allwet
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Well January finally did it. Started the month and ended the month at the exact same weight.
First time my weight journal has had a Zero written in it.
Feb 1 is the 18 month mark and it does feel like the end of one journey and the start of another.
Do not see the surgeon again till August but he was happy at 175 so i do not see any issues there.
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I stalled out in January as well. Maybe from less activity in the cold weather? Anyway, you've had amazing success so far. Hope all continues well with your journey, whether losing or maintaining.
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skip the add at the start. the study is the interesting part
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/oby.22345
study alone
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How much weight will we expect to lose? Gastric Sleeve
allwet replied to AchieveGoals's topic in Gastric Sleeve Surgery Forums
If you remove the WLS from this post you are talking about Social Media in general and our current culture. Self selecting for the only the outcomes we agree with. So much truth in that post -
Having second thoughts... Help!
allwet replied to ouzounians's topic in Gastric Sleeve Surgery Forums
Please don't give up on yourself. You are worth what this surgery takes from you in the very short term. In the long run you will get so much of your life back in the coming months and years. Right now you need to focus on why you started this journey. You need to be very selfish and do this for you, others will get the benefits later but you do this now just for you. spend a few minutes reading the non-scale victories and try to see yourself enjoying these small moments as they occur. -
My 2 cents, Log your food - you cant fix what you don't measure. No snacks- log your food at the meal time and don't eat at non meal times Eat from the 3 walls of your grocery store and remember to pay at the 4th stay out of the middle of the store as much as possible limit your sugar intake to 10 grams or less per day limit your carbs to 75g if your maintaining your weight and under 50 if you want to lose weight. Never eat if your not hungry Dehydration can make you feel hungry so drink more then drink some more.
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Ok , you can all have a laugh at my expense today.
As a kid i never cared for PB&J i would eat one if it was all that was available but i always preferred a tuna sandwich.
The other day my daughter comes over with an All Natural Peanut Butter and as we are talking in the kitchen she opens this jar up and the smell just about knocked me over. It was amazing. So i got a spoon and tried it straight, no jellies for me anymore, I was blown away with the amazing taste. Now i don't know if this a case of taste buds changing or just good Peanut Butter but that was a great treat. So i now have a jar in my kitchen and while i only eat a spoonful of it on any given day i am still amazed at how great it tastes.
Happy Holidays, I hope you are all doing great over this holiday period.
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I have always loved PB&J but since surgery I have been absolutely KILLING peanut butter! I keep a jar everywhere, I have some in my book bag, have some at work, I find that when I do start to get hungry that eating a spoonful keeps me going until I am able to find something. They have it at the hospital and when we get busy and I am unable to eat I will eat a small container of it and keep going until I am able to eat or drink a shake.
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Oh yeah. Laura Scudder's is what we get. Totally tastes so fresh and clean!
And like you, I went for either tuna fish or bologna and cheese sammys.
@Bhageerah good to see you round here my friend!
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Amy, let me start by saying. Forgive yourself and let it go. The guilt and the mental anguish will do more harm than the cookies in the long run. I know the feeling from the sugar overload and it is the worst i have felt since having the flu years ago so i know you paid dearly for that. Don't forget that feeling but move on with lesson learned. If available to you go the gym when you feel that pressure and pound some weights till you can barely walk. it is a great stress reducer and lacks that post cookie guilt. One single day does not this journey make.
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You had Major surgery and your body will take some time to get over that. You are/were metabolically broken. This will take some time to resolve and it varies by person but as your body heals things will adjust and it will start to happen and then it will speed up as you stick to plan and build upon the changes going on inside you. This surgery will be worth it You are fighting the real hard part right now and that is the head game we all play with ourselves If you win this mental game you will have a great outcome. stay on plan and stay strong you spent a lifetime getting overweight give the surgery time to work.
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I have been very busy lately and my arm has finally stopped hurting, still no lifting, but my weight loss started up again so i am back to trying to find the right calorie number to hold in place. Its weird to think this way now and i am having a harder time increasing my calorie intake than i thought i would. It feels wrong to tell myself to eat more. So many years of yo-yo dieting messing with me right now. The Mental game just never ends.
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The full text is behind a paywall but it does look good for us sleevers
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To Break Fast or Not to Break Fast
allwet replied to hap314ness's topic in Gastric Sleeve Surgery Forums
If not hungry i don't eat period. Once i removed the processed carbs from my diet, like we all did those first weeks after surgery, i found i wasn't hungry in the morning anymore. I have coffee with tsp of monk fruit (was black) then I eat when i get hungry around noon then around 3:30 then dinner around 7 p.m. back to coffee with monk fruit after 8 p.m. oh i do decaf in the evening but full leaded in the mornings surgeon didn't even look twice when i said same thing to him in August go with your gut and follow up with regular blood work -
How will you handle Thanksgiving?
allwet replied to libbyleeb's topic in Gastric Sleeve Surgery Forums
Frustr8, i am so sorry this is going so poorly for you at this moment. I hope you get past this time soon so you can enjoy the benefits of what you have done and not just deal with the down sides. my thoughts are with you today and i hope it gets better going forward. -
you can go from sleeve to bypass but not the other way. the sleeve used to be the first part of the bypass surgery. take GERD meds starting a month before surgery and for at least 2 months after maybe forever. even if you don't feel the Gerd. This is standard for my Surgeon. just my 2 cents. you have to go with what you are comfortable doing
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How will you handle Thanksgiving?
allwet replied to libbyleeb's topic in Gastric Sleeve Surgery Forums
I feared my first Thanksgiving but it went well, my restriction so soon after surgery kept me on the straight and narrow. This year i looked forward to it with more understanding of what i could expect from my body if i tried to much food or just to much sugar at one time. I still get nauseous if i eat to much sugar at one time so i can count on that reaction to tell me i am way over the line. since i don't eat sugar on a regular basis everything taste even sweeter and a very small amount can feel like to much. i will eat a small amount of all my favorites - turkey , ham, potato salad, even a forbidden dinner roll will find its way onto my salad plate today. On Friday i will go back to eating meat and veggies and that will be that with no guilt. Mostly i will spend the time talking to my Dad and Brother and my daughter and just letting the day slip away slowly without the normal pressures to get this done or that done. -
I hope everyone has had a great summer and i hope you go into this holiday season from a better place than the year before.
This last week was my 30th wedding anniversary and i am happy to think that i will have many more to come. In the not so distant past i was not so sure i would live to see this one and 35 or 40 was beyond my expectations. Anything could still happen but at least i have stopped digging in my effort to get of the hole i found myself in.
I have made 3 life changing decisions in the last few decades.
1. asking my wife to marry me - being a child of divorced parents colors your expectations about getting and staying married.
2. saying yes when my wife asked if i wanted children - This was a lie at the time. having a child was THE most terrifying thing i could think of. Today there is nothing i would not do for my daughter and i feel a love i did not know could exist inside a person.
3. accepting that i could not control my weight by myself and getting this surgery to save my own life. Putting myself first as a way to be there for them is not a concept that I lived by before.
If you ever wonder is it worth it yes it is cause i was worth it and they are worth it.
Never give up folks
Whatever you are working towards you have the rest of your life to get there.
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I teared up reading this, very profound. Thank you for sharing and congrats on your 30-year anniversary. My husband and I will hit the big 3-0 next July!
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Medications with weight gain side effect
allwet replied to tnks2hp's topic in Gastric Sleeve Surgery Forums
ok my opinion - that and 3 bucks still wont get you a Starbucks coffee do not stop your meds without medical supervision if you have to choose between mental stability and being thin choose metal stability. i dont think you have to choose but if it comes down to just those 2 options choose mental health. you will take longer to get there but you have the rest of your life to finish this race. eat the 3 walls of the grocery store - veggies , meats , dairy nothing from the middle isles as harsh as that sounds it really is that simple - dont consume processed carbs sugar under 10 grams per day carbs (from veggies) under 50 grams per day all other calories from protein and fat whatever mix works for you. if you dont eat sugar and processed carbs the calorie count will fall by default. all the bad slider foods and liquid calories are covered by no sugar and no processed carbs with a total carb cap of 50g per day. you can then work to a 16/8 eating cycle and use ketosis during the 18 hours of fasting to help nudge you along despite the meds messing with your body chemistry and this one will be the most unpopular of all - NO FRUIT if your not losing weight as a side note i believe some if not most of that 6 pounds you gained was water. it takes 24,000 extra calories to gain 6 pounds of fat and i just dont see that happening in a month. water and fat are not the same and the water weight can go just as fast as it came but the fat is much harder to burn up. please dont give up. post WLS is mostly a mind game so keeping yourself happy and positive is the best medicine. -
Is losing 50% of excess weight the standard?
allwet replied to Briswife15's topic in Gastric Bypass Surgery Forums
can you get to that 100% of excess weight loss, sure, maybe, who knows. i know that's a shitty answer. I see 60% of excess weight thrown around all the time and that means some lose more and some lose less. So many things will come into play for you and most if not all are in the responses above. Follow your plan and never stop even when it gets slow or stalls and take all the time needed and dont compare your loss and the pace of that loss to anyone else. I hit the 100% number but i consider myself a little fanatical about the whole process (sleeved) Not everyone could or should go the route i have taken but i have spent the last year learning my triggers and i know what i had to remove from my life to make this work for me (carbs) but not everyone has those same triggers so my way works for me but you have to find your way. be honest with yourself and never do what you cant keep doing for the rest of your life. Its more important that you build a new approach to food that you can maintain forever than any short term gain from a "Diet Plan" will your new way look like a diet to others, yea could be, but you will know the difference cause you will not kid yourself about how you got here. Diets are what we did for 2 to 6 weeks before we gave up and went right back to what we were doing before. Ask yourself if this will make you healthy - not skinny- if it is a healthy habit the weight loss will naturally follow. None of believed what we ate before was healthy it just was what we ate for whatever reason we gave ourselves at the time- easier, faster, comforting. You will decide how much weight comes off - with all the proper cues from your body when you get there. Get all you can from this second chance but be happy with what you get and it will be a success no matter what the final number stops at. good luck -
Take the 140 and move on with your life. getting fixated on moving that goal down can do a lot more harm than good at this point. Congrats on your success now move on. You did it. you have arrived at the new you now move to the maintaining your weight stage. Dont read the above as said in a mean way its more light hearted than that its just i understand how consuming the process of weight loss can be. I also had a great surgery and rapid weight loss like clock work. Then i hit 155 and it just stopped. went from 8-10 pounds every month to nothing just like a switch was thrown. It was jarring when it happened but when i pulled my head out of my ass and looked at where i was i realized i was already finished with the race and just forgot to stop running. I wish you all the best and hope you squeeze all the life out of the new you that you can. Now lets both of us Move on.
