jhope

Hey I am so behind on all the special treatment, and dougeez, my excitement is just not there with out the special treatments. I gotta get out more!

What ever your taking, you have come a long way, and if you need a little down time, dont! Keep up the good work, and your not going to be able to sit a spell with all the girls a hollering to ya!

3 Months post op, and if I dont get my water or protein, I loose steam. But just as the day of surgery, I need to walk more, and I dont like walking alone, and if I dont, I sit....and sit...and we know that aint right!

You can be free of stress over food if you do not dwell on what you are doing wrong, but what needs to be done right, FIRST! First you must have water, and second, you must have protein, If you can drink your water, and drink your protein,(I mix mine with water by adding it to my 16 oz water bottles, throw away.)...If you can get those things in, and eat some fresh vegitable or fruit or both, then if you have any room in your belly, then try to eat some food with no nutritional value. But I would try to make at least one healty fruit vegitable smothie or juice drink a day before adding the chips. Make soup and keep a pot of it at all times so you have go to food that satisfies. Just me!

I go through weeks of nothing I try working well. No kinda mexican food, not the tortillas, not fajita meat, just some of the charo beans. No ribs, No chicken cooked any way, no whole milk, it is all too rich and makes me feel sickish. It is soups most of the time, or cooked veggies, and all the tuna I can eat, even with real mayo, it does not make me sick, But anything remotely fryish makes me sickey,. But oatmeal and raisen bran with 2 or skim. When I want to eat what I used to love, it makes me sick. But I am loosing, and it is working. I never followed any of the rules, I skipped the whole clear liquid thing, and only ate mushey all the dang time. Fish Chowder is my basic favorite, no mater how you make it, it comes out great, and loads me with the protein I never seem to get enough of. I hate not being able to go have a beer and ? chips, food or anything. I can only have a beer or have dinner.

Hey if this helps, let me say it. There is this thing I forgot what it is called, but it is where your body makes glycogin I think, and there is about like 6 to 8 lbs of water to make this in the mucles, and when you start the ketosis thing, the body uses all the glycogin (might really be called something else) in the mucles, it has to store up another 6 to 8 lbs of water to make / disolve more of this glycogin. So you really could be loosing a lot more than before.

Every time some one blew up or belched, someone would say, "Show Off"! I noticed the only two who blew up, were the only two guys in our group, and you know how a lot of guys have termenal blow up diesease.

I have a pretty high pain threshhold, but the surgery didnt have a thing on the gas! Whewee. Oweee! That hurt a lot, as compared to no hurtie. It lasted all that and then some, just long enough to let me get out and take some shopping trips the last 2 days in the "mansion".

Taking it all in and I Mean ALL! This 61 lb weight loss is so great, but it is hard to keep up with! All those changing clothing sizes, and ya, I went and bought new ones for a few weeks, but that kinda was biting into my other spending frenzies, so I pulled up that weed. Now I am franticly roto zipping through all my slacks and jeans along with my capries and tops. By roto zipping, I mean flip the pants inside out, drag out the long arm sewing machine, and quick as a lick, stitch up the one inside leg and down the other. Next it is grasping the back label, pinch an inch between my finger and thumb, and away we stitch it to the other end, stopping short of the zipper with a tappering off to the nub. Next it is wisking away the affending portion of the clothe with my fiskers and, Wa Laah, Im lean mean and can do machine! The blouses dont have a match on me, they are next. Again grasping the label in the back, I make a single stitch down the back, and snipp and a snapp, and the garmet is wearable for another month, and next time it down the front! Let me know what encounters your having with your new future wardrobe!

I applaud you! I myself had to forgo the cruise this year, as I only really want to eat on the dang things, and would just make myself sick trying to stick it out. Maybe next year. Have fun

Oh, and my favorite on target steady food is tuna salads and split pea soups, home made and really healthy. But like I said, Im not doing anything consistantly, but still trying.

I am on week 15 too, and have lost exactly 40 lbs since my surgery, and and 61 since my consult. Slow, but I dont drink my water, dont exercise, dont eat right and still hybernate. And do better when I cook, but dont get to cook all the time.

Hey there, me too, I have to loose 150 lbs too! I have lost 50 or so since my sleeve in the end of March, but still watching the ticker go down. Congratulations, hope all is well and continues to go well.