Globetrotter

Well Coops, you are still doing better than me! I feel like a tick about to pop, and I'm still 15 lbs away from goal, and I seem to be gaining weight hand over fist, even though my eating has not changed. I REALLY get your frustration!

My pants are like sausage casings, my thyroid is normal. =(

I do low carb, less than 30 is ideal. If I eat the kind of food that is low carb but not necessarily low calorie then I set myself up for a gallbladder attack.

Sure 2 lbs of that is bounce - water, constipation, bloat, whatever. But that is 4 undeniable pounds, despite daily exercise and between 800-1100 cals per day. I am really distressed.

I have gained six pounds, clearly I am one of the unfortunates who cannot deviate from <800 cals. A week of 1000-1100, 6 pounds. I'm stricken.

Tera's whey organic fairtrade dark chocolate whey powder is the best. Add some hemp milk, some Click mocha protein powder, some SF syrup, some SF whipped topping and a tap of cinnamon - put it in one of those ceramic cups made to look like a to-go paper coffee cup, and NOBODY can tell that it isn't some calorific concoction from starbucks! =)

That is the MOST toxic, psychotic, narcissistic, passive-aggressive BULLSHIT! Man, that really pulls my trigger. F***ing people who actually secretly (or not so secretly) delight in your fat vulerability because it makes them feel better about themselves! And should you upset the status quo, they really flip out! They desperatey NEED for you to stay unhappy, to better congratulate themselves on being superior!! fuuuuuu** that shi*.

Tuesday February 7th, 2012 - B: Earl Grey tea latte, "London Fog". 1 cup 2% milk, vanilla syrup. 2 oreos, 1 small cinnamon sugar doughnut, 1 chips-ahoy ='( greek yogurt, walnuts L: chicken pickle roll ups, Protein shot D: sauteed chicken, brussel sprouts snack: pink lady apple multivit, coq10, essential woman oils Water (hot decaf herbal tea)

Big Luvs 4 all! =) @Lila21, definitely I will take you up on the offer, let's be anti-sugar buddies! Now that I have finished my morning tea latte I will not eat or drink anything for the rest of the day that contains added sugar, and the sweetener I use will be stevia. Tomorrow, nothing remotely sweet unless it is a fiberous piece of fruit.=) @Coops, I know it sounds like I am being hard on myself but I'm really not hard enough! Fretting isn't the same as doing, and I need to do. I kind of scoff at the notion of someone my size being "addicted" to exercie, but I only feel good about myself and positive about my weight future during exercise. Of course, during yoga I can get terribly upset because my f***ing gut is still in the way.>:[ I really have got to look into finding a good deal on a juicer, I think 2 weeks on juice and protein shakes would be an excellent reboot. =)

Hey guys, I'm starting to distrust myself. When I still had faith that I would lose weight, when I saw it coming off steadily at a pound every other day, I was so sure of myself and my sleeve that all manner of evil foods could pass under my nose and have little affect on me. Now, I can't be trusted, and that makes me sad. Also, even though the scale hasn't moved, I just feel fat, and no it isn't TOTM. Sigh. I ate bread over the weekend, and carrot cake, and lemonade =( Is my only choice to empty my house of everything and go back on liquids? I'm starting to have a sweet tooth like never before in my life, always I have been a savory/salty snacker, I never even liked carrot cake! =( =( I know I'm slumping big time, my house is a filthy mess, I'm not putting any effort into my appearance, etc. etc.

oh yeah, I'm also going to bring back a post-op behavior that I have not done in nearly a year, not drinking while eating and waiting 30 min after eating to drink, to get maximum fullness and time-in-stomach for the food I eat.

@ MeginNOLA - I have wondered that, but there is still definite pudge on my body, not just muscle and skin but real fat, around my gut, my chest, my thighs, all over. I know that I do have and will have plenty of skin and tissue that will need to be removed through total body contouring which is why I am perfectly fine with a goal weight of 130 +/- lbs, since I know I will lose an additional 10 lbs in skin easily. @ Coops - day one and I've had an Oikos with walnuts & stevia, 4 oz of deli sliced lunch meat smeared with fat free cream cheese and rolled up, and .... a handful of cinnamon M&M's =( =( =( I don't know WHY I ate them, I just WANTED the sugar/chocolate/crunch/sweet. =( Did the double work out last night, doing yoga & tango back to back tonight, gotta push the Water, have only drunk 1 cup of tea so far =/ My food for the rest of the day would have included; a Protein bullet, a serving of pumpkin seeds, an apple, a chicken breast & brussel sprouts, but now I will have to cut out the apple and the protein bullet because of those effing M&M's =( I was really looking forward to that apple. =( Oh well, tomorrow. Now, water water water water!!!!

Hey everybody, Globetrotter here, long time no post! As some of you may recall, I returned from deployment one year ago this month. Life has been a whirlwind of adjustment ever since and I have become a stranger on our forum. In the year that I have been home I have lost "only" 40 lbs, bringing my post-op weight loss to 130 lbs. I am 18 months out from surgery and am still not at goal, which is just so frustrating and demoralizing. I am 15 lbs away from surgeon's goal and 40 lbs away from personal goal. Anyone who remembers me here knows that I have been a slooow loser from day one, always fretting over it, but now it really has slowed to about one or two pounds a month. In the last 7 months I have lost only 15 lbs. I exercise at least 4 days a week, for several hours at a time. A typical day of exercise for me includes a TRX class, followed by a yoga class, followed by 2 hours of tango. I still eat a lot of Protein but I will admit - I eat s*** now. I have allowed myself to eat french fries, chocolate cake, alcohol, whipped cream, bread, etc. I am incredibly lucky that, a year and a half out, I still do not have real hunger, but my tastebuds rule. I have fallen off the path my brothers and sisters, and I know that falling away from the Forum has NOT helped. I've got to get to goal folks, I've got to. I am 5'3" and 164 lbs, I am still fat. Yes, I am active, yes I look 100x better than when I started, but my chub still prevents me from running that mile, from achieving that yoga pose, from enjoying those killer stillettos longer than an hour. I plea for your help in returning me to the fold and helping me across that finish line. I didn't know if there is a place in the forum now for long term sleevers, a place to discuss the changes in metabolism, the challenges of acheiving goal after the first year when you've beena slow loser, all that. I look forward to hearing from you. =) Globetrotter

Aww, thanks for the cheerleading Coops! =) I know that here, amongst my people, I am not fat but out in the "real" world, for my height, yes I am overweight. BMI still has me as fat, and even surgeon's goal (150) will still have me as "overweight"! I have already created a new food plan for tomorrow in my tracker for 1070 calories, yikes! I arrived at that number using a BMR calculator. When you are eating good foods it is tricky getting in all those calories, yet staying in the right range of carbs v protein. Tonight I have TRX and BodyFlow (combination tai chi, yoga, & pilates) and will have some greek yogurt for dinner. I have a friend that just today offered to show me how to run properly so I may be incorporating that as well. Saying no to my tastebuds is going to be difficult, I think there may be some psychology involved there, fear of deprivation? Stimulating my tastebuds in lieu of something else I really want but aren't getting? Hmm. Funny Coops, I too have hit 164! After some horrific gallbladder attacks that left me wrung out of all bodily fluids, I hit 164.4 and am currently about 165 something. It is time to go back to my roots and banish these white-flour carbs and starches, kick out the white sugar that has crept in, start weighing everything again, and drink that water!!!! I am going to stay on the 1000+ calories for seven days (starting tomorrow), I will weigh myself tomorrow morning and then not again until day seven, and see what happens!

So here I am, back in the Forum, still one Slow A** Loser =P. It is the sweets that have gotten me, specifically the sweet carbs. I have been known in the past 6 months to eat a Payday bar, a snickers, a doughnut!!!! Certainly this hasn't helped matters but, I have always been a slow loser, just never this slow. I don't do much cardio even though I move a LOT - yoga, pilates, TRX, tango. So, how to frickin lose my last 40?!! GAH!! Obviously, stop it with the junk food, increase my water, change up my work out to include more/better cardio. But what about my calories? I have always been low cal, 850 or less. The one thing I've never done is go high cal for a concerted period of time, say 1200 for a week. I'm afraid to go that high. WHY have I had to fight for every ***ing pound, since day one?! F***!!!! I'm just so tired of being fat. 18 months later and I'm STILL. FAT.

UPDATE: It's well over a year since I started this thread, wow! I have remained a frustratingly slow loser and am now averaging barely 1-2 lbs per month, still hovering around 800 cals, still exercising 1-2 hours a day, 5 days a week. I am not to goal yet. The one thing I have never done in the year and a half since surgery is to go high calorie -1200- for a concerted period of time. I'm simply too afraid of what might happen.

I would very much like to hear responses on this issue as well, I am a year and a half out and am on the hunt for ways to jump start my weight loss again and have become interested in juicing.

I am a year and a half out from surgery (still not to goal) and have had sudden attacks of colic. The surgeon wants to take my gallbladder and I am reluctant, I am afraid that it wil affect my quality of life and or slow down my continuing (at a snail's pace) weight loss. Thoughts?

has anyone actually made some of the recipes from the World According to Eggface blog? I don't have a kitchen here but they look so amazing! Only prob is she never posts protein or calorie content. Man I want to make those protein donuts!!!!!!!!

Man, that ricotta bake saved my sanity two weeks out from surgery when the very idea of the smell of one more protein shake made me want to hurl. Hmm, just thinking about it makes me kinda want it, maybe I'll make it for dinner tonight! Although now that I am a year out I had better make just 1 or 2 servings worth since my capacity has increased and I don't want to take the risk that I will gorge, and at least now I can add in some chewable protein like ground beef or turkey. Drooooool =)

Man, can I relate to this post!! Day of surgery I weighed 294, and was a tight 24, loose 26. It was three months before I could squeeze into 22 pants, another three months before I was an 18 and a 20 depending on the brand, three more months before I was a comfortable 16 and another 3 months before I could wear a 14. So you could say that I've changed sizes roughly four times over the last year, or every 25 pounds. The pisser (excuse me) now, is that I have NO idea what my "true" size is, I'm beginning to doubt that even exists. I have a pair of trousers that I'm convinces must be factory rejects because they are Ann Taylor Loft and they are a size 10 and they fit, yet I went to Ann Taylor the other day and tried on a blouse in a 16 and it barely fit. I went to Kohl's the other day and a pair of Daisy Fuentes capris in a 16 fit perfectly, yet I have a pair of J. Crew cords in a 12petite that fit nicely. I think though that my theory of sizes shifting more quickly when they are <12 will prove correct. My theory has always been that plus sizes have 20 pounds between sizes and that "regular" sizes are ten pounds between. My further theory is that petite sizes (<6) have only 5 pounds between them - hope I get to find out!

I believe creatine is a component in my protein shake powders that I get from GNC, will have to check. I cannot open the video, what does it say?

Oooooohoooh! toldjatoldatoldatoldja!! *doing the toldja so dance* Yahoo Keys, I knew you could and I knew you would, yes, hope for all!!

Expect the best, prepare for the worst. It's important to listen to every kind of story offered up by post-ops but never assume that you will be the rare patient that just coasts through everything. Also acid - be prepared to possibly be on some kind of acid blocker for the rest of your life. I am one year out and if I forget to take my Prevacid I know I am in for an uncomfortable day and a high likelihood of overeating. Everything everyone else has said about support networks and protein and exercise and carb eradication is so awesome I don't need to add to it! =)

Well, ya know, there's no "have to" about making certain foods for your family. I get rather feisty when I hear women say things like this, you're not their slave - they can eat what you serve them and like it! Besides, they should be encouraged to support you by helping to create a nutritious environment for you, and really everyone can benefit from cutting out high glycemic carbs.