Rainbow_Warrior

Exactly. Live and learn. Make these type of negative events a memory rather than a future reality. Your sleeve will help empower you to discipline yourself by giving you a chance to regain your self pride and your chance to be of a normal weight/body mass. Best wishes.

22 pounds in SIX WEEKS is quite good ... about 1.6kg per week or 3.5 pounds per week ... well on the good half of the standard bell curve. Methinks you're over-worrying about nothing. You're losing at a very acceptable rate. Just discipline yourself to steer clear of C.R.A.P. (Calorie Rich And Processed foods!) You owe it to yourself to follow your WL clinic's recommendations. (And you probably don't want to disrespect your parents' $$$$ outlay!)

What check marks? Where? Are you on the smartphone app or the website?

A valuable tip: Engage the help of an exercise physiologist (if you can afford it OR if it's covered by your health insurance). I have had three consultations (30-45 mins each) and Matthew has looked at my body composition, my joint pain problems, my body shape and its 'bulges' and provided me a planned exercise program to supplement the swimming I was already doing. (I am not into walking for exercise as there's too much knee and ankle stress and pain for me. Swimming is ideal as the flotation aspect takes pressure off my leg joints.) The idea of using an expert who can watch and guide you from your stats is so worthwhile! Money well spent!

There are also 93%, 95% and 97% cocoa content chocolates. Once the sugar is gone and the cocoa is intense, it's very powerful in feeding chocoholic leanings with just a 10g square or two. Lindt make some dairy free varieties too.

I exercise 13 days out of every 14. I swim (ambling breaststroke) for 55 minutes to 145 minutes. (depends entirely on how much time I have before family commitments or part-time work). I wade in chest-deep cool/cold water for 45 to 125 minutes. (again, it depends entirely on how much time I have before family commitments or part-time work). I complete three rotations of SIX minutes (18 minutes total) of in-water stretches and water aerobics (every second pool visit). These were designed/'choreographed' by my exercise physiologist under guidance from my Weight Loss Surgeon and his clinic dietitian. On FOUR DAYS per week, my exercise physiologist has me complete resistance (SIX different exercises of 12 to 18 reps) at home in my rumpus room. These use velcro ankle-weights, high-tension stretch resistance bands, a firm chair and a pair of ONE KILOGRAM hand-weights. Depending on the day and the time available to me, I accumulate between 13600 steps/strokes and 43,500. My average day (see attached graphic for this morning's exercise: Thursday, 28th December, 2017) is about 25000 steps/strokes. My exercise physiologist says, "Aim to clear 12000 steps/strokes at least six days per week. Exercise for at least 35 minutes per day. Try to never go three days without some resistance and balance exercises. At least three days per week, at the pool, do your water exercises before or after you swim." I make the effort to do more than the minimum as (a) it's a good habit AND (b) it supports and, very possibly, accelerates my fitness and weight loss.

Sand is pretty low calorie. (Very crunchy too!)

Within hours after surgery. I was a lucky sleever. I was walking gingerly the next day ... NOT in PAIN but WARY of doing any damage to my stitches/sealed op wounds. I was relatively comfortable going home from the hospital. I started minor exercise within ten days and was back in the pool swimming 60 or more laps per day by the fourth weekend post surgery.

You are the master of your destiny. You will only fail if you are prepared to let old habits resurface. Please ... show resolve.

Why not go back to the basics and first principles your learned (and, hopefully, practised) for some time after your surgery. Retrain yourself with Protein and well-spaced Water breaks. Take out your old post-surgery nutrition advice sheets and go through it all again. Try living between 750 and 1000 calories after the first month of rebuilding your routine. Take up some exercise to busy yourself when you're not committed to work or other responsibilities. Good luck.

It isn't impossible. Go back to the basics and first principles your learned (and, hopefully, practised) for some time after your surgery. Retrain yourself with protein and well-spaced water breaks. Take out your old post-surgery nutrition advice sheets and go through it all again. Try living between 750 and 1000 calories after the first month of rebuilding your routine. Take up some exercise to busy yourself when you're not at your mother's beck and call. Good luck.

There's hardly a soul who does not ponder this same thought ... many of them for days on end. Step back and think of the ultimate good you're doing for yourself. Ponder the healthier you at a more normal body mass! Over 90% of people have a GOOD or EXCELLENT outcome from gastric sleeve surgery. It'll, very likely, be a good outcome for you too!

It's been Wednesday 27th December for 11.5 hours in eastern Australia. I weighed in at 144.8 kilograms today. That's 319.23 pounds ... better than NOT losing but short of my planned target for this stage of the week.

Wednesday 27th Dec already here in Australia. My scales registered me at 144.8 kilograms before lunchtime. For the folks on the other side of the Pacific Pond, that's 319.23 pounds ... not as good as I'd hoped but I held off almost all seasonal indulgences.

I'm not disbelieving you ... my wife and family say the same thing. My brain is in a "jet-lag"-like state of having a morbidly obese reflected image in the mirror for over 25 years.

Ditto ... People on BP claim they see a huge change in my photos two months apart. I fail to see anything in the pics. My NSVs, OTOH, give me a smile ... trouser waist down from 152cm to 138cm (or 60" to 54"). My body fat down from 47.8% to 42.6%. My lung capacity up from 18 seconds holding breath to 44 seconds. Was walking with a cane for support in June. Not using a cane now as my exercise extends past two hours per day. (Exercising 13 days per TWO WEEKS!) Averaging 22500 steps/strokes on the Vivofit 3 wristband daily in December ... up from 3500 in September!

Thanks for the positive feedback. I fail to see the differences that others glean from the photos. I see my successes in the several NSVs I've mentioned elsewhere. Only did the photos because my surgeon, my dietitian and my exercise therapist said to try a monthly or bi-monthly set of pics.

I think you're right with this introductory statement to your paragraph. That's what BariatricPal is and is for! Sadly, some folks use it to promote their businesses, their pyramid schemes and their wacky non-bariatric related ideas. Some of those ideas/ads have been stopped in my 3.5 months here by moderators or the site's 'owner'. Anyone is able to start a thread about almost anything. When he/she does that, scrutiny or response is okay. There had been much experience of presenting thoughts and having them challenged. While the majority of people in English-speaking countries are nominally 'christian', very few practise any of the manifold christian brands by going to church or living fully in the ways Jesus or his early followers would expect. The great majority of people are signed up to the various christian brands without thought. Modern commercialism and marketing promote xmas, easter and other christian days (all stolen from pagans) as a way to profit retail and service industries. When someone opens a thread with a 'hook' statement about xmas being all about Jesus' birth, it deserves challenge as we have much new knowledge in the last 25 years of Jesus' exact life history. In the name of fair debate, I made a few points. I still believe the key role of the site is pre-op and post-op WEIGHT LOSS SUPPORT. I facepalm (really or figuratively) when I see gullible people follow ANY religion, christian or otherwise. I still respect their choice to use the weight-loss forums (as I do) to glean help for their questions and concerns before and after surgery.

Jesus did exist but his birth has nothing to do with December or mid-winter. It's most likely that Jesus was really born between about August 24th and September 12th given what history has revealed. I am agnostic and don't stand for the illogical choice people make to put their faith in fake gods in the sky (or elsewhere). Religion is something for the non-scientific people among us to cling to because they fail to see the ability of humankind and our vast range of achievements. The concept of christmas and its supposed link to Jesus' birth is a confidence trick pulled by the early christians. They were struggling to popularise their religion and the status of its leader, Jesus. They could not get many people to believe that a human could be the son of god (as they claimed). They, i.e. the christians, noticed how popular the pagan mid-winter festivals were in northern Europe and ancient Scandinavia. The mid-winter solstice (the shortest day) was popular with many pagans as a last festival day before the two or three months of animal hibernation and deep cold ahed for them. Bit by bit, the christians hijacked the winter festival and aligned their celebration of Jesus' birth with it. Over the next 1400 years they made a dent and grew their religion. Come the medieval times, the reformations and the schisms, Catholicism gave way to both MORE dogmatic and LESS dogmatic versions or christianity. Anyway, we are stuck with the whole BS connection of christmas to something pagan that was used to give it an imprimatur.

Great progress!

21 POUNDS in 28 days is great. That's 12 ounces per day average. (340 grams per day) Today is day 75 post-op for me. While I am 29.5kg (65 pounds) down from mid-July, I am only 13.3kg lower than operation day (which is 29.3 pounds). My loss is only 6.25 ounces per day (about 175 grams) You're losing much more significant amounts per week ... almost twice the rate of my progress! Well done you!

I left it about five weeks before I supplemented 25-45 minutes per day's walking with some swimming. Since Saturday Nov 18th, I have tried to have at least TWO hours swimming (breaststroke) PLUS 25 minutes chest-deep wading at my local pool. It's forty years since I last used boxing as a component of my fitness plan. Here's my exercise log for the last six weeks. Columns are labelled. (Second column is what shows on my fitness wrist-band for steps and strokes total.) December 1 was when I was flying interstate and stuck in a rental car. December 25 was the POOL SHUT DOWN for Christmas Day. My speed varies a lot some days ... I amble and trickle along just absorbing time moving slowly some days.

Breakfast: 110grams of oily baked salmon. Lunch: I managed, in an hour and a quarter to eat 40grams chicken breast, 40grams lean pork, 55grams of lean ham, a small cube of pumpkin (45grams) and a dessertspoon of peas (about 30grams). No gravy, no dessert, no beer or wine. Very restrained. Dinner?: It's 6:35pm now and I am having a 170gram tub of high-protein kiwifruit yoghurt. Snacks: Two 600mL bottles of diet-rite low-calorie cordial. A McCafe medium skim flat white espresso. A small McCafe hot chocolate. A successful xmas day. My best in 40+ years!

No, there are a few too many naysayers among them.