gregthegroove

Hey everyone, today marks 6 months since Being sleeved! Total lost is 135 lbs. 45 lbs lost pre surgery 90 lbs lost since Sept (6 months) post op Lost 16" around waist/ 8 pants sizes! I'm very happy! Today I weigh 245 lbs and I'm hoping to lose 45 more lbs over the next 6 months to get to 200 lbs. I hope everyone is doing well!

It really is a tool. I gotta do a better job at exercising and do as much as I can for this first 12 months. I've heard from many people that you'll be able to eat more food at about or after a year or so. :/

I'm ecstatic that I broke the 100lbs lost mark! Today I got to 101lbs lost. 47lbs PRE OP & 54lbs POST OP since 9/10/14.

Proud to say that today I broke the 100lbs lost mark! I've lost 101lbs altogether. 47lbs pre op and 53lbs post op on 9/10/14. Very happy

The main exit incision will hurt for up to 4 weeks or so. It gets better closer to 3-4 weeks but even then, if I sat up too quickly or twisted a certain way it hurt. Hang in there!

Welcome to TWOVILLE! I just passed the 300s myself a couple weeks ago. Feels great!

The main exit incision will hurt for up to 4 weeks or so. It gets better closer to 3-4 weeks but even then, if I sat up too quickly or twisted a certain way it hurt. Hang in there!

The main exit incision will hurt for up to 4 weeks or so. It gets better closer to 3-4 weeks but even then, if I sat up too quickly or twisted a certain way it hurt. Hang in there!

Liquids and purees go down very easily and get funneled out very quickly from your stomach. Wait until week 3 & 4 with semi/solids. It's a different story. You get full so super fast. Each day is different. I'm 8 weeks out and for the most part I'm not that hungry. Sometimes I do get hungrier than others though. But def not like before surgery.

TWOVILLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Today I moved out of the 300's and into the 2's! It feels great to live in twoville ???? Next stop, I'm hoping at some point in my life, it would be great to just feel what it's like to live in Onederland! CHEERS

It's not even that I'm against veggies or fruit either. I love to eat them as well. I make veggies all the time and have a couple fruits every day. That's not it. I also don't think I'm also just craving carbs because I'm eating a lot of them. It's not like I'm purposely just eating or craving them. My point is, that I was a huge meat eater before surgery. It's well documented that hormones can change what you liked before vs what you like now. I tried eating a chicken sausage yesterday, previously one of my favorite things before surgery. I ate it all but the last half was literally forced. Same thing with chicken breast etc...

So my wife claims that this sounds hormonal because she was like this being pregnant. But my biggest problem right now, is that the on,y thing that sounds appealing to me when I'm thinking about what to eat is anything carbs. Wether it's those little 5 oz mashed potato or Mac n cheese microwaveable cups, some rice, some little soft Pasta stars, a baked potato. meat just sounds very gross to me when I think about eating it. I was a meat eater before. So what's happening now, if you ask my opinion, is that my weight loss has kinda stalled (I'm 6 weeks out), I was losing anywhere between 4-5 or 6 lbs even, I'm lucky to lose 2 and go up randomly etc... I think even though I'm eating like 600-700 cals/day, it's mostly carbs with Protein only coming from a Protein shake and Nugo 10g Protein Bar. (The high protein Quest bars just don't taste good). So, I'm not eating enough real protein or meat. Is this happening to anyone else? Meat just doesn't sound good, but anything carbs does. I will try eating more yogurt, eggs and string cheese sticks etc... But I'm really hoping I'm able to make meat sound good to me again soon, as I think my weight loss will only improve and become more consistent with eating more protein with every meal.

Wait until you start eating semi solids or regular foods. You'll know! It's very restrictive. I felt the same way. If it wasn't for my exit incision pain, you'd think I didn't have a procedure. It wasn't until week 3 that I started to feel restriction.

I eat some peanut butter here and there since about 3 weeks out or so. Went down fine for me.