Question:
Question for all post-ops who have reached goal
This may sound like a very strange question to ask but... this is how my mind works, so here goes: <p> Now that you are post-op and at your goal, do you miss the challenge, the rush, that overwhelming wonderful feeling everytime you stepped on the scale and lost another massive amount of weight? Do you ever wish that excitement was still around like it was? Or is it...? <p> I am 45 days away from surgery and can't wait!!! — thumpiez (posted on November 29, 2002)
November 29, 2002
hiya! sometimes i get a twinge that i would like that feeling again
of..."wow, i lost another "x" amount of pounds" and
sometimes its weird that the people i meet now have never known me as i was
but then i think, "i've surpassed the goal i set for myself 17 months
ago!" and i'm satisfied with that.
you do have to deal with a lot of feelings the first year or so as you're
losing all the weight and everytime you see people they gush about how
fabulous you look etc but i'm just grateful to be where i am and to not
weigh 268lbs anymore!
good luck!
kate
open rny 6-14-01
pre op: 268lbs
goal: 135lbs
current: 126lbs
— jkb
November 29, 2002
Christie,<br>In a word, yes. It is still exciting to take size 4
pants out of the dryer, to look at them and think "no frickin
way" and then to pull them on without a problem... 14.5 months
ago, my size 32 jeans were TIGHT. But the days of losing 10+ pounds a week
are long over for me... though I did just lose 7.5 pounds in 11 days on
vacation, through much-increased activity and not much appropriate food,
which means I didn't eat much at all, just drank tons of water.<p>The
thrill of seeing my skinny self in the mirror has yet to wear off :-) and I
suspect that by the time it does, I'll be well-established at my normal
weight, whatever that's going to end up being. I do still weigh every day,
because I am a mess if I don't know if I'm on track... I worry needlessly
if I can't see a number each morning. Sometimes it's down a little,
sometimes it's up a little, but I don't let anything concern me unless
there's more than a 3 pound swing in a week... if there is, then I go to
more protein, less normal food, and I'm fine within a few
days.<p>Hope this helps, and good luck with your surgery! Open RNY
09/17/01; 310/128/125 (original goal was 160)
— Julia Z.
November 29, 2002
That is an excellent question! I'm approaching my goal and really have been
wondering about that myself. I'm afraid that if the thrill is gone and I'm
not getting compliments anymore to keep me on track that I will start back
at the food. I'm about 10 lbs from my original goal and have re-established
a new one at a little lower weight. So I still have a little ways to go and
it is coming off very slowly now. I'm 16 months out and know that
"window of oppurtunity" will be closing for me anyway. I think it
has, it's just been good old fashioned calorie counting that keeps the
scale sneaking ever so slowly down now. But at this weight, a couple of
pounds is noticed...whereas before I could loose 30 and no one could tell
(really). So anyway, no insights here...just expressing the same curiosity.
-Kim open RNY 7/17/01 -140lbs
— KimBo36
November 29, 2002
Excellent question. I thought I was the only person out here feeling like
this. The rush is over and its like "now what" for me. I miss
the excitement of stepping on the scale to see a new loss. Now I am just
trying to maintain my loss. I do think there are new challenges, rushes,
and wonderful feelings associated with losing the weight. I never thought
I would be one of the ones who ended up wearing a size 3. Just didn't
think it would really happen. Of course, I dreamed about it every night.
LOL.
Sherry Open Rny 10/24/01. pre-op 276; current 115
— sgibson71
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