1 pound down 2 pounds up, surgery tomorrow

I hate trying to loose weight. If I poop I will loose a pound but if I even just eat my one meal a day I gain back 2-3 pounds. N I've always been a constipated person  which makes me gain weight and hold onto it. Today I'm on liquid one day pre op I sure hope this works. Surgery tomorrow. I hope this works for me. I'm not a huge over eater, but I'm a huge sweets n carbs lover. I sure hope I don't cheat myself. I really do want to succeed but I can't imagine never having pizza again. It's hard to wrap your brain around it. Everyone on here seems like night n day went from eating bad to counting calories and exercising everyday. Well if I had this will power I wouldn't need surgery. I sure hope this works for me. 

Good luck with your surgery tomorrow. I know for me, my decision to have this drastic surgery is one of the driving forces for eating cleaner and exercising.  I don't want to have gone through all of this for nothing!  It is such a big difference, not just a will power thing, but there is a lot of mental work to be done, too....I am still very much working on that!

Take care!

I don't know about everyone else but for me it really was like night and day . I do not crave foods I did before surgery . I'm not really even hungry like I was before . for me exercises just become a habit and eating healthy has give me a new sense of what food should be used for , energy. It is not to control my emotions , it is not ment to be my friend when I'm lonely , and certainly not to cure my boredom . This tool really does work if you just give it a chance.

best wishes

Best of luck on your upcoming surgery! It WILL work if you let it! Truthfully, you shouldn't have too much trouble laying off the carbs. I've found that, since surgery on 7/1, I haven't really WANTED sweets much. That's part of the beauty of this surgery. The portion of the stomach that is removed includes the site that secretes ghrelin (the hunger hormone). In the 5 weeks since surgery, I have not ONCE had an "I've GOT TO stuff my face with carbs" craving. It's been kind of bewildering. Now, that being said, I have also found that, if I really want to, it is possible to overdo on carbs and not get enough protein. But I pay for it the next day with weakness and lethargy. Protein first! It's the only thing we can't get in the form of a "vitamin supplement" type pill.

 

"If I had this will power I wouldn't need surgery."   - The great thing is that this surgery GIVES YOU THE WILL POWER!!

 

Again, best of luck tomorrow! See you on the losers' bench!

Joy - there's an old 12-step saying, "it works if you work it".  And I promise you - you WILL be able to work this tool!   I went from not counting calories to tracking all my food on My Fitness Pal.  Not because I needed to restrict myself.  I needed to make sure I was getting *enough* - enough water, protein, calories, etc.  Later it became a tool to make sure I stayed within the guidelines on carbs, etc.  

As for exercise, I'm not a lunatic about it but I'm encouraged by the scale and want to tighten up as much as I can.  You'll get that motivation too! 

As for never eating pizza again, let me tell ya' - I was the world class pizza-eating machine.  A couple weeks ago I tried just eating the toppings off a piece and it made me sick.  I can't even look at pizza right now!   Does that mean I won't want it in the future?  No...and I'm sure when I reach maintenance I will indulge in a piece.  But it's going to be different than it was before because I literally can't.eat.that.much. 

What the sleeve has done is provided me a great tool that allows me to FINALLY make good decisions on what I put in my mouth.  I don't have the cravings or intense hunger.  You'll experience that freedom too :-)

 Very excited for you - best of luck tomorrow!  See you soon on the loser's bench

 

On the one hand there's pizza.  On the other hand there's having a much healthier life and doing things I've only dreamed of doing; having my husband be thrilled at the sight of me rather than worried and frustrated at the sight of me; hopefully being around for a much longer time and being able to raise my kids, including the one we fought so hard for in court for years; having my very elderly parents see me healthy and successful while they are still here on Earth; knowing I will probably be less of a burden on my dear family should serious illness befall me.

Really, pizza does NOT win.  It's very easy to wrap my brain around that when I put it in its place.  The sleeve helps mightily with that, but it doesn't do it all.