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MOLLSY    17

MOLLSY
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Just tried to post this, not sure what happened. Any who, long story short - I am still on fluids and not loosing weight. Frankly I am despondent today as I don't know what to do. Any ideas. Thank you.

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thesuse2000    698

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Hang in there! I'm pre op, but I see posts like these a lot and experienced peeps always chime in to say that it's normal and that the scale will move again. I'm on pre-op and went about 5 days with no change and had that same worry of will I never lose another pound even after surgery? But then I dropped a few more pounds in the following few days. Stay focused on the long term and you will get there!

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Experienced peep here to say please. please, please GET OFF THE SCALE! I know it's a tough addiction to break, we seem to go from food addiction to scale addiction, but I am here to tell you, too much scale is like too much food. it is counterproductive and directly affects our mood. We can't allow Water weight, surgery weight, and daily weight fluctuations to dictate to us how we feel.

Weigh no more than once a week, at the same time of day. Then get your scale out of your sight! If you do this, you will see the pounds drop. As for me, I had a low BMI to begin with, so I am a "slow loser", but I don't weigh often enough to worry about it. Every once in while, I seem to be averaging about 2.5 weeks right now, I drop in to my bariatric center to get weighed by their well-calibrated and reliable scale. I usually see a 4-5 pound decrease in weight, which feels pretty darn good. If I weighed daily, I would only see tiny fluctuations in the right direction, and probably many in the wrong direction. This way I know, what is off is off for good! :)

You are doing the right thing, and I hope you don't let your scale addiction get you down! :)

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MOLLSY    17

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Thank you both for your replies. I will stop getting weighed every day. It is hard though because the more I weigh, and the slower the weight seems to move the more I want to get weighed. I know it's silly, but I never really thought about it before.

I'll get weighed next week and fingers crossed for good news. In the mean time Thesuse2000 good luck with your up and coming surgery. Also Teachamy CONGRATS on your post op weight loss it really gives me hope.

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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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      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

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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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