is it even possible to lose 165 pounds without surgery?
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on 4/28/10 9:55 am - West Central FL☼RIDA , FL
on 4/28/10 9:55 am - West Central FL☼RIDA , FL
Can I offer another suggestion.........
Whey Protein.....choc or vanilla flavor.....when I really feel like I gotta eat something and want something sweet I often drink a cup of whey protein...that way i get the sweetness I want and I get a powerhouse dose of pure whey protein....very healthy. I buy the Body Fortress Whey Protein sold at Walmart (about $15 for a 2lb can). It fills me right away, is healthy, and helps me reach my protein goal.
Just an idea for you...
Best wishes on the journey
Whey Protein.....choc or vanilla flavor.....when I really feel like I gotta eat something and want something sweet I often drink a cup of whey protein...that way i get the sweetness I want and I get a powerhouse dose of pure whey protein....very healthy. I buy the Body Fortress Whey Protein sold at Walmart (about $15 for a 2lb can). It fills me right away, is healthy, and helps me reach my protein goal.
Just an idea for you...
Best wishes on the journey
i do have some of the unflavored protein that i mix in with my fruit and stuff, i can't stomach the choc or van flavorings, they are too sweet and make me a little sick, but i had bought the unflavored when i was doing the 2 week liquid diet for pre-op and i noticed that although i was hungry, it was actually helping, so i figured to keep mixing it into things, couldn't hurt!! thanks!! 
Of couse it is. I was about to have surgery myself. The doc told me to lose 15 pounds to shrink my liver pre-op. I ended up losing 30. (well, its was because my car died, and I had to walk around and take busses, and I was broke and couldnt afford lunch at work everyday, and my job at the time didn't allow us to bring food or go out because it was a high security facility. Luckily those hard times are over).
After that I realized I want to give natural dieting another go and it's been working so far.
You have to be emotionally ready to lose weight. Even if you get the surgery, you may still fail because it doesn't take away the emotional point of food. I know many women who had it...one died because she wouldn't stop eating a lot despite her bypass, one gained tons of weight becuase she kept finding a way to throw down whole cheesesteaks, another one threw up in a waste basket during meetings sometimes because she still ate tons of candy. Only one of my friends who got it, succeeded and she had the lap band.
I have gotten so sick of my weight that one day I woke up and was like, screw this. Put on my shoes and went to the gym,
You don't have to do much to lose weight, you know. Eat right, eat less and workout each day. THATS IT. It's our lack of willpower and motivation that keeps us from losing weight, and nothing else.
In the morning FORCE yourself to the gym. FORCE yourself to eat something small and healthy. It sucks like hell to get the umph to workout, but force it on anyway...because once you get to the gym and you begin working out, this wave of feel good comes over you and it doesn't suck anymore.
From that, you get this huge feeling of motivation and even though you may not have lost a pound yet, you feel ten times better about yourself and you find yourself planning your next workout:)
Look, time is going to pass by whether you lsoe weight or not. I know I dont want to be sitting here another summer totally bummed because I feel like a fat whale walking down the boardwalk, envying the girls in their cute dresses and bathing suits.
After that I realized I want to give natural dieting another go and it's been working so far.
You have to be emotionally ready to lose weight. Even if you get the surgery, you may still fail because it doesn't take away the emotional point of food. I know many women who had it...one died because she wouldn't stop eating a lot despite her bypass, one gained tons of weight becuase she kept finding a way to throw down whole cheesesteaks, another one threw up in a waste basket during meetings sometimes because she still ate tons of candy. Only one of my friends who got it, succeeded and she had the lap band.
I have gotten so sick of my weight that one day I woke up and was like, screw this. Put on my shoes and went to the gym,
You don't have to do much to lose weight, you know. Eat right, eat less and workout each day. THATS IT. It's our lack of willpower and motivation that keeps us from losing weight, and nothing else.
In the morning FORCE yourself to the gym. FORCE yourself to eat something small and healthy. It sucks like hell to get the umph to workout, but force it on anyway...because once you get to the gym and you begin working out, this wave of feel good comes over you and it doesn't suck anymore.
From that, you get this huge feeling of motivation and even though you may not have lost a pound yet, you feel ten times better about yourself and you find yourself planning your next workout:)
Look, time is going to pass by whether you lsoe weight or not. I know I dont want to be sitting here another summer totally bummed because I feel like a fat whale walking down the boardwalk, envying the girls in their cute dresses and bathing suits.
that was very uplifting, thank you!! i do have to force myself to the gym, it's not that i don't like the gym, it's actually not the worst for me, but i live in florida and it's so hot it makes me so tired that the thought of going to work out sometimes makes me want to cry!! but i will make myself do it, like you said, a year will go by whether i work out or not, i might as well do something to make the year better!!
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