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Thanks! These are all great ideas!

Well of course if I wanted to go in the direction of junk food I could make up those calories easily. Lol it’s so ingrained now that I just don’t even think about those foods as an option anymore. I am accustomed to eating low/nonfat, simple, and fresh. The P3 pack is pretty much as processed as I get. I am also typically pretty boring and don’t like to think about food period so I just eat the same things every day because it’s easy. Unfortunately now that my calorie needs have changed I need to alter my routine. I guess that is my struggle: this is my routine and changing routines for me are hard.

I stalled for a long time (several months) and I am within healthy weight range so I figured I was now at maintenance. I stopped weighing myself so often because I’m not obsessed about it…. BUT…. I guess I started losing again because I am at 173 this morning. If I reach 155 that is an unhealthy range for my height. So I am still twenty pounds from an unhealthy range and I have to pick up the calories before I get there and drop below that threshold. (family wise: my moms side of the family tends to be very thin and they usually fall below the norm BMI weight ratio) as far as activity: I don’t go out of my way to exercise but I am very active during the day. I am on my feet all day as a teacher, I go out and play handball/basketball with my students during recess and lunch, constantly walking across our large campus, and rotating the classroom all day as well. I swim and go to the beach with my own kids or hike with them on weekends. I’m definitely not sedentary but I’m not running any 5ks either. My joints are still damaged and I have to be careful. the nurse recommended strength training with resistance bands to help maintain muscle mass. she didn’t tell me NOT to loose more weight, she just told me that I should be looking towards improving my calorie count so my body doesn’t go into starvation mode and messing with my metabolism. i guess I will just have to throw in some snacks and get used to brushing my teeth a zillion times a day. 🤷🏼‍♀️ I’ve been looking up higher calorie healthy foods and I’ll try some out next week

I am almost a year out and I honestly don’t feel hunger yet. But I am pretty good about my routine and making sure I eat throughout the day, so maybe that’s why?

Unfortunately their dad is the only one who should be watching them since any friends and family would be going with me to the spa 😂. I will get there eventually. The clothes thing is kind of crazy. I just pulled on a size 10 day for the first time ever (down from a size 28). They were a tad tight but the 12s I have are too loose. The tens fit 🤷🏼‍♀️ My mom was a bit concerned that I need to watch myself that I’m not loosing “too much weight”. i have my one year appointment next month and I cant wait to tell my surgeon how much I weigh. I feel so much better now and it is amazing how clothes fit so differently (in a better/more comfortable way).

Yeah I do have extra skin but it’s easy to hide under clothes. Maybe someday I will get the extra skin removed. i am still actually losing weight… I haven’t stabilized yet. My goal weight was 195 but I just kept losing. My intake that I can do seems to be more in line with the limited quantities of bypass patients rather than sleeve. But everyone is different, so who knows. i am told it is impossible to lose “too much” and that the weight loss will eventually Peter off and stop. I revised my goal weight down to 165 pounds which would put me at ten pounds more to go. the way my body seems to work is I stall for a long time, then drop a ton of weight quickly (ten pounds) …. Then stall again for a while… then drop more…. i have sensitive skin and the excess skin does cause rashes to occur. I get them under my breasts, in my midline area by my belly button and with the skin overhang in the pelvic region. They say that if you have documented skin conditions like I do then they will take care of the extra skin… but it’s recommended to wait a couple years. I think it also has to be overhanging by a certain amount. (I think I remember my pcp saying it has to hang lower than the pelvis bone)

Hi, I am with Kaiser in SoCal and I am about a year out. i had my surgery at the South Bay facility. timelines can vary because of Covid: but if you are interested in timelines: I first got referred by my pcp in May 2020. my options class didn’t start until October though. They were delayed because of Covid and trying to figure that mess out. Options was TEN classes. i also had to meet with a psychologist and get a ekg. Oh and I also went to online support groups. i finished classes end of December. had my surgeon appointment in January 2021. Then finally had surgery March 2021. (Surgeries shut down for a bit because of Covid several times while I went through the program). i am almost a year out and I am down from 330 pounds to 175 pounds. I got the sleeve surgery.

Yeah mostly clothes for me. The sizes I wear now still kind of get to me a bit (in a disbelief kind of way). i do plan to take a trip to a spa here soon though. Within the next few months….. hopefully. We have been trying for a long time to go but it never seems to work out and with my husbands job he “can’t promise anything” when I try to get him to watch the kids because they don’t do their schedules that far in advance and they really frown on asking for days off or taking sick time 😬

I am almost a year post op…. It will be one year March 24th. i can say that I have only thrown up once. It was a month or two after surgery and my first time on more solid food and I didn’t know what my body cues were. Because I didn’t know I over ate and threw up. i can honestly say: ONE time feeling that was enough to make me learn my lesson and I have not had to repeat the experience. i see how much other people can eat though and I seem to be one of those ones that has a very low volume of food intake. A year out I still can’t eat one whole scrambled egg in one sitting. 🤷🏼‍♀️ but then again a year out I also don’t really feel hunger still.

Highest weight: 330 goal weight: 195 (this was the brightest weight in normal weight range for my height on the BMI scale). current weight: 180 pounds. i was sleeved March 24,2021 so I’m almost at a year out. I’ve stalled for the last several weeks now. I tend to have long stalls and then sudden drops.

I’m no longer pre diabetic. i can walk now (I was wheelchair bound practically and walked with a cane prior to surgery along with a huge plastic leg brace). my kidneys are functioning better than they every did. migraines: I still get these. Nothing changes there. high blood pressure: I now have the opposite problem. My blood pressure tends to be really low. Hyperparathyroidism: still a problem. gout: I had a flare right after surgery but my uric acid levels are almost within normal range now (I will have to take meds for this forever. This is a family thing and won’t go away no matter what weight I am) All in all my doctors have all told me how I have saved my own life by making the decision I did. They refer to me as the poster child of success for the reversal of my conditions and the fact that I went from being in a wheelchair to walking without problems.

Lol. I had to reset mine recently as well. my husband took a photo of me and the boys while we were at dinner tonight and it was a little shocking. I didn’t realize that I looked like that 😂 my reaction was “omg is that really me?!”

I’m ten months out and unless I’m eating a salad? I usually don’t have much room for more than a bite or two of either of those things. Even by weight loss surgery standards it seems like my volume is really low, but then my diet is a tad different than a normal post op diet (I have kidney issues so the amount of protein they normally want is not actually how much I should consume) .

I picked a weight at the high end of a “normal weight” bmi for my height. that number was 195. I have gone 10 pounds passed that at this point. i adjusted my goal to be 165. Which means I have another 20 pounds to lose

Yay! Congrats!!!! Isn’t it a wonderful feeling?! I just recently made it to onederland as well. I stalled at 197 and then I ended up dropping a TON very quickly. I’m 185 right now and I think I hit another stall .😭 I’ve been this weight for the past few weeks. I’m trying to stay off the scale and only weigh myself once a week. 195 was my goal (and I honestly didn’t think I would make that number!) so anything extra is a bonus 😌. But I can’t help but to think “yeah I could loose more” …😅

I’m also in Orange County California…. i had a student ask me the other day (when it was actually 80 degrees out) why I had five shirts on. Lol i corrected her and told her she was wrong: I had on TWO shirts on…..and a sweater……and a jacket and…. I was STILL cold. i just can’t function in the cold anymore. I hope it gets better. I am about 10 months out right now and I am desperately looking forward to summer so we can have the heat turned back on in our state 😅

For myself: routine im a teacher so my routine is pretty much set. I have never really been a foodie and I am fine eating the same thing every day….so….I have the same thing for lunch every day (P3 pack and a Greek yogurt). By eating the same stuff every day I am sure to get in my allotted protein (I’m actually at a lower level of protein than the normal Bariatric patient because of my kidneys). i have my set recipes that I make for dinner but the air fryer is my friend and I usually just eat two chicken wings, some cheese, and some fruit or veggies. If it’s not chicken wings I make sure my plate is well balanced and small. exercise: I am terrible and don’t really do this. I don’t because I am on my feet all day long walking and get 10k steps easy, then also come home and take the dog for a walk. And once a week on my “lazy” days I take my kids to the harbor and we walk a couple miles there too. So again, walking is my routine. It’s what I do every day and I don’t need it think about it anymore. Water: I have one of those water bottles with times on it. I drink one bottle before lunch. One bottle after lunch. That is 64 ozs of water. As long as I keep to my routine of finishing the bottle it works. all these things have evolved over time. It didn’t start out like that and I had to push myself to remember stuff and found myself frazzled with all the stuff to do. BUT: I’m on less medications now than I was before and I take them first thing in the AM. Calcium chewy bite I eat after school because it’s a time between meals. If you stay consistent it will eventually become a routine and second nature. (I am about 10 months out from surgery and down to 185pounds. My highest was 330 pounds)

Ha! That’s also where I live so I feel ya. I am the same size now (12) that I was in sixth grade. once puberty hit i ballooned up out of control. I was always the “big kid” though and I longed to be the beach girl type that the majority of girls here tend to be

I was not prepared for the attention from the opposite sex. I’m married so it doesn’t really matter to me anyways, but I have gotten hit on a few times (once it was right in front of my husband while he was standing next to me). It’s ……. Odd. i guess in the back of my mind I have this undercurrent of thought with “this guy would not have given me the time of day if I looked like the old me”. It makes their interest a little cringe inducing for me. I might have issues with a phobia of attention directed at me. (I’m a teacher and I’m okay with attention but when it comes from children or colleagues in a professional setting…..It’s definitely uncomfortable otherwise) im six two…. I started off at 330 pounds at my heaviest and I am now down to 187. I’m still losing (I’m only 9 months post op) and I have readjusted my goal down lower. At first it was 195, but I’ve surpassed that so I guess I am going lower.

Never thought I would see this number. 195 is the top number for “healthy bmi” so I am almost there. That was my goal…. But I think I can go lower than 195 because I still have pockets of body fat to loose. I hit this number 9 months post surgery. Highest weight: 330 pounds surgery weight: 297 pounds Goal weight: adjusted… was 195 but maybe 180? i don’t know. We will see. height reference: I’m six feet two inches tall. So super tall for a woman. 😅 I have not been this weight since junior high school. (7th/8th grade)

I’m on the hunt for some good knee high boots. I got some and I appear to have the same problem: boots are too big in the calves (exact opposite problem I had before 😂. i ordered some new ones off Amazon and I’m returning the other ones. If you need really small ones you can try Clark’s. Their calf opening is 14 inches.. too small for me…. But the 19 inches the other boot I had didn’t work either. I’m in the middle 😭

As others have told you: you go at your own pace. i can give you my stats though. my highest? 330lbs at surgery:294 lbs. my weight now 8 months post op: 204lbs. that’s just over 11 pounds a month…. However I can tell you that there were many stalls where I lost barely anything, then I dropped a ton very quickly. for example: three weeks ago I was at 224 and I was holding steady at that same weight for several weeks before that. I figured I was just too close to my goal weight so it would take even more time and I would need to buckle down and really work at it. Imagine my surprise to find that I weigh myself a week later and it was 214….. then another week later and it’s 204…. now I am rethinking my goal. My goal was originally 195lbs (I’m 6 ft 2”) and that number is at the top of my “healthy bmi” scale. I’m now thinking I can go lower because I’m so close to goal right now and I still have fatty areas. 🤷🏼‍♀️ but that seems to be my “normal” where I would hold steady for a long period then drop a ton of weight over the course of a week or two…. Then hold steady for several weeks and drop again…

Ah….. being retired makes a difference lol. im 39 so I have to get myself and my two kids ready and out the door by 6:15 am. Hence the rushed tiny breakfast. im a tad concerned about transitioning to maintenance phase once I’ve lost enough weight because of how little I’m still able to eat. My drs want me on lower protein amounts because my kidneys have trouble filtering it but I don’t want to lose what little muscle I do have. i figure it will be a conversation to have once I’m at a point where I will be looking to transition and I’m just not there yet.

Wow is that JUST breakfast? 😳 I still can’t eat much volume. For breakfast I might get ONE egg in, but anything other than that is a no go. I usually just grab a cheese stick because I don’t have time in the morning. If I do grab eggs I normally only eat half of one. I had surgery March 24th and just shy of 8 months later I am now 10 pounds from my goal. But I think I am going to readjust…. I think I can lose more. I still have plenty of fat left to lose on my abdominal area. 195 is the top number for a healthy weight for my height. I thought 195 was a realistic goal for me…. But I’ve seen people continue to loose weight a year out and that’s still 4 months away for me. Given that info and the fact that I’m still not up to eating a ton (I JUST hit the 60 grams of protein on a good day. Usually around 50 grams a day) plus the fact that I still have pockets of fat ? I think I’m adjusting lower. oh hey another fun fact: my hunger JUST came back!

I don’t have a pic….but I raided my moms closet and stole some things. 😂 Im only five months out and not done loosing so I don’t want to buy a ton of stuff. So I borrowed. Duluth pants are amazing. I love them. funfact: it’s a size 14. One of my earliest memories of being weight shamed was in elementary school when I came home from camp and I fit into a size 12 instead of a size 14. My aunts went on and on about how if I would just keep loosing weight I could be so pretty. I was in the sixth grade. so: I am now the same size I was in elementary/junior high and I will likely end up smaller than my mom who I have always thought of as “tiny”.