Hi everyone!! This is my first post & I'm looking for October surgery buddies. I'm very excited about the surgery. I've gotten my psych clearance, scheduled my sleep study, nutrition classes and upper endoscopy. My date is October 14th. Btw, anyone here from Jersey? Look forward to making friends w everyone!

Edited August 21, 201411 yr by Marielbx

Yeah, 27lbs is a lot of extra weight to carry around. I was at the grocery store yesterday and the bagger said to me " you've lost a lot of weight". Its so funny because the folks at work haven't said a thing.

Much love to my BP Friends !!!!

I started back at the gym yesterday and have a personal trainer for at least nine training sessions. Hopefully this will get the loss moving more consistently. Wish me luck. Thanks for all the support everyone.

@@Peekboo

My doctor gave me a referral for a trainer at our community wellness center. I need to set up an appointment and start some strength training.

Awesome Susan. We are on our way :-)

@@peek, wishing you luck w/the trainer. You & I are in the same boat (slow weight los). I've lost 22lbs sinced being sleeved, 7 weeks ago. I thought I was going to escape the dreaded stall but as luck would have it, I've been in a stall for over a week. Not discouraged , just trying to refocus & up the workout.

I WILL REACH MY GOAL!

Kathy, thank so much. It's a bit scary not to lose weight faster after having such a drastic surgery. I'm going to see my nutritionist on Thursday and see if im doing something wrong. Its funny, when I feel like ive eaten too much in a day, say 1000, calories, that's when I seem to lose. I hear most folks here saying they struggle to eat 600 calories. I dont understand it. How many calories are you eating a day?

You guys will both reach your goal!!! Just keep doing what you're supposed to do and the weight will come off. =)

Peek, I'm one of those people that struggles to eat. I sometimes have a hard time getting in 400 calories a day (my NUT recommends between 400-800 at this stage).

Steph, so what is normal food day like? Do you get hungry? I do but it doesn't take much to fill me up.

I've got my last 50 days worth of food on MFP. My diary should be public. I've logged in every single thing I've eaten, except for Vitamins (just started logging those).

Typical day:

Breakfast: Premier Protein shake 160

Lunch: some type of meat, usually chicken. I can only eat between 1-2 ounces of meat, on a good day. Then I get full.

Dinner: same as lunch

Snack: I was eating a snack of cheese, yogurt or something, but the past two weeks, food seems revolting.

I got really sick feeling after swimming last week, so I've been drinking Gatorade to up my calories a little.

I have not yet felt hungry.

Let me know please if my diary isn't public, and I'll change it =)

Steph, it is public

Oh good!

@@peek I am eating 900 calories but I'm told to eat between 900 to 1100. Like you, my sleeve handles most food. I have to be careful not to eat more-cause I can. Which is a little scary to me.

I am trying to be more diligent about my workouts to see if that helps.

I did read on another thread that if you don't lose weight, up your calories and protein and you should start losing again. Not sure how true that is. I have an appointment with my nutritionist next week, so that is something I will definitely discuss.

Kathy, sounds like we are sleeved twins, lol.