Forensikchic

SN: Forensikchic SW: 179 GW: 164 CW: 169.9 pounds to lose: 5.9 Well, this week was a wash. I have been up and down the same pound since last Monday. I was actually up yesterday to 170.9 then back down to 169.9. I recorded my small gain of a half pound since last Sunday. Its frustrating but I knew this was going to happen. I was losing hand over fist a week ago and it had to end. I knew I would stall at around 170 because I weighed this weight for years. My body likes it here. The good news is I lost a few inches this past week and my clothes fit a little looser. I am not in a solid 12 yet but I can wear a 14 in anything and some are too big. I am wearing my first size medium button down shirt and it fits great! Even a little big! So I will celebrate the positives where I can! Good luck peeps... we have about 16 days to go! I believe I can make my goal in two weeks. I really do!

Thinoneday said "When people ask how much have you lost, you can just very cheerfully say "I don't know, I haven't been to the doctor yet, but I'll remember to let you know next time i weigh! After all without you this wouldn't be possible" I love this!!!! I laughed until my sleeve hurt! Thanks!

I take a flintstones chewable with iron now. I was taking a chewable iron tablet that I got from my surgeons office. I think its bariatric advantage but its 27 mg of iron. It tastes like a sweet tart. I would chew it up at night before bed. Never made me sick. Vitamins on an empty stomach always make me deathly ill and I cant take but a few antibiotics because I get so sick sooo take it from me... they wont make you sick. Maybe you should try chewing two flintstones with iron and see if you can do that. They are much milder than the grownup versions and my labs have been fine so far. hth

I think you will be just fine. I was nervous too! I saw mine for my 3 month check up. I had an okay visit. I wouldnt say it was the greatest but he said I was doing fine. He told me that my weight loss was going to start slowing down and I needed to up my exercise if I wanted to make goal but he could tell and had no doubt that I would! He had not set a goal for me so I asked him about it. He asked me where I wanted to be and I said 135 sounded good to me and he said "me too!". He did tell me that I needed to get down to about 125 so I would have some room for rebound when my weight decided to settle out... I took the positives and ran with it. I go again Feb. 10 for my 6 month check up. Good luck tomorrow and tell us what he says!

I am almost 6 months out too and I dont think its the end for us. When I cranked up my cardio and going to the gym in November, I stalled too. It got frustrating. I finally started losing again in December. I think our bodies have to stop and think about what we are doing when we change up our routine like that. You will have a drop soon and then you will plateau again. My surgeon said it would happen for longer periods of time and more often the further out we are but its not going to stop unless you stop obeying the rules. Protein first and exercise! Hang in there! It will drop again soon!

I am just curious what context this was in. I am not following what the person is talking about. What problem are you supposed to be fixing or causing? Why is he unhappy, if it is a HE. Just curious. Tam

Lissa- You did read that right. She has been saying for years how she wished she could have it done. That was her first comment to me when I told her that I was having it done. I decided that I could not live without her and we both have obesity issues, so why not help her to get healthy so we can be around for each other for as long as possible. My father is helping also. She is a teacher and will be having the surgery with Dr. Alvarez in MX in June (after school is out). Its two hours from here (San Antonio) and of course, I will going with! She lives in Mississippi, where I am originally from, so she will be staying with me in south Tx for a few weeks, until she is healed enough to go home. I will be driving her back and she will be on full liquids then for another week. I think she will be fine and do fantastic! I have been trying to talk her into getting on this website to gain more knowledge but so far... she hasnt. One day soon, I hope she will join us.

I got a shocker yesterday from one of my best friends. She lives out of state but we talk every few weeks or so. We were both heavy, her being taller and heavier than me. We have been friends for 14 years. I went to visit her about a year and half ago and was at my heaviest. She was trying a new fad diet, the hcg drops under your tongue. She had lost about 20 pounds. She urged me to try it. I went home and started taking the hcg shots and I lost about 20 pounds. I gained all that back and so did she. I had surgery, called her and told her. Her answer was ewwwww. Ill keep my stomach, thanks. I was a little taken aback by it but to each his own. I havent talked to her in a month or so. I called her to chat and when I told her I was under 170 now nad had lost 65 pounds the phone went silent. She didnt congratulate me or anything. She said things like "are you still eating 600 calories a day and starving?" I said no, I was all the way up to 800 and I am never hungry! She said "arent you week and tired all the time" and I explained that I had plenty of energy, even more than before. She just said "oh". Nothing else. I felt the jealousy in the air and so I quickly went on to another subject and got off the phone. This upsets me. She would want me to be happy for her if she lost the weight. Why cant she be happy for me? I told her my sister was going to have it done and they are both teachers. Neither have insurance to cover it. She asked how my sister was going to pay for it. I told her that I was paying for it. She said she knew that most teachers insurances wont cover it. That tells me that she has checked on it so she is not ALL that against it like she said before.. with the "I will keep all my parts, thank you" comment. I just dont get people.

Hey guys..I forgot to check in on Saturday so here goes... I lost 3.5 pounds this week and finally got under 170! I am 169.5 as of Sunday morning. Yay me! So glad to have a big loss this week. I know it means I will stall here for the next few but I will drop again. I just have to believe in this! I have lost a total of 64.5 pounds during my journey so far. Have a great week!

I have always wondered about this topic. I am 5'4" tall and I started out on this journey weighing 234 and was a solid size 20. XL tops. I am down to 169 now and I wear a 14 in most things but they are baggy. The size 12's however are tooooo tight. I have one pair of 12's that fit me. So I have resolved to wear a belt and just have my pants bag in the butt. I dont understand how so many people my weight and height can wear 10's and 12's. I cant. I do wear a lot of medium shirts now and some larges. My goal weight is 135 and I dont know what size that will be for me personally. I dont think it will be as small as some of the others that are my height and weight. I have a small waist but bigger hips and thighs. My arms are also kinda big so that makes finding shirts with sleeves harder to fit the smaller sizes. I abandoned long sleeve button downs a long time ago because of my fat upper arms. Teehhee. I will be glad to wear them again. My goal is to be 135 or under and wear small/medium tops and a solid size 6 in jeans, maybe some 4's. Back in the day in college (late 80's) I wore a size 6 or 5/7 in juniors. I was about 130-135 pounds then. But that was before the kids and I didnt have the child bearing hips then. I think that all makes a difference in what size I can wear now. I have weighed 170 before, many times actually, and I was a solid size 12 then, but not this time. I can hardly get in a 12 and I have gone under 170. I guess its just a learning process! Only time will tell!

SN: Forensikchic SW: 179 GW: 164 CW: 169.5 pounds to lose: 5.5 Been losing like Mad this week...3.5 pounds! I dont know why but I am very happy. I know I will stall again but I am hoping for this losing streak to continue! I have not weighed under 170 in about 18 years! So happy to be in the 160's!!!! Yay!

Nothing...I just waited it out. I did discover I could drink my unflavored protein in orange juice! That upped my protein by twenty grams a day. It could have made a small difference. I only started that this week.

Thanks! I am down another 1.5 pounds so far this week! Yay! Can't wait for my number to start with 16_. Woohoo!

I just want to add that people have different goals, it may be a certain weight, BMI or just to be healthy and happy with no numbers attached. No matter the GOAL, lets all fight to get to ours while the time is right. I think that is the major point here. I think its hard to sit there, after we have all been through this journey and not feel a little something when we see that someone gave up and didnt reach their own personal happy place and are still stuck in the mental place that certain things are unattainable. If she really didnt want to look like a model, like she said, I dont think those words would have come out of her mouth. There was just something telling about it and you can see that she really had other goals and gave up on them. There is no reason to not believe in yourself and sell yourself short and just try to justify it to strangers. I feel for her and I hope one day she realizes her worth. We can all do anything we set our minds to. We dont have to settle for less than we deserve and want.

Sorry about that lilmissdiva... I thought you were saying I was getting on to people. I surely wasnt trying to. We are all in this together, we need to motivate each other. We all have struggles when it comes to weightloss, otherwise we wouldnt be here! Again, I didnt mean to speak out of turn. Have a great day!

I dont "get on" to people here either... I try to motivate and rally the troops to make the most of their sleeve in the beginning so they will make their personal goal, what ever that may be. We can all do this. Its obvious to me that the woman did not make it to her personal goal yet or she wouldnt feel the need to explain it all to a perfect stranger in the waiting room. Its pretty obvious to me that when people overexplain, its because they want to try to justify their shortcomings to themselves so they can feel okay about the fact that they didnt try their hardest and stopped trying way before they had gotten to their goal. If this wasnt the case, I think it would have been more like : Hi, Im so and so and I had surgery three years ago and I lost XXX about of pounds! SMILE! It would not be filled with excuses and saying that she didnt want to be a model anyway.... just my two cents.

Amen sister! I have heard these types of self defeating comments before. I think people tend to get complacent. I know in years past when I would lose some weight, I would get tired of it and just maintain that loss and say I was happy there because it was better than where I was before. I wasnt really happy there but I felt defeated because I could never seem to keep up the hard work long enough to get to goal. I would get down to 170 and stop every time. I would be a size 12-14, wear regular clothes and get complacent. Not this time! I did not go through all this to stay at 170. I was 171.4 this morning and I cant wait to break into the 160's! Hell, in about 12 pounds I will be in the 150's and that blows my mind but seems so attainable to me now! Who cant lose 12 pounds? I agree that we all need to work our asses off to get to goal no matter how long it takes and then we can relax a little bit. No rest until you are at goal people! Stay with it and then you will be much happier and healthier when you are maintaining your goal weight, not the weight you were when you stopped to rest and get complacent with your eating. I hope this makes sense. This first year or so is the one that counts that we can get the most from our tool and its a shame to waste a minute of it! We've got this! We can all do it! Find that inner strength and determination and ride it to the end!

I have family in Brazil (well, I hosted exchange students from there so they are family to me) and we just went to one of the girls weddings last year in Marasias. We visited Sao Paulo for a week where she is from. I also saw one of my girls that is from Rio and we also had one that I didnt get to visit from Fortaleza. What part of Brazil are you going for the wedding?

I have been waiting on this day! My BMI just dropped under 30! I weighed 174 today! Yay! This was my Christmas goal and I finally made it! Took me three extra weeks to do it but I am thrilled! In four more pounds, I will weigh less than I have weighed in 17 years! Wooop!

Mine are quite jiggly on top. I am wondering if I will need to have a thigh lift later on. I still have a lot of cellulite on my thighs as well. They are a lot smaller though. I have lost about 5 inches in them!

Well, I for one have fat calves and tree trunk legs. I am only 5'4" and I have a hard time finding a boot that I can zip over my calf.. well, I cant find one. Now that I have lost 61 pounds, my knees just suddenly reappeared! I have knotty knee caps! Who knew? My key chain hangs down from the ignition now and bumps against this bony prominence called a knee cap and now is sore from it! What the H E double hockey sticks????? I never knew I had knees under there. I am hoping that by next fall, I will be able to wear any boot I damn well please. I am still too scared to try them right now. I dont want to face dissappointment. I have been walking each evening and I think that is helping. I dont do a lot of exercise either but I am trying. I hope that both of us find our knees and realize we have beautiful legs under all this! I believe we do! Hang in there and see what happens! I think if you just exercise, like walking and toning, you will be pleasantly surprised what your legs really look like underneath it all.

I always forget this thread! I was down three pounds this week as of Saturday. I reached my minigoal of just being overweight and also passed up the 60 pound mark! I am now down to 172.5 as of this morning. I have discovered a pattern in my losses too. I generally go down 2 or 3 pounds over the weekend and stay the same or fluctuate all week. Sometimes I stay around the same for up to two weeks before I drop again. I just have to learn to be patient and drink more water! We are all doing great. We knew it would slow down about right now and I looks like it has for us. We still have plenty of time to loose the rest as we are supposed to lose for up to two years if we try! Come on girls, beat the carb monster and get those proteins in!

As hard as it is, try not to compare your journey with someone elses. You are doing great! Just keep working on your own goals and you will achieve them.. This of course is a lot easier said than done. I have to keep telling myself this all the time. I think you are doing phenomenal!

Yay Meg!