supai
One Week to Go
Mar 01, 2007
One more week left on the diet from hell!!! One more week till soft foods!
Here is what I will eat the first day:
Breakfast: Scrambled eggs, maybe with a little cheese & salsa.
Snack: Protein shake!
Lunch: Refried beans, maybe with a little cheese and salsa.
Snack: Proteins shake
Dinner: Hamburger patty, mashed potatoes.
Yum!
(Sigh) One more week on the diet from hell.
Here is what I will eat the first day:
Breakfast: Scrambled eggs, maybe with a little cheese & salsa.
Snack: Protein shake!
Lunch: Refried beans, maybe with a little cheese and salsa.
Snack: Proteins shake
Dinner: Hamburger patty, mashed potatoes.
Yum!
(Sigh) One more week on the diet from hell.
Questions
Feb 26, 2007
I have spent a lot of time over the last day or so reading posts. I have a few questions that they raised for me, some silly, some not.
Some people say "You didn't gain the weight overnight, you won't lose it overnight". I believe I could swear in a court of law that I did indeed gain my weight overnight. I can't remember it creeping up on me. Especially the last 50 pounds. Where did it come from?
Are sizes bigger now? I have seen some posts where women in the 180s are wearing 10s and 12s. Last time I was in the 180s (early 90s), I wore 16s or 18s. I kind of figured the 18 stood for 180. But come to think of it, I'm in the 230s, and wearing size 20s.
Why, when I am eating practically nothing, am I not losing weight? How am I ever going to lose weight if I can't lose it on a clear liquid diet?
(Caution, politically incorrect rambling ahead) They say eating too few calories stalls weight loss. If that's true, why are famine victims so skinny? And wouldn't it follow that eating too much would make you lose weight?
There seems to be little "wiggle room" in the amount of food one can eat and not gain weight. How on earth does anyone actually live their lives at the right weight? It seems like everyone should be overweight!
How come at the grocery store I see skinny people with carts full of junk food, and mine is filled with organic chicken breasts, organic produce, and whole wheat everything? Why can some people eat like that and not be fat, whereas I hvae always been a nutrition nazi and I am fat?
So far, 3 complete strangers have asked to be on my friends list. Wouldn't it be nice if real life worked like that? If people would just come up to you and ask to be your friend? It made me so happy!
If anyone has any answers, I would love to hear from you.
Some people say "You didn't gain the weight overnight, you won't lose it overnight". I believe I could swear in a court of law that I did indeed gain my weight overnight. I can't remember it creeping up on me. Especially the last 50 pounds. Where did it come from?
Are sizes bigger now? I have seen some posts where women in the 180s are wearing 10s and 12s. Last time I was in the 180s (early 90s), I wore 16s or 18s. I kind of figured the 18 stood for 180. But come to think of it, I'm in the 230s, and wearing size 20s.
Why, when I am eating practically nothing, am I not losing weight? How am I ever going to lose weight if I can't lose it on a clear liquid diet?
(Caution, politically incorrect rambling ahead) They say eating too few calories stalls weight loss. If that's true, why are famine victims so skinny? And wouldn't it follow that eating too much would make you lose weight?
There seems to be little "wiggle room" in the amount of food one can eat and not gain weight. How on earth does anyone actually live their lives at the right weight? It seems like everyone should be overweight!
How come at the grocery store I see skinny people with carts full of junk food, and mine is filled with organic chicken breasts, organic produce, and whole wheat everything? Why can some people eat like that and not be fat, whereas I hvae always been a nutrition nazi and I am fat?
So far, 3 complete strangers have asked to be on my friends list. Wouldn't it be nice if real life worked like that? If people would just come up to you and ask to be your friend? It made me so happy!
If anyone has any answers, I would love to hear from you.
Welcome
Feb 25, 2007
I am 2 1/2 weeks postop. I am still on a full liquid diet, which my doctor insists on for the first 4 weeks. I am entirely sick of sugar free popsicles, sugar free jello, tomato juice, and broth. I look forward to my 3-a-day protein shakes. My first fill is scheduled for March 12, I really want to not be hungry anymore! I do not know how I will make it.
My husband has been a saint. He had a bypass in May, so he knows all about recovery. One advantage I can see for the bypass as opposed to the lapband is that his stomach was small when he got home, making the liquid diet recovery period easier. I am so hungry I could scream.
We went to a party yesterday, a friends birthday. It was too hard on me. The snacks, the cake, the drinks.... but I didn't want to not see my friend on his birthday, and I didn't want to dissappoint my husband. So I went.
I think I will hold off on any more social life till I can eat again.
I am so low in energy right now. That is almost worse than hunger.
My husband has been a saint. He had a bypass in May, so he knows all about recovery. One advantage I can see for the bypass as opposed to the lapband is that his stomach was small when he got home, making the liquid diet recovery period easier. I am so hungry I could scream.
We went to a party yesterday, a friends birthday. It was too hard on me. The snacks, the cake, the drinks.... but I didn't want to not see my friend on his birthday, and I didn't want to dissappoint my husband. So I went.
I think I will hold off on any more social life till I can eat again.
I am so low in energy right now. That is almost worse than hunger.
