jeanette a.

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it's been a while since i posted. but i'm about 38lbs down and getting a lot of compliments feels really good. i increased my workout intensity and it helped boost my losses.  still struggle with water and vitamens.  today my wedding band fell off that will be a new non-food-reward...a new ring.

I'm nearly 3 months out today and I'm still loosing.  It feels really good. I am down 31 lbs and although it does not seem like a lot compared to others it feels great and every week is a loss.  One week it slowed to just one pound loss a week and I stepped up my workouts to include the gym and a few more cardio options and I began to lose the 2+ lbs a week I've been averaging since the second month.  I have learned to stop before I feel uncomfortable. I removed 26 articles of clothing from my wardrobe that are literally falling off.  I'm pretty much at the half way mark but I feel great.!

I'm two months out and down 25 pounds it's been a slow and steady weight loss.  Sometimes I wish it could be more and faster but I'm being patient.  I'm learning how to eat less and be happy and satisfied with the first few bites and walk away from food.

I am six weeks out and have started to work out a bit more lately.  Just walking on the treadmill at a faster pace and maybe a 5 minute jog. Felt a little pinching on my sides near my incisions so I slowed down. Today I decided to have a treat. I made waffles a favorite breakfast that I use to eat before. Of course before I use to finish 4 -6 waffles and today eating just one made me really sick. I go that sick feeling that you get when you eat too much sweets. It's pretty much cured me of ever wanting to eat that again. 

The WLS experience has been created a new relationship with food. I still want to eat more than I should but I don't because I can't.  I stop at just before full because I don't want to throw up.  I hate that feeling.  I've gone out to eat with my family and friends a few times and it's difficult to not want to eat more or even know what to do with myself when everyone is still eating.  I'm at 166 today so I've lost 20.5 pounds I was kind of hoping it would be more but it is consistent and there have been no gains so I am happy.

Today has been one month since my surgery and I've lost 17 lbs. I was hoping for an even 20 but I'm happy. It has been quite a shift in thinking about food. I obviously can't eat as much as I want but I can have enough.  It has taught me to appreciate less and eat slower.  I also think hard about what I am going to eat.  i don't want to waste my eating opportunities eating something that is not good quality. I can still only eat about 3 oz I"m going to make sure anything I eat is worth that little bit. I still don't feel hungry.  Sometimes I think I feel hunger pains but it's just the habit of thinking I need to eat. I'm not really hungry. It actually helps me get more done because food is not occupying so much of my thoughts anymore.  My husband makes me a small 1 egg omelet in the AM (he's the best omelet maker in the world) I have a shake at work.  I live in Kuwait so the main meal here is lunch. We usually eat lunch when we get home from school around 3.30 kind of like a late lunch. We have a cook so everything is cooked fresh, no package stuff. I usually have a 3 spoons of whatever everyone else is having (or less) and I'm good until the next day.  Sometimes if they are eating something that is too heavy I'll just have soup.  The vitamins and the water are still a challenge. Vitamins really make me nauseous.  I had to stop crystal light for  a while, also just making me feel a little sick, not sure why.  My stomach makes a lot of weird sounds especially when i drink.  On Saturday i will return to the gym.

I am 16 days out from my VSG and down 13 lbs.  It's been hard to get use to not eating.  I'm not hungry but it hasn't really been about hunger, it's been about habit.  We are all such creatures of habit...eat when I get home, eat when it's lunch time, eat for a special occasion.  But when there are no hunger pains there is just no signal anymore and although I have tried to look for it tried to concentrate on if I am really feeling hunger or not and I'm not.  So now I have to just eat for the real reason, the reason my body needs it  which is just nutrition, it no longer is an excuse. Hunger use to be an excuse to eat and over eat.  Without the hunger now I just have to eat to live.  It's quite a paradigm shift in thinking.

Today I am 8 days out and I've lost 11 pounds.  The most amazing thing is I don't feel hungry!  Keeping the water down is very hard.  I have to remember not to gulp or drink too much at one time.  If I do i get a hard feeling in my chest.  I kind of thought that would have subsided by now.  I returned to work yesterday and had my protein shake in the morning and then forgot to eat all day.  But I continued to drink and had soup when I got home. People are already starting to notice that I've lost which feels really good. Just wish I could figure out how to drink with out this hard feeling I get sometimes.

Today is my second day home from the hospital, and although I had a hard time sleeping last night I feel much better today.  Not nearly as much gas.  I was worried about taking the nexium tablets but I was able to swallow them easily.  I'm still just drinking on oz every 15 minutes of liquieds.  I try to walk around the house every time I sip.  The doctor told me not to weight myself until my one week post-op visit but I could help myself...lost 5lbs since surgery.  I'm looking forward to getting back to walking or working out...believe it or not even though I have a membership at a health club and go quite often I could not manage my weight before. I'm really hoping the sleeve is the missing tool for me to finally find true weight loss and health success.

I'm home today...feel a little bit better. Still get hard feeling in my stomach after drinking something...but not right away.  I hope tonight is better than last night.  I will take the advice of other OH members sip, walk walk, sip, walk, walk. ..Have not had a BM yet but been farting like my boys (I've got 3 teenagers) and my husband.

not feeling so great...second night out...stomach is sore, cant sleep on my side..head hurts...back hurts...will i feel good again..i can't sleep..cant get comfortable