I am no longer a slave to the scale!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay, it has been 15 plus months since my surgery and my weight loss has stopped. I workout regularly, eat a an additional 10-15 grams of carbs more than I should some days, drink a minimum of 9 glasses of water a day and my hunger has returned triple time. So what is a girl to do?

1. I am learning to celebrate how far I have come. The weight loss game is just that: a game. You will lose sometimes, gain a few pounds sometimes, look fat in clothes sometimes and make the wrong choices. However, what victories do you have since WLS and whatever progress you have made?

2. The reality is, further out, the scale for most doesn't move as fast as it did during the "honeymoon period". Sorry, if no one ever told you that, they just did! So, although you must now fight for every single pound and watch every bite you put in your mouth like a crazy person, you still are living the dream of so many.

3. We are not defined by a SCALE! There are many victories along the way--ones that a scale can NEVER measure. I am focusing in 2013 on the completely different LIFE I have now--to me it is a life I have never experienced and I intend to enjoy EVERY SINGLE MINUTE OF IT!

4. At the end of the day all we can do is exercise, eat healthy, stay hydrated and LIVE. If the scale goes up or down, so be it. Now this is within reason. If the scale is going up 10, 15 or more pounds, that is definitely a warning to revamp and go back to basics before the problem is completely out of hand and you are back to square one.

Thought I would just give some encouragement and share some lessons I have learned recently. Applying these principles have brought such joy and liberation in my life! I am enjoying no longer being a slave to the scale and my new life. I am just as conscientious (if not more) about what I eat and just as serious about my exercise. However, I no longer feel like a failure just because the scale does not reflect all my hard work instantaneously. I have finally earned a curvalicious body and I intend to enjoy it!

Smooches and best of luck to you all. We may still have a long way to go until we are "normal" but we should walk with our head held high as if we own the world because we do. So what if people look at us and think we should have WLS instead of realizing that we have and how much weight we have already lost? We new the journey, the blood, sweat and tears and it is too much for the simple minds to grasp anyway!

Thanks for the great message - you are right, we might have fight like hell, but most of us are living a great life. 

 

But man, what's with this damn hunger? I feel like I have pre-op type hunger these days. I think mine is acid, but if its not, I am in trouble!

Just sharing the new liberty I have!

As far as the hunger, dear Lord! I know mine is mostly not acid because I am on an acid reducer and even increased it. The good thing is that when I make good choices it is now easier for me to get in my protein and some low carb veggies. I was one of the ones for the longest that was never hungry and ate a few bites and it was all over. I really believed if that had continued I would have been sick so I am grateful for the change (in one way).

However, I come to think that the reason for all of this is because surgery puts the body in starvation mode (for most I believe). Eventually the body does adjust and you can eat more. I never thought it would be this dramatic with the sleeve but I guess that is why they say never say never, lol.

I'll tell you one thing; it does make the weight loss game HARDER! Thank God for healthy habits in the beginning and the chance to get back on track. You will do well Allison; you always have :o).

Keep up the good work!

Not being a slave to the scale is sometimes hard. We all know how much we want to see the number... hoping it is down and not up. But this is so true, to not be a slave to the scale... it can drive one nutty. Frustrating but I myself just need to see the number. It does not define who I am though. You are right, we are able to live life and go about doing so many things that we at one point in our lives could not do or have. Take nothing for granted.
We will have our ups and downs.... on the scale and in our emotions. Our eyes will play head games as we look in the mirror... sometimes feeling like a big fat cow and sometimes feeling like Cinderella! Sometimes I see my weight loss and sometimes I struggle to see how far I have come.
This is all normal and will be the way it is. Others that are smaller.. bigger... same size... they all deal with these things.

hugs
Sherrie

Yes it is SO HARD! I keep looking at the scale and want to get on it but I resist temptation. I am more than a number, lol! Give it one or two weeks with my revised plan and exercise and I am praying for a big surprise! Eiither way, I will do better with the scale.

It is crazy how we sometimes feel like a Cinderella other times like a big fat cow! I know it is a journey but wow . . .

Hugs,

the simple fact is the smaller you are the less cals your body burns, so you ether need to increase your exercise to burn more cals or eat less cals  to lose the same amount of lbs

weighing your self every day can drive you crazy but once twice a month to make shore your on track is better

if you lose great if you don't, look for why fix it and do better next month

 all that stick to the plan will lose and be healthier  not everyone reaches there goal ,but most people that follow there plan are healthier which is more important   

 the scale like the wls is only a tool to help you lose and get healthy

 great loses for the new year

ABSOLUTELY!

I envy you and cannot wait to be where you are because I still am a slave to the scale. I still have about 70 lbs to lose.

I saw a woman on Anderson Live yesterday who lost 190 lbs and she said she never understood why folks complained about only having 20 lbs to lose. Now she gets it, since the last 20 lbs were the hardest to lose. I guess until I reach goal and live thru the last 20 lbs hurdle, the scale will be my friend/enemy.

I was not true to the diet during the holidays. After Thanksgiving I started baking stollen (Christmas bread) for my family and started eating a slice every morning with my coffee. It was not long before I started feeling hungry all the time. I started slipping into my old ways and would dash into the drive thru and get a small order of French fries. I told myself, at least I wasn't getting the Big Burger and giant drink as well. Then at night I'd have a few jelly beans. Thank goodness I did not gain, but I was working out like a warrior through all this and missed some valuable opportunity to lose the pounds. Now I am in the place I was before the surgery. Hungry all the time because I let myself slip. I know what I have to do and will be dumping all the bad stuff in my pantry this weekend. For me that is always the first step.  

I do not have to tell anyone here, how hard it is to get back on the program. My best friend thru this time was my workouts. Those hours spent in the gym made me feel like I was not the person I was before I had WLS. In my mind, that was what has kept me in this game.

I think I will always be a slave to the scale. I am the kind of person who isolates from the scale when I am bad. I know myself and I need to get on at least  weekly to see where I am.

We can do this! 2013 is going to be a stellar year.

Hugs,

Sharon

 

 

Oh honey, I have PLENTY left to lose . . . that is why I can no longer be a slave to the scale because the further out I am the slower it is come off, lol! I envy the woman on Anderson Live that knows what it is like to have the last 20 lbs to lose. Oh, I would love to be there RIGHT NOW!

Some people are perfect WLS patients. Most of us, however, are not. Holidays, special occasions or just life in general tempt us and there are times we fall for it. I enjoy these times because it reminds me that I am human and that surgery is only a tool. However, when those pounds creep up, I get back to it.

Getting back on track definitely is incredibly hard and seems worse after surgery than before. I am glad I am a gym rat because otherwise my progress wouldn't be where it is. I could have done better, could have done worse but I am alive, well and a success and we all are.

We will do this in 2013! Best of luck to you,

 

 

I am definitely a slave to the scale, but I have learned that for me, daily weighing is a necessary evil. It keeps me on-track. I could do a lot of damage in a week and I could never even think about going a whole month without weighing.