July & August sleevers please drop your weight loss #

September 12, 20178 yr

July and August please drop your weight loss # or before and after photos. I'm super excited to see your progress! Y'all are my motivation!!

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September 12, 20178 yr

July and August please drop your weight loss # or before and after photos. I'm super excited to see your progress! Y'all are my motivation!!
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I'm down about 30 lbs from August 8th. Probably a little too fast for my height but I've had trouble with constant stomach upset and getting enough protein. (Can't take protein shakes. They advanced me onto soft meats early. Also had to stop most dairy.) I wanted to die those first two weeks, like, literally. The physiological starvation and rapid weight loss started making me batshit crazy. The three week stall is real!! I can only tolerate 1-2 ounces at a time. I actually added a little bit of carbs at the end of the three week stall with my very small meals and it helped with the stomach upset and got my weight moving downward again. IDK why but only one food group at a time has always bothered my stomach and I kind of forgot about that from my dieting days of old before all this (I have always had a lot of food-tolerance issues both mental and physical. Eating disorder brain and genuine physical sensitivities combined.) The stomach upset also makes it hard to get enough fluid and the vitamins all went to hell. It's been a vicious cycle of nausea causing stuff lol. I just started the vitamin patches after reading so many good reviews, so hopefully those help too. I haven't started a regular exercise regime yet because I've been so weak, but plans are in the works. Oh, and I'm back to work -- in smaller scrubs. [emoji4] Most days are getting slightly better each day. I still have a lot of "What have I done?" regret moments, but little by little that's improving too.

Attached: a few weeks preop, Hospital pic, a couple days after they let me eat some meat lol, then the obligatory smaller scrub selfies were yesterday. I'll have to get a full body shot when I go back. (Bad underwear shots are being saved for bigger losses lol)

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September 12, 20178 yr

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You look great! Im in your situation, can't get anything down...shakes are too heavy and sweet. Broth tastes weird, I lost my appetite.

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September 12, 20178 yr

You look great! Im in your situation, can't get anything down...shakes are too heavy and sweet. Broth tastes weird, I lost my appetite.

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Thanks so much!! Good luck and keep trying anything you can to get that nutrition in. Try smaller amounts at a time..It was less daunting that way at least and more physically comfortable too.

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