FEB 09'ers, WHERE ARE WE AS SURGIVERSARY TWO APPROACHES?
Habits have changed. We've improved our bodies and our minds. We are still working towards goals both scale and non scale victories.
I still struggle with crazy erratic weight gain but I am staying within a reasonable size despite forever fighting pounds. I'm still working on loosing an extra ten pounds as a cushion given the 14 lb range I float within no matter what I do. Fingers crossed, I can make it 15 lbs to cover the full range.
Give us an update if any February 2009'ers are still out there.
MSW Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass: Eat sensibly & enjoy moderation
Links: Are you a compulsive eater? for help OA meets on-line Keep Coming Back, One Day At a Time Overeaters Anonymous
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V'N MY RNY. WORKING FOR ME BECAUSE I WORK FOR IT.
I had my beautiful little girl in July. I was 212lbs when i delivered (193 when i got pregnant). i currently drift between 190-198 give or take (wearing clothes). I for some reason have no desire to eat protein and i NEVER get in enough fluids...idk why.
Please please please....if anyone is out there and would like to whip my butt into shape. here is my email
[email protected]
a daily reminder of protein intake and fluid intake would be fantastic, idk what happened...i just havent been able to get back on track after the baby!!
chocolate is trying to take over!! ugh! i hate it. but for some reason, if i dont get a few "hershey kisses" a day.....i get the worst headache!
HELP!!!
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Six months ago, my doc said that their 'goal' for me was 200-205. I was in that weight range (203). I had been around there for about a year. I'd take off some, put on some, take it off again .... I think I'm finally back on track. [Tho, sometimes I do keep looking to make sure that the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a locomotive waiting to run my butt over!
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What I have done is increase exercise. Increase water intake. DECREASE snacking -- I had gotten itno a bad habit of snacking.
I have learned that certain foods are like drugs.
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You have to constantly remind yourself that this surgery is a TOOL. It got you this far, but now .... you need to work like a 'normal' person would to lose those extra pounds. YOU have to do it yourself.
Good luck everyone! I have faith in you!
Ida
I have just recently gained 4 lbs over night. It seems as t hough my body is hungry and able to eat more. I know I need to exercise and eat right. Did you notice that you all of a sudden could gain weight too? If so, how did you stop this. I want to stay down at my low weight and maintain it, not gain 5 lbs a month, this is what happened before. Any suggestions?
480/435/180/230
HW/SW/CW/GW
Currently Looking into Plastics with Dr. Carden (in Mexico)
I will be two years out soon and holding at 132lbs. I eat very healthy and very well everyday. Take all my vitiams and my health has totally improved no more HBP or HC and my kidney problems gone. I no long take any meds just lots of vitiams.Hope you are all doing well. I can't believe it will be two years already.
Gail
Congratulations for making your goals and for continuing to work towards your goals and for maintaining your weight loss and especially for getting on with life doing the things weight loss has enabled you to do. Was that sentence long enough for you? LOL.
As for weight gain? I am on this diet for life. Stay on plan, stick with the basics of diet and exercise and you can drop any gains and maintain.
You may remember I have fought weight gain since five weeks post op and always lagged behind the rny'ers in wl. The bandsters even adopted me as an honorary mascot but they soon passed me in wl too. Two years and a month later I have a medical explanation as to why I still fight weight gain. It will always be that much harder for me to loose it and then re loose it and to keep it off. Nevertheless, there is no stopping me. I'm 10 lbs up right now but I will be 5 lbs below my low weight in time. That will put me at 20 lbs below my docs goal, and 7 lbs below my revised goal, and within 3 lbs of my "ideal" weight.
Congratulations to us all!
The problem for me is the cravings. Like a previous poster said. One thing that triggers my cravings leads to my eating more than I should. Crackers and the dreaded DIET COKE, seem to be the things that have gotten me off track. It is an addiction, no doubt about it.
I am trying to get back on track. I don't fee good about myself right now. I want to get back to where I need to be! Any suggestions and support would be greatly appreciated.
Im at 203 rignt now......was down to 169 .......Hightes was 297
So sorry about the weight gain. Two words I don't see often on this site is DIET and FAT (other than dietary fat). I've skiped the life style change euphimism because that is all it is for me.
If you don't want to be FAT you have to stay on this DIET for life. Sounds lousy but we have lived the alternative. Its go back to basics and stay there.
My hard nosed DIET FOR LIFE RULES follow. Last month the endocrinologist, tired of me whining over this bouncing 15 lbs, said to me:You can live on only water and not loose weight. I am certified metabolically fkcu'd. Fortunately I've gleaned a few tips from succesful vets.
- Treat yourself at times but not treats that are risky for you personally. I've heard diet soda can do folks in but that is not an issue for me. However, I must approach fruit with caution.
- Work the head issues that pull you backwards toward behaviors tha made you fat to begin with. I'm convinced that this will eventually save me.
- Never never buy a bigger size and don't be fooled by vanity sizes. Know your body measurements and the measurements of your clothes and carry a tape measure. If the waist on the new outfit is bigger than what you were already wearing put it back and loose the fat.
- Variety keeps you interested in eating well and exercising. Boredom leaves you eating the wrong foods to find variety and skipping exercise for something you prefer.
You can drop that 20 lbs and keep it off. It may be harder to loose this time. It may get even harder if you wait or if regain again. You already know its worth the struggle not to be back where you started.