Sorry It's Been So Long
I have been away for probably a month now. I'm planning my wedding which was moved to our anniversary April 4 this year. SOOOOO I have a month more to prepare. I'm not going to be at my wedding goal of 160 by then I'm sure. I'm still lingering between 170-172 I'm upping my protein which is also Upping my calories. This is frustrating to me. I've been without a car for about two months now so between pulling the scar tissue in my tummy and no car I have done NO exercise in the past two months. I get a new car in the beginning of next week and back to the gym I go. I don't know if that will make the scale move or not but we shall see. I have to do something though because I'm still struggling with my asthma and now my blood pressure is up pretty high. They put me on bp meds but I think I still need something stronger. I will find out later this month when I see the doctor again. I know the following is going to upset many of you if not all of you but my doctor also put me on an appetite reducer called adipex. It's helping some because my appetite was out of control. But it hasn't moved the scale. I'm scared to up my protein and calories but I don't really have a choice. I DID do a few days of liquids and that helped some before so I'm going to start doing that a few days a wee****il the scale starts to move. If I do three shakes a day one with coffee the other two with milk I will be getting around 600 calories a day which is what I'm getting eating but hopefully since I'm getting more liquids and more protein it will help. I'm just at a loss. I wonder, is it possible that even though I have NEVER had a problem with my thyroid if it's possible that I am having problems with it now? Wouldn't it be nice if there was a real problem going on that explained my lack of weight loss? Since either July or August I have been in the 170's... I had a three and a half month stall, one week of loss and I'm back to stalled out. I wonder if I will EVER get below 170!!! Since surgery day I have only lost 59 lbs... since before the liquid diet for surgery I have only lost 62lbs. This seems ridiculous to me. It's frustrating and extremely depressing. I have not heard of ANY one with such poor results!!! I truly am the exception to the rule. All of my fears with this surgery have come to pass. I had issues with the surgery, I pulled scar tissue when trying to exercise hurting myself, and have not come anywhere NEAR my goal weight in ten months. I'm weighing in at 170-172 at 5'2 my goal is twice what I've lost so I'm only half way there at ten months out!!!! I lost the majority of my weight in the first four months then pretty much stopped. I have never heard of anything so terrible. I don't post in the vsg forum because I don't want to scare off those who have not had the surgery yet because I would still recommend the surgery to others, but it just hasn't worked for me. I have lost and kept off this much weight on my own. Before my pre op appointments started I weighed only 7 lbs more than I am now. The nut had me gain weight to insure my insurance would pay for surgery. So in reality I've only lost 7 lbs due to the surgery. It's terribly disappointing. I went through all of this for 7 lbs. Idk, I guess I'm just venting. Any way, I'm getting off here I will just keep plugging away and hope for the best but my confidence is pretty much shot. OH and has anyone had issues with sleeping after surgery? SInce surgery... well since about two weeks after surgery I've only had maybe six or seven nights total that I have slept more than 5 hrs. It's awful... the past two months I'm averaging closer to 2-4 hrs a night. UGH
I will submit that I am a fresh post op, but as a nurse I don't see thru rose colored glasses. I know surgery isn't perfect and people do the best they know how to do. So please take my thoughts for what they are worth.
I understand life gets in the way sometimes, but you have to put in the effort. If you can't get to the gym, walk laps around the house, get a cheap pedometer and get in 10k steps minimum daily. When you are 'hungry' and it isn't a planned scheduled meal time drink a glass of water and go walk(I realize it's western pa and winter, I live here too) you have to work thru the head issues to get what you want out of this surgery.
You have had some great advice from people much more experienced than me. They have made suggestions and they have made requests for you to post your daily meals and get some ideas and critiques. You need to do that if you want things to change. The ladies here are very smart and can help if you let them, but posting about your stalls and problems without giving the critical details isn't helpful.
As far as adipex goes, consider that the number one problem with your sleep right now. Hands down that's the biggest side effect of adipex. That aside you need to address your other meds with your doctor because you aren't on the right ****tail. Lack of sleep can make depression worse and weightloss slow. Please see a professional to help you sort that out.
Gange's office isn't the one that suggested I gain weight it was the doctor in greensburg at the hospital there that suggested I gain to get the surgery. Dr. marco I think his name was, I don't remember but from what I understand he's somewhere in pittsburgh now. He wasn't as much the problem as the nutritionist was... SHe insisted I would not qualify for surgery if I didn't gain weight. So what did I do? I shoveled as much junk food inot my mouth until I was the weight she wanted. My supervised pre op diet was all weight gain. the only loss I had pre op was the one day of liquids prior to surgery.
I am 3 years post op and a very big stress eater and do little exercise outside of my normal work, cleaning, and kids routine. What I found that has helped me is to get daily liquid protein in. I have found that the brand Unjury is really good and it has less calories. I do a dialy Adkins protein drink for breakfast, nuts for snack, a frozen meal for lunch, a Unjury drink for afternoon snack, and dinner. I stick to 5 meals a day and try to keep them around 200 calories or less each. I notice that if I stray from that plan more than 2 times a week, I gain. I am not the best at drinking water but I try to get a couple bottles in during the day as well. Protein coffee works if you drink it as well. I don't know if any of this helps you but I think if you find a routine you may be able to stick to it through the stress. I didn't have any problems sleeping though but I have always been a heavy sleeper unless I am stressed. Take care and good luck.
Height 5'0 HW-247; SW- 238; GW-140
Thank you,
I've been doing a scoop of protein in coffee once or twice a day and that is 160 calories each yesterday I also had a slice of turkey bacon and a small egg ( don't know the calories of the turkey bacon but the small egg is 58 calories) sounds like You are getting about a 1000 calories a day. I would assume you are in maintanance, I'm still trying to loose. The weight will just not come off. I'm so disappointed and so frustrated I want to cry. I don't have a lot of cloths that will fit the size I am now I have more cloths for my goal size (since I've been there before) Water doesn't fill me up though it did pre op because I would drink while eating. now that I can't do it that not longer works.I can drink up till the second I eat and I still eat the same amount I would if I don't drink anything at all. I don't know how many calories I should be getting because the nut says 600 everyone else seems to think that's too little and no matter where I settle I'm not loosing. I have done a few days at a time of just liquid.. protein shakes and broth. I just don't know what to do any more.
I'm scared to death to do it but I'm gonna raise calories to 1000-1200 and see where that takes me, I'll do coffee with protien twice a day, protein with milk once a day and three meals of meat. I guess we will see what that takes me but seems Like a lot of calories and a LOT of food to be getting in. I guess we will see. I'm so tired of this. I'm tired of not loosing, I'm tired of trying, I'm tired of these incredible stalls, I'm Just TIRED of it all. If I don't loose weight by my surgiversary I'm going to talk to doc about revision surgery. The DS will get the weight off of me for sure. I guess we will see what happens.
