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I'm in the UK, and none of us sleevers over here seem to be given specific targets for fluid intake. I was just told to keep on sipping regularly throughout the day and to just always have a bottle of water by me. I did as I was told and haven't been dehydrated yet. I haven't weighed or measured anything, yet I've lost 66lbs since June 30th. I'm not sure that fixating on the numbers helps...but I accept that it might help people who appreciate very specific guidance.

I tell everyone... I don't care. It's the truth, it's what happened and I own it.

My late husband kept mixing up Moot and Mute. After hearing this for the eleventeeth time, I snapped. I said if " it were really mute, you would have shut about it before now!"

My eating plan is: real food, not processed eat when I'm hungry, stop when I'm not lay off the booze. I can only remember three rules at a time...seems to be working quite well! 😊

Today is day 4 of my 2 week liquid diet and I am struggling hard. All I want is one bite of orange chicken from panda express. I even looked up the nutrition info and 1 ounce of orange chicken would have less than the 9 grams of fat and 6 grams of sugar (my plans requirement for my liquids). I am currently fantasizing about walking into the restaurant, asking for a sample of orange chicken, and walking out. I am currently resenting my cat who is loudly crunching on her cat food. I have a lot of work I need to do today, but I almost think I need to get back in bed and go to take a nap because when I am napping I am not obsessing over food.

Prior to surgery I had to have a BMR test... it turned out that my BMR was barely 1500kcal. (I should preface this with my NUT used the calculator and told me my cal should be around 1572) So when I thought I was supposed to lose weight, it was slowly creeping on. I was unintentionally over eating daily. I suppose post surgery it has gone down (my scale says its 1332), but I'm hoping once my weight loss stabilizes I'll be given another test to ensure my final Maintenance calories are appropriately lined for me.

I get easily winded after a shower. Takes hours for me to pull it together. I have to use my inhaler.

Sigh. I’ll hide the black beans in the back of the pantry. It’s not fun being non compliant when I wasn’t even trying to cheat. Oh well. I can have it in a month

Oh I didn't realize you were in Germany! Well I'm definitely a closer to couch potato but definitely not an emotional eater. I'm also busy with life and this can't be my everlasting focus so want the simplest ways to maintain (sanity) lol because I have a lot of other thing I have to focus on coming up. I promised myself I was only going to give this 1 hard solid dedicated year of focus then it needed to be easy peasy so I'm looking for short cuts...

Today I’m 6 days post op and I had an AWFUL afternoon. Stomach cramping, gas, nausea for hours. Pre surgery it never occurred to me that I would feel awful and not really have a particular reason for it. I figured that just about everything but protein shakes give me diarrhea at this point but I’d been slipping in some yogurt and cream of wheat now and then. Today I had a bit of yogurt and I’m dealing not with diarrhea but all I described above. I have no clue what changed- or even if it was the yogurt. Today was the first day I went out on a long car ride and a trip to the pet store- could it be that I physically overdid it? Anyway, I really hope this clears up soon but I might never know why it happened so I can avoid it again. Frustrating!