june13sleever

You can't eat like you used to in one sitting, but if there is a will there is a way. You just gotta make sure you lose as much as possible in the beginning and if you notice a gain later on take action immediately.

You gotta shake things up and not eat but like 500 calories

Yes

I feel this way. I love the full feeling so when we eat the food moves through and then we are wanting to be full again. I believe I finally now can get the full feeling. I just really have to stick with dense protien and try to really start working out.

I hate all the books. I read them after the fact and feel they are all too scary and so silly. My book would say. Eat protien and relax.

You are lucky! At 16 months I am starting to get hungry . I gotta watch it! I lost 130! Be happy you are that far out and still successful bad happy!

I am so sorry! That is really all I can say.

I am living the fear in real time. While I have been on maintenance for almost two months I feel like the first year I ate so little that now I can eat more and will gain. I still refuse to get on the scale but once a week, but my stomach now isn't the little miracle it used to be. I really have to make the decision whether or not I want to gain it back. I believe it is possible. Lose as much as you can in the beginning...

I really need to get rid of my 18/20 lane Bryant draws! I am in a medium now . All of it is so expensive!

My thighs are the worst so I just don't look at them I have been going to consultations for a butt fat transfer and thigh lift, but another surgery...well really the cost of another surgery is just too much. Next month I will pay off the surgery...taking on another debt might not be worth it.

At 16 months out I can finally enjoy food! I don't really eat a lot of bread anymore, but I am not afraid of it. I have stayed the same weight for almost two months and I still have some guilt when I eat ice cream or crackers, but I stay the same on the scale when I do so as long as I don't go crazy with it I should be ok eating things I love

You can't in the first six months. I couldn't eat more than 400 to 500 calories the first couple of months then I could go to 700...maybe 800. I lost 85 pounds in six months. People with not that much weight to lose can't just eat more in the first six months. Some people can...but I sure as hell couldn't. I couldn't eat more until last month and that was 14 months in.

I am at month 16/17 and none of my hair has grown back. You can get cheap clip in tracks on ebay. I wear them all the time. I don't do all the clips but just two rows works for me.

Am I the only one who is scared for these people that they would lose too much weight? I guess your body does adjust, but I finally didn't lose this month and that was month # 16. I am all for the surgery, but I always was scared I would lose too much. With only 50 pounds to lose...you could lose that in the first 3 months...then what.

I have never been able to get pregnant then all of a sudden I find out I am pregnant one month before my surgery...then I had a miscarriage a d rescheduled my surgery right away! That pregnant was a miracle to me...I was 34. So anyhoo I don't have 34 more years to wait to get pregnant and who knows what my problem is, but is IVF really $12,000!!!! My insurance win't cover it like somes states.

I was vegan for a few months. It was pretty easy. In order to get all the protien needed I am not sure you could be vegan, but vegetarians eat eggs, dairy and fish so I think that would be ok.

I bought cucumbers for my night time snack. I realize now that I have to remove all the sweets in the house. I am ok with it. I also decided to stop drinking liquids with artificial sweetners. So no carbs, sugar or aspartame like substances. It isn't that bad. Veggies are super yummy.

Sushi is mostly rice.

Too many carbs cause your sugar to spike...then when you crash you get the shakes. I had Too much sugar (carbs turn to sugar) on an empty stomach. I just broke out in a sweat, started shaking, feeling light headed and just overall yucky. I ate a little bit of sugar to balance me and then protien to make sure I didn't crash again. It is not fun.

What surgery are you having done. I am so scared to do it. I will probably do it eventually, but the timing and $ have to be right. Your job is right up my alley sort of. I oversee the education department at my museum. I am currently having them put together our firearms and ballistics workshop. What cool interactive demonstrations could you do with the public? We are doing the barcode number identification if it has been scratched off. i have 1/2 of a stereo scope so I have been calling crime labs all over to find the other parts or get a donation of an old (still functional) stereo scope.

How skinny people shave their underarms!!! My underarms are not fat anymore so they are like a crater now. I have to maneuver the razor and I still can't get it right.

This is a cool thread! My name is Susan, and I am going to be 36 in November. I adore documentaries and reality TV shows. I am filling out my application for a documentary film school certificate program that starts in January. I had a severely messed up childhood, but managed to stay away from drugs and actually graduate from college in 2000. I am very outgoing so being in sales and marketing comes naturally to me, but what I realize now is that I always had a passion for film at a young age that was never nurtured. I had to raise myself and started in the work force at 14...been working ever since. When you work and go to school or work all day there really is no room left for you at the end of the day. I have been saving $400 a week, living in a terrible apartment and not spending any money because in one year I am quitting working for someone else and going to blaze a trail through life doing something other than being a corporate zombie. We should not be working 40 hours a week only to have 2 weeks of vacation - it is sickening. No wonder we are all fat and stressed. Thanks for letting me share!

I can really eat now. I actually feel like I am on a diet. I really have to count my calories. Nights are the worst. I have finally been maintaining my weight at 1 year and 4 months out...actually gained a pound this week. I finally feel I have a tool and it is my choice if I don't want to gain. Not a lot People come back to the board after a year out so we don't really know the long term success. I feel like this forum should be packed. I am hungry a lot more too. Pretty scary! I just hope I do not gain.

In six months your sooooo going to be over it.

I have the worst hangovers so I just don't drink at all.