FluffyChix

Yeah, every doc is diff. I had heller time with peanut butter cuz of the fat in it. I was totes great with powdered peanut butter. I like Vitacost peanut butter slim cuz it didn't make me feel like I was gonna die. I didn't do a whole lot of cheese cuz my doc said it was really binding. But I skipped puree and when straight to fork tender mushies: cottage cheese, canned tuna/salmon/chicken, steamed/poached white fish, egg white puffs and soft boiled eggs. That kind of thing.

Who is Rex Bariatric in Raleigh and if you're going overseas for the surgery why do you need them? If your iron is low you have to find out why before surgery. Cuz these surgeries can be tough on iron status. So you need to be stable. If you of menstruating age that would or could explain it, but if not, then one of the most usual places for iron to escape is in the GI tract. Any doc can order a colonoscopy. How bout your PCP?

I love it! You look fabulous and totally at goal! Are you?!!! Love the outfit!!

Nope. The red tights would be overkill. These are PERFECT! And you look adorbs!!! You have such a darling figure!

True story. I was pretty discouraged. For months I was up and down from 135-140lbs. I dispaired of ever reaching my Goal #3. I even moved it up to appease my brain to be 135lbs so I could call goal and get the monkey off my back. I finally got down to 130lbs. Only a 5-10lb scale movement. And I'd taken pics at my PS at 135lbs and then recently at 130lbs and the difference nekkid 360 is startling. So much so that his nurse commented on how toned and how much smaller I am. I'm also down 2 and almost 3 sizes in that 5-10lbs. So yeah. It's a thing. Just cuz the scale isn't moving doesn't mean things aren't happening in your body. In my case, my fat was being displaced with rebuilt sculpted muscle. They weigh the same since a pound is a pound the world around, but 1lb of muscle occupies way less space than 1lb of fat.

Well there's your problem lady! Quit watching My 600LB Life! Gosh I used to love that show now I hate it with as @ms.sss the hot intense heat and passion of 10,000 suns! It misleads so many people!!! First these people losing 25-50-100lbs a month are all super morbidly obese. And you are what is considere in WLS terms as a "lightweight" since you are starting at 204lbs. Second, true AVERAGE weight loss is only between 2-4lbs in the early weeks/months following surgery. The body can only lose so quickly. It's a biochemical formula. Third. There is a very famous "3 week stall" that happens between weeks 2-6. It's aggravating, can last a few days of a couple of weeks. But as long as you follow your doc's and RD's plan, you will be in good shape and things will go well for you. You will lose the weight! Congrats on the 22lbs of loss and being in onederland!!! Woot! Early Christmas pressie!

OMG. So where do you find the different memes of table cat? I LOVE him so much!!

You must follow the doctor's food progression for you. Where are you supposed to be at 4 weeks, per his plan?

I'm sorry for your struggles!!! ((hugs)) Depression is a b***h!! It sets up not only emotional and behavior barriers for making healthy choices, but it also sets up a physiological cascade of stress hormones whose job it is to keep you alive! And keep you eating! So it activates all the hunger hormones and we eat and eat and eat and we eat the kinda of stuff that will give us a biochemical reward of dopamine and seratonin (feel good hormones), cuz you know...we're depressed. Right? Let's build some neurotransmitters to help! So the answer is simple and difficult at the same time. You have to dig deep down and find the will and the willpower to say, "Fork this spit! I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna take it anymore! Today is the day I step out in change! I'm choosing to make a better choice!" Then you take tiny little baby steps to make the next best choice. You don't look forward and you quit looking back. And pretty soon you've racked up days and weeks and months of making the next best choice and you are back on track. Like @catwoman7 I know absolutely how easy it is to not make the best choice and to have weight quickly pile back on to my body. I'm not metabolically blessed or particularly flexible. And I'm very cautious as I finalize year 2 post op and move into year 3. Cuz I do NOT want weight loss to "just happen". There are things I do to keep my weight in balance: GOLDEN RULE: When struggling with regain or stalls or a slow down in weight loss rate-thou shalt weigh daily, measure and take a picture monthly, and plan and log everything that you shove down your piehole. Everything. Good and bad. (Oh, I'm talking about you Mr. Pringle and Mr. Lays...I'm talking about you, Ernest and Julio-the Gallo Brothers.) 1. Eat on my Forever Diet Plan given to me by my doctor and RD for as many consecutive days as humanly possible. (Lean dense protein forward, healthy al dente veggies next, a bit of healthy fat with it, and if I'm still hungry, then either more veggies or a low glycemic serving of fruit.) 2. Absolutely adhere to getting in my water (100+oz per day) with the 15/45 rule in place. And I water load as well. That's staying well-hydrated all day but 15 mins before a meal I will drink about 3/4 of my full capacity of water, then sip, sip, sip, until I'm very full with water and feel like I can't drink any more. Then I wait 15 mins and eat my next scheduled meal. After that, nothing liquid for 45mins. It works like magic to reduce the amount of hunger, reduce volume eaten at a meal, and help me feel my full signal quicker. 3. Take my supplements. 4. Limit snacking to schedule healthy mini-meals to keep blood sugar balanced. As soon as the rollercoaster of blood sugar stops, I start cutting out between meal snacks. 5. Get lots of walking in daily. 6. Have stress relieving activities scheduled (4-square breathing, meditation or prayer, group support meetings and clubs/groups you enjoy, hobbies, crafts & coloring by numbers. 7. Watch comedies and laugh. (increases endorphins=feel good hormones) 8. Hug the people you love tightly for 1-3minutes (increases oxytocin and the feel good hormones). 9. Practice self-affirmation in the mirror. Look in a mirror and stand in a super hero pose. See yourself as a hero. Smile. Believe. 10. Get good rest. I mean it. Lights out. Totes dark room. Cool. Sleep at least 6 hours or more if you can. And you get up the next day and make a 1 day PROMISE / Choice to yourself to do it again that day. (I'm building an online private club with face to face group support meetings that will begin in January if you are interested. It's not instead of BP, but rather in addition to BP for those people who need an accountability partner/group. Let me know if you are interested.)

Congrats Mike!! Merry Christmas!

It is pretty normal for your stage. Find a temp that works best for you. I found warm liquids or room temp liquids went down easier for me. Also vary the viscosity with water drops? Try ice chips, popsicles, etc. Sorry you're having a rough patch!

Yep. Yep. Yep. I lose weight whenever I need to. My window is 5lbs. So I'm either in "maintenance mode" MM or WLM (weight loss mode). It ALWAYS comes off in my M-Thurs WLM mindset. Then F-Sun I have fun fun fun till my daddy takes the T-bird away!

I had an internal hernia open up and my gut slipped through. It was an ER type surgery. But I was out the in 2 days and walking the day of (surgery at midnight). It was laparoscopic. I was already at goal. But I think I was 134 night of surgery and today I'm 130lbs. So no probs with WL momentum in my opinion. Congrats on 120lbs of loss and on being so focused on building new fit habits!! You will get to goal!!! Good luck with surgery. Mine was pretty easy--45 minutes?

You can use Fairlife FF milk to add protein without making hugely caloric too! You can also stir in a spoon of Greek yogurt to make it richer and add to the protein content. You can also add nutritional yeast to up the B vitamins and also add a little parmesan to up the protein as well!

This a meelion times (only I can't go to 3000 without a gain). I'm 22months now. And I maintain by calorie/macro cycling during the week. Some days I do 600-800cals (WLM days) and other days I do 1000-1400cals. I try hard to make most of that deep nutrition. So I get LOTS of bulky volume with veggies and dense proteins. I average about 1100cals/day over a week. At 3 weeks I was averaging around 600cals (between 500-650).

Good Lord! It's Mr. GC himself! You are gorgeous Matt! Do you feel it now?!!!

I'm sure your RD will have some helpful inspiration. Stay the course. Stalls are maddening. But you will break through! I personally think you have to switch things up a little when they happen.

Wow! You are all doing terrifically well! Congrats ladies!!! TY for letting us follow your journey!!! @rs So sorry about your struggles with compression wear! It can be totally annoying!! AND painful!

Stalls suck! Hang in there and don't deviate from your course! You're doing so great!!

I was eating 1cup of food at 7-9 months and I worked to try to keep it at around 3/4cup to 1cup. But I've always had bigger capacity I think? I eat now between 1cup to 1 1/2cups or 2 cups if there is some slider veg included. A lot of raw veggies for me are sliders (cuz of high water content).

What are you doing each day? Food and exercise wise? What cals/macros and a sample menu. Maybe we can spot some things? I will tell you, had I not done IF for the last 30-40lbs, I don't know that I would have made my goal.

She was 3 days out...at 3 days out barring complications you should be walking as much and often as possible. When feeling that way get up walk do ur spirometer or deep breathing!!!

Me 2. Exactly. I reached goal in 9 months I think? Dr. Jason Fung believes there is NO such thing as starvation mode when you are morbidly obese or even in the overweight category. That it happens ONLY when you've depleted all your fat stores. Most of us have weeks and months of extra calories vis a vis fat hanging around on our body. Satisfy your protein goals. Drink your fluids. Take your vitamins. Eat a few veggies (or a lot), and get a bit of healthy fat in you each day...But follow your program. 256lbs the day I started my program at the bariatric center. I'd alreay lost down from 287 in the previous 3 months leading up to it by mimicking the diet you follow post WLS. I'm 130.4lbs this morning. I average 1100cals/day over a week. Some days I still eat 700-900 of nutritionally DENSE foods, but other days I have 1400-2000!

Travel outfit.