Down & Out !!!
DO any of you guys feel like that ??? And what can I do to get it moving again ???
I'm living this surgery and not letting the surgery live me...
While I don't feel fat, I know that improvement is needed. You may have to shock your system by altering your diet or changing ur workout regiment. Its possible you may have reached a plateau, though, its not likely at only six months out.
"When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept for there were no more worlds to conquer." Plutach. Not true, for there are always more worlds to conquer.
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on 12/14/08 9:37 pm, edited 12/14/08 9:39 pm
Good advice, D. However, I think you can plateau at six months....even earlier out. The body is shocked from the rapid weightloss and it will shut the assembly line down to give the body time to process and play catch up.
CB, you can also shock the body by adding more carbs to your diet for a day or two, and then go back to eating your normal daily allowance. This has always worked for me.
Do I feel fat? No. But I do feel jiggly as heyll.
When you devote yourself to achieving your goal, you will not be bothered by shallow criticism.
Ya know, this is the thing people in the know seldom talk about regarding WLS: the mind fugg that this surgery can cause. Its one thing to BE fat, its another to FEEL it. While my mirror and clothes and those ppl around me say I've lost a entire person, I constantly have to tell myself I'm no longer nearly 400 pounds; that I no longer have to shop at Casual Male XL; that I can actually RIDE the roller coaster.
The hardest thing about this process, I find, is the maintenance of one's self-image. Now, that is as contant as watching what I eat .
"When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept for there were no more worlds to conquer." Plutach. Not true, for there are always more worlds to conquer.
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right now I am at all stall and have been now for a week but I try not to worry about it as much cause I know and I believe that I will get to the weight I want to remember to claim it believe it and so it shall be you will get to where you want to so stop beating up on yourself you look good as hell boy and I am proud of you just inhale and exhale and look how far you have come and think how far you will go be blessed and relax it all will work out love ya
The problem that I have with weight loss is that I sometimes don't see the smaller person
that everyone else sees. I see the fat chick with the cute face but needs to lose weight. I am
not hurting myself trying anything to be smaller, but I will get depressed or beat myself up if
I gain just 1lb, I know what you are going through and my advice is to read the bible, go to
church, and find something else to focus on. I am working on taking my own advice. It's very
hard, but we are fighters.
(good morning, Kim!!!!!!)
Covahboy--I can attest to how you're feeling. As D'alexis has stated, though--it IS mental. No matter how my clothes fit as they always have, no matter how I'm constantly told how I "haven't gained a pound", or how I look in pics, I look at myself and see something ENTIRELY different. & in the birthday suit? FUHGEDDABOUT. Leave it to me and a brother would shower FULLY CLOTHED.
Funny thing is that I honestly believe that only a few of us will ever get past this stage. I'm nowhere near getting over it. I feel as if I'm 400 pounds EVERY DAY. I think I've honestly become the anorexic schoolgirl in the afterschool special. Remember her?
I'm still where you are, at damn near three years out. I won't,
however, tell you that I hate it though. It keeps me on my toes. Try
your best to use it to your advantage. That's the ONLY option I have.
Eta: is it just me, or do others have to....Focus.....when they look in the mirror? I can SEE that I'm NOWHERE NEAR where I used to be. But upon initially looking in the mirror, I'm 400 pounds. (mind you, I was NEVER 400 pounds!!) I have to actually FOCUS.... change the vision from my MIND'S eye to my ACTUAL eyes, to see what I ACTUALLY look like.
(and THOSE eyes seem to be on the fritz more often than not.)
Go figure.
1.) The BACKLINES have backlines. Watch what you say and more importantly WHO YOU SAY IT TO!! 2.) There are NO secrets on BAF. DON'T BE FOOLED!!
3.) The person who says: "I'm going to tell you something, but you can't tell anyone." has already TOLD 50 other people!
No--this isn't from experience--well, not MINE anyway!
