Anyone else?

I still have a very surreal feeling about this surgery. It still doesn't feel like I could actually lose all this weight. I can't picture me at goal weight and have a hard time imagining what my life will be like. I'm really, really happy that I've had this done and am thrilled with my loss so far, but just can't fathom ever being a normal size. I haven't been a normal weight since I was about 12. Does anyone else feel the same way or are you confident about getting to goal? Connie

I am like you... is this really happening.. i see the numbers on the scale move and i fit into old clothes that were way to small.. but i have no idea what a "normal body" is like or how I will behave.... I am confident that I will get there but only intellectually, it isnt something I "feel"

I keep expecting it to end. I'm at the weight that I've always been able to get to and then stop, so anything below this is going to be new territory for me. Last night I was at a party and was asked what my goal weight was -- and i said 150. They said, when was the last time you weighed that? It was sad when I replied "2nd grade". Surreal, unbelievable...all of it. 250 is unimaginable to me. I don't know what my face looks like thin. I have no idea if I really have hip bones lol. I truly feel like I'm on this wild ride. Lissa

I know I haven't seen a normal weight since I was about 10. 10 more pounds and I will be at the weight I was when I had my son 17 yrs ago. That is so unreal to me. I am thankful every day that I went and had this surgery even with the problems I've had with strictures. I can live off protein shakes for a long time. Good Luck to all this month. Let's really try to drink our water and exercise and up UP the protein. Shelly

Connie this is EXACTLY how I feel. On an intellectual level I know it will happen, but it stops there. I cannot really fathom it to be true. I cannot bring myself to realize the fact that I will be under 200 someday. I, like you, haven't been a normal weight since I was a kid. I started gaining at puberty and was over 200 when I was 12. I lost down to the 150's in high school, and gained it back (of course). To think I will actually see that day is hard to grasp... Dina

I definately forget sometimes that I have had the surgery and take way too much food and get sic****ep comparing my weight loss now to when I did weigh****chers and keep expecting myself to "blow it" soon - Its like my doc said - she did stomach surgery and not brain surgery. I hope I figure out soon that this is forever and quit the silent negative feelings - I love the changes and how quickly they are coming I just keep thinking its going to do what its always done - stop and reverse. -Sherrie

Good Subject! Yep I feel the same way. I have lost 55 pounds and I try to make a big deal of it because...even though I can fit into my clothes I havent fit in in a long time...it just doesnt seem real. When I was on my plateau I figured that was it. I wasnt going to loose. Then when 4 pounds CREPT off I figured ok im going to loose like 3 pounds a month. Its a head game. I am also used to comparing weigh****chers and seeing that go up and down and up and down and up up up. I suppose thats what I am waiting for. I saw one of my old weigh****chers cards and that sorta put thing into perspective for me...but I still feel like its going to end very soon or I am going to gain. Its true...it just doesnt feel possible to be thin again! But we will get there ladies for sure! (((group hugs)))! Elizabeth M -55lbs!

ME ME ME! I feel exactly the same way! I have never been able to lose more than 30lbs without stopping and gaining again. So this is so new to me. I was a little overweight in High School but as a child I was actually skinny. But I always thought I was fat. How weird is that? Then as I did gain weight, I didn't really see how fat I was actually getting. Major head games here. I don't understand it but now I have lost 54lbs but even with that loss I am only one size smaller in tops. From a 3x to a 2x and in pants I still can wear my 26/28 but I may be able to go a little smaller. I haven't been in to a store to check yet because I don't want to spend the money if I can help it so I am wearing baggy pants. I think I would fit in 24's though but the thing is, I still look big and still pretty much fit all of my old clothes so even though the scale says I lost 54lbs I dont feel like I have. So I keep thinking it isn't for real or this is as small as I will go. But I am keeping the faith. Intellectually, I know that I will lose more but get to my goal weight? Not sure. I hope so but at this point, I just can't imagine it. Nicole

I'm at the lowest weight I've been able to get myself to on my own in the last four years. Subconciously I'm expecting it to stop now. I have friends that have had the surgery, and I was amazed to see how much they lost.. and I don't know if I've internalized it that I'm going to have the same experience. I can't remember a time in my life when I weighed what a normal person of that age and height should weigh. I was always pudgy, my clothes were never comfortable, my parents were both rail thin, and I always knew that I was too big.... (and then you look back at those pictures and say, I'd kill to be that weight!) My sister, who's 5' 6", topped out at 110 lbs when she was pregnant. She's small and cute, and I was always big and cumbersome. I've seen her get away with so much murder... I'm looking forward to having the world at MY feet.

I am terrified of regaining what I have already lost, and I can't really imagine losing more. When shopping, I have to keep making myself move toward things that are my size now rather than the sizes I have looked at for years. I can't make myself look at where I may be this fall. I think this is going to take more time for our heads to adjust than for our bodies! Joy