Struggling to envision weight loss

[summerseeker 2,346]

6 hours ago, bigoverthinker said:

"I had the sleeve surgery 12/30/2022. Feels like a different lifetime before."

PS. I am 65 and 73 inches and weighed 404 at my heaviest. I dropped 40 lbs in the year before my surgery and another 60 lbs since. Before surgery I had weekly therapy exploring how I use food to cope with stresses of life and my relationship with myself.

You are very wise and are doing all the right things. At our age we cant rush into exercise or anything for that matter. I took a while to get my stamina back. It took me 8 months to eat enough calories to exercise. Now I feel like a Spring [well winter] chicken. A new life start

How good does it feel to weigh a hundred pounds less than before. I was on cloud nine for days

[Blessd1 68]

12 hours ago, bigoverthinker said:

Lately I am realizing that the enemy of my progress is my sense of failure when I have a bite of something unapproved. Permission to throw away the rest once I taste it or have hit "full" is freeing. I am enjoying the sense power when I throw away the remainder and move on.

Thanks for sharing your experience so candidly! I know this feeling you're describing very well myself...there is a definite sense of freedom from, and authority over, food when we approach it this way. I know it's not realistic to think I will never have a craving or want to eat something not on my plan. But, breaking that cycle of eating, feeling guilty, failing is what I hope to do too. Keep up the great work!