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Hi rayah!

I'm so sorry you are having some bad days but I promise it will get better. I am pretty up and down for the last 2 weeks. From week 2 to 3, I was so tired and had absolutely NO energy. I sat at the kitchen table and just cried one night while my husband was making his sons dinner because I was so sad about not being able to eat and how difficult it was to eat. But this week has been so much better! I have energy and I am enjoying my foods and getting full very quickly!

I also struggle with food and family and its hard but it's what we deal with. Honestly, it would be easier to kick them all out of the house and be a VSG hermit but I would probably miss them... Eventually! Lol Try to get out of the house and walk as much as u can. Exploring all the places to walk in my neighborhood that I ignored before helped me. Good luck girl... This stage doesn't last long. Message me if u need to talk!

Hey you!!! I was thinking about you the other day but I couldn't get to a device to message you. I've been having some minor complications so walking for long periods of time is not an option right now. And that 2-3 week mark you were at, I am there right now! I just wanna cry. I wanna punch something or someone all the time! Lol. It's like I'm saying in my head "go ahead, in front of me! I dare you!" Lol. I hope everything on your end is going better than mine! Hahahaha. If I'm being completely honest with myself, it's not like death bad where I'm crawling down the stairs and I can barely hold myself up bad, it just seems so exaggerated when you can't eat, can't chew, in and out of the ER and everyone else around you is just moving along. I just feel stuck. 

I know it's probably not that comforting, but know that we've all been there- and everything you're feeling is normal.

Plus, when you "lose" fat, those cells release hormones which can really mess with your emotions and your head!

I recently went though another bout of surgery (non-wls related) on my guts and so it was like doing this stage 1-2-3 bit all over again and it still SUCKED! The good news is, you'll get past this and it will get better, and you will feel normal again, and most importantly- when you lose the weight- you'll feel FanFreakinTastic!

 

Hang in there, you got this!

:Danni

Danni, and that is definitely the reason why I come here! Thank you so much. I just needed to hear that I'm not the only one that went through this and I'm not paving my own road because others went through this before me. I can't believe I took so long to post here. Thank you so much for your reply. It definitely was comforting! :) 

If you could see a chart of my ups and downs, highs and lows over the last couple years you'd feel better - rest assured, there are definitely better days ahead. It's really hard to see that far, so it's just one day at a time.

I know exactly what you mean. My third week I did not loose any weight at all and all i wanted to do was cry! It was like all I could eat was a teaspoon and was not loosing wt. then  I found this forum it has helped me so much. At least now I know Im not crazy I still have bad days. I'm scared to death that I will stretch my stomach. my doctor asked me to not weight myself because i have freaked out on her over week 3. lol . At this point I'm no help but to be a good ear if you need to vent. hope you feel better I keep you in my prayers

 

cindy

That's where I'm at. I'm doing all of this only to lose a pound? I have my 3rd follow up appointment this afternoon and this is the first time I am dreading it. I usually enjoy going but not today. 

Hun, if all you are eating baby food its no wonder your about to go freaking nuts!  Check out eggface and baritric foodie for pureed foods you can eat at this stage.   If I had to have eaten baby food for 3 weeks I would have hurt someone.  And if there if your mom is there to help she ought  to be able to go get some ingredients for you!!   I know I have HUGE buyer remorse at about 2 weeks, wondering what the hell had I done to myself!!!  You will get past it.  You have support here.  Vent all ya want!!

 

Kat

Kat, 

thank you. Although I feel like I'm always venting. Lol. I want to have a good report to post on here too but it's just not happening. And it's funny that you brought up egg face because I JUST found her blog last night. I went to Safeway at like 1am and started making some stuff. Hopefully I'll be able to handle it for lunch today at work. We'll see. 

I was doing babyhood because at the beginning, it was all I could handle and it was actually making me full. Now that I can eat more, baby food isn't cutting it. :(