Feeling Blue

(((((((((CAROL)))))))))) You know misery LOVES company and I'm glad youre here with me. I also thought it would be different. Not exactly easier........but maybe more rewarding. Like waking up every morning and seeing one more bone in your neck(???!!!) Sorry you have a grouchy pouch. I havent one time!!(yet). I had about 1 oz of white fish last night and it went down fine. I find myself going to the fridge or the goody cupboard and looking in there........but I dont want to get sick or dump. What a great(dripping sarcasm here) deterrent this WLS is! STILL not to the point that i want to say "I'm so glad I had it done" Thank you for your kind words of support and understanding. It really does help to know I'm not alone in this. willby

Hey Willby: Your in your "mourning process". That was a very hard time for me. I've gotten over the food sadness, but I still struggle with the Pepsi mourning. That is still very hard for me. It was a daily struggle, now it only makes me sad maybe once a week. I know you were having a "MOMENT" when you said that "I want my old life back". Are you nutso!!!!! You have been given a gift, and within 3 months you will be soo thankful for this gift. Give it until January and you will be amazed. Read my profile, you will see the same struggles that you are having, I had. Try to keep busy this weekend and hubby will be home soon!!!!! Go buy something nice for yourself!!!! Carmella

Carmella, Thank you for the support. I think maybe I am going through the mourning process. I'd sell my own mother for a donut! take care willby

hi willby: i'm so sorry you're feeling out of sorts. it happens, though, and i think the trick is to find out what - besides food - will bring up your spirits. are you actually following your surgeon's rules? cause you're not that far out yet and variance might be an issue. you mention you're not losing weight. does that mean none at all? or not as much as you'd like? you may be having buyers remorse, willby, and if so i'm very sorry to hear it. but if you try to remember all the reasons you had this done, you may find the motivation you need to pull yourself out of the rut and get back with your program. i'm kinda feeling the same way right now with my hysterectomy being less than two weeks old. i have to remind myself, thought, that it was a step for the better and these are only interim issues. the basic reasoning was - and still is - sound. good luck willby. you're in my thoughts and prayers. take care hugs dorthe

(((((DORTHE))))) Look at you! All youve been through this year and trying to cheer me up.Thank you!!! I am following my surgeons aftercare program. 3 meals a day, skim milk in between and trying to get 50 grams of protein. My doctor wants us to try and get our protein from food.........so I dont do the shakes.....only 1 carnation instant breakfast a day(no sugar added). I'm drinking my 64+ oz of fluid. I'm walking 1 mile a day. And taking all of the vitamins and minerals. I think I have lost 4 pounds in 2 weeks. I promised myself I wouldnt play the numbers game. It only depresses me. i just feel like Ive given up and awful lot to have lost so little so far. I know it will come off. I'm just feeling sorry for myself is all. Thanks for listening! willby

Willby, It was "slow" for me at first too. I was kind of pissed, because I was losing about 2 lbs a week and I'd think, I could have done this on Weigh****chers! Of course, that wasn't true, had WW been enough I wouldn't have had to have WLS. At about 13 weeks out, I started doing 3 days a week strength training. Then I started taking off 4 lbs a week on the average! Now, I'll be right at 6 months out on 11/23 and I've lost 110 lbs. This doesn't feel slow. Please hang in there, you've done the right thing and it will be so worth it. Lori 384/274/170