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Thanks! That just means I was in a lot worse position than your from the start! I'm shocked at how quickly it's come off... but I expect to hit the brakes sometime soon. In my opinion, as long as the trend is downward, I'm happy. You've lost 27 lbs...that's nothing to sneeze at!

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BTW, happy 1 month surgiversary to all you fellow 9/20'ers!

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Happy 1 month Surgiversary!!

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82 total, starting in May. 23 before the pre-op, 22 on pre-op, 37 post surgery. My secret is really simple... be a man and be really heavy to begin with smile.gif

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......so genuinely happy for you!. Cheers to you for continued success!

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Thanks! Again though, 30 lbs for you is nothing to sneeze at. I'd wager you're much smaller than me already. I'm getting spoiled, so it will be much harder for me to deal with the slower loss when I get there. See? Y'all have an advantage on me smile.gif

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....I did cheat! I initially had a lap band. It slipped twice, but I did lose weight on it before the slippage.

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So how much are you down from when you originally got the lap band?

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I started at 257 and am now 185.

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Well no wonder you're losing slow... You're almost home! Congrats to you, Ter!

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Yeah grats Ter! I don't know what my issue is then, I'm no where near to be done and last week i lost 1.8 dry.gif I work out five days a week too!

I am happy with any kind of loss but it's pretty sucky seeing everyone else with major losses at this point.

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I'm sure yours will pick up Panda... or even if it doesn't, you're steadily losing. Slow and steady wins the race, right?

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Thanks Geee 1.8 again this week, I really hope slow and steady wins the race!!! How's everyone else doing? I believe 6 weeks post op now, wow it's been that long??

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6 weeks? Math isn't my strong suit, but I think it's 5 weeks... right? in answer to your question, I'm still struggling with eating real food. Can't get down more than 1 to 1.5 oz's of chicken before I start feel the restriction. I can eat stuff with sauces pretty well, like Chili or spaghetti sauce, but not by itself. Went and played golf last weekend and had a bad episode... Ate too little and my blood sugar was bothering me, so I got a hot dog and ate it without the bun. I got it all down, but I think I got it down too quick. Was absolutely miserable for about 20 minutes. Was nauseous, broke out in a cold sweat and thought I was dying. Lesson learned! How's everyone else doing?

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obviously math isn't mine either lol yeah it's 5. sorry about your golfing episode! I had one of those yesterday with a cowpal. I had company over so I wasn't paying attention to eating slow as I do alone. chicken is kinda rough for me too, i is ketchup to make it easier, extra cals, but i need that chunk of pure Protein ya know. Hope it gets easier, are you roasting the chicken like in a casserole with broth and everything, the juicer the chicken the easier i can get it down.

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    • Alisa_S

      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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    • Alisa_S

      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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