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Does my body has its own goal?

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Slimsoon1988    123

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So I'm 5'7 and started out at 278lbs. Within 8 months after surgery I hit 175lbs. My personal goal is 160-165. I am now 10 months post op and I have toggled between 175-177. I wonder if my body has decided this is it. Or can I continue to push the envelope. I go to the gym everyday. My eating is fairly good but it could be better, however once I see I hit 177 I get back on track to go back down. Even when I was doing perfectly for weeks it seemed like I could not get below 175. Coworkers and friends, who don't know I had the surgery, tell me all the time that I look so small and should stop losing weight. But I feel I still have 10 to 15 pounds in me before goal.

Thoughts?

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Our bodies definitely have set points where they LIKE to stick for a good long while. But just because they LIKE to stick there, doesn't necessarily mean that they SHOULD. Are you happy and healthy at your current weight? What be your reasoning behind trying to go lower?

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Slimsoon1988    123

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I'm certainly healthy at this weight. Two reasons that I would like to go lower is I still have fat around my stomach and thighs that I would like gone. The second reason is I want plastics later next year so I would like to get lower for optimum skin removal results.

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Slimsoon1988    123

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The last time I trusted my body I ballooned to 264 pounds. I've decided that my brain and my will needs to set the goal, because I obviously can't trust my body to do it correctly.

Yeah I'm still pushing forward in hopes to lose the extra 10-15 pounds but my body is definitely not making it easy.

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The last time I trusted my body I ballooned to 264 pounds. I've decided that my brain and my will needs to set the goal, because I obviously can't trust my body to do it correctly.

Yeah I'm still pushing forward in hopes to lose the extra 10-15 pounds but my body is definitely not making it easy.

Wait, whuuuuuuuut?? This ISN'T the easy way out???? :D They told me it was!!!!

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Slimsoon1988    123

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The last time I trusted my body I ballooned to 264 pounds. I've decided that my brain and my will needs to set the goal, because I obviously can't trust my body to do it correctly.

Yeah I'm still pushing forward in hopes to lose the extra 10-15 pounds but my body is definitely not making it easy.

Wait, whuuuuuuuut?? This ISN'T the easy way out???? :D They told me it was!!!!

Liars!

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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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      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

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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.

        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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