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Biddy zz 🏳️🌈 replied to BlueEyedAngel28's topic in Gastric Bypass Surgery Forums
Fantastic! You are an inspiration and what we all hope for! -
Out With the Old--In With the New!
Biddy zz 🏳️🌈 replied to FluffyChix's topic in Tell Your Weight Loss Surgery Story
Two things. A. How fo you make a protein latte? Hot? cold? What. My forever breakfast. I use a Nespresso pod chilled, 1 scoop vanilla protein, slurp of milk and 7 ice cubes, in NutriBullet. Coffee slushy. But interested in variations from you! B.. Anyway, back to me. I am 7lbs off goal. Still averaging 2.2lbs a week, so nearly ‘there’. I am alternately being taunted by two thoughts. firstly “struth, how do I STOP this? I can’t really lift my food consumption unless I add a meal, but I don’t feel any desire to do that. Eating around 750 calories as standard. 3 months ago I was worried it is all too slow. Now I am worried I can’t slow it. (I know. I specialise in worry. I have also worried he didn’t do the surgery, just the incision. I alone would not lose weight post 3 weeks. My breasts would stay huge. My breasts will become golf balls in socks.) 2. Maybe more seriously, there is a voice in there yelling ‘don’t increase calories.” I just had traveller tummy in China, lost 6lbs in 4 days. Mostly water but a bit of me says “don’t resume eating, don’t let that 6 lbs come back” and other mad stuff. Do you have any of that too, my friend? -
15 May, 5 months post bypass. I am now just 7 or 8 lbs off “normal bmi”. People telling me to stop is a daily thing, but kindly. I have run out of clothes in storage so haven’t been this weight for ... 20 years, probably 30. I got travellers tummy in China last week, had to cancel flights and lost 6lbs in 4 days, which really shows. Funny, I could have just done that 10 times in a row and saved $25k!!!
I think that weight must be mostly water, and some might come back on as I pick up the eating and the world stops falling out my bottom!
I know I worry too much but two things occupy me right now....
1. How do I pick up my calories and stop losing? Cos I would like this to slow down around about now (funny. Was way TOO slow just 3 months ago!)
2. A little bit of me is yelling “do not lift your calories. In fact pretend you still have a bad tummy even. Eat less. You can get rid of ALL those bulgy bits if you try”. Hah, I will NOT go through Luckily, Dr and Psych next week!
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Congrats! You are such an inspiration to me girlie!!! ((hugs)) And HUGE cudos!!!!
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22 March (it didn’t post!) 14 weeks post bypass, and I am down to my Gastric Band typical weight - took me two or three years of faffing with the band to get here (my surgeon lived in a different city, hard for fills). This is effortless. Almost magic! Liking different foods is a joy.
I am not in am my lowest sized of stored clothes, and feeling pretty damned pleased with myself! BUT I lost almost 4 lbs last week (on holiday, scuba diving) so I know I am likely to lose a bit yet. The surgeon said I would - I didn’t believe him. So I guess it gets more expensive from here as I may need to BUY transitional trousers rather than pull them out of storage!
My goal was to get to this weight. Then it was to get to 10lbs below this. Now it is to get to “not overweight bmi”. Gawd, skeletal!!
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I was a bypass so I don’t know the tips for you! But - don’t panic, don’t be surprised if you “change your mind” in the leadup days/weeks, follow your plan. This is a tool - a great one but you have to use it - it gives you a chance to relearn eating, health, fitness. It won’t fix it for you. I didn’t really kget’ that til after the op. I do now, and am good with it - start working on that change in your head. Empty your place of trash food, start exploring other stuff. I always wondered how people liked bor8ng food - now I am a convert - but I had to help it happen, not eat a Big Mac and hope!! People seem to hate the pre-op liquid. I didn’t have it (cos I needed open surgery) but you get through it. It does matter to shrink your liver and make the surgery easier, safer...
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The hardest point was the leadup. And missing real food while I learned how to eat well. The most transformative bit, now? Start every meal with protein, then eat other stuff, and limit carbs, especially sugars. i crave different stuff. Lettuce! Who knew a person could crave lettuce? Watermelon right now. Coffee-vanilla protein ice slushes (my forever breakfast!).
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I had open surgery so 5 days in hospital. Then I had a week at my in laws, before coming home. I didn’t weigh myself over that time because no scales - but weight goes up just after surgery because of all the IV fluids. When I got home, I had lost 10lbs. Within a month of surgery, going back to work, 18lbs and needed new trousers (out of storage, thankfully!). The two lbs a week has been very steady ever since (apart from the 3-week stall, the 3-month stall, which is a week (or 2 or 3) with no loss - but you might drop a clothes size! It really, looking back, is fast - although early on I was thinking ‘too slow’. Now I am thinking ‘ok, how do I slow this’!!!
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Lap Band to Gastric Bypass
Biddy zz 🏳️🌈 replied to Stefania2013's topic in Gastric Bypass Surgery Forums
I had mine replaced with RNY in December. My port was faulty (after 5 years) and it got replaced but never really worked again. Just couldn’t make it work for me, like I once had. So I had dropped from 260 down to 175/178 fluctuation. But once it broke? then slowly gained back up. At 230lbs I opted for a bypass. So so much easier! I have had a very smooth run, am down to 163 lbs now and have dropped my goal weight into the bmi ‘normal’ range, and 5 months post surgery, I am still losing 2 lbs a week - and it has been a much better tool to change my eating habits. Can’t recommend it highly enough. Wish I had been brave enough to do it at the start... -
She means “that’ll be the protein in your smoothie”, @Mattymatt!
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MattyMatt...are you out there?
Biddy zz 🏳️🌈 replied to Creekimp13's topic in Gastric Bypass Surgery Forums
@Mattymatt ! An ulcer! Well, that isn’t fab but a hell of a lot better than some other options. Get strong, battle that bug, and you’ll be on track in no time. Bloody thing... -
MattyMatt...are you out there?
Biddy zz 🏳️🌈 replied to Creekimp13's topic in Gastric Bypass Surgery Forums
Hey flower - thinking of you from very afar...... -
Hi you! Welcome to an exciting journey! You have come to the right place - dozens of folks here who’ll help out on any topic you care to name! Good luck in the hardest part - the leadup....
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This is a really good question. There was a post in “the girls room” forum a while back with people reporting increased sensation, fireworks etc. Not me - I am more your end of the scale but just a bit. You might want to take a look in that forum for older threads on this subject too...
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Well I got a fright - in my part of the world I read 5/2 as 5th February - dang, that is NOT ok! But I recovered . 2 May, today is 15th. Nope - I think you should ring your clinic. By way of comparison, in my surgery we had an enema pre-surgery, but even so we couldn’t go home until we had a BM. I was bypass, though, but still almost two weeks is getting to be a fair bit of a backlog (if you will excuse the expression!!j Best of luck with it...
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Very tasty Protein cake - takes 3 mins, yummy and healthy!
Biddy zz 🏳️🌈 posted a topic in Regular foods (stage 4)
I just changed my brand of vanilla protein powder. It is my breakfast staple (one shot of coffee, chilled overnight, with 1 scoop vanilla protein powder, dash of milk and 7 ice cubes in a blender. Vanilla coffee slushy - my forever breakfast!) Anyway, in the pack was this recipe. I just made it up - OH YUM. And soft, so ok for the soft food stage too! I have entered it in my fitness pal as “Vanilla protein banana mug cake” 1 banana (mashed) 1 egg 1 tbsp milk (dairy or non-dairy) 1/2 scoop (15g) vanilla protein powder 3 tbsp almond meal 1/2 tsp baking powder Whisk egg, mashed banana and milk together. Stir in dry ingredients intel blended. Pour equally into two mugs, and (singly) microwave in 30 second bursts until cake rises and comes away at the edges (mine took 4 30 second bursts). Tip each into bowls, serve with yoghurt, fruit, whatever! I added frozen raspberries into the mix - oh yum! Heaven in a plate. Without any extras, myfitnesspal tell me this recipe has, per cake: 17g carbs, 9 g sugars, 13g protein, 8 g fat. -
1 year surgiversary and reached my goal!
Biddy zz 🏳️🌈 replied to anonymom26's topic in Weight Loss Surgery Success Stories
Thank you so much for sharing this - inspirational! -
No worries are silly - hang around here a while and you’ll find some doozies, but it is SO good to tap into other people’s lived experiences. Malnutrition - follow your plan. Seldom happens unless something goes wrong - and then there are options. Vitamins for life - but if that is the price of also having collarbones for life, I’m in!! And - I have t lost any hair, but I know some do - a casualty of large weight loss. But it comes back and - do it right and the tummy doesn’t! You might be able to tell - I LOVE my bypass. Wish I had done it at 25, not waited til I was 55. Good luck, stay calm. Nerves is normal when you are about to change your life...
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Happy TGIF! Come Celebrate Yourself (and Friday-mostly Friday)!
Biddy zz 🏳️🌈 replied to FluffyChix's topic in General Weight Loss Surgery Discussions
Ok, thanks for this: top photo, 169lbs and near-goal, close to normal and dressed in colour (a new thing), versus bottom picture, at 210lbs - somber suit to hide fat arms, chin (and I cut out my idolised prime minister who I was chaperoning on this trip, she too slim so shame made me cut her out!) I celebrate the change from shame to ‘I don’t think people are staring in shops’ -
Might be cancelling Surgery. Given the choice would you do it again?
Biddy zz 🏳️🌈 replied to Chickensoup's topic in Gastric Sleeve Surgery Forums
Good on you! ‘Nearly pulling out’ is a common post here, in the week or two prior to surgery. Anxiety, disapproval of someone, will it hurt, maybe (despite literally every single experience to the contrary) I can do it myself... we are funny, the stories pre surgery. Let me tell you my regrets - I have a few - That my anorexic mum made ‘sneaking food’ a thing for me, because she thought I was MASSIVE and stopped me eating normal meals. So I snacked chocolate and crisps under the covers every night. That I decided not to be like her with the decision to proudly lhave coke and chocolate every day for breakfast, until I hit about 40. And 260lbs. That I wasted YEARS of good productive thinking time thinking about being fat. I have SO much more headspace eg when I cross the road, and a car comes, I no longer imaging them all talking about not hitting me because I am so fat I will wreck their car. I used to have a continual narrative like that, now I don’t! Very freeing. So much more I can think about which makes me better what Work, relationships. I am 56. My partner likes me any size but loves how much I love this journey. For years we haven’t walked the dogs together - I was an unfair dog owner, but now I love walking. Have started jogging for portions,,, I will love watching you learn these victories, top... -
Happy TGIF! Come Celebrate Yourself (and Friday-mostly Friday)!
Biddy zz 🏳️🌈 replied to FluffyChix's topic in General Weight Loss Surgery Discussions
Well, I am happy to celebrate better eating control. I am in China again, for three days of meetings. Foreign Affairs people, Mayors, Education Commission, CEOs. Three days of huge breakfasts followed by 15 course lunches and dinners. Is it easy? Sort of yes/no. I still WANT some bad stuff. Bite sized pieces of skin-on roast pork, 1/2 fat 1/2 meat, rolled in sugar (! Who knew that was a thing!) BBQ pork buns, in fluffy white rice dough. Bite size pounded rice sweet sticky things. And I did have a little of that - but I ate fish and veggies and pickled turnip and steamed chicken (apologising to the head placed to look at me as I took a piece). I ate maybe a cup full, all up - a mouthful of each course, enough to be polite. And I got full, but not stuffed - yay me!! When I get home I will have lost maybe 200g - I used to gain a kilo on these trips! AND at one banquet the host said “you are strong and curveful and we are surprised because on the Internet picture we found, you look very very fat so we are pleased”. Compliment, I guess! Yay Friday - home tomorrow. -
Hi @kellibambam I too wondered why the bypass makes you more anxious. I was worried about the dumping - I do get it but it just keeps me pretty well away from sweets! It is known to be better if you get reflux - I love my bypass and struggle to see a downside!
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Hi @Alex Brecher Any idea what is happening to our ‘likes’? You were looking into why we are sometimes getting a refusal to let us like posts. But there is more! - as well as people commenting ‘I can’t like your post but I do like it’, I see that 9 people liked my post yesterday, three liked others this morning - but my ‘like total’ is 20 or 30 down on where it was!! I am LOSING my treasured likes! Oh no! And I think @FluffyChix’likes’ total is declining too! (I don’t remember any other person’s totals) I love using the wee button to acknowledge posts that help me. And I treasure getting likes, seeing the tally rise - because to me they mean I am making contributions someone appreciates. I was stoked when my ‘likes’ were nearly 50 more than my post total. My daily like score has become second in importance to my daily weight score in this journey! So losing them? Well, imagine if you will that the software here is packing my pounds back on and you sorta get the drift of the feeling!!!😁 Any closer to understanding why? Thanks, boss...
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What is happening to our ‘likes’? I am losing mine!!
Biddy zz 🏳️🌈 replied to Biddy zz 🏳️🌈's topic in Rants & Raves
Do you use app or website? On the website, your profile appears to the left of your posts. It starts with your handle, then a circle with your fluffychick pic, then ‘gastric bypass’ then ‘+3,879’ (total likes) and then ‘3,367 posts’ - then a gap and your profile. Also, your likes go in notifications - as in “someone reacted to a post on “out with the old in with the new” 1 hour ago’ or similar. You are my inspiration. I strive to have more likes than posts, like you do - so I feel like I am net giving to others, not just taking. I also make sure I like posts I appreciate with a heart, or emoji. -
What we do when we no longer have to try to be invisible...
Biddy zz 🏳️🌈 replied to Biddy zz 🏳️🌈's topic in General Weight Loss Surgery Discussions
@frust8big love from me. So much of your story is familiar. My mum is anorexic - by my teens and weighing a very normal 130lbs at 5foot7, she was telling me, her friends, my friends, everyone what a humongous blimp I was, I had legs like wharf poles, was shaped like a container crane. I still hear it in my head when I am big (she is sort of paid back, though. Cos she is still like it, I only visit her when I am below 190lbs - so very short stints over the years! Her loss.) But thank my lucky stars the man I married turned out to be one of the most decent men on the planet. Our marriage was short (6 months!) but we still love each other deeply 30 years later. We have both married lovely women who are our solid rocks - but from the age of 30 he has been a steady encourager, he pushed me to go to Uni, reassured me I WAS bright enough to get a psychology PhD, pushed me to aim for good jobs and now I am a CEO with 1000 staff. And now, he is unfailingly supportive in this journey too, (as is my wife, by the way - she is normal size but has lost 10lbs with my low carb cooking!). So he helped me move in myself - from a home life of mental illness, abuse, alcoholism - to learning to accept myself, know my good and bad bits, change the bits I wanted. I read your post - and will now email my (ex)hubby - to thank him again. Because of him the band surgery in my 40s, this RNY in my 50s. If it wasn’t for him, @frust8, I am not sure I would have EVER got my **** together like you. You are a bloody miracle. Thank you so so much for opening up. -
What we do when we no longer have to try to be invisible...
Biddy zz 🏳️🌈 posted a topic in General Weight Loss Surgery Discussions
So, I am moving into the realm of being normal looking. 170lbs. 7 kg (16 lbs) and I will be in the bmi ‘not overweight’ range. Since I am still averaging 2 lbs a week, it won’t be long. This is the smallest I have been for ... decades. Probably since I was in my late teens and on my way UP to 260 lbs Feeling pretty darned please with myself, loving my new eating habits (protein first, lowish carbs, not giving in to the odd call of the sweet tooth - presume that will die an agonising death through neglect, eventually!!) So, I have bought a shiny top, tight pants and had my hair cut. Gone are the dark baggy clothes and the ‘invisible’ conservative haircutcut, and I have what I call ‘Pink lite’ (the singer, not the colour!). Because I don’t need to hide and hope no one notices me any more right?- 15 replies
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