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Starting a week early did not work out for you, so just wait until you really have to do it.
Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
At least 2 protein shakes; 2 times a day - I eat chicken or beef. Eat veggies 3-4 times per week. Typically, spaghetti squash, squash, some sweet potato. Snacks include almonds/pecans; strawberries and blueberries with lite and fit vanilla yogurt or sometimes sugar free whippping cream. Thinking it the number of meals and portion size. Don't eat sugar (except a bite or two at parties/month), flour or fried. Don't eat out much at all - mainly cook at home.
3.5 years out and faithful to eat the right foods and consistent exercise. Began eating bigger portions early during COVID and gained 5 pounds. Quickly began correcting that. Been eating smaller amounts and exercising (sometimes 2x/day) and have only lost 3 pounds in 3 months. Returned to my Doc yesterday and was prescribed Rx diet pill. I read that it is used to boost weight loss and/or boost metabolism as this sometimes happen with calorie restriction over time. Has anyone had any experience with this? Today is day one of the meds - so very interested to hear feedback. So afraid of falling into the yo-yo pattern that lead to surgery in the first place.
what does a days menu look like for you?
this isn't a solution but just wanted to say that a lot of us can probably relate to that. If you're normal weight or within 10 or 20 pounds of it, it's a BEAR to get that off. I put on 10 lbs between last summer and the end of the holiday season. I've managed to take off five of it since then (so five more to go), but it was SUPER hard to get off. I've learned my lesson - I can't let myself gain weight again, because I know how tough it is to get rid of it once it's on!!
to me, the pre-op liquid diet was the hardest part of the whole process. You just have to white knuckle it - although it does get better once your body gets into ketosis by about the 3rd or 4th day.
meanwhile, I ate SF Jello and SF popsicles with abandon since they were the only things I could have that resembled real food. I was also allowed a limited amount of clear broth and tomato juice (or V8) every day, so I took advantage of that because the sodium in those caused me to retain water, which helped me feel more full.
Sorry - not clearly stated. I am 14 pounds over. I had slowly added some over the last year. My best weight was 145. I it fluctuates - but did not want to get over 150. I had 3-4 pounds of winter weight" that I was working on when March/April hit. That is when 5 pounds were added very quickly. I know that was due portion size...but that is when the difficulty began - only 3 pounds down since end of April....
So you are two pounds over your goal weight and been prescribed diet pills?
Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
Thanks. That's the kind of answer I was looking for. ?
Hello, so I have my surgery on July 9th. I figured I would try to start the liquid diet a week early to make sure I cpuld be ready when I needed to. Well the last couple days have been somewhat hard and I've sat there and cried because I was so hungry but I didn't want to break the diet.....Any help on how to feel full from protein shakes anf other help?
