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Topic: RE: How to be three years out
Shauna,
Thank you. After wiping the tears while reading your post you are right. No one else is going to do it for me but me...
Your post answered my doubts and has given me hope again. From 300 to 148 to 177....and hopefully back down to a weight where I love myself again. I see myself in the mirror and get scared again. Not good...
Thank you so much for taking the time to post...I was touched and enlightened.
Mayra
Thank you. After wiping the tears while reading your post you are right. No one else is going to do it for me but me...
Your post answered my doubts and has given me hope again. From 300 to 148 to 177....and hopefully back down to a weight where I love myself again. I see myself in the mirror and get scared again. Not good...
Thank you so much for taking the time to post...I was touched and enlightened.
Mayra
Topic: it's been awhile
wow it's been so long since I posted anything I hope you guys remember me lol well my name is Tonya King aka downsouthGAgirl on here but anyway it was 3 years since i had my surgery on sept. 14th and i have lost 122 lbs whoo hoo i started out at 275 and i am now down to 153 my orginal goal before surgey was 160 but when i got there i changed it to 140 so thats what i'm working on now but i am happy with myself and boy do i feel better and get complements all the time that i did'nt get much of before beside by my hubby of course he always told me i was beautiful :) but anyway i just wanted to drop in to say hello to everyone and hope you all are doing well.
LAP RNY 9/14/05
Topic: How to be three years out
Ok. So we're all three years out now. What the hell? We have gained and lost, made good and bad decisions, felt strong and weak and on and on and on.
What's the issue? The BIG issue is that we have separated from the FIRE of being a fresh post-op's. Remember when we were excited to get on the scale because we KNEW it was going to show a drop? Remember weighing and measuring food? Counting protein grams and avoiding the cardinal sins known as sugar and fat? How about the feeling of being able to shop where we were never able to shop before and know that when we walked into a room, the looks were positive, not negative? The wow moments?
What we did was we SUCCEEDED. Success is a problem. Success means you have found the end of the rainbow after a bunch of work. Success menas that you set a goal and you met it. BUT did we make plans for the day after success? You never planned for that did ya'? We NEVER found that level of success before and planning for the next move after getting to a weight goal was COMPLETELY foreign.
You can do it, even three years out. You can keep the fire stoked. If you don't do it for you, who will? Stop thinking about dieting and start thinking about your diet. Dieting puts you right back to what you struggled with and hated prior to surgery. It's what ruined your metabolism even more than your genes did.
A few years ago I coined the word "Successing". The word allows me to recognize that I have NO intent of finding the end of the rainbow until I am on my deathbed. Successing allows me to keep reaching, expanding my goals. My job is to continue to do what I was told to do three years ago with regard to eating and exercising, mental health improvement and searching for/maintaining support. I couldn't do it on my own before the surgery and that was why I needed it. They laid out the rules and it is my primary job to follow the rules. Without following the rules, I fail. I was a failure in weight management before surgery so why would I think I could handle it on my own now???
Second, my job is to realize that I am not a failure. Poundage gain is not a failure, it is a challenge to figure out what the heck I am doing. Why did I gain it? What do I need to do to lose it? Am I allowing the gain to define me? Am I feeling deprived? If I am feeling deprived, it is NOW my primary job to get more education about that feeling. Weight gain is NOT deprivation. Deprivation was BEFORE surgery when we couldn't buy "normal" clothing, eat without being stared at, see the doctor without getting yet another diagnosis, get up in the morning without our feet hurtingas they hit the floor, hating what we saw in the mirror, feeling less than everyone else simply due to our size and on and on and on ad infinitum. Think about it. Are you deprived? NO. Are you feeling challenged? Probably. Reach out and get support. There are THOUSANDS of us out there and it's your job to connect. No one knows one of us like one of us.
Do it. Get up and do it. You are not deprived, you are challenged into a process of successing.
Love to each of you Three Year Babes!
Shauna
What's the issue? The BIG issue is that we have separated from the FIRE of being a fresh post-op's. Remember when we were excited to get on the scale because we KNEW it was going to show a drop? Remember weighing and measuring food? Counting protein grams and avoiding the cardinal sins known as sugar and fat? How about the feeling of being able to shop where we were never able to shop before and know that when we walked into a room, the looks were positive, not negative? The wow moments?
What we did was we SUCCEEDED. Success is a problem. Success means you have found the end of the rainbow after a bunch of work. Success menas that you set a goal and you met it. BUT did we make plans for the day after success? You never planned for that did ya'? We NEVER found that level of success before and planning for the next move after getting to a weight goal was COMPLETELY foreign.
You can do it, even three years out. You can keep the fire stoked. If you don't do it for you, who will? Stop thinking about dieting and start thinking about your diet. Dieting puts you right back to what you struggled with and hated prior to surgery. It's what ruined your metabolism even more than your genes did.
A few years ago I coined the word "Successing". The word allows me to recognize that I have NO intent of finding the end of the rainbow until I am on my deathbed. Successing allows me to keep reaching, expanding my goals. My job is to continue to do what I was told to do three years ago with regard to eating and exercising, mental health improvement and searching for/maintaining support. I couldn't do it on my own before the surgery and that was why I needed it. They laid out the rules and it is my primary job to follow the rules. Without following the rules, I fail. I was a failure in weight management before surgery so why would I think I could handle it on my own now???
Second, my job is to realize that I am not a failure. Poundage gain is not a failure, it is a challenge to figure out what the heck I am doing. Why did I gain it? What do I need to do to lose it? Am I allowing the gain to define me? Am I feeling deprived? If I am feeling deprived, it is NOW my primary job to get more education about that feeling. Weight gain is NOT deprivation. Deprivation was BEFORE surgery when we couldn't buy "normal" clothing, eat without being stared at, see the doctor without getting yet another diagnosis, get up in the morning without our feet hurtingas they hit the floor, hating what we saw in the mirror, feeling less than everyone else simply due to our size and on and on and on ad infinitum. Think about it. Are you deprived? NO. Are you feeling challenged? Probably. Reach out and get support. There are THOUSANDS of us out there and it's your job to connect. No one knows one of us like one of us.
Do it. Get up and do it. You are not deprived, you are challenged into a process of successing.
Love to each of you Three Year Babes!
Shauna
Topic: RE: Adkins
Hi Sandy,
I'm starting my 3rd week of following Atkins. 2nd week was not as exciting as the first, but I am down a total of 8.5 pounds as of this morning. Leaving 17.5 pounds to go to my goal weight.
So here is a typical day...
Pre workout snack
1 oz cheese
Breakfast:
2 eggs
2 pattis of turkey sausage
1 oz cheese
Morning snack
Lunch
6 oz chicken
1 cup of greenbeans
afternoon Snack
1/2 an Isopure premixed protein drink
Dinner
6 oz of chicken
1 cup califlower--with cheese sauce
1 cup eggplant and tomatoes
Seems like a lot of food to be loosing weight on. But there it is.
I'm starting my 3rd week of following Atkins. 2nd week was not as exciting as the first, but I am down a total of 8.5 pounds as of this morning. Leaving 17.5 pounds to go to my goal weight.
So here is a typical day...
Pre workout snack
1 oz cheese
Breakfast:
2 eggs
2 pattis of turkey sausage
1 oz cheese
Morning snack
Lunch
6 oz chicken
1 cup of greenbeans
afternoon Snack
1/2 an Isopure premixed protein drink
Dinner
6 oz of chicken
1 cup califlower--with cheese sauce
1 cup eggplant and tomatoes
Seems like a lot of food to be loosing weight on. But there it is.
Topic: RE: Adkins
Question: I tried atkins once and also lost 30# but when I went off, it was like my digestive track never recovered. Gas galore - even when I sleep. Does anyone know if IBS can be a result of the ATKINS diet? Just curious, and wishing I had NEVER gone on the diet at all...but maybe it was a coincidence.
Topic: RE: gaining
Hi Carol,
I agree with some of the others. Focus on your protein first, green carbs second, and white carbs last if you are still hungry at the end of the meat. No fluids while eating. Use the tools on fitday.com and log everything you eat. I bet you lose! Remember, eating more protein improves your satisfaction much more than bread and other carbs. You can do this, just get back to basics. Best of luck and keep us posted!
Beth
I agree with some of the others. Focus on your protein first, green carbs second, and white carbs last if you are still hungry at the end of the meat. No fluids while eating. Use the tools on fitday.com and log everything you eat. I bet you lose! Remember, eating more protein improves your satisfaction much more than bread and other carbs. You can do this, just get back to basics. Best of luck and keep us posted!
Beth
Topic: RE: Adkins
Thanks for the info.
Before my surgery Atkins was my last "diet" I figured I would try "one more" before I looked into WLS. I lost 30 lbs in about 3 months and figured " I could do this" but then the holidays came. The difference in doing this now is that "the sugar binge" won't work for me because I'm still afraid of dumping. How about posting one of your "daily menues" so I can get an idea of what I was doing wrong ? My biggest problem is not logging my food and not getting enough protein in. I guess I better get back to "the rules" since I am gaining also.
Good Luck,
Sandy
Before my surgery Atkins was my last "diet" I figured I would try "one more" before I looked into WLS. I lost 30 lbs in about 3 months and figured " I could do this" but then the holidays came. The difference in doing this now is that "the sugar binge" won't work for me because I'm still afraid of dumping. How about posting one of your "daily menues" so I can get an idea of what I was doing wrong ? My biggest problem is not logging my food and not getting enough protein in. I guess I better get back to "the rules" since I am gaining also.
Good Luck,
Sandy
Sandy
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Topic: Adkins
Hi All--
After a recent trip to the doctor's office, I finally had to deal with the fact that I was gained weight and was not happy about it. I exercise regularly and do not eat sugar and since my surgery have gained a considerable amount of muscle...however the scale at the Dr's said 200 and my scale at home said 198. This just doesn't work for me. My lowest weight was 165 my personal goal is 172.
I tried an extreme exercise regimine of working out cardio and weights for 2 hrs a day, but didn't loose a pound and in fact found that I was quite hungary and as a result was eatting more.
Anyway... in desperation, I decided to give Adkins a try. I like the structure and the basic idea seemed to be in keeping with the post WLS surgery instructions I'd gotten. After 9 days I've lost 8 pounds! This seems crazy to me because it isn't like I'm trying to loose 80 pounds. But I'm happy about it and not starving. Actually I'm enjoying eatting and cooking more than I have in quite a while.
What I realized was that I misunderstood that whole eat protein first instruction we got after weight loss. I thought that was because protein is most important and our stomachs were so small we needed to make sure we got that in. I thought after we could eat more we should add carbs and foods that were less dense in calories to keep from gaining weight. I didn't think protein first meant eatting an 8 ounce steak.... ok 6 ounce steak.... then get some veggies in...
Anyway for those of you who are struggling with weight gain like I am, I recommend giving it a try. For me it is a perfect fit.
After a recent trip to the doctor's office, I finally had to deal with the fact that I was gained weight and was not happy about it. I exercise regularly and do not eat sugar and since my surgery have gained a considerable amount of muscle...however the scale at the Dr's said 200 and my scale at home said 198. This just doesn't work for me. My lowest weight was 165 my personal goal is 172.
I tried an extreme exercise regimine of working out cardio and weights for 2 hrs a day, but didn't loose a pound and in fact found that I was quite hungary and as a result was eatting more.
Anyway... in desperation, I decided to give Adkins a try. I like the structure and the basic idea seemed to be in keeping with the post WLS surgery instructions I'd gotten. After 9 days I've lost 8 pounds! This seems crazy to me because it isn't like I'm trying to loose 80 pounds. But I'm happy about it and not starving. Actually I'm enjoying eatting and cooking more than I have in quite a while.
What I realized was that I misunderstood that whole eat protein first instruction we got after weight loss. I thought that was because protein is most important and our stomachs were so small we needed to make sure we got that in. I thought after we could eat more we should add carbs and foods that were less dense in calories to keep from gaining weight. I didn't think protein first meant eatting an 8 ounce steak.... ok 6 ounce steak.... then get some veggies in...
Anyway for those of you who are struggling with weight gain like I am, I recommend giving it a try. For me it is a perfect fit.
Topic: RE: A little late!
Good morning! Thought I would check in with a bit of a progress report here.
I went to WW last night. So far Im losing about 3.5 pounds a week. I was kinda bummed about the slow loss, till my daughter reminded me,,Mom, you are not fat like the rest of us! You only have a little bit to lose! That put it all inperspective! When I weighed over 300 and would go, I would lose 5-7 per week the first few weeks,,this time Ive lost 7 in two weeks, Guess thats good huh...
My clothes are already fitting again, thats a relief. Hey,,whatever we gotta do,,,,
Keep me posted, stay in touch!
Blessings
Betsy
I went to WW last night. So far Im losing about 3.5 pounds a week. I was kinda bummed about the slow loss, till my daughter reminded me,,Mom, you are not fat like the rest of us! You only have a little bit to lose! That put it all inperspective! When I weighed over 300 and would go, I would lose 5-7 per week the first few weeks,,this time Ive lost 7 in two weeks, Guess thats good huh...
My clothes are already fitting again, thats a relief. Hey,,whatever we gotta do,,,,
Keep me posted, stay in touch!
Blessings
Betsy
"For I know the plans I have for you ," declares the Lord. Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11
Topic: How about a weekly weigh in ? Accountability ?
I am tired of seeing the scale go up again ! 
It's time for me to get on the ball and see if I can put myself in "losing mode" again. This Wed is a Bariatric Surgery Patient Reunion. I want to go and be one of the "successful stories" not one that this surgery didn't work.
So who is with me ?
It's time for me to get on the ball and see if I can put myself in "losing mode" again. This Wed is a Bariatric Surgery Patient Reunion. I want to go and be one of the "successful stories" not one that this surgery didn't work.So who is with me ?
Sandy
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