Five Months Post-Op, and Feeling Fatter then EVER! ...Am I CRAZY??

Well I am sorry that it took so long for me to answer, but I have been off line for a while. I have lost down to my goal weight in the past, and the one thing that I noticed then as with now is the feeling that we all get of still being fat. I sometimes worry that my weight loss will stop before I am ready for it to, and I also feel fat. I do see the results of my weight loss in my clothes because I am wearing smaller sizes, I have noticed that most people like you said are about the same in their weight loss, except some lose faster than others, and some lose slower, I am five months post op and I have lost 120 pounds, and a total of 22 inches. I weighed 377 before surgery on a 5 foot 5 inch frame. I have heard that the larger you are the faster the weight loss. I hit my first plateau but it only lasted two weeks. I am glad of that. I am glad to hear that you are doing very well after this first five months. Keep hanging in there. I guess I have been obese for so long that it seems strange for me to be getting smaller. After being on so many diets in the past that have failed, losing the weight then gaining it back it seems strange for my mind to conceive that I am actually losing weight. Keep up the good work

Hello Peter, Man oh Man do I understand! The part about looking in the mirror and some days seeing a person who lost weight and some days seeing the same person before surgery is a strange feeling. Recently I brought a couple pairs of pants for the spring because some of my other ones are just too too big. BUT...when you put on the ones that fit you still feel like a FAT person regardless of the amount of weight you have lossed! Honestly, I feel better wearing the ones that are too big because then I feel like I have done something. Is that weird or what? MotherLove