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08-27-2007, 11:38 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: PA (Near Philly)
Posts: 1,123
Weight Statistics March 12, 2008 Surgery Date:
5' 6"
Height:
340 lb Start Weight:
239 lb Current Weight:
150 lb Goal Weight:
101 lb Weight Loss:
89 lb Lb Left to Lose:
29.7058823529 % % Lost:
Body Mass Index54.8714416896 BMI Start:
38.5713957759 BMI Current:
24.2079889807 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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Good to here you got your bloodwork rolling. I just know I don't lose unless my TSH is under 1.00 I feel better too,(hair not falling out,don't nap every day) Just worried about ya and I know how hard it can be...
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08-28-2007, 08:21 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas
Posts: 1,702
Weight Statistics 3-16-2007 Start Date:
July 23, 2007 Surgery Date:
5' 7"
Height:
294 lb Start Weight:
177 lb Current Weight:
160 lb Goal Weight:
117 lb Weight Loss:
17 lb Lb Left to Lose:
39.7959183673 % % Lost:
7-23-08 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index46.0418801515 BMI Start:
27.7190911116 BMI Current:
25.0568055246 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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Sorry to hear your feeling down. This is truly a roller coaster ride we are on. I am experiencing some of those feelings myself. The only thing is I live alone and the only one to catch my anger at my house are my dogs...lol 
I know when my scale stalls,  my body is trying to catch up and clothes starting fitting looser. I guess it is hard work flushing the lost fat out of are systems and readjusting to move are insides to the empty places left by the lost fat.  Edie, I just noticed that you are only 5 lbs from onederland. It won't be long now.
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08-28-2007, 10:56 AM
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Edie, sorry to hear that you are in a funk.
Now, to answer some Qs in this thread.
For one thing, the same mass of muscle is heavier than the same mass of fat. In other words, fat is lighter than muscle when the mass is the same.
So, at the same weight, a person who has more muscle than fat, will look thinner, and fit into smaller clothes than a person who has more fat and less muscle. That's the way it's working when your scale is not moving. First, your fat goes, is used as energy, but is that energy is also used to heal your body, and rearrange some of your body composition. When the fat is used just as energy, the scale will move, but when it's being used to rearrange your body composition, it's going to stay in you, but because it has changed forms, you will actually get slimmer, but not lighter.
All through this, your hormones are majorly out of whack. It's like PMSing all the time, and then some more. So, you will get depression issues at some point, if you had been treated for it before. It's due to the physical stress, and also to the mental stress, because things are not going to move the way you expected it to. This is probably the hardest, the most difficult part of your journey. That you have to adjust your thinking to the body healing and moving on its own, instead of your body moving and healing along your line of thinking.
Something else in conjucntion to your hormones.
Clancy, you wrote that you were on oral hormones. Do you mean as contraceptives? Because if you are depending on hormonal agents for contraception, it's not going to do the job. You need other methods such as IUD, because the hormonal rampage during your rapid weight loss is too strong, and makes the hormonal contraceptives completely inefficient. Your surgeon should have warned you of this.
For your mood swings, definitely get help from the pros. Second guessing yourself won't help you any, and though you may not like and meds, it might be best for you to take them at least for the short term, until your wieght stabilizes.
This is a tough journey. It is not only to heal your body, but to heal your soul as well.
Sometimes, you will have to make choices that's not easy for the best for yourself, too.
Don't take everything on yourself, get the help you need from those who can help you best, whether it be friends, family or pros.
((((((((HUGS)))))))
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08-28-2007, 11:20 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: NY
Posts: 10,174
Weight Statistics 4/19/2007 Surgery Date:
5' 9"
Height:
260 lb Start Weight:
152 lb Current Weight:
165 lb Goal Weight:
108 lb Weight Loss:
-13 lb Lb Left to Lose:
41.5384615385 % % Lost:
Body Mass Index38.3910943079 BMI Start:
22.4440243646 BMI Current:
24.36357908 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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very well put doc!
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08-28-2007, 12:22 PM
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#45 (permalink)
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Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: PA (Near Philly)
Posts: 1,123
Weight Statistics March 12, 2008 Surgery Date:
5' 6"
Height:
340 lb Start Weight:
239 lb Current Weight:
150 lb Goal Weight:
101 lb Weight Loss:
89 lb Lb Left to Lose:
29.7058823529 % % Lost:
Body Mass Index54.8714416896 BMI Start:
38.5713957759 BMI Current:
24.2079889807 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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Why can't all Doctors talk to their patients this way. It would make our lives so much easier...Doc you should give seminars to other Dr.s...
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09-04-2007, 11:13 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Northwest Iowa
Posts: 221
Weight Statistics 8/27/07 Surgery Date:
5' 2"
Height:
231 lb Start Weight:
119 lb Current Weight:
120 lb Goal Weight:
112 lb Weight Loss:
-1 lb Lb Left to Lose:
48.4848484848 % % Lost:
10/08 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index42.2458376691 BMI Start:
21.7630072841 BMI Current:
21.9458896982 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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I want you to know im also in your boat. i feel the same way and im only a week out. i have lost weight and i should feel happy but im not, im tired of everything, finding and eating 6 times a day. I had open surgery and i still have staples all the way down my belly. so i am not able to do the thinkgs i want to do.and i just want to take naps but i cant because im worried about getting dehydrated.My husband and mom keep telling me that its gona be hard for a couple of weeks, well i hope it gets better. 
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09-04-2007, 09:40 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Tampa, FL
Posts: 3,605
Weight Statistics July 10, 2007 Surgery Date:
5' 6"
Height:
271 lb Start Weight:
175 lb Current Weight:
182 lb Goal Weight:
96 lb Weight Loss:
-7 lb Lb Left to Lose:
35.4243542435 % % Lost:
Body Mass Index43.7357667585 BMI Start:
28.2426538108 BMI Current:
29.3723599633 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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Hey, Doc ~ thankfully I'm past the childbearing phase, happily surviving my teens. I am on hormone replacement therapy since my hysterectomy. I see my gyn on Friday so I'll see what he recommends. I just know I feel differently than I did before WLS.
Lezlyrs - Use this time to let your body heal. I slept so much in the beginning I felt like a newborn. Sleep, get up --gently-- eat, move a little and eventually go back to sleep. My sleep cycle is nearly normal now at just under 8 weeks. I can honestly say I am taking better care of myself now than any other time in my life. I equate sleep with healing. I didn't understand the sip,sip,sip part til after surgery. All my best!
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