Desperate Dietary Measures

I had to take things into my own hands...

all i had for a week was string cheese and diet pepsi and propel zero... lost 7 pounds.. then passed out. i was stupid, still taking my full dose of metformin and not eating.. low blood sugar? uhm.. yeah.

at times i thought about being in a coma or somthing or my mouth being wired shut so i couldnt eat.. other times i would say to myself 'dont. eat. tara(mybestfriend) can be anorexic adn not eat, you can too! whenever you get hungry just get on the computer.. disract yourself..' and went about  a week on that aswell and lost a few pounds but then started gaining.. i would eat maybe one meal a day..  and thats how i got to my highest weight.. 278 or around there..  turns out if you eat a little but not enough, or not on a steady basis you gain weight.. who knew? starvation mode.. oh how i wish i knew that then..

this was all before i even knew it was possible to get wls at 15 or 16.. i never even considered it an option till i got close to 280.

got diagnosed with an eating disorder.. ive been to a lot of therapists.. so glad the psych portion of my eval got approved for surgery.. or i would not be sleeved today.. haha.

I forgot to mention ketosis...Went to the doctor and they check my urine.  Asked if I was starving my self, I was like "why would you ask that?"  I was on some black coffee and something diet.  Its always black coffee.

cigarette and pretzel diet anyone? I made it a whole 3 days before I too passed out. I lost 8 lbs in 3 days though...
Also thought about getting my mouth wired shut...didnt think anyone would actually do that to another human without being in a horrific accident and NEEDING your mouth wired shut...but I always secretly wished I could just STOP eating...never happened.

Not only do they wire your mouth shut, they charge $700

I work in a medical office. I'm always asking the Dr. that I work for to wire my mouth shut. He just laughs and says that milkshakes will still get in there and he has no desire to listen to me whine about my mouth being wired shut.  So...I have opted for the sleeve in January.

The sleeve is a real option for weight loss.  I am happy for you!

All through high school I didn't eat breakfast, didn't eat lunch other than a chocolate milk, then I went home and binged on junk food. Of course, that is part of the reason I have always had weight issues. I went from a size 16 at age 12 to about a 20 around HS graduation. 

So I went to college and my father paid for a meal plan that was two meals a day (he knew I never ate breakfast). So I had two meals a day. I did start eating lunch. I aways had either a personal pan pizza or a sandwich. For dinner, I always got a frozen yogurt with toppings. That was it. I lost a bunch of weight. Everyone seems to gain the freshman fifteen, I lost weight that semester. It wasn't a balanced diet, but it was a consistent one, plus I lived in the farthest dorm from campus. That morning walk helped I am sure. I fit into the smallest size I can ever remember wearing that semester. A size 14. 

My other diets generally have been more logical and healthier and I have lost weight on all of them, but never enough and once I hit a wall, the frustration would grow and the feeling that I was not getting anywhere. Then I would revert back to bad habits. 

Skipping lunch was definitely part of the curriculum...sad! But look at us now!

I used to wish I had a tapeworm... let it eat all my fat away. 
Gross, really, but that's how desperate I was!

On a side note: I have a friend who DID get tapeworm (not on purpose!) and while he quite enjoyed losing weight, after a few weeks, the tapeworm had either grown or just work it's way up so much that he could feel it trying to come up into his mouth!  G-R-O-S-S!!!  The thought of it makes me gag.  He decided it was probably time to let the parasite go.