Toyaboo22

[quote name="Lisa ]Here's the thing...Diets don't work!! If they did' date=' everyone would be losing weight and KEPPING it off with them!! The only way to achieve success in weight loss is with a change in lifestyle....which is why most of us had surgery in the first place. The thing with diets is that they create a deficit. But it's like borrowing money from a bank...you can't expect to go into "debt" and not pay it all back plus interest!! That's the way diets work....you go into calorie "debt" and then, one day, you have to pay the debt back with "interest"!!! This is the reason that most people lose weight on diets and then when they go back to eating the way they did before, they gain it all back plus a little more. This is also what drives our "set point" up too...which is the weight your body wants to naturally be at. Immediately after surgery we are forced to "diet", if you will...but long term, I don't believe that long term weight loss can be PERMANENTLY achieved through severe calorie restriction. Our bodies need fuel (aka: food in the form of Protein, carbs and fat) to run efficiently. I was in a 5 month plateau (from Nov-March) and, for me, it was about taking an honest look at my eating behavior. I wasn't tracking and my nutrition was off balance. Now that I'm back to tracking my food and eating a balance of protein, fat AND carbs, my weight loss has picked back up again![/quote'] Thanks for your input on this. I never really looked at it like this.

I'm in. Good idea with the spreadsheet.

Pole dancing for fun not as a profession, lol.

How in the world can they expect us to eat 1200 cal/day. Sometimes, I barely get in 600 and I have to force that. I'm getting to the point where I don't feel like eating no more.

I'm so glad that you decided to write this post because I'm actually going through this now with my husband. Since I have had the surgery and losing weight, I have been going through hell around here. If a guy posts or comment on my FB page, I'm being accused of sleeping with them. He now has concerns every time a notification comes through my phone throughout the day b/c he doesn't know if it's a text from a guy. It's been horrible. The thing is I lost weight a couple years back and he acted the same way. He was able to convince me to eat this and that and now that I look back did things that would prevent me from being active or trying to stay healthy. He would make the same comments about him being with me while I was overweight but I had also had plenty of boyfriends before him. I wish I would've listened to the voice in my head years ago to leave him because it's worst now that we're married with kids. We don't really talk these days b/c he flips out on me but I've tried to suggest counseling and sometimes he says okay and other times he doesn't want to consider it. He keeps saying "you're losing wieght so I know you're going to leave me when it's all gone". If I've stayed with him for 9 years of his crap, what would me losing weight have to do with anything. Girl, why you are not attached to him as his wife, just leave and don't deal with it. I am seriously considering divorce with this foolishness over here.

*Update* Surgery date: 9/12 SW: 220 CW: 171.4 48.6 lbs down (I think I'm a slow loser) I didn't do my pre surgery diet either

Great job!

Nicole1022

How do you like that? Im thinking about getting one

You look great. Congrats on the loss.

Interesting, I was told no soda no more.

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Awesome

Great job

I am so sick too. Been feeling like crap all week.

I wish I were one of those who dumped after they have sweets. Since I been stressed, I can eat a whole bag of candy :-( that makes things even more depressing

Ok, here we go again. I'm in! Surgery date: 9/12 220 Current weight: 185 Christmas goal weight: 175

I've actually been small and petitie my whole life until 2003 after the birth of my daughter when I got on birth (Depo). I blew up. I started the process of yoyo dieting and started packing on more weight. I had my second child in 2010 and was never able to lose weight regardless of diet or exercise

4' 11 220 Surgery weight

I posted in the wrong spot earlier. How is everyone from the 12th doing?

How has everyone been doing?

Congrats

Great job