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Surgery Weight 218 Date of Surgery 12/13/12

Current weight 174.8

Goal weight 145

FRUSTRATED!!!

You seem to be doing fine with a low BMI your weight loss is not far from the average December sleever, Keep your head up you dont have far to go besides look at it like this the slower the lest likely you will have saggy skin. fast looser's have a lot of excess skin your slow loss may work in your favor later =-) .

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One thing that is helped me with getting all of the Water in is buying bottles of water by the case. Every morning I put my 5 bottles of water on the kitchen counter. By night, if I have any left, I don't allow myself any coffee, Protein hot chocolate, etc. until all of the water is gone!

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One thing that is helped me with getting all of the Water in is buying bottles of water by the case. Every morning I put my 5 bottles of water on the kitchen counter. By night, if I have any left, I don't allow myself any coffee, Protein hot chocolate, etc. until all of the water is gone!

I do close to the same thing I bought a big 64 oz jug that i fill up in the morning and carry it around all day and I try to have it all drank before dinner but I won't gk to be until its gone

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DAY OF SURGERY: 309 LBS

CURRENT WEIGHT: 203 LBS

GOAL WEIGHT: 153 LBS:

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My signature is up to date. Losses have been slow but steadier last few weeks. I'm not counting calories or tracking food anymore, I may start again if I stall lol. I hate stalls.

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DAY OF SURGERY: 309 LBS

CURRENT WEIGHT: 203 LBS

GOAL WEIGHT: 153 LBS:

What was your surgery date? Nice loss!

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DAY OF SURGERY: 309 LBS

CURRENT WEIGHT: 203 LBS

GOAL WEIGHT: 153 LBS:

I looked... Dec 22nd! I nominate you for President of the December Sleevers. Incredible.

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How's everyone's Hair loss? I lose handful of hair daily thank goodness I have a lot of hair or I'd be bald!

So far no hair loss I pray it stays that way I heard not everyone looses hair.

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How's everyone's Hair loss? I lose handful of hair daily thank goodness I have a lot of hair or I'd be bald!

About the same as you, but mine is more like 'shedding' which I did all the time before surgery anyways...

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My Hair loss is no more or less than usual so far. Of course I expect that to change any day now. I even had 5 inches cut off my hair as a precautionary measure.

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Surgery Weight 218 Date of Surgery 12/13/12

Current weight 174.8

Goal weight 145

FRUSTRATED!!!

You went from obese to just overweight right? That's awesome!!! Be proud!

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How's everyone's Hair loss? I lose handful of hair daily thank goodness I have a lot of hair or I'd be bald!

I was already balding, but it's so bad now. I have to do a combover!!!

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I was already balding, but it's so bad now. I have to do a combover!!!

I'm waiting on that to happen but praying it doesn't. I bought the extra hair, nail, & skin Vitamins

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I'm waiting on that to happen but praying it doesn't. I bought the extra hair' date=' nail, & skin vitamins[/quote']

My doc says 5mg Biotin and Omega 3s. Evening primrose oil pills also help. I can't take while on Coumadin.

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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.

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