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@Kindle@feedyoureye@jasminebsn3 thank you for your support. I will increase my calorie intake to 800-1000 an try my best to only weigh once a week!

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Many of us have slow spots or stalls. The one at 2-3 weeks has a name! "the three week stall" look it up. You may have slow weeks or weeks where you lose nothing, and are doing everything right. I lost pretty slow... I didnt get to goal for 3 years! But the speed of loss is not the prize, the end results are. Just keep with it and try not to stress. You are only at the very beginning of the journey... it lasts a lifetime!

Thanks - it's good to know that slow losers will eventually reach goal. I'm afraid that I will just stop losing at some point and then I will be in real trouble. So there is always that thought that if I don't do it all within a year, I'm screwed. They've kind of hammered this into my head at the surgery clinic, that we have to make major progress within the first year.

I've only lost 3 pounds in the last month for a grand total of 43 pounds - 20 less than where I wanted to be at this point because my six month check up is next month. But I have not been doing everything I should be doing (or not doing) and that's my fault so I really can't complain. Diabetes runs in my family and before the surgery my blood tests showed that I was on the cusp of diabetes. I have a sneaking suspicion that I am sensitive to carbs like so many others here. So I am now determined to make sure that I keep my carbs below 100 grams per day, drink 64 ounces of Water per day, get in my 80+ grams of Protein and hit the gym more than 3 days per week

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Thanks - it's good to know that slow losers will eventually reach goal. I'm afraid that I will just stop losing at some point and then I will be in real trouble. So there is always that thought that if I don't do it all within a year, I'm screwed. They've kind of hammered this into my head at the surgery clinic, that we have to make major progress within the first year.

I've only lost 3 pounds in the last month for a grand total of 43 pounds - 20 less than where I wanted to be at this point because my six month check up is next month. But I have not been doing everything I should be doing (or not doing) and that's my fault so I really can't complain. Diabetes runs in my family and before the surgery my blood tests showed that I was on the cusp of diabetes. I have a sneaking suspicion that I am sensitive to carbs like so many others here. So I am now determined to make sure that I keep my carbs below 100 grams per day, drink 64 ounces of Water per day, get in my 80+ grams of Protein and hit the gym more than 3 days per week

The first year is the honeymoon. It is easiest to lose it then. Do not lose your chance to get the most out of the first year... HOWEVER, with ditermination, and finding out what works for you, you can lose more later. The key is maintaining consciousness about what you are putting in your body, and not quiting! EVER! Statistics show many gain weight in the 3rd year. Hunger may return if it hasn't already, and you can just eat more at a sitting. So you have to really work on a plan you can stick too, and making good habits with eating and moving. Find things you like that work for you. I still slip up, but getting back on plan the sooner the better keeps me pretty close to goal.

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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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    • Alisa_S

      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

        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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