Things I've never thought I'd be told ...

"You're not eating enough."

"You need to eat more carbs."

No - not told to me by some Nosy Parker, but by the clinic Dietitian!!!  After I picked myself up off the floor, I asked her to repeat that, slowly.

Apparently I haven't been eating enough for a person of my height and build.  So I'm happily going to incorporate a bit more fruit and some grains into my diet.

After years of being told to eat less and limit carbs, I get to try to wrap my head around "MORE".

What a wild little ride this is proving to be. :)

TES

You want to make sure you stay healthy but I bet it was amazing to hear  Congratulations on your success!

Hi TES I was told that at my one month follow up on March 4th, that I wasn't eating quite enough.  I thought I would die of excitement.  I never thought in a million years that a nurse and dietician would ever tell me that.  Isn't this surgery wonderful?  It's been a gift for me and I am so grateful. 

I've heard those same two sentences at the dietitian's office for a few months now.

Carbs... ugh, the bane of my existence! I did what she said, and of course, in the last two months I've only lost 3 lbs! *tears out hair*

I'd like to lose another 20, but the clinic is saying stop where I am. Technically, at 170, I'm still "overweight" and I really, really, REALLY wanna see "normal" which is 150 lbs for me.

I dunno. I've been obese for 30+ years and "lose weight, lose weight, exercise, exercise, no carbs, no carbs" has been in my brain for 20 of those years. Making a change is mind-boggling and very hard to wrap my brain around.

But dammit, I still wanna see "normal"!!

Patience my friend.  Losing 3lbs is still awesome and MUCH better than gaining 3 lbs. :)

I've accepted the fact I'm never going to be what the charts and papers say is "normal".  At 6'2" and bone structure like a German Russian farm worker, if I got down to the magical 170 lbs that the BMI charts say is "normal" I'd be anorexic looking and probably just as unhealthy as I would be at 300 lbs.

The clinic has pegged the low end of my weight at 224 lbs.  I'm close.  As a matter of fact, I think that is still a little bit high and I'm going to aim for 200 lbs, but we'll see what my body wants to do and how I look.  Regardless of what happens, even if I don't go down another pound, I am so happy with who I am right now, I would be perfectly okay.  :)

I bet you're going to lose another good chunk of weight yet, so don't fret about slowing down.  You'll get there!

TES