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Omg you look great!!!!

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My surgery date is Jan 12. Anyone else in January?
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I had surgery on 11/10/20, but started my weight loss efforts on 7/5/20. If you’ve been here a while I’m sure you’ve seen me lurking about the forums.
Stats: SW 339. CW: 165. I am a 5’10 woman in her 40s. I work full time and have young children. My current BMI is 23, I started off with it closer to 50.

I knew it was going to take me a while to hit goal- I had 174 lbs to lose. I did all the calculators pre-op that said I would be lucky to get under 200 lbs, but I decided that just wasn’t going to apply to me (haha). My plan was to focus on fruits, vegetables, and healthy proteins while ramping up exercise. I eliminated cookies, pastries, and candy but that’s about it. I don’t do low carb, because that isn’t how I’m planning on living the rest of my life. I focus on calorie reduction, which sounds like oh if that’s so easy why did you need surgery? Well cutting calories is possible if you aren’t hungry all the time no matter how much you eat, and if you can fill up on the healthy things without it being like flash paper into a volcano. I honestly did need the surgery, and I’m not going to pretend it did the work for me, but it gave me the help for the work I wanted to be able to do.

Six days a week I do a split between running and rowing for a half hour. I’m going to run in a 5k this spring, which has been a dream of mine for years. I exercise on my lunch break every day.

Yes, I have some loose skin. It’s nowhere as bad as people make it out to be. I am not exactly planning on running around in a bikini so it’s not like it limits my life at all. It’s not visible in my clothes, not even tight fitting ones. I might get it removed some day, but if I don’t I’ll still be happy.

This weight loss has been the fulfillment of a lifelong dream for me. Life is difficult when you are morbidly obese. It’s difficult physically, emotionally, and socially. This weight loss hasn’t fixed every problem in my life, but I didn’t expect for it to. It fixed my weight related problems, and I had a lot of them.

This surgery can be life changing, but it’s not a magic bullet. You still have to make huge life changes. But if you feel sabotaged you your own constant hunger, cravings, and binges, this can really be the tool you use to dig yourself out of the seemingly insurmountable weight you need to lose.

This isn’t a finish line for me. I am still working on hopefully losing another 15 lbs, and I’m never going back to my old eating habits. I know I signed up for a lifelong change, otherwise I’ll be right back where I started. But finally hitting goal was a nice early Christmas present to myself. Sorry for the essay, but I don’t really have anyone in real life to share with who gets it!

Booked in 7am on January 19th. Starting my LRD plan tomorrow. So today I’m going out for a meal with my partner!! The final ‘hurrah’ as such lol.
I’m in UK and having the operation privately (ie not NHS) - LRD doesn’t have to be liquid but has to be <800 calories a day here.

My surgery for tomorrow just got canceled thanks unvaccinated Covid Patients

Thank you! I just bought chicken broth and had some. You were right!


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Sugar free Jell-o helps a lot. Day 2-3 are the worst, gets much better after that.

Don't forget that sugar-free popsicles count as a liquid and they come in many fun flavors. Also hot liquids fill you up more, so coffee, hot tea, chicken broth are good and filling.

Mine is Jan 12th as well. Im on Iowa & praying they won't cancel [emoji120]
I'm on day 4 of my liquid diet.

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I just had to do everything I could to keep myself busy. I ordered some adult crafts from Amazon ahead of time cause I can sorta lose track of time with those.

Warm liquids. Broth and tea really helped me to feel fuller than cold/room temperature fluids.