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Jade5

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  1. Posted

    13 hours ago, Creekimp13 said:

    First off, let me say that you should always listen to your doctor and nutritionist...rather than crazy people on the internet, myself included.

    But here's my rant today. And for what it's worth....this is just MY feelings on this nonsense. I'm no expert.

    Ya'll need to eat. Not overeat. But also NOT UNDER-EAT. Eat healthy food you enjoy.

    I know how it happens. Your weight loss gets sluggish and stuck and you think OMG, this isn't working, I'm Failing at this! You start to panic.

    And what does a lifelong self-destructive dieter DO when they start to panic? They go exteme.

    They go...ok, my doctor said it was ok to eat this much.....so I'm gonna try to eat HALF of that to speed up my weight loss!

    I'm going to work harder than anyone! I'm going to eat less! I'm going to force this weight off of my body...because this is my last chance and I'm freaking out and I can't fail at this, so I NEED to do better and cut back!

    Only, here's the thing. You don't need to cut back. You need to stay the course, nourish your healing body, have good energy to boost your metabolism and lose weight sensibly.

    Why do people do VLCDs? (very low calorie diets....1000 or less calories a day)....they do them because they show results in a hurry.

    And there is nothing people like better than a lower number on the scale...regardless of how they're achieving it. Or how harmfully they are achieving it.

    When you eat less than 1000 calories a day, did you know you lose more muscle than fat...even if you are eating tons of protien grams?

    When you lose muscle, you slow your metabolism, endanger your organs that have muscle (heart anyone?), and decrease your bone density. None of this is a good idea.

    And when you're eating starvation level calories, your body tries like hell to keep you from dying....by, you guessed it, slowing your metabolism even further.

    And the carb thing...can we talk about that a minute? You DO want to avoid carbs that are metabolized to sugar really fast, like sugary foods and refined white flour items because they can cause your pancrease to over-react and send too much insulin and you'll end up with rebound hunger....but other carbs, particularly ones that have good Fiber content to slow the sugar can also have good protien content...and they don't do the rebound hunger thing. They give you great available energy.

    Why do we lose so much weight so rapidly when we do Keto? We don't really....but the first five pounds is so quick and shocking that it MUST work! (except you're not losing fat, you're losing the Water that your liver stores extra glucose in.....and you've stripped your liver of its emergency reserve of energy. And yeah...you can make the sugar you need from other things through gluconeogenesis....but it takes amino acids that your body is typically harvesting from your muscles.) Don't do that thing where you lose the five pounds eating keto....then eat a few carbs and go OMG, look at the weight I've gained!....and go Keto again and lose the same five pounds of Water. It's an illusion. (Not saying keto people can't lose weight...they do lose weight fast...but they also have about five pounds in lost water from glucose storage, no emergency stores, and their bodies may be consuming their muscles)

    food for thought (literally!) Guess what organ runs exclusively on sugar? Pure glucose. Your brain. Your brain burns over 300 calories of glucose every day. At just 2% of our body weight....our brains burn about 20% of the calories we use each day! The CPU needs fuel.

    Lots of people lose weight rapidly with Very Low Calorie Diets after bariatric surgery. They have these amazing results that other people notice and are in awe of. They lose to goal eating very little and feel very accomplished about their self discipline and their amazing fast results.

    And then guess what happens?

    At goal...they are still people who have never learned how to eat sustainably for life. All they know is starvation and self deprivation. And starvation doesn't work long term.

    Please learn to eat sustainable amounts of calories. Do it early so you don't fudge your metabolism into starvation level calorie requirements.

    One of the best ways to have a robust metabolism...is to do exercise every day. It doesn't have to be the gym or something you find tedious. Do things you enjoy....but keep moving.

    It's hard to build your robust metabolism.....when you're too tired to do anything but go to work and go to bed...because you're starving yourself.

    Please eat. Don't overeat. But eat. Learn to eat right, not starve. Starving is not the cure and in many cases sets the stage for significant regain.

    Do it right, even it it's slower than other people. Do it sustainably. Learn to coexist with food, not avoid it. (easier said than done)

    Don't get discouraged by small losses. Just keep losing to goal with small sensible tweeks. You don't have to suffer extremes to have success.

    Learning to control your diet moderately...is the best skill to have when facing a lifetime of sustaining a significant weight loss.

    This end my rant.

    Totally ok if you think I'm nuts/wrong/whatever. Take what you like and leave the rest.

    Peace and best wishes to everyone on this crazy road.

    Wow, I really needed to read this. I get so discouraged sometimes. Thank you so much.😀

  2. Posted

    29 minutes ago, oopsydaisy said:

    This happens to me as well! I still gravitate towards the plus sizes and reach for the XLs first. Before the surgery, I told my husband about all the fabulous shopping trips I was going to have. I came home sad and empty handed time after time because I couldn't wrap my head around a smaller size. That has probably been the hardest thing about the weight loss! I still want to gravitate towards plus sizes and I'm still reaching for the XL's first. He goes with me now, which has been fun and it has helped a lot ;)

    I'm sure we will both GET IT soon, and start buying the right sizes...lol:)

  3. Posted

    On 9/28/2018 at 6:19 PM, oopsydaisy said:

    December 2017 here! All is well! Thanks for checking in, Jade!

    Congrats BlueCrush! How amazing that you're at goal already!

    FabNFit - You can do it ;)

    I'm not at goal yet. I don't know if I'll hit it before my one year, but I'm 85 lbs down. And that's OK. (I've come to terms with this after lamenting for an extended time over not being a 100 in 6 months loser). I've worked out regularly since about February, which may have affected the numbers. Size wise, I'm down from a 22/24 dress to a 12/14 in most brands.

    Right now, I'm struggling with a very long stall. I've complained a lot. And whined a lot. It doesn't help. lol. :P In retrospect, I realize I might be stress eating and eating when not hungry and loading carby/sugary things because I'm TIRED. All the bad old habits. I'll work on them though and hopefully have a better run for October.

    I should be in a size 12/14 by now too, but it's taking my brain awhile to realize that, so when I go into stores I still tend to buy larger sizes, get them home and wonder why they are hanging off of me. My co-worker that's a gastic bypass patient told me to just buy yoga pants until my brain catches up...lol.

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    2 minutes ago, KimTriesRNY said:

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    You are ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!!!!

  15. Posted

    On 5/18/2018 at 6:04 PM, Akunasleeve said:

    I had my sleeve done in December last year and have had excellent weight loss progress so far, but one thing that hasn't changed for me since my pre-op diet was that it hurts so incredibly bad to poop.

    I haven't been able to poop sitting down at all since I started the pre-op diet, I was told to try a laxative back in December and the only thing that did was end up hurting me more because it didn't make the pain go away, it just made my body want to poop even more than it did before, but the pain was all the same, making me not want to go through with the process.

    Now It's been a while but the problem still stands, what usually ends up happening for me is that I have to stand in the shower and squeeze it out little by little but the pain is still the same and it makes me dread the days until my body tells me it is time to do it all over again. I've read a couple of threads of post-op and haven't found anyone with this problem, in fact everything I have read so far shows me that nobody is having my same problem.

    I'm afraid to try laxatives again because of that first time mentioned above, I don't want to go through that agony again.

    Has anyone else had bathroom problems since their surgery? And if so how have you resolved the problem?

    You could try Benefiber, that's what I use and it works really good.

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