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I haven't done the weekly weigh in but have lost 9.4kgs (20.7lbs) since I started this journey four weeks ago. And 6kgs (13.22lbs) since my op on May 8th. Weight is moving slowly' date='.... It feels like but still going down. Still got a way to go yet but excited about the changes.[/quote']

6 1/2 lbs a week is what you've lost. That's an excellent start . Not slow at all. Sometimes since we have had surgery we get unrealistic expectations...you probably still have some swelling since your only 2 weeks out. A slow steady pace gives your skin time to tighten up with you also. My Dr told me not to get caught up in comparing yourself to everyone else's weight loss because a lot of variables are at play that we may not know about. Such as height and starting weight...as well as BMI and length of time you've been over weight....for instance I've weighed over 200 lbs since the 6th grade....so my pace has been slow (comparably) but steady, but my body has been storing and holding in to this fat for 30+ years! Even when I played basketball and tennis in high school and college I was still ALWAYS a big girl no matter how hard I worked out or trained! 2 months 3 days out I'm only down 43 lbs. That's about 21 lbs a month. My goal is only 12 lbs a month to reach the 144 lbs that I want to lose within a year of surgery. So set realistic goals and you won't feel like its slow :)

By the way good job hun! You are doing great!

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You're welcome. Youre on the road to eating to live instead of living to eat! Lol! Congrats

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Last week 247

This week 243

-4 lbs! Yay! I'll take it: )

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-1.1 this week.

I'm at 275.4 lbs.

Total of -21.1 since 3/9/12

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Last week: 206

This week: 201

It seems like I'm losing about 5 pounds a week, which I am pretty satisfied with. I'm hoping to amp it up a bit because now I'm walking two and a half miles a day 4 days a week and maybe a half mile the other days. I gotta get in shape to get back to work!

The really awesome news is I tried on my work uniforms yesterday. I had been squeezing into them busting seams and popping buttons for about two years...they slipped on effortlessly! They might even be too big when I go back to work in two and a half weeks!

Super stoked!!!!

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So frustrated....the scale has not changed in 2 weeks & I was losing 5-7 lbs per week & then it just stopped! I dont get it because I feel better in my clothes & people are telling me they see more & more of a difference.

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Last week 250.4

This week 246.0

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Last week: 267

This week: 262

Starting weight: 297

Surgery April 23, 2012

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Congrats everyone on your losses and if you didn't loose lbs check those inches!!

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So frustrated....the scale has not changed in 2 weeks & I was losing 5-7 lbs per week & then it just stopped! I dont get it because I feel better in my clothes & people are telling me they see more & more of a difference.

Sometimes u lose inches instead of lbs. Fret not! If other people are noticing, then you're losing! :)

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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!

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