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Can pre-opers participate? My surgery date is 9/5 and I'd love to lose 20 lbs by then. The last week and a half will be the high protein/low carb preop diet.

Of course you can! Here we are all for one and one for all. Welcome to the gang :)

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Do we just weigh in and post here in this post?

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Do we just weigh in and post here in this post?

Yes. I usually have to go back and either quote myself or recap my goals when I post my results so others can see my progress.

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I want in

Sw. 264. 4/30/12

Cw. 229

Gw. 199

Get in 64 oz Water

40gm protine

Work out 3x a week

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I'm in!

CW: 197

GW: 176

I also want to run a 5k in August.

Good luck to everyone!!

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Up my Protein, I get my Water in, get up to 3 miles a day (it's been 100 out and I haven't been walking as much). Weight. Current 207 - Goal 185 pounds.

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I'm in!!!

I'm 6 weeks post op and seem to be slowly losing but I'm gonna set my goals high!

SW 220

GW 199

To also:

Get 50 to 60 oz of Water

Get all my Protein from food, not supplements 72-80g

To exercise at least 5 days a week

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1. Lose 20 lbs

2. Get in all of my Protein, liquids & Vitamins on a daily basis

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1. Lose 20 lbs

2. Get in all of my Protein, liquids & Vitamins on a daily basis

3. Exercise 3-4 times each week

Littlebits

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I want to hit the 100 lbs lost mark by my birthday which is 9/13 so I have 9 weeks and a few days to drop 45 lbs. which means 5lbs per week...soooo here goes.

Current Weight 385

Labor day Goal 345-350

Birthday Goal 340

Drink more Water, excercise more eat more Protein.

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Ok...I'm in for this, my first "challenge"!

My birthday is September 1st, and I had set a dream goal to be at 250 by my birthday. I'll use that same goal for this challenge.

Starting weight (morning of surgery): 302.4

Current weight: 284.6

Weight to lose for challenge: 34.6 lbs

We'll see how well I do! :)

Best of luck to everyone!

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I'm in!

7/6/12 -- SW - 209

8/7/12 -- Birthday Goal to reach Onederland

9/3/12 -- GW - 195

  • increase Water intake to 80+ oz day
  • increase pace from walking to jogging

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I'm in too. I'm eight months out (nearly nine) and it's slowed down a lot... so I seriously need to kick-start everything again.

Wt loss Goal: 20

Exercise (ugh): 5x wkly

Good luck everyone!

Forgot to add a few things:

SW 192 1/2; GW 172 1/2

Keep Protein over 80; carbs under 50; cals around 900-1000.

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Do we weigh in once a week on a designated day or just on Labor day?

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      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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      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.

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