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2 Years 11 Months Post-op. 153lbs Lost!



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Looking for new ways to workout and new food ideas. Especially from sleevers with 3 plus years on the loser bench! All ideas welcomed from everyone! I have had much success with my sleeve. Now at a stall for the last 5months. Share your exercise techniques and meal habits. thanks!!!!

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sounds like great success indeed, sorry I dont have 3+ years on the losers bench yet bud but I will be there in a few hahahaha...

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hi! I'm just now heading into year 3. My surgery has been a great success for me. I reached my doctors goal of 212 and even surpassed that. Now it's time for my own personal goal, 170. . . (I think I weighed that when I was in 3rd grade! ) Anyhow after the first year I had lost all my weight and then it stopped dead! No more weight loss. So I "took off" this past year. Never gained more then 5 lbs but lost it right away. I never exercised or anything, so I was very lucky. Going into year 3, I've made a new commitment to myself. To get back into the swing of exercise. I've started to go to the gym, but don't go for long periods, only 30 minutes of treadmilling. 10 minutes of warmup, 10 minutes of heavy cardio (level 8 incline and at 4.2 mph speed) then 10 minutes of cool down. I make sure my heartrate gets to 150 or 160 during the cardio workout. At work, employees are given the option of parking right behind the building for $10.00 a day or park for $2.50 per day about 1/4 mile away. So I choose to do the $2.50 a day parking and walk an extra 1/2 mile every day. When I go to the store I park way the heck at the farthest place and walk. Every bit counts they say. I'm not changing the way I eat (I still can only fit 6 - 7 oz at every meal. I had a very small bougie placed 28/32F) but I'm not going to snack unhealthy. Instead of a candy bar or something weird, I've started eating fresh fruits. I realize that these are sometimes filled with more carbs and sugars then the candy bar, but at least the calories are benefical, and as long as it's in moderation. I eat my 3 meals like normal. For example, today I had Sonic BMT Breakfast sandwich 3" on flatbread. lunch will be a cup of soup; Dinner: 1 egg with 1 slice of cheese and 1 cup of tea. Snacks include 1 orange around 3:30 or so. I'll throw in a couple of diet sodas during the day and probably a rum and coke this evening. But that is about it. My calories run anywhere from 750 - 1500 depending on the day. Good luck and I hope this helps you a bit.

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CONGRATS!

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HEY brol1k. our stats are very close. thanks!

thinoneday thanks very much for that info. this is very helpful an encouraging! i really appreciate it!

thanks sleeve 4 me. i see you are very close to your goal! congrats to you!!!

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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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