Hey Feb 9er's, we're hitting 90 days out!

Greetings my most favorite OH community!!!  We're all at or nearing the 90 day mark this month.  From the whats happening thread we're doing collectively fantastic! 

So tell me, what has given you the greatest sense of accomplishment thus far?  Is it pounds lost?  Or inches? Or lifestyle changes? Or renewed relationships?  How has this period defined you?

Also have there been any dissapointments?  We must take the bitter with the sweet.  Slow WL and plateaus?  Jealous freinds and family? 

For me the sweet was insight into what I started doing that led me to morbid obesity.  When I was slow and stalled early on I feared this would be a total failure.  I started keeping track of my food weight and activity and realized I broke this record keeping habit in the 80's, then gained 130lbs.  Lack of a notebook and a scale.  Simple and sad and never to be repeated.  The bitter was frustration over why I just would not loose in the begining.  The principles I recognized in 'the sweet' helped me fix 'the bitter'. 

Nuff 'bout me, lets here 'bout you!

Hey everbody! 

Well im down 38 pounds and 21 inches!! I kinda feel like I should be loosing faster but...whatever lol . I do have 1 jealous friend I think, she has not said one thing to me about my weight loss! LOL funny huh? Oh well to bad I was so excited for her last year when she got her lap band done well live and learn right? Other than that everything is going great.

JUST WANTED TO SAY IM SO HAPPY TO HEAR EVERYONE IS 
DOING SO WELL ON THE WHATS GOING ON POST!! GOOD JOB
EVERYBODY!! 

i've lost about 50lbs since surgery and 10lbs before that. I totally know what your talking about when you say you feel like your not losing fast enough. What we've lost is great and we have to remember that not everyone is going to lose at the same rate (easier said then done!!). 

Either way, I look and feel better now than I did 3 months ago!  I pray for continued weight loss and healthier bodies for all of us in here.

I will be 3 months on the tenth..

the sweet...
i dont miss some of the foods i thought i really loved
i am learning how to curb the grazing and recognized that this is a big part of how i got this way in the first place.
I feel good about myself again
I have a sense of accomplishment
I am 12 pounds away from onederland
I can move soo much easier.
the next 60 pounds to goal does not seem out of reach
I am loosing at a fantastic rate for lap band.

the bitter (frustrations)
I get tired of eating the same things all of the time
eating has almost begun to be a chore with all of the "rules"
i have hit my first plateau over the last 2 weeks i have not lost any weight
getting food stuck really sux
I miss my friend (food)
cooking isnt as much fun as it use to be.

I am absolutely amazed at my weight loss! I have lost a total of 88 pounds. 30 being pre op and 58 being post op! I love my new confidence, I feel great! I can now walk, I can now walk 5 km which before hand I would have died, well at least felt like it! I am more out there in the world, not confind to my home. My children are totally enjoying it! I am generally more happy! MY dh and I do not bicker as much. My self esteem has rising!  I hate hate hate plateaus, they slow me down. I have lost inchs but I am more so wanting the scale to move, the scale said I was 462 pounds I want the scale to say 200-220! Get my point! I am a scale ***** I weight myself every morning. My hair has started falling out, not in clumps as of yet, perhaps the biotin is helping. But still its noticeable. Over all ladies I feel great. I have grazed a couple of times, without realizing, sucks, those old habbits will always be there and you always have to be ones steap ahead of them. I would like to be able to run by next summer!

WOW,  I have experince something in common with every one of you. 

My 3 month visit is on the 14th and I'm praying to be at 51.5lbs lost.  Thats the amount I should loose by the end of month three per the projuction tool.  I think its a reasonable goal in general, but I may be too far away to make it by the 3 month mark. 

I too am a scale *****  Every morning its among my first activities.  I'm a proud ***** too.  I need the constant reminder of my objectives.

I'm down about 45 pounds since surgey + 40 lost before surgery for a total of about 85 pounds.  I've been frustrated that I was losing too slowly but I feel fantastic and my surgeon says i'm right on track.

Sweet
- I feel fantastic :)
- after years of struggling, I'm finally getting 80oz of water in every day, easily
- most of the nearly constant pain I experienced before surgery (knees, back, feet, hips) is gone
- blood pressure down to 112/60
- since I have to buy a new wardrobe, I'm having fun re-inventing myself.  Experimenting with looks and colors I wouldn't have worn before
- I've been very lucky with not having any significant food problems (can eat anything except dry meats...and really, why would one want to eat dry meat? :)

Bitter
- somehow when I heard "you won't be hungry" I assumed that it wouldn't feel like I was dieting but it still feels like being on a diet, what with all the mental energy that goes into choosing what to eat.  And the whole not being able to eat brownies thing...

- this is actually a good thing, but hard.  Weight loss is so tied to failure that I'm having a lot of those failure anxieties even though I'm not failing.  I realized the other day that every aspect of my life is successful except my ability to lose weight (in the past) yet I defined myself as a failure because of that - ignoring all the other successes. 

- haven't been able to learn how to eat slowly...still race through my meals no matter how hard I try not to