Hello everyone and welcome to week 5 of our sleeve journey! Thanks to @@lylabelle for admin'ing the group so far. Let's have our weigh in on Monday as usual and I will be glad to keep the new threads going for those of us who choose bariatricpal to keep in touch throughout our journey each Friday.

Seriously, we need to think of a group name. I nominate "Quarter Cup Club" and "Sleeveless in Seattle" and "Walk Forest Walk" anything other than may 27-31st sleevers

And personally, i'm going to hit 10k steps for the first time since surgery today. There was a fire alarm at my office so I thought, I'm gonna take a walk and came back an hour later haha!

Reminder: please direct requests for Facebook group access to @@lylabelle and @@Sh3iz in private message, not on the thread. Thanks!

Devi, good idea!

@@devint Thanks for hooking us up for week 5!

I love this site and I love hearing everyone stories I'll weigh tomorrow morning

Thanks for starting the thread. Did you add up last weeks losses from Monday weigh in? That's why I hadn't posted a new week yet. Lol

I'm in Gatlinburg Tennessee this weekend. Doing soft foods and chewing well. I'm considering upping my calories a few days to kick start things again. Is good to keep things guessing. Easy to do since we are at restaurants daily.

Edited June 27, 201412 yr by lylabelle

I think I found a trainer today! I heard about this gym through word of mouth, so I wrote an email asking for a consultation and got a call a little while later. In my email I was very open about everything, which the guy I spoke with (who runs the gym) said he really appreciated. Apparently, this place doesn't take everyone, only people who are really, really motivated. And he said to me that if having 85% of your stomach removed isn't motivation, then he doesn't know what is! He asked me so many questions about how I eat/ate, what my exercise and injury history is, about my family's medical history, just everything! Very thorough. He told me the gym offers several plans. I would go with the cheapest (159 Euro per month) which offers two semi-private training sessions a week in a small group (no more than 6) with other people who have similar goals. Most of the trainers are also physical therapists, which I really need. And he says their number one priority is avoiding injury (another major plus for me!). They also expect you to come work out at least two other days during the week in addition to the private or semi-private sessions, and he says if you don't, trainers will literally come find you! I also only live an 8 minute walk away, so I totally believe him! I'm going in on Monday to see the space and meet the team, and if it's a good fit, I'll sign a contract an get going right away! I'm so psyched! I just wanna get strong again!

Thanks for starting the thread. Did you add up last weeks liars from Monday weigh in? That's why I hadn't posted a new week yet. Lol I'm in Gatlinburg Tennessee this weekend. Doing soft foods and chewing well. I'm considering upping my calories a few days to kick start things again. Is good to keep things guessing. Easy to do since we are at restaurants daily.

I'm sorry but why would you call us liars....? I'm slightly confused here. Did anyone else catch that? I'm not here to lie to anyone about my weight. I'm here for support and to learn from people through experience. And please don't single us out for putting an email on this thread. I think that draws more attention than anything else.

I've said my peace. Other than that, happy Friday!

Don't worry, I just assumed it was a typo. I'm certain lylabelle would have just dropped that in there on purpose.

Lol. Totally a typo!! Using phone. Gotta love auto correct.

@@mrsfitzpatrick I think she meant loss but autocorrect is brutal. Take it from a chronic texter.

I also wanted to apologize for making you uncomfortable and will do my best not to going forward.

@@WhoKnows YAYYY I've never heard of an exclusive gym but that sounds awesome! High level of accountability for sure.

Nsv Got a haircut today myself, not drastic but enough to force me to see my face and neckline has changed for the better.

AND @@lylabelle yeah no, I didn't do that. hope you have a good safe trip, and worse case we can add it all up next Monday too. Time flies too quick that's not far off!

I ran into an unexpected side effect. Our daughter,7, has lost 3lbs since my surgery but she and we are happy with that just unexpected. Anyone else seeing the family effect happening?

Hello, I was sleeved on 5/27/14. Things have been going really well. It seems that so far I hVe been able to handle everything I have introduced to my diet. I have tried steak and chicken and no problems. Since I have added more solid foods it seems I am not loosing weight. I don know of this is the dreaded stall everyone is talking about or what. This week I have gained 3 lbs. I am getting in just about all the protein I am supposed to still not able to go over much of 500 calories and getting all my liquids in. Not to many carbs. I do need to up my exercise which is just walking for now. What could be the issues? My stats are

HW303

SW289

CW270

any help would be greatly appreciated.

Basically stay the course.. If you're doing enough protein water and any real measure of activity, you will lose it eventually. Stalls happen while your body is trying to catch up. Measure your inches lost for motivation not just pounds. I'm in the same boat.

Thank you, seems impossible to gain weight when u don't eat much to begin with.

Alxmak seems like ur doing real well based in ur numbers! I know it's frustrating- I had almost two weeks that my scale crawled by ounces and that was all. Keep up with ur plan

Thank you