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So i get within 2 pounds of a 100 pounds weight loss at three months and the rapid weight loss slows down, no prob. i have been expecting this for some time and felt it would be good to coast to my goal. besides i am at a lower weight than i could have dreamed. My body fat % was determined to be 13% which can't be real but has caused me significant blow back in people telling me to stop losing weight . So i increase my calories from 1400 to 1600 to coast gently to my goal.

Then i get on the scale two days later (on my 90th day post op) mostly to keep myself honest and not allow the weight to go up. and voila I lost a little bit, so i feel good, not great, reasured really that i did not ruin everything by easing up on my program. and like ten beats go by before it hits me, I LOST 100 pounds! how could i have missed that? Instead of being elated and celebrating, like i read in these support sites I feel conflicted. All the rules presurgery no longer apply. In the past i have worked so hard to lose a pound a week and now, it hardly feels like trying. I think i am convinced this is all a fantasy and will be taken away just as quickly as it was given to me.

I also cannot see what others see from fifty feet away. people are blown away at the rapid change in me. I have to stare in the mirror to kind of see improvement.

it goes to prove what my wife has always said, i am crazy and have a fat brain.

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omg!!! i so hope i can say that at 3 months.....

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I have lost a third of what you did, but I too worry it will be taken away. That one day I will wake up and no longer be able to lose anything at all, that in fact I may start to gain it again. I don't know what it will take for those of us who have struggled over and over to start to believe and trust. But I know it won't be easy.

But hey! 100 lbs! Congratulations!!

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Well we lose fat faster then the mind changes that is for sure. I worked for every pound so I don't close complete l y relate but I do relate to the"wow" can this be for real feeling. Congrats!!

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Congratulations!!!! And I lmao at the "fat brain" comment!

Apparently it takes time for our heads to adjust the picture on our self image so until that happens, trust the scales - and they say you have lost am AMAZING amount of weight. Enjoy your success, your brain will say "wow" soon....

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Congratulations!

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