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seeingme    91

seeingme
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I'm actually a little over a month. My surgery was on 21/7. I'm down 29 lbs. I can't believe it! I feel amazing, and have noticed that when I go up and down the stairs a million times per day, I'm often running! Who would have guessed?

We're deep into winter in Minnesota (-14 degrees here today) and I don't DO outside in winter much, so I've been walking 2 miles a day on my treadmill. I have to fight my son for it though, because he runs several miles per day *as a reward*. If only we all loved running so much. ;-)

Eating has been going ok most of the time. I'm on solid food now, but I'm still figuring out what things I can't eat. For example, today for lunch was 1/2 a turkey Breakfast sausage and 1/2 an egg. (so a total of about 10 small bites, eaten over half and hour.) Nope! One of them was not ok, causing me to throw up for the first time since surgery. Oh man, my chest hurts SO BAD when I've taken one too many bites!! Feels like an esophageal spasm. Happened in a restaurant a few days ago. So not fun.

As long as I think about it, I have no trouble getting my Water in. I have several alarms set on my phone. They say things like "start drinking now" and "stop drinking now" and "start eating now" so I can be sure to follow the 30/30 rule. This works pretty well for me.

The last couple of days I have noticed I feel hungry now. STARVING somethings, but if I just drink my water or have a couple bites of a Protein snack, it goes away.

Constipation is probably my biggest enemy these days. I'm kind of in a weight loss stall right now and feel like if I could just POOP I'd lose again! LOL Every number I hit, I feel unsatisfied with it. Like, I was stuck at 185 for a week. The day I hit 184, in my head I was all, "Yep, there's 184, but that was so yesterday. I want 183 now."

Anyway, so far I'm so happy I did this, and can't wait to see where I'm at in June!!

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thenewdanni78    41

thenewdanni78
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Woo-hoo. Keep up the great work

Loving Me

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NotThatBright    4

NotThatBright
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That is awesome!! I am 6 weeks post-op and feeling amazing. Eating is still a learning experience but I am down 55 pounds from my initial weigh in, 40 since the surgery itself. I always worry about how I am going to screw this up like all my other weight loss attempts but relearning my habits through pain and discomfort (aka, the hard way). This is just in time for my 20 year high school reunion (unplanned coincidence) so it will be interesting to see the reactions on my old school mates.

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
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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.

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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.

        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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