What's the hardest thing for you?

SassySteph
on 5/14/08 7:37 pm - Lusby, MD

For me I miss soda it bloats me really bad and I just can't drink it and meat I really can't do any chicken, beef or pork, I am 18 months out and it kills me, luckily seafood goes down great go figure. Stephanie

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on 5/15/08 4:03 am - Middle River, MD

RNY on 08/02/05

Steph - I can't drink it like I used to, but I do enjoy one every now and then. Although after my first wls consult in March of 2005, I stopped drinking soda and ramped up the water until my surgery date in August. By that time, I was used to it. I am SO with you on the meat - I always say beef, chicken and pork are NOT my friends. I can do ground beef, like in chili and spaghetti sauce, but can't do compacted beef like burgers and meatloaf. I can do chicken cut up in a salad with dressing as lube, but can't do a grilled chicken breast. I can't do ANY kind of pork, except for bacon. I don't care how long I cook some of that stuff or how I cook it, I just can't do it. I'm a seafood girl, too!! LOTS of shrimp, fake crab, canned tuna and salmon (can't do compacted salmon cakes, either). It seems that there's no rhyme or reason to what works for each person!!! Tia

Smilesy
on 5/14/08 10:24 pm - Westminster, MD

I think what is hardest for me now is trying to apply logic to something that is not logical. I know, I'm off my rocker, but there is a point in here. I am 1 year and 2 months out and have not lost since November on the scale. My size and shape have changed, but I am stuck at around the same # (within 2 - 3 #'s). So I turn to logic. I go on line and calculate my basal metobolic rate (1522) and then I journal and see that I have been eating between 1100 and 1300 calories a day for months, AND exercising 4 - 6 x a week, maintaining a very active life style (keeping a house, a job, a yard, a garden, etc etc etc) and am not losing(on the scale). Then I start to think about those that say "you aren't eating enough" and logic says you can't say that to someone who has been grossly obese her entire life. But you can. And then you have those that say you are exercising so much you are gaining muscle. Again, logic says a grossly obese person can't be told that their exercise is stopping them from losing weight, but it can. And thus, my frustration - and the moral of the story is - throw logic out the damn window and just keep doing what works. And that is not always the number on the scale as the measurement. Caryn :)