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Sounds to me like you're doing just fine if you average out the monthly losses. Here's a chart to put it into perspective:

As a rule, no. The lower the BMI, the slower the weight loss. Don't let that discourage you. Slow and steady wins the race.

105 pounds at 5'4 is not normal weight. You are considered underweight. Obviously if you are still losing weight, the answer is to up your calories until you stop. If you are eating 1400, go to 1500 or even 1600 until your weight stabilizes. But make sure what you're eating is Protein from fish, legumes, meat or dairy, veggies, fruits and nuts so you're getting full nutrition and curbing hunger and cravings. Cutting out sugar and carbs pretty much cuts out the cravings, also. That may help with the binge eating situation. I feel you need treatment for disordered eating, but I'm no expert. But usually if you can't seem to get control of things on your own, professional help is warranted. Good luck to you!

Why is your weight so low? Have you not been eating enough? You may just be hungry from lack of food! Between your very low weight and binge eating, I would highly advise getting professional help for disordered eating. And if you've received counseling or treatment before for it, it may be time for a tune up. Take care of yourself!

When is his surgery? It's not like you're going to be out of commission for weeks. Most people are up and about and even some back to work a week later. They encourage you to move and walk as much as you can, anyway. Lifting restrictions would really be the only concern. Obviously if his surgery is pretty much at the same time as yours it may be a issue if their isn't someone else around to help out.

I'm just gonna skip dinner and drink all night. Heavily.

I'm having a couple pieces of Jarlesberg as a snack as we speak. My very favorite cheese.There is one called a Derby SagePerfect fall cheese. Try and locate it and then don't kill me for the new addiction lol Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App *Getting coat on running to the store*

What a great question! I've always wondered that too because I work from home and obviously it was easier for me to make my own eating schedule. I've often wondered how I would have fared with fluids and food early out if I was at a job outside the home. Interested in the answers!

Having surgery is never pleasant, and regret is VERY normal early out when we are feeling like crap for several weeks after. Just realize this is just TEMPORARY. Each day, each week that goes by and things normalize for you and you see yourself losing weight this will all be a distant memory. Keep saying this to yourself: This too shall pass.

Exactly what @@KristenLe said! And @@sc101071 made a great point, also. One of the HUGE benefits of the sleeve surgery is that it removes the hunger hormone, so the will to eat is much less and that helps a ton. That's not to say there still isn't head hunger, but there are tools around that, and if you learn and utilize them, that's a huge win. I looked at the surgery as kind of a "do over", so I was pretty dead serious about making it work, even when I never could before the surgery. I didn't want to squander this great tool, and I truly believe a lot of people get their heads in the game post op when they couldn't before. It's a nice push for us that way. This is a mostly mental game, and it really does come down to how badly you want to succeed. You will have weak times, slip ups, and moments when you just want to quit. But the difference between people who really 'want it' and people who don't is that the people who really want it don't quit.

I'm having a couple pieces of Jarlesberg as a snack as we speak. My very favorite cheese.

@@Sai My son is really into WoW. Has been for years.

Stress reliever? I can sit for hours trying to figure out what colors to use. Sent from my iPad using the BariatricPal App This made me LOL

Ditto.

@@LisaMergs Awww, thanks sweets! And ditto!

This f****** election! I have decided to take a break this week so no TV just Netflix and I'm just sticking to this site and trying to stay off Facebook as much as I can. If I could just sleep until November 8th until it's all over with I would!

The whole idea of the surgery is to restrict how much you can eat. It takes time, but you're going to have to learn to be satisfied with a smaller amount of food. Right now your head is wanting more, not your stomach. Learn to read that and STOP when done or it can cause issues, both physical and emotional. Food will have to take a backseat from now on. And yes, the natural progression of things as everything heals and the swelling goes down is to be able to eat a bit more. That continues to increase slowly years out. There will be a time here real soon where you will miss the days of being full from a few spoonfuls of food. Believe me.

Totally normal. I still lose my appetite periodically after over 2 years post op. Enjoy it while it lasts, but force yourself to get your protein and fluids.

That's something you'll have to discuss with the surgeon. I had a much more minor foot surgery than yours (bunion) 3 weeks before my sleeve and it wasn't a problem at all to my surgeon. Will you be able to walk? That's going to be important for healing and helping with the gas.

Yes, THIS. And THIS! Amazing job young lady!!

For those of us who have kids, it's kind of like that. We all have this picture in our minds of these perfectly coiffed children who excel at everything because we were the absolute perfect, patient, lots of time having, healthy dinner cooking, PTA attending parents. Then we have them and it's all we can do to get them out the door with their hair brushed clutching a sack lunch consisting of a Lunchable so we can finally get a shower and throw some clothes on to sit in traffic to go to work just to come home and barely have time to cook hot dogs for dinner and have homework done by the time they go to bed. Sometimes it's so hard and completely not what we expected, but so worth it in the end

@@BigViffer Great article! I bookmarked it

First of all, amazing success! I was one of those that DID choose a goal weight according to BMI, but I agree with you wholeheartedly that it is a bunch of phooey as are as choosing a "healthy" weight. I feel body fat % is a much more accurate measurement as far as overall health and fitness. That being said, I chose 150 (high end of normal BMI for my height) but decided to deliberately keep losing until my body decided to stop at around 143. The reason? After having a husband who had a bypass 10 years ago, seeing hundreds of posts on forums like these, and looking at statistics, there is a very high chance of a 5-10% bounce gain a few years post op. I decided to go as low as I could possibly go so if I do in fact gain the bounce weight, it won't put me too much over in the overweight category. I would have liked to go lower, but my body said NOPE. My body fat percentage is in the high normal range for my age, so I am working on bringing that down instead. I would suggest letting your body go as low as it wants to go, as long you're still healthy, for the reasons I stated. Why go through major surgery and not just go as far as you can possibly go with it? As far as the "too skinny" thing, let me be frank. People don't even know what a healthy weight looks like anymore, so anyone in the 'normal' weight range looks too skinny to everyone! I mean, I could easily lose 20 more pounds and still be healthy. Just small.

It was easier for me the first and second year sleeved. The first year I had no candy because I was only 2 months post op, last year I was at goal and I think I had 1 peice. This year in maintenence for a year it's been hard. I've had several Kit Kats. But I'll be running them off tomorrow and detoxing off sugar again for sure!