I need help - very slow loss - what to eat? Thyroid?

[drmeow 323]

- you might want to look at labels and make sure you are getting a lot of carbs that way.

should read "aren't getting a lot of carbs"

[Stinab64 4]

should read "aren't getting a lot of carbs"

i knew what you meant! ????. I do look at labels etc. I'm allowed up to 120 carbs but I stay in the 70 to 90 range. I listening to everyone tell me not to worry. So trying my best. It'll come off. Eventually.

[anaxila 501]

One thing I am doing to prepare for WLS is that I've made a big list of the things I hope to achieve with it. Not one of them has to do with a weight or clothing size. Most of them are activities that I've been too heavy to do for a long time.

I did the exact same thing! Throughout the entire process (I'm 5 days post-op), I resisted the idea of setting a finish line goal for how much weight I wanted to lose. I finally knuckled under and picked a number (half my current size) so I could have a useful ticker in my sig here, but I don't really put any stock in that number or care if it's bigger or smaller. I'm just gonna follow the program and obey the rules and my body will know when it's done.

But I did make a huge list of all the things I wanted to DO. Those are my real goals, and those are the ones I intend to Celebrate with abandon. The numbers are just numbers; I want a body that DOES things. Most of my goals are modest - cross my legs in a meeting, put on socks without rocking back and forth first - but some are big. I can't wait to snow ski again. Last time out I skied very conservatively because I knew if I fell I wouldn't be able to get back up, and that was probably 50 pounds ago. I miss roller coasters.

And some of the goals are really big. I was in China last May and hate that I couldn't tackle the more challenging portion of the Great Wall because I was too out of shape. I'll probably never get back there again and I was too big to enjoy it. In April I am going to Peru and I *will* enjoy Machu Picchu without huffing and puffing like a great wild beast. That means 1000x times more to me than the numbers on a scale.

Edited January 12, 2015 by anaxila