a new realization

Hi everyone.  I wonder how many of you are discovering the same thing.  I used to gain weight whenever I became stressed out.  Stress and eating always went together for me.  Well, the last few days were stressful for me, I did not sleep well for three nights and my mind was racing.  I woke up this morning weighing 102 lbs.  In the past few days I lost two pounds.  I am not trying to lose, and I am eating the same things I ate before and in pretty much the same quantities.  I am not sure what is going on here.  Looking back over the last few months, I realized that now I lose weight with stress rather than gain it.  I seem to burn through the calories faster somehow.  My eating is not fluctuating, so it must be my metabolism that it doing this.  I think something profound has changed in my metabolism from this surgery.  I eat more calories and still lose weight, this was never the case before surgery.  I asked Dr. Cirangle if he was sure I did not malabsorb calories and he reassured me that I didn't.  He told me that I must be moving more, but I know this is not the case.  I am a bit stumped as why my metabolism has changed (for the better) so much.  I guess I am going to have to eat more healthy fat for the next few days. 

Nothing insightful to add but isn't this a GREAT problem to finally have!

I love my sleeve. And, your sleeve. Pretty much love all sleeves....

Have a great weekend.

      Me too!!

The same thing happened to me, Elina, but it didn't last, unfortunately. I was able to pretty much eat what I wanted, within reason (and I did make an effort to be healthy) but the weight kind of kept drifting off until about a year ago, which was 2 1/2 years after surgery. I was eating a lot of calories and not exercising. For the next 6 months, it stabilized and then it started to fluctuate--up 3, down 3, up 2, down 3, etc. etc., which was new for me. Then, during the holidays this year, from October-December, I put on 5 lbs. This was, naturally, a concern. For one thing, I've never really gained before AND I KNOW that I was eating better/less/not as much junk this year as compared to last year. Last year, I lost, this year I gained. For the first couple of weeks this year, I jus****ched to see whether the weight would come off as I have been eating well, not stressing, but certainly eating as well if not better, than I have in the past. Weight did NOT come off. So now, I am weighing/measuring/journalling, eating about 1000-1200 calories a day. And I am exercising, which I hate with a passion. I hope to see those stupid 5 lbs start to come off soon.

It feels like it did pre-surgery in terms of how difficult it is to get the weight off, where my body fought me over every pound. Of course, it is WAY easier overall, because I can eat small portions and be satisfied, as opposed to pre-surgery dieting where I was fighting constant raging hunger.

But I am kind of bummed that the long, mostly free ride is over !

Your faster metabolism may partially be due to the plastics. Both my plastic surgeon and Dr. Jossart told me that removal of fat, particularly in the tummy area, can rev up the metabolism.

Enjoy it-- and may it last forever for you!!!!

Lizanne

Thank you Lizann, it really helps to hear from you as you are farther out in the process.  If I follow your example, it would seem that the next year or so will be pretty much like this and I can easily see myself getting all too used to the easy weight loss.   I hope that I will be able to pull it back like you have when the time arrives.  For now, it seems I am almost required to eat more calories to just stay even.  When you are this small 2 pounds is almost 2% of my whole body.  It scares me a little when it drops so much in two days.  I had the plastics in late June, do you think my metabolism could still be this effected by it?   My plastic surgeon told me it would effect it for about six to eight weeks, but if it is true,it would sure explain a great deal. 

I have NO scientific data and I am a single data point, but I feel like my metabolism was in high gear for about a year after my plastics...but who knows?

Lizanne

Thank you Lizanne, that would completely explain this. 

I know what you mean, but in a different context...  technically if I ate this way before surgery, I would have been well on my way to gaining all my weight back...

Not this time, I am fluxuating at a new weight around 147.2 - 148.8 WTF, how is it that I dont' keep gaining... amazing...

When I finally get my head on straight it should be fairly simple to lose the 5 lbs I gained during the Christmas Holidays...  so fair, so very very fair...

I love my Sleeve, and I'll take losing over gaining any day!!  Perhaps you need more flex room, allow yourself to either go a bit higher, or go a bit lower, you keep a pretty tight range...

You are doing fabulously honey, trust your body and yourself, and don't drive yourself crazy.

Cindy

You are right about the tight range.  It seems that no matter what I eat, unless I am seriously dieting, which I haven't been doing since goal, I stay around 103.5-105.  Waking up at 102 without any changes to my diet seemed pretty major, and I know it is no****er weight, as it is not that time and I have not been eating salty things.  And, I am sorry if this is a bit too much info, but I have been seriously constipated for three days.  So I probably weigh even less. At my weight, that is a drop of almost 2% body weight in two days.  I also started feeling rather weak and shakey today.  Unless this is still from my plastics, I am beginning to think my metabolism is much higher than before surgery, and I can't imagine why.  It sounds like Lizanne went through the same thing.  I really hope that a year from now, if and when this ends, I will have Lizanne's willpower and determination to pull back on the calories.  I am so grateful for the input of the people who went before us, it is like they are holding up a lantern in a dark forest forest to help us see the way.

 
I think it's because your a lean mean fat burning machine now......

Your all of 102lbs. and "nervous energy" and boosted metabolism from "Stress" and "Excitement" are going to burn more calories on the food your body draws from and what little (normal) fat you have.

frisco