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punklandia    1

punklandia
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Hi all,

so I'm about 6 weeks post op and have lost a whopping 24 kilos so far (!). So no complaints there.

I am weighing myself with a Fitbit Aria, which I highly recommend to anybody. If you don't know what it is, check it out.

I have noticed that despite my weight loss, my body fat percentage (as taken daily by the Aria), remains always around the 30% mark (BMI 29 give or take). I work out at least twice a week (spin class), but I'm still very weak so I'm not doing "great" at the classes, but the bare minimum.

How can I lose weight but no body fat percentage? Am I really just burning muscle? That sucks.

Also, eating is still hard for me and I vomit often after dinner. Can't seem to grasp the eat-slow-wait-for-full-signal-chew-well mantra all that well, but I guess this will take time and discipline.

But do you have any insights on why my body fat won't go down? Thanks!

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punklandia    1

punklandia
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Hi all,

so I'm about 6 weeks post op and have lost a whopping 24 kilos so far (!). So no complaints there.

I am weighing myself with a Fitbit Aria, which I highly recommend to anybody. If you don't know what it is, check it out.

I have noticed that despite my weight loss, my body fat percentage (as taken daily by the Aria), remains always around the 30% mark (BMI 29 give or take). I work out at least twice a week (spin class), but I'm still very weak so I'm not doing "great" at the classes, but the bare minimum.

How can I lose weight but no body fat percentage? Am I really just burning muscle? That sucks.

Also, eating is still hard for me and I vomit often after dinner. Can't seem to grasp the eat-slow-wait-for-full-signal-chew-well mantra all that well, but I guess this will take time and discipline.

But do you have any insights on why my body fat won't go down? Thanks!

By the way, I forgot to say that my Aria says my body weight went up this week (!) by 2.2%. What gives?!

Have been eating healthy!

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In my experience the Aria is not very effective at measuring body fat. I am well under the acceptable body weight for my size and according to my Aria, my BF% has barely changed and is significantly wrong compared to a professional measurement and my Tanita scale.

I have gotten to the point where I don't even use that part of the scale anymore and I only wait for my weight to be picked up because the BF% is so ridiculously wrong.

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In my experience the Aria is not very effective at measuring body fat. I am well under the acceptable body weight for my size and according to my Aria, my BF% has barely changed and is significantly wrong compared to a professional measurement and my Tanita scale.

I have gotten to the point where I don't even use that part of the scale anymore and I only wait for my weight to be picked up because the BF% is so ridiculously wrong.

Hi, thanks. I have heard this before; how do you measure your BF then, and get a reliable result?

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I agree, Aria is not very good at measuring BF. Mine goes as high as 44.7 down to 33 from day to day.

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punklandia    1

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So how do you guys take a reliable body fat reading?

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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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        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.

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        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.

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