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I was 33 BMI and reached goal in 7 months. Stay off the scale, follow your plan and let your body heal.

What was your goal? I start w/ a BMI of 35 & like author of this post I want to see the quick results. With a stall last week (and what seems to be this week also) Sometimes I think I'm trapped in this body. I know it's mind over matter, it's just tough when the scale seems broken lol

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I was 33 BMI and reached goal in 7 months. Stay off the scale, follow your plan and let your body heal.

What was your goal? I start w/ a BMI of 35 & like author of this post I want to see the quick results. With a stall last week (and what seems to be this week also) Sometimes I think I'm trapped in this body. I know it's mind over matter, it's just tough when the scale seems broken lol

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I started with a BMI of 32. My first appoitment to meet the doctor and committing to the surgery, I started PIGGING. I only had to be on the liquid diet 5 days prior to surgery. I was going from 183 to 188 then I started the liquid diet for the 5 days prior to surgery. The day of surgery...August 1st, I weighed 176. Two days ago I weighed 174.8 and today I am back up to 176! Having said all this was to say I have decided to let my body heal and stay off the scales. I still have so much swelling. The day after I was sleeved, I had to go back to the hospital and be given two bags of fluids for dehydration and had to come home with my drain tube because of bleeding. Finally got my drain tube out and am going to concentrate on healing and I will worry about weighing again in 3 or 4 weeks. For now, it's time to heal, sip and protein! I truly think starting with a lower BMI is going to mean losing at a slower pace but it's not about losing it overnight but more about a lifetime of better food choices :) Congrats on the weight you have already lost :)

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I had surgery July 5 and have stalled for the last 3 weeks now. I am going crazy, I'm only eating 800 calories each day (maximum) and drinking my fluids. I was actually told by my surgeons office NOT to track anything except fluids and to not, under no circumstances, drink during meals. I haven't been able to walk due to a minor back injury but even eating 800 calories I should be losing SOMETHING. My NUT suggests actually eating vegetables first because they never see Protein deficiencies.

Regardless, I'm going insane from the stalling. No measurement changes, no weight changes. I try to keep a positive mindset but it's hard sometimes.

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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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      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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