit after 8 p.m. oh i do decaf in the evening but full leaded in the mornings surgeon didn't even look twice when i said same thing to him in August go with your gut and follow up with regular blood work

Frustr8, i am so sorry this is going so poorly for you at this moment. I hope you get past this time soon so you can enjoy the benefits of what you have done and not just deal with the down sides. my thoughts are with you today and i hope it gets better going forward.

you can go from sleeve to bypass but not the other way. the sleeve used to be the first part of the bypass surgery. take GERD meds starting a month before surgery and for at least 2 months after maybe forever. even if you don't feel the Gerd. This is standard for my Surgeon. just my 2 cents. you have to go with what you are comfortable doing

I feared my first Thanksgiving but it went well, my restriction so soon after surgery kept me on the straight and narrow. This year i looked forward to it with more understanding of what i could expect from my body if i tried to much food or just to much sugar at one time. I still get nauseous if i eat to much sugar at one time so i can count on that reaction to tell me i am way over the line. since i don't eat sugar on a regular basis everything taste even sweeter and a very small amount can feel like to much. i will eat a small amount of all my favorites - turkey , ham, potato salad, even a forbidden dinner roll will find its way onto my salad plate today. On Friday i will go back to eating meat and veggies and that will be that with no guilt. Mostly i will spend the time talking to my Dad and Brother and my daughter and just letting the day slip away slowly without the normal pressures to get this done or that done.

ok my opinion - that and 3 bucks still wont get you a Starbucks coffee do not stop your meds without medical supervision if you have to choose between mental stability and being thin choose metal stability. i dont think you have to choose but if it comes down to just those 2 options choose mental health. you will take longer to get there but you have the rest of your life to finish this race. eat the 3 walls of the grocery store - veggies , meats , dairy nothing from the middle isles as harsh as that sounds it really is that simple - dont consume processed carbs sugar under 10 grams per day carbs (from veggies) under 50 grams per day all other calories from protein and fat whatever mix works for you. if you dont eat sugar and processed carbs the calorie count will fall by default. all the bad slider foods and liquid calories are covered by no sugar and no processed carbs with a total carb cap of 50g per day. you can then work to a 16/8 eating cycle and use ketosis during the 18 hours of fasting to help nudge you along despite the meds messing with your body chemistry and this one will be the most unpopular of all - NO FRUIT if your not losing weight as a side note i believe some if not most of that 6 pounds you gained was water. it takes 24,000 extra calories to gain 6 pounds of fat and i just dont see that happening in a month. water and fat are not the same and the water weight can go just as fast as it came but the fat is much harder to burn up. please dont give up. post WLS is mostly a mind game so keeping yourself happy and positive is the best medicine.

can you get to that 100% of excess weight loss, sure, maybe, who knows. i know that's a shitty answer. I see 60% of excess weight thrown around all the time and that means some lose more and some lose less. So many things will come into play for you and most if not all are in the responses above. Follow your plan and never stop even when it gets slow or stalls and take all the time needed and dont compare your loss and the pace of that loss to anyone else. I hit the 100% number but i consider myself a little fanatical about the whole process (sleeved) Not everyone could or should go the route i have taken but i have spent the last year learning my triggers and i know what i had to remove from my life to make this work for me (carbs) but not everyone has those same triggers so my way works for me but you have to find your way. be honest with yourself and never do what you cant keep doing for the rest of your life. Its more important that you build a new approach to food that you can maintain forever than any short term gain from a "Diet Plan" will your new way look like a diet to others, yea could be, but you will know the difference cause you will not kid yourself about how you got here. Diets are what we did for 2 to 6 weeks before we gave up and went right back to what we were doing before. Ask yourself if this will make you healthy - not skinny- if it is a healthy habit the weight loss will naturally follow. None of believed what we ate before was healthy it just was what we ate for whatever reason we gave ourselves at the time- easier, faster, comforting. You will decide how much weight comes off - with all the proper cues from your body when you get there. Get all you can from this second chance but be happy with what you get and it will be a success no matter what the final number stops at. good luck

Take the 140 and move on with your life. getting fixated on moving that goal down can do a lot more harm than good at this point. Congrats on your success now move on. You did it. you have arrived at the new you now move to the maintaining your weight stage. Dont read the above as said in a mean way its more light hearted than that its just i understand how consuming the process of weight loss can be. I also had a great surgery and rapid weight loss like clock work. Then i hit 155 and it just stopped. went from 8-10 pounds every month to nothing just like a switch was thrown. It was jarring when it happened but when i pulled my head out of my ass and looked at where i was i realized i was already finished with the race and just forgot to stop running. I wish you all the best and hope you squeeze all the life out of the new you that you can. Now lets both of us Move on.

oh lord this one was an eye opener for me. I was the guy that was always hot. I wore shorts and tee shirts in December. THEN i dropped the weight and i freeze what is left of my ass off now. I own 6 long sleeve shirts now. That is 6 more than i ever owned before. Being cold and sitting making my tailbone hurt are the 2 biggest surprises from the sleeve.