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Topic: RE: I got SICK!
Poor you :o(
I have to confess I have eaten too much to where I wanted to make myself throw up but actually am unable to do it (thankfully), so I have to suffer with the additional food until it works it's way through.
Try not to make a habit of it and get into an eating disorder. Keep your head in the game, and, as you say, learn the lesson!
How did you do on the pouch test? Lost much weight? You obviously re-set yoru pouch and it let you know!!!!
hugs, Ruth
I have to confess I have eaten too much to where I wanted to make myself throw up but actually am unable to do it (thankfully), so I have to suffer with the additional food until it works it's way through.
Try not to make a habit of it and get into an eating disorder. Keep your head in the game, and, as you say, learn the lesson!
How did you do on the pouch test? Lost much weight? You obviously re-set yoru pouch and it let you know!!!!
hugs, Ruth
Topic: I got SICK!
This is an embarressing admission and Im wondering if anyone else does/has done this still.
Do you ever make yourself throw up? I do. Not all the time. Not each day. But sometimes I really over do it with food and I find thats the only way to end my suffering.
Last night we went out to a nice restaurant with old friends. We were at an Italian restaurant and I was very aware not to eat the bread, not to eat the pasta - but I didnt put the breaks on the fried calamari, side salad and by the time my salmon arrived, I ate a few bites when my pouch was clearly done eating but since I was chatting and enjoying laughs I wasnt paying attention to by body. I had to excuse myself and get sick in the womens bathroom. Classy huh?
I think also, having just successfully completed the 5 Day Pouch Test, that my pouch was tighter and more sensitive to all this garbage( fried calamari) and raw veggie I unthinkingly stuffed into it.
LESSON LEARNED...............i hope!
Kathryn
Do you ever make yourself throw up? I do. Not all the time. Not each day. But sometimes I really over do it with food and I find thats the only way to end my suffering.
Last night we went out to a nice restaurant with old friends. We were at an Italian restaurant and I was very aware not to eat the bread, not to eat the pasta - but I didnt put the breaks on the fried calamari, side salad and by the time my salmon arrived, I ate a few bites when my pouch was clearly done eating but since I was chatting and enjoying laughs I wasnt paying attention to by body. I had to excuse myself and get sick in the womens bathroom. Classy huh?
I think also, having just successfully completed the 5 Day Pouch Test, that my pouch was tighter and more sensitive to all this garbage( fried calamari) and raw veggie I unthinkingly stuffed into it.
LESSON LEARNED...............i hope!
Kathryn
Kathryn
Topic: RE: Update
I have no butt any more. heehee nothing to lift here giggle
tt.. oh baby.. that is a dream of mine.
congratulations..
tt.. oh baby.. that is a dream of mine.
congratulations..
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[[ Some people are like slinkies, they don't really have a purpose,
but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs.]] 
Topic: RE: Update
Hi Kathryn
sadly, yes I think some of us will always struggle - but not that I am speaking that into any of our lives. Sometimes I think, for me, it's because I've been overweight for so long and other times I just wonder. There is actually a very good post on the grads board about a nutricionist theory that you get to the weight you were at age 16 and from the replies, that's where most people have got to - me included!
Others seemed to reach their goal so quickly within the first year, but for those of us that didn't we may always have to keep an eye on things. Or maybe we werent' 'fixed' the same way as the others. There are several on the revision board who's pouches were not made as small as others, or who haven't had the same amount of intenstines bypassed. Who's to say we arent' in those groups too and have done amazing to get as far as we have????
I still think we are considered successes by the medical field if we haev lost 75-80% of our excess weight.
sadly, yes I think some of us will always struggle - but not that I am speaking that into any of our lives. Sometimes I think, for me, it's because I've been overweight for so long and other times I just wonder. There is actually a very good post on the grads board about a nutricionist theory that you get to the weight you were at age 16 and from the replies, that's where most people have got to - me included!
Others seemed to reach their goal so quickly within the first year, but for those of us that didn't we may always have to keep an eye on things. Or maybe we werent' 'fixed' the same way as the others. There are several on the revision board who's pouches were not made as small as others, or who haven't had the same amount of intenstines bypassed. Who's to say we arent' in those groups too and have done amazing to get as far as we have????
I still think we are considered successes by the medical field if we haev lost 75-80% of our excess weight.
Topic: RE: Update
Thanks Ruth!
I will keep you posted as I'm as nervous as I am excited about this upcoming surgery date.
I am on Day 5 of the pouch test and I am soo surprised by how it has helped me refocus. I tried this before and I ate within the 1st 8 hours! I went off program at the sight of a taco! Sheesh!
I am still so much heavier than is healthy - I know I need to use behavior modification and I think this is what the pouch test has helped me to realize.....I have lost 4 lbs in 4 days and I have walked each day - not super fast- not far - just 1 mile but it's been a wonderful turn around from my laziness the past 10 months since I put on the weight.
Thank you for the encouragement- its been a great help to know there are other people less than perfect even though we had wls nearly 3 years ago.
BTW- your opinion: Will some of us always struggle to maintain a healthy or slightly overweight BMI? I have yet to have a BMI lower than 28!! But I began at 40 something...so I still think Ive come a long way!!!
I will keep you posted as I'm as nervous as I am excited about this upcoming surgery date.
I am on Day 5 of the pouch test and I am soo surprised by how it has helped me refocus. I tried this before and I ate within the 1st 8 hours! I went off program at the sight of a taco! Sheesh!
I am still so much heavier than is healthy - I know I need to use behavior modification and I think this is what the pouch test has helped me to realize.....I have lost 4 lbs in 4 days and I have walked each day - not super fast- not far - just 1 mile but it's been a wonderful turn around from my laziness the past 10 months since I put on the weight.
Thank you for the encouragement- its been a great help to know there are other people less than perfect even though we had wls nearly 3 years ago.
BTW- your opinion: Will some of us always struggle to maintain a healthy or slightly overweight BMI? I have yet to have a BMI lower than 28!! But I began at 40 something...so I still think Ive come a long way!!!
Kathryn
Topic: RE: Update
Oooooh, I am soooooooooo jealous of you having a BL/TT - BUT I'm pleased for you too!!!
I know that if I did, I would feel much better about my body and would feel that I had reached goal - I too feel so ugly- much more so than when I was at my heaviest!! Crazy I know, but there you go.
Anyway, hope it all goes well. It is a great time for you to be doing the 5 day test to prepare your body. Please let us know how it goes, and remind me just beforehand as I have a terrible memory and will forget the date by then.
how many days left on the 5 day test? Keep going strong...
hugs, Ruth
I know that if I did, I would feel much better about my body and would feel that I had reached goal - I too feel so ugly- much more so than when I was at my heaviest!! Crazy I know, but there you go.
Anyway, hope it all goes well. It is a great time for you to be doing the 5 day test to prepare your body. Please let us know how it goes, and remind me just beforehand as I have a terrible memory and will forget the date by then.
how many days left on the 5 day test? Keep going strong...
hugs, Ruth
Topic: Update
I am going strong on the 5 Day Pouch Test and so happy I did this. This is a great feeling to cleansed my body of all those chips and crackers I used to physically crave. Now I dream about eating them. Seriously! Obviously its a head hungr thing not a physical need - duh, right?
I jsut wanted to share that and also that Im having a BL/TT on January 5th. Im soo excited! I think this will help in my outlook on my body. I find myself so ugly right now and maybe seeing a "normal" body will help remind me to take better care of it.
But those tortilla chips.......they are my demons! :
HaHa
Kathryn
I jsut wanted to share that and also that Im having a BL/TT on January 5th. Im soo excited! I think this will help in my outlook on my body. I find myself so ugly right now and maybe seeing a "normal" body will help remind me to take better care of it.
But those tortilla chips.......they are my demons! :
HaHa
Kathryn
Kathryn
Topic: RE: How I see myself
thank you...
so today was a new day, and what did I do with that blessing?
breakfast was 2 yogurt pancakes, dry, no dressing and lunch was a banana.
now I definately HAVE to make some coffee since I just woke up from my morning nap and I am still tired and sleepy. I think it may have to do with the weather, it is raining today and that seems to affect me. but then again, I have been flat out exhausted a lot lately.
dinner last night was a fiasco. I make a whole wheat macaroni / pea / salmon / gravy dish and had a ladle of that as well as a ladle of homemade lasagna primavera from saturday night dinner.
while I making everything from scratch, I am finding that my 'base' of ingredients is whole wheat pasta driven and I really need some new recipes.
so today was a new day, and what did I do with that blessing?
breakfast was 2 yogurt pancakes, dry, no dressing and lunch was a banana.
now I definately HAVE to make some coffee since I just woke up from my morning nap and I am still tired and sleepy. I think it may have to do with the weather, it is raining today and that seems to affect me. but then again, I have been flat out exhausted a lot lately.
dinner last night was a fiasco. I make a whole wheat macaroni / pea / salmon / gravy dish and had a ladle of that as well as a ladle of homemade lasagna primavera from saturday night dinner.
while I making everything from scratch, I am finding that my 'base' of ingredients is whole wheat pasta driven and I really need some new recipes.
Kat Blog [Photographer & Mom of 5] 275/143/202
[[ Some people are like slinkies, they don't really have a purpose,
but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs.]]
Topic: RE: How I see myself
i adore Zumba it's just far away and in winter i tend to hybernate...bad excuse but it is what it is! ANDI
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Topic: RE: The 5 Day Pouch Test
Well done you for starting the pouch test. I didn't realise there was a book - hmm...I need to have a browse on Amazon now for that.
I am having two weeks on my own over Christmas so I plan to do something similar then. Let us know how it is going each day.
I love that feeling of being in control again - why don't I hold on to it though??? Sigh, I guess that's just me and something I will have to deal with. I agree, I too have a problem with self discipline. I can manage a few days but find it so difficult for the long haul.
Together we'll get there - our motto can be 'in 2009 we'll be just fine', unless someone can think of something better!!!
hugs, Ruth
I am having two weeks on my own over Christmas so I plan to do something similar then. Let us know how it is going each day.
I love that feeling of being in control again - why don't I hold on to it though??? Sigh, I guess that's just me and something I will have to deal with. I agree, I too have a problem with self discipline. I can manage a few days but find it so difficult for the long haul.
Together we'll get there - our motto can be 'in 2009 we'll be just fine', unless someone can think of something better!!!
hugs, Ruth
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