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your calories could be too low too… sometimes one day with some reasonable treats and higher calories will kick your metabolism into gear … also are you measuring ??? often people who exercise will loose inches (fat) but not pounds due to muscles ?

head hunger can be a lot of the hunger you few early on… take the opportunity to make sure you are getting good nutrition and protein/fluids.. we are so used to chewing and eating three or more times a day it’s a bit of a mental trip to suddenly not… takes a while to adapt to your new realities (i am still adapting)

that’s great you found something that helps out!!! keep up the amazing work

it gets better with time… you adjust .. and if you start getting too small you can adjust your macros to slow the weight loss

sorry i have been a bit of a ghost! busy time of year for my work and been having to get my tail in gear since i was out or part time most of november … i hit a stall from nov 23 until today… but woo hoo i went from 329.2 to 326 today!! ding dong the stall is dead !!! Hw 456 (July 2021) Jan 2022 440 lbs June 6, 2022 - 404 lbs sleeve surgery November 3, 2022 - 351.4 December 3, 2022 - 329.2 December 4, 2022 - 326 !!!!!! got a long way to go but for the first time in my life i believe not only can i do it, but i deserve a better life

some of the keto stuff tastes amazing … i haven’t made actual cookies yet…. one tip: get lilys brand sugar free chocolate chips they are great !!!

there are lots of yummy keto cookie recipes out there! might introduce people to a healthy alternative treat

some people loose slower than others. a lot depends on your starting weight.. what do you use to track your food? do you weigh and measure ?

the stall won’t last .. it’s natural especially at the three week mark.. your body is adjusting and needs some time for the scale to reflect.. eat healthy, check your macronutrient count and the scale will move again … if in doubt you can also add different exercise to get things going

i didn’t need to take it off for the pre op diet (i ate food not liquid except for three days, however)

stalls happen!!! i am 27 days out and in a stall …. but i have to be burning fat at less than 1000 calories a day all you can do is make healthy choices; stick with your program; make sure you are not eating too much or to little and trust your body is changing even if the scale isn’t … take some measurements and pics and compare for changes that the scale doesn’t show

there are many reasons for the elevation.. if it’s only 10 (mine is normally 13-15) you could have had a small infection or your body prevented you from getting sick.. just watch for trend in your overall bloodwork

having a good relationship with food means having a day where you indulge on rare occasion and getting back on track the next day.. it’s life and meant to be enjoyed, just in reasonable ways

it also can be your vagus nerve healing… i am over 3.5 weeks and still have occasional dizzy spells especially standing up. just take it slow and let your body adjust

i just take a few sips when i take meds if i am going to eat soon after..

depends on the surgeon and your tolerance… i have been drinking coffee on and off since surgery and been fine

11/3 surgery… 20 days post op… infection nearly cleared.. incisions are healing up, a couple already done… feeling good overall!! Still not on par with liquids and food (purée) is a chore but I am ok with that…had zero excitement for purée or any of the food things I was looking forward to pre surgery but I guess that comes with the new normal… getting waves of emotional… that’s expected but always exhausting… no regrets so far even with the setback! it’s also weird I have both more energy and a lot less stamina… when I am going, I can go faster and with more pep in my step.. but I am still crashing by early evening … getting better since I can stay up past nine now which I didn’t for the first two weeks …. hope everyone is doing well!

kinda sounds like food poisoning… might have had some bacteria that you reacted to

hope everything goes smoothly for you!

for me there is a big difference between head hunger and real hunger. head hunger is a specific food or type of food… i want sweets or i really want a hamburger etc…. now sometimes that could also mean your body is lacking in something so a persistent specific craving might need to be looked at.. but most of the time for me it is emotional or boredom (and sometimes due to the clock) physical hunger many many things sound good because my body is craving food. i will have preferences, of course, but the variety of things i want is greater…

11/3 surgery hitting the expected stall a little early… been same weight since friday- but it’s all good! that to me means healing at this stage and after what i have been through healing is great… i am feeling good, just a little achy and my stamina is starting to improve … still have some issues with enough liquids, but reaching over 50 oz so not far to go… so far experimenting with purée has gone well… i full easy but my body hasn’t rejected food yet! continuing to get hiccups and burps if i drink or eat too quickly … gotta listen to that !

i had popsicles either my first or second day post op but i didn’t have issues with them but they melt and warm in your mouth a little some so not as cold as ice water

How are you doing?

i actually smiled when it was the same weight because i believe this stall means the body is holding onto things while rapidly healing… healing is perfect to me!!!! you are right…. a few days or a week or so I will be back into dropping (unless i get my clearance for doing some strength exercises then i might gain muscle, which is even better to me!! )

this is part two… part one brought me to surgery with my weight loss adventure .. (quick warning, i tried not to be graphic but an infection is referenced) now I am someone who weighs almost every day for several months but i have trained my brain to be chill about the number… just watch for trends because bodies are sometimes heavier for non fat related reasons… i have seen my body go up, down and drop drastically and rise rapidly all while loosing weight as a trend… now i am in my early post op and start with my surgery weight of 351.4 on 11/3/22 sat, 11/5/2022 - day 2 post op after first night home - i dropped to 349.4 - considering swelling and fluids I was satisfied because I thought that I would have been up.. sun, 11/6 - 348.4 - spent lots of time walking in my yard gathering pecans with my picker upper stick for a few days - more than 5 gallons worth mon, 11/7 - 347.6 struggling with fluids, slight pull feeing while sitting and standing but otherwise good! tues, 11/8 - 349.2 - more sore but not really in pain.. i attributed this to walking a bit much the day before and trying to get more fluids… tried to power through and keep being as active as i could… (today i also had bathroom success lol) Wednesday, 11/9 - 349.2 - incision area hurting more and thought that I truly overdid it and took a lazy day… mild temp of barely 99 Thursday 11/10 - 347 - more pain in big incision area and it was warmer, mild fever 99.8 degrees- still blaming myself for pushing myself to be so active post op. took a super lazy day (even made someone get a birthday cake for my son who turned 19) friday 11/11 - 345.4 - something was wrong. pain was so much worse getting up and down and even sometimes moving. temp went to 100.8 in morning and i was feeing off. called dr and waited for call back. incision area looked ok but felt warm and kinda harder than it did.. not much redness… by 1 pm temp spiked to 101.7 even with tylenol. called again to dr and said something was wrong … they called in antibiotics and made appt for monday to see how i would respond. 11/11 - trip to town going to antibiotics- my husband drove .. we went into aldi to pick up a couple items before going to kroger to get meds and another grocery order ( we were feeding guests on saturday playing a game) and i actually have little memory or the store trip just bits and pieces … i told my husband i had a big problem and my pants were wet.... my infection, well, ruptured while in store.. we went to kroger to get antibiotics where i took one in the parking lot then i fell asleep immediately in the car for the ride home (unusual).. when finally hope after another stop i slept through, i groggily made my way in the house, cleaned myself up with hibclens and stumbled into bed without bandaging my still seeping wound and wrapped up shivering … and immediately went back to sleep… my mom called an hour or two later and i answers on my watch.. groggy and not very coherent.. hard to love, hard to talk, slurring words.. she called my husband who was doing another errand and he eventually came home and checked on me .. i was not medicated as he thought and still seeping a lot and he bundled me up and brought me to the er despite my slurring attempts to protest that i was perfectly fine and just wanted to sleep.. the er had a full waiting room, but when the staff talked to me and saw the state of the towel against my incision area - i was not only taken back but in a room immediately… my bad veins were acting up.. 7 different iv attempts and had to get an arterial pull for blood.. multiple bags of fluid, potassium iv, multiple antibiotics, a ct with contrast, .. in other words a long long night.. 11/12 - 7 am my surgeon came to er and i was more coherent than most of the night… i had a large infection and was a little dehydrated … but with the treatment already received and the iv antibiotics combined with oral, he thought i would be ok and i could go home with a bandages wound and see him monday morning. i slept for a few hours when i got home, then woke up sore and still hurting some but better than i had felt in a few days. bandages changed every couple hours due to drainage. when i got home before 9 am i weighed myself out of curiosity and i was 352. it made me laugh because they really did pump me full of fluids!! every day after got better. less pain, discharge stopped monday and slowly the fluids started to come off. i am now 17 days post op and i am down to 335.6 for the second day in a row. might be that famous 3 week stall early. but i am fine with that because it usually means good healing is finally taking place and the scale with catch up eventually. i can move better than pre surgery and 100% better than six months or a year ago. my stamina still sucks but is improving even with the infection (two types of streptococcal bacteria) I am doing good and on my way to the life that i keep telling myself I deserve to live. i want to make plans and do things for the first time in a few years. i am no longer afraid to go to a store because it hurt my back so badly and turned my face from pale white to tomato red due to the physical effort… i can actually go in without the immediate pain! so far even with the setback this is one of the best things i ever did for me