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12-06-2007, 05:29 PM
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| Seasoned Veteran  Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Mount Vernon, NY
Posts: 7,740
Weight Statistics 4/1/07 Start Date:
4/19/07 Surgery Date:
5' 9"
Height:
258 lb Start Weight:
158 lb Current Weight:
165 lb Goal Weight:
100 lb Weight Loss:
-7 lb Lb Left to Lose:
38.7596899225 % % Lost:
04/19/2008 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index 38.0957781979 BMI Start:
23.3299726948 BMI Current:
24.36357908 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss Method Roux en Y Gastric Bypass    |  just need to vent
do you ever feel like you dont want to do this anymore??? maybe im just grumpy. afterall i havent had a decent meal in almost 8 months  but i was thinking, MAN am i frustrated with this eating thing  food is no longer even my friend. either it sits perfectly and i get full immediately, or it sits terribly and i dont want to look at food for the rest of the day. something's gotta give.as ive said before I KNOW this was not going to be easy, but when do we get to just live?? pre-op was all about food and how much i could stuff in me before i exploded. post op is all about food choices and whats the best fuel and what i need to survive. when is it ever NOT going to be about food? when will i NOT have to obsess over schedules, and sip sip sipping? when can i just LIVE? go out and not worry about missing meals or screwing up my water intake for the day. we all say to eachother "it gets easier" but when? i was just curious...  im not at all saying i would change this. or that i have any regrets. i am healthier than i have ever been in my entire life. i feel relatively good. i just wonder when WHEN??? is there ever life after this? i mean real life. some days i feel just as overwhelmed as if it were my FIRST DAY post op. does that ever end?
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12-06-2007, 06:46 PM
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| WLS Master Guru  Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Tega Cay, SC
Posts: 871
Weight Statistics August 2, 2007 Start Date:
August 14, 2007 Surgery Date:
5' 7"
Height:
283 lb Start Weight:
167 lb Current Weight:
150 lb Goal Weight:
116 lb Weight Loss:
17 lb Lb Left to Lose:
40.9893992933 % % Lost:
Christmas, 2008 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index 44.3192247717 BMI Start:
26.1530407663 BMI Current:
23.4907551793 BMI Goal:
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I don't know Kenya -- I don't have the same issues. I pretty much eat regular meals, though they are very little regular meals. Some days I eat very little, but I do make it a point to get my protein in. I get cravings, but they pass quickly. I don't feel deprived or denied anything really -- like yesterday I was at a church pot luck dinner with our womens group and they had all these wonderful desserts and I enjoyed seeing others eat them, but I was okay not eating them. I think for us its also a state of mind. I just feel too good to feel bad about anything. I think that's the reason why most of our doctors want us off protein shakes by the third month and working at getting our protein from regular food, so we can re-establish some modicum of normalicy to our daily lives.
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12-06-2007, 10:05 PM
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I...ah....hate to be the damper here, but count on a couple of years...at goal, and getting good at maintaining. Keep in mind, how many years it took you to get up to where you needed surgery, how many years you plugged away at eating. You know, old habits die hard, and so if you've had some habit or other for most of your life, it's going to take a few years of hard work before you feel really comfortable with it all, and can move without second thoughts. That's why people say this journey is for life. ((((((HUGS))))))
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12-07-2007, 02:40 AM
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| WLS Master Guru  Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Oklahoma City, Okla USA
Posts: 857
Blog Entries: 51 Weight Statistics 05/17/02 Start Date:
05/17/02 Surgery Date:
5' 5"
Height:
355 lb Start Weight:
192 lb Current Weight:
175 lb Goal Weight:
163 lb Weight Loss:
17 lb Lb Left to Lose:
45.9154929577 % % Lost:
may 2008 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index 59.0686390533 BMI Start:
31.9469822485 BMI Current:
29.1183431953 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss Method Roux en Y Gastric Bypass  |
exactly what doc said...really not until after that 2 yrs mark did I start to feel more 'normal'. In fact once I started being friends with people who were normal sized and ate out with them quite a bit was the point I felt more 'normal'. Regular people don't eat huge amounts of food at a time so my small meals weren't that big a deal to them. Until I told them I'd had the surgery they'd not have even guessed I'd ever 'needed' to have had the wls. Food is always going to be our obsession. Point blank that is how it is. Remember how they talk about how the addiction transfers? Well it can transfer into the form of being 'obsessed' with our food even post op, just in a different way. For me even knowing that food is my drug, I can still slide into some really bad areas of food issues. The anorexic thinking of "i don't deserve to eat, I don't need to eat, I don't HAVE to eat' thoughts come and go and cause me more problems than anyone would ever think. When I'm under high stress is when I'll have more trouble eating at all. It's very easy to become another 'type' of food addict post op. We think we are the only ones that get worried about how we look, or what we eat but really it's universal. "normies" worry about the same things, they punish themselves just like we do for splurging and eating something bad or gaining 5 lbs. By the time I'd hit the 2 yr mark I HAD changed my thinking towards food into it is ONLY fuel to keep me healthy and strong. I'd look at what the choices to eat were and think "what is in it for ME? Where's the protein/fuel?" Then life really sets in and after your thinking changes, stress happens and things throw you off track with your eating. One thing I have learned is the morbidly obese are huge "I WANT IT NOW INSTANT GRATIFICATION!!! junkies...that's the key to changing how we think is changing that need for instant gratification. I've learned I don't have to have it now. I can wait, have learned to just ride it out regarding so called 'cravings'.
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12-07-2007, 09:16 AM
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| Seasoned Veteran Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Tampa, FL
Posts: 1,864
Blog Entries: 8 Weight Statistics July 10, 2007 Surgery Date:
5' 6"
Height:
271 lb Start Weight:
145 lb Current Weight:
145 lb Goal Weight:
126 lb Weight Loss:
46.4944649446 % % Lost:
Body Mass Index 43.7357667585 BMI Start:
23.4010560147 BMI Current:
23.4010560147 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss Method Roux en Y Gastric Bypass | Wow Bree - good input, thanks for your perspective!
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12-07-2007, 10:26 AM
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| Seasoned Veteran  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Alabama
Posts: 2,703
Weight Statistics 9/28/07 Start Date:
9/28/07 Surgery Date:
5' 6"
Height:
279 lb Start Weight:
189 lb Current Weight:
165 lb Goal Weight:
90 lb Weight Loss:
24 lb Lb Left to Lose:
32.2580645161 % % Lost:
18 months Goal Date:
Body Mass Index 45.0268595041 BMI Start:
30.5020661157 BMI Current:
26.6287878788 BMI Goal:
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Kenya, you have done so good. You have so much to be proud of. You are going to make it to the point in your life when you feel like you don't have to obsess with food. I have faith in you.
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12-07-2007, 10:30 AM
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| Seasoned Veteran Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Mount Vernon, NY
Posts: 7,740
Weight Statistics 4/1/07 Start Date:
4/19/07 Surgery Date:
5' 9"
Height:
258 lb Start Weight:
158 lb Current Weight:
165 lb Goal Weight:
100 lb Weight Loss:
-7 lb Lb Left to Lose:
38.7596899225 % % Lost:
04/19/2008 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index 38.0957781979 BMI Start:
23.3299726948 BMI Current:
24.36357908 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss Method Roux en Y Gastric Bypass |
what you have all said is very true. and i realize this is for life. sometimes i just get so darn frustrated. but i'll find my way. i KNOW i will.
__________________ Anything worth having is worth working for Kenya R. Lap RNY 4/19/07 |
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12-07-2007, 06:16 PM
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| Seasoned Veteran  Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Floyd County Virginia
Posts: 3,614
Blog Entries: 1 Weight Statistics September 19th 2007 Start Date:
September 19th 2007 Surgery Date:
5' 10"
Height:
363 lb Start Weight:
211 lb Current Weight:
165 lb Goal Weight:
152 lb Weight Loss:
46 lb Lb Left to Lose:
41.8732782369 % % Lost:
12/31/09 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index 52.0793877551 BMI Start:
30.2720408163 BMI Current:
23.6724489796 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss Method Roux en Y Gastric Bypass |
I know exactly what you mean Kenya. No more than either of use can eat. LOL I just wanna eat somthing right now!
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12-07-2007, 09:58 PM
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| WLS Guru Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Michigan
Posts: 381
Weight Statistics 07/25/07 Surgery Date:
5' 8"
Height:
288 lb Start Weight:
201 lb Current Weight:
160 lb Goal Weight:
87 lb Weight Loss:
41 lb Lb Left to Lose:
30.2083333333 % % Lost:
08/2007 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index 43.785467128 BMI Start:
30.5586072664 BMI Current:
24.3252595156 BMI Goal:
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Kenya, I can relate to what you are saying! It seems like everything revolves around food now. What can I eat without feeling like crap.........I am not easting enough.........didn't get enough water in, protein in , etc. etc. etc. I am never hungry so it is hard to even eat sometimes and most of the time I don't like how I feel after eating for a couple of hours and them it is time to do it all again. And now since I have been so sick, I can't stand to look at my staple, cottage cheese, and yogurt seems way to sweet. Water doesn't taste good and neither does anything else, it just seems overwhelmng sometimes. Ugggggg
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12-10-2007, 06:11 AM
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| Guru In Training  Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: BIG JER COUNTRY Ont , Canada
Posts: 268
Weight Statistics June 13 2007 Start Date:
January , 10, 2008 Surgery Date:
6' 5"
Height:
448 lb Start Weight:
247 lb Current Weight:
210 lb Goal Weight:
201 lb Weight Loss:
37 lb Lb Left to Lose:
44.8660714286 % % Lost:
As soon as possible ! Goal Date:
Body Mass Index 53.119244392 BMI Start:
29.2867262608 BMI Current:
24.8996458087 BMI Goal:
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Hi Ladies...Ive noticed with alot of you gals ...your missing food...Ok I no what your saying " DUH " But I also noticed in your stats your missing a good amount of weight too ! 1 more thing and this goes out expecailly to Kenyar... I noticed in your pictures your smiling alot more...which I think is AWESOME !! I think you ladies are doing GREAT and yes ...it is inspiring for me !! Jerry Oh yes...Please remember this stuff for after my sergury...Im going to need this stuff back !!! LOL
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