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I am going to do the monday weigh in each week for the next month. I have been eating much more and a lot of the wrong things so I want a record of the trend over the holidays to try to keep myself in check.
Here goes...
Surgery weight : 290
today's weight: 148
That is up 2 lbs from last week.
I am heading for the gym and the pool this morning...day off work today.
Hope everyone has a great week.
Fran
Hello,My dear,
I am loving all cookies!!!! I am loosing the battle. I am up to 168 today. So scared!!!!
I feel the exact same way. I weighed myself today and I was at my higest ever since surgery. I am crushed.
Susie
I am pretty much at goal and believe it or not I can eat a lot and sometimes I find myself hungry. When I eat more than what I am used to I also get tired. When I eat too much sugar, I get tired too. I check my weight every morning and if I am more than 1 lb heavier than the morning before I go on a protein spree, eating even smaller protein amounts and no carbs. That's probably why I am expelling ketones. I know my routine sounds obsessive and I know it is, but I am terrified that I am going to gain weight again.
I'm sorry to hear about your hair. I cut it so short that I'm having a hard time growing it back but the bald spots are gone. About the sexy issue, at 23 years of age I find it very hard to feel as sexy as I did when I was big. I can't fit in some medium tops because my boobs are too big, when I put the large on, it's too big on the stomach. The boobs are too big because there's nothing but skin. I am embarrased to go to the beach with my friends because they're all "in place" but I have these folds under my arms from picking up my boobs to fit my bikni top...and oh the skin on my stomach. Yeah, I guess it is a toss up but I wish someone had told me some of these facts so I would at least be prepared.
Hello,
I am so sorry to hear you are having trouble. You'd think this far out we'd all be getting to some form of normal huh? I cannot offer you anything but my insights as lame as they are, but know I care about you...........
I do feel tired a lot too, but my blood work is OK, so what's my excuse? I am not even close to goal, being at 167 today, my highest weight since surgery. I should be at 140, 120 in my dreams. I can eat anything but I cannot have milk. So, I do eat anything, and that's horrible. So, there are many difficulties we all deal with - the people at goal that can't eat wishing they could, the people not at goal who can eat anything wishing they couldn't. It isn't a cure for all our ills that's for sure. I wish sometimes I never would have had this operation, that I was far better off fat. Having all my hair back( it never did grow back) and no sagging skin that I now cant afford to remove. But.......... I am healthier, so its a toss up. I have to say, I look older now, lots more wrinkled, and do not feel as sexy as I used to feel even being fat. I guess most of the time I just know I made a choice, and continue to choose each day. I am not a victim of this surgery, I chose it and I must deal with that choice. Some days its sucks, some days it doesn't.
Please keep up hope, keep taking your meds and know people do care.
Tara
Fran
Fran
It feels so good to have people who know how I feel respond to my concerns. My husband doesn't really get it when I say "I'm tired" so at least some people out there know how real this really is and how yucky it feels.
THANK YOU ALL FOR THE SUPPORT!!!
