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March Sleevers..are You Happy W/your Progress?

DDFinn

By DDFinn, in Gastric Sleeve Surgery Forums

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nettan    3

nettan
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I am staying between 500 and 800 calories a day. A good program I use to help me keep track of my daily intake is http://caloriecount.about.com/cc/account/flog.php . I am not loosing a lot of weight at a time. I think I am averaging about 2 lbs a week right now. I am taking it nice and slow and thankful for each and every pound I can wave goodbye too.

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spadesmcloven    8

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Same here I had to up mine to 800-1000 because I want getting in enought and I was stalling majorly. I have only lost 21, but am so happy that is gone!!

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danyelleb    386

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I'm consuming anywhere between 500-700. I only stalled during week 3. Fortunately I always lose something. The lowest I've lost in a week is .6 and the most in a week is 7 pounds. I exercise five days a week for 50 minutes.

My arms are getting crazy flabby and so is my apron. I think I need to add more weight training. This is the thing I need to really work on.

I have one more week of school and then I'm on summer vacation. Woo-hoo! This will give me more time to focus on me. :) I can't decide if I want to do a boot camp thing or maybe use a trainer.

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Wheetsin    714

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I'm trying hard to up my calories and carbs, per NUT. Today I was at 651 cal/35 carb/29 fat/53 Protein (actually about 15 more that I forgot to log). It was hard for me to eat that much today, and still enjoy a day out with my family. Now from that, I burned about 950 cals through (cardio) exercise.

And still stalled AFAIK. I assumed NUT will want to weigh me Mon or Tue so I'll know for sure then.

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spadesmcloven    8

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I need to start back with the exercising as well. I think that will really help. My schedule is so busy lately at work I am working overtime and am exhausted by the time I get home. Hope you ladies keep up the good work and stay in touch!!

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lisalalani    81

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I am SO excited! Today I weighed myself and I am down 51 lbs... that's FIFTY-ONE!!!!!! :) WoooHooooo!

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Wheetsin    714

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I had to go in today for my 2 month post-op labs so I asked to use the scale while I was there. Guess what? I weighed 11 oz less than I did 5 weeks ago. This was also at 2pm and I'd been fasting since 9 the previous night, so those silly 11 oz weren't really a loss. Not that 11 oz would be a loss anyway.

So I'm still good and stalled. Heading into 6 weeks stalled... and 9 weeks sleeved. I have patience, but this is really, really getting ridiculous.

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rizabonita    41

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I had to go in today for my 2 month post-op labs so I asked to use the scale while I was there. Guess what? I weighed 11 oz less than I did 5 weeks ago. This was also at 2pm and I'd been fasting since 9 the previous night' date=' so those silly 11 oz weren't really a loss. Not that 11 oz would be a loss anyway.

So I'm still good and stalled. Heading into 6 weeks stalled... and 9 weeks sleeved. I have patience, but this is really, really getting ridiculous.[/quote']

I know what ur going through..tomorrow is my 3mo post op appt and I've lost only 5 lbs since my 6 wk post op appointment :( I've been doing everything right and can't help feeling disappointed in my self. Everyone keeps saying I'll get there but at this pace its gonna take years!

keepin it real ;)

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DDFinn    118

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It does get very depressing when you are eating so little and incredibly....the scale doesn't move! Thankfully I seem to be losing again, but slowly. I am 10 wks out and down about 36 lbs. I would love it to be faster, and more but it is what it is.

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kenbr14    12

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Today is 3 months for me and have lost 56 lbs. but most of it was the first 2 months. The last 4 weeks I only lost 5 lbs but I am not complaining.

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