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Sheribear68

Gastric Sleeve Patients
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  1. Sheribear68

    February 2019 weight loss buds

    It’s tough @Harborgurl , but we’ve got to keep going. Just think back on how you pushed through your week 3 stall and keep a good thought. Even if this one lasts a couple of weeks, there will be more loss on the other side
  2. Sheribear68

    February 2019 weight loss buds

    Yeah I have to admire anyone that is brave enough to weigh every day. It’s tough enough for me to step on that danged thing once weekly! 🤣🤣🤣
  3. Sheribear68

    February 2019 weight loss buds

    Thanks! Needed to hear that very much. I’m feeling like a failure this week and I’m not really sure why. I’ve been on point with my “usual” nutrition, but this week was just HARD for some reason. Slept like crap, which is I’m sure the root cause of much of it. I already did Pilates this morning and I’m gonna hit the treadmill for an hour this afternoon before dinner with hubs. I have 60-70 pounds to go, which isn’t too bad if the 3 pounds/week continues. Problem is I just know there’s at least 2-3 stalls heading my way (because if anyone on the planet can stall after having WLS I’m betting it will be me) so I’m nervous about the smaller-than-expected losses up to this point.
  4. Sheribear68

    February 2019 weight loss buds

    Honestly if it’s dehydration, then getting in over 80 ounces daily of water isn’t enough for me I guess. I know that once I read something like drink 1 ounce for every 2 pounds you weigh, which means that I’d need to drink 106 ounces daily. Omg. Not sure if I can commit to that, but I think I might try next week to hit 96oz every day and see if that helps.
  5. Sheribear68

    February 2019 weight loss buds

    Hey we are surgery twins! I also had my sleeve on February 6. I find that early in the day I can’t fit anything but water or milk into my sleeve, but as the day goes on, I’m able to hold more. By dinner time, I can hold up to a cup of food. I’m only eating a Keto diet because I simply can’t afford to fall down any kind of slippery slope. Tonite hubs and I have a date night planned and we’re going to one of my favorite sushi restaurants and I’ll have some miso soup and sashimi. Can’t wait
  6. Sheribear68

    February 2019 weight loss buds

    Okay so as of yesterday, I was exactly 7 weeks post-surgery. I still really can’t eat a lot of food and don’t have anything besides water til about 10-11 am due to my sleeve being super tight. Today I drank a 32oz Gatorade 0 and the artificial sweeteners totally gave me weird food cravings, but I was able to ignore them. Had a bit of chicken tortilla soup for dinner and tuna salad for lunch. Oh and I had 6 almonds with 6oz milk for a snack. After the soup at dinner, I felt so stuffed I was miserable (this seems to be a recurring theme), but I probably only had 3/4 cup so it really wasn’t much food. I’m a bit frustrated that I’ve been following plan pretty precisely and have done loads of exercise and I’m losing right under 3 pounds weekly. I feel like I should be losing more, but this is a marathon, not a sprint, so maybe month 3 will be my time to shine. Lol, that’s what I keep telling myself to stay sane anyway. Today was better than yesterday, but my muscles still feel like they want to cramp up. Had to get out of bed with leg cramps 3 times last night.
  7. Sheribear68

    February 2019 weight loss buds

    Lol. Okay. Jealous of the Shiraz for sure. 🤣🤣🤣 I didn’t have a big meltdown....just the whole day was a bunch of small failures that all stacked together. The worst part was when the instructor tried to tell me “good job” after a class where I spent exactly half of having to massage out one muscle spasm after another. I managed to say “thanks, but I know I did pretty awful” and get out of there before I could break down in tears. Honestly not breaking down and crying felt like a victory at that point. My coworkers all know about my surgery because it is pretty much impossible to pull this off without them knowing and in the months leading up to surgery, I had to trade out shifts all the time to make doctor appointments, etc..... I do admit to being apprehensive about what some customers will start to say once my loss becomes noticeably obvious. There are a few that it takes every bit of willpower I currently have to be civil to in the best of times. If one of them pops off with the wrong statement, I can see an eruption. Here’s to hoping that doesn’t happen because I need my job. 😂😂
  8. Sheribear68

    February 2019 weight loss buds

    Oh man! I’m so sorry. I was really hoping that I was the only one here having a really crap day.
  9. Sheribear68

    February 2019 weight loss buds

    Ugh. So today was one of those days that I’m super-glad is almost in the rear-view mirror. Slept like crap last night despite being in bed before 10pm, and fought sleep all night. I’m thinking it might be because I hardly ate yesterday and my brain just wouldn’t forgive me for it. Work was beastly (3rd double digit shift in 3 days) and then I went straight to Pilates and there was a last minute instructor change to one that is notorious for having the toughest classes. Oh yeah.... totally kicked my butt and I started getting muscle cramps 5 minutes in. I used to take magnesium and I think I’m going to have to start again because I couldn’t get ahead of the cramps tonite. What’s the most frustrating about that is that I drank over 80 ounces water before 5pm today. Well tomorrow is a new day, but unfortunately it also brings yet another 11 hour shift (goodness but I hate my 44 hr week) but at least I’ll get a 3 day weekend out of it. I’m emotionally and physically drained right now, and I’m also feeling really full because I ate a whole tuna packet along with 1/4 cup cottage cheese. The protein load was awesome, but I feel like I just ate thanksgiving dinner and I finished eating over an hour ago. Also my feet and ankles are HUGE. must be retaining at least a few pounds fluid right now. Overall it’s made me feel fat fat fat tonite. Lol, I’ve probably only had around 400 calories today, but I feel like I’m completely full of food. So, I hope all you lovelies have a great day and I will try to be in a better mood tomorrow!
  10. Honestly I’m thinking about getting a tattoo. Still haven’t figured out what it will say, but something that will make me remember this journey and how important it is to stay on track for life
  11. Sheribear68

    Eating & pain

    Don’t sweat the protein goals for now. I’m 7 weeks out and I’ve found that the only thing I can tolerate before noon is fairlife milk. Just the plain— the flavored ones have waaaaaay too much sugar. Each 8oz glass has 13 gm protein— much better than a scrambled egg which takes forever to get down. After I’ve drank 3 bottles of water and a glass of milk, I’m ready for something for lunch and typically I eat soft cheese and have maybe 4-5 almonds for lunch. Dinner is so much easier because my sleeve is looser and I can eat about 2 ounces protein and maybe a couple spoonfuls of veg.
  12. Sheribear68

    February 2019 weight loss buds

    Honestly I haven’t noticed that. I’ve always loved really spicy food and I’m still using lots of spices. Right now I’m on a wasabi mustard kick: I’m putting it on tuna and salmon and I even put it on some steak the other day. When I do eat eggs, I use Tabasco and I loooooove roasted Brussel sprouts with some habanero sauce on them. Sweets I haven’t (and honestly have no interest) tried so I can’t vouch for their taste.
  13. Sheribear68

    February 2019 weight loss buds

    Yes!!!!! Love to hear that. When I stalled for 3 weeks, my body was hanging on with a death grip to the 220’s. My stall started at 221.8 and 20 days later I was at 219.6. Then suddenly the next week I was dropping again. All I can think is that many times when I would diet in the past, I would get down to the low 220’s before I would plateau and start to slowly regain. I’ve only been under 210 twice in the last 22 years, and I think it was for about 5 minutes each time. Sunday when I weighed in, I was 213 so it’s freaking me out that I might stall again. Fingers crossed that doesn’t happen. Weird how our bodies do that kind of stuff
  14. Sheribear68

    Yup. I regret this.

    Right now allergies here are crazy stupid and I spent almost all of last week miserable with sinus crap. I had a regularly scheduled Dr appt last week and she offered me a steroid shot. I refused it and told her I’d just have to get over it more slowly on my own. Today is about the first day I’ve felt like I’m turning the corner, so I’m really glad I turned down the shot
  15. Sheribear68

    February 2019 weight loss buds

    Re alcohol: There were many nights hubs and I would kill a bottle of wine between the 2 of us. On the weekend, it was “normal” for us to kill the bottle of wine plus a bottle of bourbon. Or Rum. Or vodka. And I never used mixers. I was a “neat” gal. In all honesty, I’m scared to death to try to consume liquor at all because while I’m in this honeymoon phase, I just can’t second-guess any of my choices. If I hit a stall, it will be because my body stalled— not because I stretched my sleeve with food and drink. I don’t want to ever play the “what if” game if I only lose 50-60 pounds by the time this is over. I’ve sworn off alcohol for 6 months and maybe longer depending on my progress. Hubs is on board with me on this which almost guarantees sainthood. It’s tough bc there are times where I think I miss it, but I’m also wearing a pair of pants that haven’t seen the outside of my closet for 3 years so there’s that
  16. Sheribear68

    February 2019 weight loss buds

    Not so far and I’ll be 7 weeks out on Wednesday. I did however have a 3 week stall from weeks 2-5, so it’s really nice to be losing again
  17. Sheribear68

    February 2019 weight loss buds

    Okay so this week is going to be a hectic one so I weighed this am and I lost 3.2 pounds since last Monday. This brings my total lost post-surgery on 2/6 to 31 pounds. Which means I’m 31% of the way to goal 🤣🤣🤣
  18. Sheribear68

    February 2019 weight loss buds

    No idea how much I lost in the first 7 days because honestly I felt so crap that I didn’t weigh. I started weighing week 2 and was losing 2 pounds daily until I hit the dreaded stall on day 14. Lost a total of 3 pounds over the next 3 weeks but now I’m losing around 2.5-3 pounds a month. Lol, I figure I’m due for another stall in a week or two since I’ve lost 5 pounds in the last 2 weeks
  19. Sheribear68

    February 2019 weight loss buds

    Oh you aren’t bringing anyone down. We are all February buds and are in this together.
  20. Sheribear68

    February 2019 weight loss buds

    I get it. I completely do, but let me share a story. So as a lot of heavy people do, I have lots of friends with not so healthy lifestyles and body sizes. I have these 2 friends that are sisters. They are in their early and mid-40’s. They are somewhere in the high 300’s and they’ve both had health issues for awhile. I’ve not told either of them about what I’ve done because they are both very anti-diet, exercise, health,etc.... They lost both parents due to obesity-related issues within the last few years and if I ever talk about the latest diet or fitness kick I’m on, it is met with extreme negativity. They live together and honestly we don’t hang out much, our friendship is more text, social media and special holiday type events. All of those activities of course are involved with food and drink. We used to co-host monthly book clubs with tons of food and beverages, but we all got busy during the holidays and I haven’t seen them since maybe November. Never said one single peep about what I was planning, because I wasn’t in the mood to be lectured on how society shouldn’t be able to dictate self-image to us and all that bull crap. Anyway, I found out through another mutual friend that the older sister is in cardiac ICU because she had blot clots in her lungs, her blood pressure is uncontrollably high, and apparently now her kidneys are failing. While honestly not surprising that she was going to have some major health issues down the line, this news still shocked me. It brought home exactly WHY I’m doing this. This is the same girl that went with undiagnosed uterine cancer because she was afraid to go to the doctor and be weighed and “have everyone there judge and lecture” her. She literally almost died from cancer because she didn’t want to get on a scale. Honestly I don’t expect even this will change her mind about the consequences of extreme obesity, but I wanted to post about it to remind every single one of us that THIS IS WORTH IT!!! Tonite I’m taking my mother out for her 75th bday dinner and I’m not going to be able to have a cocktail and an appetizer and then dinner, and yeah.... that totally blows. but I by-God am not  a cardiac ICU patient who might not live to see April either.
  21. Sheribear68

    February 2019 weight loss buds

    Was able to eat half the tomato, the 2 smallest pickles, 3/4 of the cheese and about 5 almonds. But it was delicious! So far I’ve eaten almonds okay. Just make sure I chew chew chew before I swallow
  22. Sheribear68

    February 2019 weight loss buds

    On another note: here is my very late lunch. Was CRAVING veg, so it has pickles and tomato. Triple cream Brie is a life-saver because it is so soft and easy on the stomach
  23. Sheribear68

    February 2019 weight loss buds

    Hopefully by the time summer is in full swing
  24. You’re soooo close to being so much more comfortable. About 1 week out is when I really noticed the difference
  25. Sheribear68

    February 2019 weight loss buds

    I have to admit that I feel slightly guilty because I have zero regrets and have had basically zero adverse effects. I mean, I’ve had nausea when I do things like take my vitamins on an empty stomach or tummy cramps when I accidentally eat too fast, but those are very minor and only last an hour or two. Today I got a little light-headed while out shopping with hubs today and we cut our errands short so I could come home and drink water and rest. Well I can tell you why. I only got about 5 hrs sleep (thunderstorms all night) had an early Pilates class, then we did yard work and I only ate 1 egg and half a piece of Canadian bacon. So yeah.... my stupid butt got tired and woozy while doing more running around. I don’t blame this on the surgery, I blame this on me still needing to take time to relearn how to juggle all the things I need/want to juggle while going through this process. All of it is an opportunity to learn and try not to repeat “mistakes”

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