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Muffin18    11

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Why in the world am I gaining?! I have been working out everyday, staying under my calorie goal (800), and increased my water....what am I doing wrong? Feeling discouraged. Didn't think this experience would be so emotional. Any suggestions?

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lizv123    389

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Why in the world am I gaining?! I have been working out everyday' date=' staying under my calorie goal (800), and increased my water....what am I doing wrong? Feeling discouraged. Didn't think this experience would be so emotional. Any suggestions?[/quote']

How's your sodium intake? That paired with increased Water could contribute to gained "water weight."

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Doreykn    113

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Crazy as it sounds, you might have to up your calorie intake...

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lizv123    389

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Crazy as it sounds' date=' you might have to up your calorie intake...[/quote']

I've heard a lot of people do this to break a stall. As a pre op patient it blows my mind! But I've heard it works :)

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IsB    209

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I've heard a lot of people do this to break a stall. As a pre op patient it blows my mind! But I've heard it works :)

That's because if your body thinks it's in starvation mode it's not going to give up weight as easily.

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I love my body and I am glad I have one but it is such a numbskull. It doesn't listen to what I tell it.

I say, "I'm on a diet now, you'll be getting less calories but you won't be starving."

All it hears is "blah, blah, blah,...starving".

Then it says to itself, "Duh.... starving...store fat."

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buffythefatslayer    66

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Gmanbat,

You made me laugh. Thank you. I really needed that.

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desertmom    297

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Hehehe...yes!My weight bounced up this week after a great stair step 12 pound loss and last night I just couldnt resist the mash potatoes.Well,this morning it is down 2 pounds again.

My new motto is 6 days of very low carbs one night of mashed potatoes...lol

Try something different!

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O.T.R. sleever    3,386

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Why in the world am I gaining?! I have been working out everyday' date=' staying under my calorie goal (800), and increased my water....what am I doing wrong? Feeling discouraged. Didn't think this experience would be so emotional. Any suggestions?[/quote']

My bet on this one is Water retention. The reason I think this because you indicate that this is a more "emotional" experience than you expected.

Being more emotional is typically a chemical response to too much estrogen. Guess what is trapped in all that fat you've been hauling around all these years---Estrogen. Now that you're burning the fat, all that estrogen is getting released into your bloodstream. It is not uncommon for this to change a woman's cycle in almost any way imaginable.

So Dr. Sleever says you are probably retaining Water & don't be surprised if your little friend becomes unpredictable for a while.

(I'm not really a doctor. I just play one on the radio)

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
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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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        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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