mercmerc

Hi everyone!!!! I am 37 pounds down since surgery july 25th!! I feeel and look great( not to toot my own horn)!!!
Birthday girl pic is a month before surgery! And flowers and black dress is just this past saturday/sunday!!! And the stripes before is 2 weeks after surgery and the stripes after is last thursday!

Was able to fit into goal shirt today (pink) and the birthday was before surgery the rest are 6weeks post op and 30 pounds down

Whats a true restriction? What was yours like?

On 09/09/2018 at 12:40, MargoCL said:

How much Fiber? I try to keep my carbs per meal less than 10 net carbs. Keeping my daily no more than 40 actual carbs per day. I avg at about 27 net carbs

On 09/09/2018 at 12:38, ellie123 said:

See I think that’s awesome, it’s a rate of 4.6lb a week vrs my 3lb a week. And I walked 13,000 steps yesterday!

Ellie .. i'm about 6 weeks out and 28 pounds since surgery

On 09/09/2018 at 12:25, MargoCL said:

See, your body is toning up! Stop focusing on the scale (I know very hard to do for us) But girl, you got this! Keep up the good work!

Yes i do see my clothes looser and my leg muscles are starting to show my arms are more jiggly lol and people are seeing it my stomach is flatter and al but the scale wont budge

On 09/07/2018 at 13:30, Elizabeeth said:

@mercmerc , I feel your pain !! I dropped 25 pounds in the first 3 weeks and I’m going on 7 weeks and haven’t lost a thing !!! So frustrated !

On 09/07/2018 at 13:16, baribetty said:

Stalls are discouraging, but it sounds like you’re actually doing really well. I think we all think the weight will fall off like Water after having SURGERY, but it doesn’t... I’d say you’re ahead of the curve on weight loss. Be patient with yourself, and stop weighing yourself. Check back in with the scale in 2 weeks (😲 I know....)

On 09/07/2018 at 13:13, MargoCL said:

That's just under 5#'s per week. That's pretty phenomenal! You're doing great! Don't give up now.

On 09/07/2018 at 13:12, ellie123 said:

Because that over 4.5lb each week!! I mean think before surgery, could you have ever come close to that on your own? And I know there are stalls in there, but you really need to average it out like that as your body compacts on some weeks.

On 09/07/2018 at 13:12, msauerbrei said:

I’m stalled right now too but I’m two weeks out. Have you been exercising? Walking? Drinking enough?

Still waiting to loose weight... lol like😭😭😭 what am I doing wrongggg. Gained a pound again and im so lost as to whats going on its 6 weeks out and im only down 28 pounds :(

On 09/07/2018 at 12:34, Frustr8 said:

it's me Frustr8, getting . ready to to go home. Bag of sodium,solution going into, my iv, once it gets done I'm history here. No more than cat scratches. Amazing to me too. write more later.

Yay!

Hey ya'll im a month and about two weeks out almost and today my family is going to the lake ! Can i go in???

Hopefully!! Uhhjuhahsjsbsn the process is hard

Mine are so irregular so idk.

On 09/02/2018 at 09:58, AEdoesRnY said:

Gained a pound overall, or since yesterday? I've been gaining and losing the same 2 pounds over and over and over again these last couple weeks! I'm just trying to be patient and not obsess...though I'm not always successful

On 09/02/2018 at 09:46, insta_adventurer said:

Totally can relate! When I first stalled, I told myself, “The three week stall is totally normal and happens to nearly everyone!” Then a week passed and I repeated the above to myself... then week two passed, and I started researching, but not finding definitive answers, how long the three week stall typically lasts. Then week three passed and I started to get really frustrated and debated calling my surgeons office.



The truth is there is no set time for how long the 3 weeks stall will last. Some it only lasts a week for... others stalled for a month... but it does break eventually.



Just remember that there is likely no possible way you could be consuming enough calories to be gaining weight or not losing at this point... so whatever is causing it is not your fault.

On 09/02/2018 at 09:40, AEdoesRnY said:

Both of us went back to school last week, right? My NUT said sleep and stress can cause plateaus too. Which is super helpful because now I’ll be stressing out about not being stressed about plateauing (and the whole start of the school year thing).



Maybe our bodies just need to readjust to the new routine/schedule?

On 09/02/2018 at 09:34, AEdoesRnY said:

I’m over two weeks into a stall and have been super down about it, thanks for sharing that yours has ended and that it lasted 3.5 weeks! I know I should know better after researching and reading this site and all that, but I’ve been really stressed and frustrated by this whole extended plateau thing!

I eat chicken, beef, tuna, salmon, i mix it up every day but i'll try to go less or do some HIIT maybe some insanity?

On 09/01/2018 at 19:02, Megan Sadler said:

I think any calories you burn working out don’t count towards your daily total. The idea is to create a deficit. Your body takes x amount of calories to run each day from breathing to making your heart beat. That’s called your metabolism. If you have a low metabolism it takes less to run. Eating provides the calories for it to run. If you eat less than you need to run it creates a deficit and you use reserves (fat) to do so. If you eat more you store the extra. When you excercise you need extra calories for that time. So if you need say 1500 a day to run but burn 100 during a work out you need 1600 to run. If you’re only taking in 1000 calories you pull that 600 left from fat to run. 5 days of that and you lose a pound because 3000 calories is a pound. Make sense??



With RNY the idea is to lower the amount you eat and also not absorb everything that you do eat so that your caloric intake is super low causing massive weight loss.