I am 2 weeks out and every time I get on the scale the number is lower. Once or twice it's been the same, but never HIGHER! When has that ever happened in my life? Nearly never! What a wonderful Christmas miracle that has been made available to all of us so we can get started on a losing journey! I already barely remember the pain and discomfort and am now just looking forward to being cleared to work out.

I never could have done this on my own and I'm just so grateful!!!!!!!!!!!

I know what you mean! The scale is going in the right direction and that makes me happy. Tomorrow (my two week anniversary) I get to go for my follow up and I'm hoping to begin to re-integrate solid foods! I just need savory flavors beyond the bouillon. They wouldn't tell us what the next phase was because they didn't want us to get ahead of ourselves...so puree or whatever...something besides a full liquid please.

I'm grateful to my friend and her husband who have become my new gym buddies. It helps with the motivation, accountability, and makes it easier to not watch the clock on the treadmill.

So, here's to the New Year and to the attainment of our goals for health and well-being.

I DO KNOW WHAT IS AWESOME! We all are, we came from deprecation, being all but invisible to run-of-the-mill people, from NO Hope into a bright beautiful FUTURE. And if you and I still have a distance to make our Goals, why we can and will. And each pound / KG we lose, each,inch/ cm we decrease in our size, it is gone forever and we move ahead. And I know I have made so many friends sharing this journey on Bariatric Pal, and when my heart wanted to give up, when I was uncertain it was worth the effort, they were only a posting away, many had gone through this trial, and there might have been a little trick to get through and move on.
So today is only the prelude to better things
Yesterday is good, it was only the PAST
Tomorrow has not dawned, it is the FUTURE
Today is now, A wonderful Bright shining Day with promise, a True Gift?
That's why they call it the ? PRESENT!
Much ? Love to All.
Merry Christmas?
And Every Good Wish for a Happy Prosperous 2019.?❤?

I totally agree! Best decision of my life (outside of the obligatory marriage, kids, yada, yada)!

Agreed. I am 1 month out and have lost 31 lbs. Feeling great!

Dang you guys are losing fast! I'm only down 13 pounds since surgery. 32 overall!

I have lost 16 lbs since surgery. 6 weeks post op.

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My NP told me to put the scale away. ;______;

She felt (through my words and overall tone of the discussion) that I was becoming obsessive about the number and was regulating the happiness of my day through what the number was. I can understand where her concern was, so I'm going to go to once a week weigh-ins

2 hours ago, Myhorseisfattoo said:

Dang you guys are losing fast! I'm only down 13 pounds since surgery. 32 overall!

Girl, 13lbs in less than 2 weeks is amazing. lol!

I am 37lbs in 8 weeks. I am putting the scale away though. Because it doesn't really matter. I'll get there whenever I get there.

It also depends on how much you have to lose.

15 hours ago, batty_vsg said:

My NP told me to put the scale away. ;______;

Yes, Batty me gal, I think that's the ticket. I have started weighing twice per week. Today was weigh day and I'm down 2 more, so 15 since surgery. I guess that's faster than I've ever lost 15 pounds before in my life!!!!! And known it wasn't coming back!

12 hours ago, Myhorseisfattoo said:

Yes, Batty me gal, I think that's the ticket. I have started weighing twice per week. Today was weigh day and I'm down 2 more, so 15 since surgery. I guess that's faster than I've ever lost 15 pounds before in my life!!!!! And known it wasn't coming back!

Exactly! When was the last time we lost this amount of weight so quickly? My NP also said that we need to remove ourselves from "results driven activities." Of course we want to lose weight and it's so easily to feel lost inside the idea that we need to do this, do that in order to achieve these specific results. What happens when we achieve our results? Well, we stop trying. And we all know that our weight journey is going to be for the rest of our lives. So she wanted me to focus on just following the program and going with the flow. I don't think I'm explaining it well, so I'm sorry!

You explained it fine! I am a terribly competitive, results-driven person, so this will be HARD for me. But I'm gonna try!!!