"Only" overweight!

(deactivated member)
on 8/19/15 10:24 am

RNY on 05/04/15

I'm celebrating today! My BMI is under 30 so I'm *just* overweight now, and I'm also now at my lowest ever post-puberty weight. My starting BMI was just over 50 -- officially "super-morbidly obese" -- so I'm pretty thrilled to have lost over 20 BMI points. It's amazing (yet perfectly logical) how the scale started moving faster again once I gave up my gum habit!

SkinnyScientist
on 8/19/15 11:15 am

Woo hoo!

Look at that! Congrats!

RNY Surgery: 12/31/2013;

Current weight (2/27/2015) 139lbs, ~14% body fat

Three pounds below Goal!!! Yay !

Corrie33
on 8/19/15 11:20 am

RNY on 02/09/15

Congratulations! I know how exciting this is, because I hit my "Just Overweight" mark yesterday. It's a happy day for both of us!!! Let's say goodbye to obesity FOREVER.

GOAL REACHED! 170 lbs lost...

RNY: 2/9/15 (age 52), Ht-5'9" HW=304, SW=292, GW=155, LW=134, CW=147

Mo.1 -29lbs Mo.2 -18lbs Mo.3 -13lbs Mo.4 -11lbs Mo.5 - 14lbs Mo.6 - 10lbs Mo. 7 -11lbs Mo. 8 -9.4lbs

robinreinhardt
on 8/19/15 12:29 pm

That's great news 179. So proud of you.

Robin

Felicity Q.
on 8/19/15 12:30 pm

DS on 09/28/15

That's AWESOME - congratulations!

What part of the gum habit was causing you to stall? Was it the calories/sugar in gum or something else?

Asking because my DH is asking me to get him some gum to help with his cigarette and (food) chewing cravings he's having...

Lap-Band 2011 | DS Revision 9/28/15 | HW: 380 in 2011 | GW: 140

Blog: http://felicitywls.blogspot.com/ | Twitter: @FelicityQ13

(deactivated member)
on 8/19/15 2:28 pm

RNY on 05/04/15

I started with sugar free gum, but even 5 calories a stick adds up quickly when you chew 3-4 15-stick packs a day. Then the Xylitol started giving me GI distress, so I started getting regular Double Bubble from the gift shop at wor****il one day I realized I had 75g of sugar just in gum!

Felicity Q.
on 8/19/15 2:59 pm

DS on 09/28/15

Got'cha! Thanks for sharing! I used to be a gum chewer until I started having TMJ issues - ugh.

Hopefully the hubby will be fine losing weight with sugar-free gum then since he's not a WLS patient! :)

Lap-Band 2011 | DS Revision 9/28/15 | HW: 380 in 2011 | GW: 140

Blog: http://felicitywls.blogspot.com/ | Twitter: @FelicityQ13

countrybella
on 8/19/15 12:58 pm - Ashton, Canada

Congratulations!! You should be very proud!

Can I ask what the gum habit is? I recently started chewing gum... and its uncontrollable - at least 2 pieces at a time, and when I chew it I joke about how I have become a "gum addict." I chew only sugar free. My weight has not been moving very much lately, however, I chalked that up to being almost at goal!?

Thanks in advance.

countrybella
on 8/19/15 1:19 pm - Ashton, Canada

Guess I haven't updated my profile lately! Am down to 186 :-)

(deactivated member)
on 8/19/15 2:28 pm

RNY on 05/04/15

See my reply above -- I started with sugar-free but moved on. Kind of backwards I guess, like getting addicted to nicotine gum then picking up smoking.