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It's my 5 month anniversary from surgery. It's not been a good month. I'm trying to find a new job because I'm miserable to at my current one. I find that old habits are starting to slip in. I've gained a kilo in this month alone.

I'm still heading in the right direction, and I'm kicking the old habits back out. I've not been as vigilant as I should have been.

I just need to remember that I'm still better off now than I was 5 months ago and keep looking forward.

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You are doing an amazing job! It's been 5 months and you have turned your life around! Speaking about myself personally I have been a big person my whole life and I know that many people here have too. So that means We need to give ourselves a little bit of grace if we back track a little. What is important is how fast we get back in the saddle. Our old eating habits need time to die a death but we will get there, every day brings us closer to that.

congratulations Neon Raven, be proud of yourself you are a warrior! x

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4 hours ago, Bessieboop1981 said:

You are doing an amazing job! It's been 5 months and you have turned your life around! Speaking about myself personally I have been a big person my whole life and I know that many people here have too. So that means We need to give ourselves a little bit of grace if we back track a little. What is important is how fast we get back in the saddle. Our old eating habits need time to die a death but we will get there, every day brings us closer to that.

congratulations Neon Raven, be proud of yourself you are a warrior! x

Thank you! Yes, it's been a rough month but I'm definitely doing much better than 6 months ago! I still feel better physically than I did before the weight loss.

I've always been overweight too. I still feel really happy that I'm a size 16 (UK) when I haven't been since I was 16 years old!

Just got to keep looking at my progress overall!

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You go girl! Xx

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When we slip for the first time its our new self learning that its still easy to gain weight if we eat around the new tool we have been given. We are human, its how we deal with it that makes or breaks us.

I lost a stone with some recent surgery and my skin got so saggy on my legs that I decided I would like to gain a little back. Now I am a little north of where I want to be before going on holiday and having to re-adjust the other way. Loosing a few added extra pounds is a whole lot easier than the multiple stones I always faced before.

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On 3/9/2025 at 10:51 AM, summerseeker said:

When we slip for the first time its our new self learning that its still easy to gain weight if we eat around the new tool we have been given. We are human, its how we deal with it that makes or breaks us.

I lost a stone with some recent surgery and my skin got so saggy on my legs that I decided I would like to gain a little back. Now I am a little north of where I want to be before going on holiday and having to re-adjust the other way. Loosing a few added extra pounds is a whole lot easier than the multiple stones I always faced before.

Good Point! I've already lost 75lbs and even if I added up all the time I lost weight on previous diet attempts it wouldn't equal this much. Since posting this 3 days ago, I've already lost the 3 lbs I gained know I have less to lose each time is helping me get back on track. I've already come this far!

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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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        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!

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