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

I think it was more taste. It satisfied my taste and just didn't want any more. I'm still learning that "full feeling" Right now I eat too much and get the stuck in the throat feeling.. ugh.

But the pork rind went well !!! Now to log this into my fitness pal ! chellede11 if you want to follow me

Peek, congrats on your 20 pounds! What an accomplishment!

Chellede, I sent you an invite for MFP!

Papi, I had 4 pork rinds before I felt good and satisfied :-) they went down just fine. I will just have them on occasion.

Stephh, Chell, thank you so much

Kimberly, I will try to wait a week to weigh or at least every Saturday

Have any of you started exercising yet (more then walking)?

@@chellede, im glad you mentioned MFP. I've been contemplating a fitness tracker. I've looked into actual hardware and am considering an app too. Has anyone had any experience with any of these; hardware, wearables, or apps? What did you like or dislike about them? What features helped you and why? What features do you wish they offered?

I'm not looking to drop some serious coin but do consider it an investment.

Have any of you started exercising yet (more then walking)?

I don't think it counts but I broke into a half jog during my walk last week, lol. I'm considering a dance class soon. Hip hop and salsa!

I love my FitBit! I know lovely would way the same if she wasn't enjoying herself on a cruise. I have the flex; it costs about $100. They have smaller ones which are less expensive and more intricate ones which are more expensive. It has the fitness tracker and a meal/calorie tracker. It syncs nicely with MFP. FitBit has much nicer graphs and stuff though!

Thank you so much @@stephh! I really want to track my activity and try to draw correlations with my loss over time. Does your fit bit offer those types of "reports"?

I don't think it counts but I broke into a half jog during my walk last week, lol. I'm considering a dance class soon. Hip hop and salsa!

Great!!!! Are you considering eating a few more calories? I'm in an internal debate with myself about it. I want to start swimming, but I feel kind of weak as it is. I'm supposed to be consuming between 400-600 calories currently.

@@stephh, right now im not considering upping my intake. My guide up to this point is my gauge on if I feel hungry. If I feel hungry I'll eat if not I'll keep drinking. Strange, but my goals are liquid and Protein. So im combining protein and liquid mainly. I want to track my activity, intake, sleep and vitals and look at progress over time in relation to these. The goal here is to try to gain control over some aspects to promote long term loss. It would also help my surgeons office and NUT when discussing results.

I know I won't be able to control everything, but I'm a firm believer in data and interpreting it. Then using that data to help achieve goals.

I just recently bought the jawbone up24 tracks activity sleep mood calories/nutrition and more. You can scan the Barcode on your food when you eat it, type it in or snap a pic. You can add teammates to support/push eachother to sleep well and move more etc. If anyone buys one or has one message me so I can give you my add info.

Attached is my steps for a month period. You can do up to a year (possibly more on a computer). There are a ton of graphs like this: weight, BMI, calories and other food information, exercise, sleep and more I'm sure!

I have a protein goal as well to stick to. I'm never hungry, and have to remind myself to eat. I might give it a whirl without upping the calories =)

@@stephh, where you goin with all those steps?! Jk! Thank you so much for the post!