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Post by Girlrocker on Apr 14, 2014 13:34:10 GMT -5
Teachermomolp, great about the vites and glad you like the soy flaxseed chips, they were - and still are! - a godsend for me. I never feel deprived of crunch. And in my early recovery time, 4-6 chips did the trick for me, loaded with whatever. And to this day, still one of my all-time favorite snacks, often the first thing I eat when I walk in the door after work for a quick protein snack loaded with cheese while I'm making/heating dinner.
Amy, also good about vitamins, just about everything we take can be found in chewables, dissovables, sometimes liquid; and eventually you'll be a happy pill popper, though I still use a lot of chewables/dissovables cuz they're easy, and who doesn't like easy with all we go through?!
And last-remind me meat-wise what you don't like ,is it pretty much in any form, or certain things particularly, and I'll revise that suggestion list.
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Post by amydroe on Apr 14, 2014 14:44:36 GMT -5
Teachermomolp, great about the vites and glad you like the soy flaxseed chips, they were - and still are! - a godsend for me. I never feel deprived of crunch. And in my early recovery time, 4-6 chips did the trick for me, loaded with whatever. And to this day, still one of my all-time favorite snacks, often the first thing I eat when I walk in the door after work for a quick protein snack loaded with cheese while I'm making/heating dinner. Amy, also good about vitamins, just about everything we take can be found in chewables, dissovables, sometimes liquid; and eventually you'll be a happy pill popper, though I still use a lot of chewables/dissovables cuz they're easy, and who doesn't like easy with all we go through?! And last-remind me meat-wise what you don't like ,is it pretty much in any form, or certain things particularly, and I'll revise that suggestion list. I don't care for any ground meat. I love a good burger but I have to go out to eat somewhere good to get it. Chicken has always been the only meat that I eat. Most other things I will pick the meat out of. I do love bacon. And I like ham if I cook it myself. Like a real ham that I bake. I can't stand any meat that is processed.
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Post by amydroe on Apr 14, 2014 14:56:14 GMT -5
The chews are just like candy. I think I got vanilla caramel from Vitalady. Delish! I've had no trouble with vites from the get-go. I just have to remember!!! BTW- I bought the soy flaxseed chips YUM!!! The perfect vehicle- I've been wanting something crunchy. HOORAY!! I love this board. Thank you everyone. Where did you get the chips? I won't be getting them yet, but in a few weeks
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Post by newyorkbitch on Apr 14, 2014 15:43:15 GMT -5
Amy, meat is the best, most concentrated way to get protein. Your tastes and tolerances will change. How about a juicy steak? Nice fatty roast pork? Veal cutlet?
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Post by Girlrocker on Apr 14, 2014 16:33:01 GMT -5
Amy, meat is the best, most concentrated way to get protein. Your tastes and tolerances will change. How about a juice steak? Amy, are you talking meat preferences post-op or this is how you've always been generally, before surgery too in terms of like/dislikes? In the meantime, working with your present tastebud preferences: Lots of delicious chicken recipes at this stage, including the drumsticks, wings. Many yummy, meaty, fat saucy- recipes you can eat using chicken and most freeze well, and, many you can make in a crock pot as a time-saver, freeze in portions: Any chili/taco meat recipe can be made with chicken too, do a fine dice for the chicken or nice chunky bite sizes Chicken a la king - and use something else green instead of peas, like a fine chop bit of broccoli, or greenbeans Chicken tettrazini, skip the noodles (for now) use an alternative, and you can use ground Fiber One cereal or any brown rice/grain cracker ground into a powder for 'bread-crumb' topping; pork skins work too. Chicken parmesean - if the tomato sauce doesn't bother you, you can also add some fat and reduced the tomato acidity by added heavy cream tastes yummy too Ham - make one! Or, if you're looking for time savers, do you like Honey Baked hams, do you have one of those around you, or a Marie Collanders type place? Anything to make it EASY. Burgers-buy top shelf ground sirloin then and make your own sliders, add some cheese! Slider size is perfect for us early recovery time
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Post by amydroe on Apr 14, 2014 18:01:09 GMT -5
Amy, meat is the best, most concentrated way to get protein. Your tastes and tolerances will change. How about a juicy steak? Nice fatty roast pork? Veal cutlet? I made a pork roast last week. I added BBQ and loved it. There's just so much sugar in BBQ. I have had a bite of hubs steaks a few times. Never been my thing but I am going to try again as soon as I can eat solids.
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Post by amydroe on Apr 14, 2014 18:06:00 GMT -5
Amy, meat is the best, most concentrated way to get protein. Your tastes and tolerances will change. How about a juice steak? Amy, are you talking meat preferences post-op or this is how you've always been generally, before surgery too in terms of like/dislikes? In the meantime, working with your present tastebud preferences: Lots of delicious chicken recipes at this stage, including the drumsticks, wings. Many yummy, meaty, fat saucy- recipes you can eat using chicken and most freeze well, and, many you can make in a crock pot as a time-saver, freeze in portions: Any chili/taco meat recipe can be made with chicken too, do a fine dice for the chicken or nice chunky bite sizes Chicken a la king - and use something else green instead of peas, like a fine chop bit of broccoli, or greenbeans Chicken tettrazini, skip the noodles (for now) use an alternative, and you can use ground Fiber One cereal or any brown rice/grain cracker ground into a powder for 'bread-crumb' topping; pork skins work too. Chicken parmesean - if the tomato sauce doesn't bother you, you can also add some fat and reduced the tomato acidity by added heavy cream tastes yummy too Ham - make one! Or, if you're looking for time savers, do you like Honey Baked hams, do you have one of those around you, or a Marie Collanders type place? Anything to make it EASY. Burgers-buy top shelf ground sirloin then and make your own sliders, add some cheese! Slider size is perfect for us early recovery time I was talking preop. I haven't been able to test much post up since I am still on puréed. I did nibble on a chicken thigh and it was fine. The whole full in 3 bites thing just pisses me off so I would rather stick with shakes and yogurt. I am NOT enjoying food. I was not prepared to loose my BFF!!! I'll get there though. I know it won't always be like this.
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Post by Girlrocker on Apr 14, 2014 18:42:49 GMT -5
Post recovery sucks, no getting around it. And if you aren't a big meat fan to begin with, you're operating at a bit of a deficit DS wise, because really, animal protein is the best for us, in terms of the high protein count for the return buck. So right now, yes, focus on getting it in any way you can, and I've certainly seen other people who got frustrated with the difficulty of eating and went for whatever was easiest; plus some mourning of food. As long as you're getting in 60g now, you're good, and you'll want to start progressing upward toward 90. It does get easier to eat 'real' food as you get to 3 months out and beyond, so hang in there. Do you like/eat seafood? And look at this way, to lose weight, we both know we have to change the way we eat, especially if we were eating carb-centric lifestyles. The surgery 'forces' our hand to do what's good for us; and the reward is pretty high, it makes it tolerable. There's a lot of really delicious food we can eat and the more open we are to change and finding the 'yummy' to scratch the itch, the better it is.
Trader Joes is where I get the soy-flaxseed tortilla chips, they actually have protein, and I'm like Marc in that I do well with corn-based products. TJ is an excellent resource for delicious complex carb alternatives for crackers, chips, breads.
I'm also prone to buying wedges of brie, heating them up and eating with some toasted almonds and a dash of Trader Joes low sugar apricot preserves, no cracker/bread needed, SO good!
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Post by Taterweight on Apr 14, 2014 18:51:39 GMT -5
I was talking preop. I haven't been able to test much post up since I am still on puréed. I did nibble on a chicken thigh and it was fine. The whole full in 3 bites thing just pisses me off so I would rather stick with shakes and yogurt. I am NOT enjoying food. I was not prepared to loose my BFF!!! I'll get there though. I know it won't always be like this. It'll get better soon, Amy...I was thinking JUST like you were - OMG, will I ever enjoy any food again?? Today is my week 9 anniversary and I can eat a "small normal" portion. For example, I had 5 oz of homemade Korean bolgogi, 1/4 C couscous, and 1/4 C broccoli in cheese sauce. If we go out I usually order grilled shrimp skewers, or an appetizer portion of something chicken - like lettuce wraps (I just eat the chicken filling) or grilled chicken tenders and honey mustard. Takes me about the same time to eat my appetizer size as my family to eat their monster portions, so it's working great and I get to "enjoy" real food. I still am having to remind myself to eat, I'm not having any cravings, which is awesome. I hope that never returns, but I'm sure it will! However, when I do eat, it's pleasurable, just a different pleasure than I remember. I enjoy the flavour of the food itself, but it's not this feeling of satisfying an extreme craving I used to have. So weird.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2014 19:17:16 GMT -5
I was talking preop. I haven't been able to test much post up since I am still on puréed. I did nibble on a chicken thigh and it was fine. The whole full in 3 bites thing just pisses me off so I would rather stick with shakes and yogurt. I am NOT enjoying food. I was not prepared to loose my BFF!!! I'll get there though. I know it won't always be like this. It'll get better soon, Amy...I was thinking JUST like you were - OMG, will I ever enjoy any food again?? Today is my week 9 anniversary and I can eat a "small normal" portion. For example, I had 5 oz of homemade Korean bolgogi, 1/4 C couscous, and 1/4 C broccoli in cheese sauce. If we go out I usually order grilled shrimp skewers, or an appetizer portion of something chicken - like lettuce wraps (I just eat the chicken filling) or grilled chicken tenders and honey mustard. Takes me about the same time to eat my appetizer size as my family to eat their monster portions, so it's working great and I get to "enjoy" real food. I still am having to remind myself to eat, I'm not having any cravings, which is awesome. I hope that never returns, but I'm sure it will! However, when I do eat, it's pleasurable, just a different pleasure than I remember. I enjoy the flavour of the food itself, but it's not this feeling of satisfying an extreme craving I used to have. So weird. I am getting cravings for sweets lately, but it doesn't take much to satisfy it and the craving is not a bad craving. I have a small bowl of protein granola with heavy cream and I am good (kills two birds with one stone). It took nearly 6 months, but I enjoy most all foods anymore and I can typically eat quite a bit. That being said, at Amy's stage I could barely get any food in.
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Post by Girlrocker on Apr 14, 2014 19:20:44 GMT -5
And, make the 'fluff' its SO good, and in your 'like' zone for now, too! I use chocolate sugar free pudding mix, but you could use any flavor you like too, sugar free pudding mix and jello mix for that matter, are my favorite flavor 'weapons', I add them to many plain flavored things I make like crustless cheese cake too, which I make in a square/rectangle pan and cut into 'bars'. If I make plain flavored cheesecake, then I top with assorted sugar free spreads or sugar free chocolate syrup, top with whipped cream.
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Post by newyorkbitch on Apr 14, 2014 20:58:56 GMT -5
Amy, you can make your own bbq sauce…..the commercial ones are FULL of sugar, you're right.
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Post by teachermomolp on Apr 15, 2014 12:21:56 GMT -5
Resa- I'm with you too. I used to LOVE eating. Now I just know I have to. For me it's not quite pleasurable just yet. But what's pleasurable is the CONTROL I have around food. I can go out with family and friends to dinner and I'm don't have the YEARNING to eat that was all-consuming. I just eat my three bites and I'm done. I'm never stuffed like I was before, but for me, that was not comfortable anyway (I still did it regularly, though). This whole eating business is going to take us some time to get used to, I think. Is this how "normal" people feel around food? Like they need it to live but could care less about it? I don't know...I live with people who love food as much as I do (DID!). Anyone have a spouse or friend who is naturally thin who can enlighten me? I really want to know if I'm "normal" now!!
Edit: And I mean normal in the non-obese sense. I've been consumed with food my whole life...what are the thought processes of people who are NOT consumed with food?
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Post by meq815 on Apr 15, 2014 19:36:56 GMT -5
I agree. I never, ever in a million years thought I would have any food aversions. My total lack of interest in food took me completely by surprise, and most assuredly contributed to the severe depression I suffered post op. I was mourning food!
It took me a full 8 months to be able to really enjoy any food again. Some days, I wake up and think "God, I have to go through this whole food thing again today". But it does get better. You will enjoy eating again, eventually. Just not the gluttony we were used to. And just think about the lbs you are losing and the health you are gaining.
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Post by maggiesara on Apr 15, 2014 21:02:59 GMT -5
Ohhhh, I envy you, Teach. Those chewy-delicious things? HA! Freaking KILL me. At this point, I feel a LOT safer eating sugar than eating anything with sugar alcohols (and before anyone chimes in, I hate the taste of both Splenda and whatsit, Stevia). What I've fallen in love with are kale chips. A woman in Brooklyn, a raw-foodie, makes them by dehydrating kale and mixing it with either miso and Asian seasonings or curry flavors, and i LOVE it. And recently the oddball market near my apartment has been sellilng something similar, chips, made with dehydrated Brussels sprouts and coconut. I know, sounds horrible, but tastes pretty delish. FWIW, I have taken to cooking up a big batch of chicken wings -- I am particularly loving these, these days: food52.com/recipes/6850-zesty-italian-wings -- and leaving them in the fridge. They're easy to grab for a snack, they're ok cold (though even better briefly zapped), and they make it pretty easy to nosh on something healthy rather than on something….not. Anyway, Whole Foods runs sales on organic "Buffalo wings" (that means they're cut into sections) fairly often, and I buy 4-6 pounds at a time and sticke'm in the freezer.
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Post by Girlrocker on Apr 16, 2014 8:34:45 GMT -5
Resa- I'm with you too. I used to LOVE eating. Now I just know I have to. For me it's not quite pleasurable just yet. But what's pleasurable is the CONTROL I have around food. I can go out with family and friends to dinner and I'm don't have the YEARNING to eat that was all-consuming. I just eat my three bites and I'm done. I'm never stuffed like I was before, but for me, that was not comfortable anyway (I still did it regularly, though). This whole eating business is going to take us some time to get used to, I think. Is this how "normal" people feel around food? Like they need it to live but could care less about it? I don't know...I live with people who love food as much as I do (DID!). Anyone have a spouse or friend who is naturally thin who can enlighten me? I really want to know if I'm "normal" now!! Edit: And I mean normal in the non-obese sense. I've been consumed with food my whole life...what are the thought processes of people who are NOT consumed with food? Ok, can I tell you? THAT is the money shot, right there. If you (and the global you) can have this insight early into recovery, it's going to help you open so many more doors. I tell newbies here all the time the same thing that my first mentors told me - to submerge into my recovery, embrace it all. That it would be difficult yet a rebirth at the same time, a real chance to not only lose weight and keep it off, but to break away from the vise of food addiction/compulsion. And lest you (global you!) think hindsight is the proverbial 20/20, let me tell you... ...it's been an experience, to say the least, to go through this process twice. Can I get an oy vey up in here! I definitely had a hard time both surgeries,it was a huge adjustment and I was an emotional wrecking ball. I didn't experience the mourning of food because that part of the process many of you are encountering now for the first time was something I had dealt with in my 3 very major weight loss attempts, where I had learned a lot about a protein focused, moderate carb lifestyle (Atkins, Zone, training with professional body builders who have been eating this way since time began) I have found it tremendously satisfying, quite honestly, even before surgeries, it was the first time a way to eat made sense as a lifestyle, not a diet or a program. I remember when I first got out of the hospital after my RNY and was recovering at the home of friends (who insisted since I lived by myself and turned out to be fortuitous because I landed back in the hospital for almost six weeks, more surgery, infection, that's another story). I woke up that first morning, walked into the kitchen where my friend Allison was...and sobbed. I was completely freaked out, overwhelmed, scared to eat, had no idea how to do anything (instant amnesia after months of reading, posting) and everything tasted horrible. When I finally got better four months later, I really didn't want to go to parties or social events that revolved around eating either because I couldn't eat much or I didn't want to deal with all the temptations, wasn't strong enough yet. I definitely had cravings, especially for salad which I thought was nuts until I read everyone else going through that too. I would stare, practically break out into a cold sweat if pizza was around, or bagels, bread baskets. But being satisfied by very small amounts of food, seeing the weight come off, was very empowering, I was relieved most of all not to have the bottomless pit of raging hunger anymore that made dieting such a misery and it was the launch pad for everything else. When I had my revision, I was SO miserable, so full of despair from struggling, regain to 240 (my surgeon said one of the worst cases of hopelessness he's seen), that I didn't care any more what I had to do - and my revision meant 6 weeks on a feeding tube, liquids only. I was actually looking forward to being a newbie again, heavily restricted and all the crap (literally) it entailed. I was terrified to fail again, or go through complications again since I knew what could happen because it had happened to me already. I was depressed that age 50 I was "HERE" again recovering from surgery, more time dealing with my obesity after over 25 years already. But, I got a second chance, I window of being an eat to live person for a good stretch where I didn't have to deal with food except in how it agreed with me, and that was ok. The one thing I do want to note is that many of you are early post op, and the first 3 months are truly about recovery, it's the start of a blueprint for life, but not the whole picture. It gets better in steps, you progress food wise in terms of types, amount, learning what your guts don't like so much, what escalates gas/poop and what doesn't. Things really start to stabilize more after 6 months and upward through the first year. Are there some sacrafices? Yes, but I found that this process paralleled the rest of my life efforts too - to learn that having things means sometimes giving up other things, the balance is what makes it worth it. No one who really wants to be fit, healthy can eat whatever they want whenever they want, a nano percentage of the human race has that metabolism (teachermomolp, you sound like you're married to one!) What a huge difference to work THIS hard, and finally know it would pay off. There really is nothing I can't eat when I want it, some things mean I will gain weight (like the sweets I crave now because of menopause), others will land me in the bathroom. But the majority of my days are free of being starving, eating a lot of really delicious food, knowing what it's like to have a small tummy day or the bottomless pit days etc. It does take time, and everything you all are dealing with is valid and difficult. So it's good to have people at the same place post-op you are to commiserate with, and I also know it helped me a LOT to keep reading people's posts, stories who were much further out, it helped give me perspective when it was difficult to formulate while in the trenches.
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Post by tina9999 on Apr 16, 2014 10:42:22 GMT -5
...which is AMAZING but I was shocked to see how fat I still really am. I went to the hair salon today and the smock still didn't fit and I still look huge...but I've lost 38 pounds as of today SO WHO CARES? The jeans I have on were pulled from the "oh shit, these are too small" pile two weeks ago and now they are going to go in the "oh shit, these are TOO BIG" pile right now!!!!! WHOO- HOOO!!! But I am still fat...anyone else shocked by their reflection? I feel so GOOD but I still look so...well, fat! I know how you feel. I'm down 77 pounds since this whole thing began - started at 289.8 so I'm right around 213. All my original pants that I wore have been too big for a couple of months. I got some pants from my cousin about 2 months ago that ranged in size from an 18 to a 20 & the ambiguous 1X to 3X. All the 20's are too big & need to be returned to her. When I originally took the 18s, they were too tight, but now they fit well. The 1X - 3X are crazy - I think the 3X is snugger than you would think, but loser than the 1X. Clothing is so variable depending on the fabric and the cut. I went shopping last weekend & wound up at the Dress Barn. I haven't shopped there in years. I tried on this dress in an 18 - too big. Got the 16 - also too big at the top, but would only need a bit of alterations to fit well. But then I decided why spend $50 on a dress that will need $20 of alterations & that I will get rid of in 1 - 2 months because it's too big. I noticed I'm too small for some of the plus sized clothing, but some of it was still too small (say a 1X skirt), but still to big for the regular sized clothing. I'm still fat too - I still have 73 pounds to go to my "goal" of 140 (which I probably weighed in 8th grade!). Before I could wear the same sized clothes with a weight fluctuation of 20-40 pounds before. I have a friend who is what I call tiny - wears probably a 6 or so, & she says a change of size for her is only 5 pounds. I think as we hit down into the 100's, the change in sizes will be quicker and more noticable. As for the body, I'll preface all I'm about to say below with, I'm not complaining, but some of it is surprising and interesting the way it happens & I'm guessing it's different for every single person. I've always been the classic pear shape. I wore before a 22/24 top & anywhere from 24 (if it was really stretchy) to a size 30 pants. I had a really big lower belly that hanged & a really big butt that almost looked like a shelf right below my lower back and of course I had the matching saddle bags. My upper stomach was big too, but no where near the size of my lower belly & I wore a 42/44 D bra. I had pretty big upper arms too, the kind that have that big dimple in your elbow when you hold your arm down & the kind that went past "jiggle" several years ago. So I'm 1/2 way to my goal of 140 - I'm down to a 38C bra & it's not too tight - actually fits good. My right boob is actually not too bad, but my left boob (always the bigger of the two) has a bit of a sag - I've never had kids, so I don't know if that'll be to my benefit in the long run or not. I'm hoping as I near the end of the wieght loss, they'll be a bit more even in size - I think I'll wind up in a A or B cup & that's fine with me. I have no back fat at all anymore. My upper stomach has gotten smaller - when I have good posture, my boobs stick out farther than my upper tummy. My lower belly still hangs, but it is much smaller than it was before & I'm surprised to not yet see a lot of sagginess there yet, but I'm not holding out much hope that it won't be saggy at the end. My upper arms are still quite large I think compared to the losses I have seen elsewhere. When I hold my arms out in front of me, the tops of my arms look nice, but there is a tremendous amount of fat still hanging underneath. I expect to have some major issues there at the end in terms of lose skin, but again, I've been surprised at the amount of fat sitll holding on there at this stage of the game. When I hold them down, like if I'm drying my hair with my head upside down, they get this really puckered wrinkly look about them that is really quite weird and not at all attractive. Same with my thighs. I was surprised to find 2 months ago when trying on my cousin's pants that I already had the wrinkling on the front to inside of my upper thighs. I was caught off guard by it as I assumed for some stupid reason that I wouldn't look like a wrinkly mess until the end, but in the thigh department, it had already started. I think overall, my legs are still bigger than I thought they would be, but I think it might be in my head a little bit, because it's not like they're so big that it prevents me from wearing pants that fit in the waist and seat. My butt shelf is completely gone & I think I have a nice shape to my rear end now. I always had a big butt, so I don't expect it to completely go away. My saddlebags are still I think larger than I would have expected & the one on the right hip is much larger than the one on the left. In a maxi-dress, it just enhances the hourglass shape, but in the wrong pants, you can really see the saddlebags as they're outlined in the bends/creases of the fabric. Exercise I know would help, but I'm not up to it right now. For some stupid reason, I'm thinking maybe I'll post some pictures so you can see. I'll probably come to my senses before then though, so if not, just know everything is a work in progress & for me at least, it hasn't necessarily been all good or all bad in the way my body is shaping down. My biggest negative reactions thus far have been - well that looks weird - so I can live with it all so far. I think it helps me to realize I didn't really do this to be "pretty" but because I figured I'd have diabetes within 1 to 2 years & a miserable life ahead of me if I didn't take some necessary drastic action to successfully get the weight off and be able to permanently maintain a significant of the initial loss.
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Post by goodkel on Apr 16, 2014 23:21:23 GMT -5
Wow, Tina, you are looking great! LOVE that orange dress on you!
You're doing great, too. Five months out and halfway to your goal.
It is odd how our bodies decide where the fat is going to be lost first and how some areas seem determined to hang on to it. It takes awhile, too, for our skin to reach what will eventually be the norm. That is why plastic surgery isn't recommended until someone has been at a stable weight for 6 months or more. Some people look haggard when they reach goal and then 3-6 months later their fat redistributes itself and they look fine again without gaining a pound.
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Post by newyorkbitch on Apr 16, 2014 23:54:29 GMT -5
I don't think plastics should be considered until someone has reached goal and then weight has been stable for at least a year.
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Post by jpcello on Apr 17, 2014 6:26:17 GMT -5
It takes a long time for your head to catch up to your body. It will happen some day. When we first have the surgery the weight just seems to melt off. But your head can't keep up. I promise that one day you WILL look in the mirror and see the person that everyone else sees.
Right now you look in the mirror and only see the bad things - the wrinkles, the sagging skin, etc. But what you don't see (but eventually will) is the healthy person who is a success.
If you have the means, once you're been at your ideal weight for at least a year should you even consider plastics - but that's just my opinion.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2014 9:43:36 GMT -5
It takes a long time for your head to catch up to your body. It will happen some day. When we first have the surgery the weight just seems to melt off. But your head can't keep up. I promise that one day you WILL look in the mirror and see the person that everyone else sees. Right now you look in the mirror and only see the bad things - the wrinkles, the sagging skin, etc. But what you don't see (but eventually will) is the healthy person who is a success. If you have the means, once you're been at your ideal weight for at least a year should you even consider plastics - but that's just my opinion. I see both people, but MAN, is that man in the mirror UUUUGGLAAAY... J/K. It is definitely a head trip, no doubt. 1.5 years out, and I'm still not used to my new image, and neither is my DW.
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Post by jpcello on Apr 17, 2014 13:31:35 GMT -5
It takes a long time for your head to catch up to your body. It will happen some day. When we first have the surgery the weight just seems to melt off. But your head can't keep up. I promise that one day you WILL look in the mirror and see the person that everyone else sees. Right now you look in the mirror and only see the bad things - the wrinkles, the sagging skin, etc. But what you don't see (but eventually will) is the healthy person who is a success. If you have the means, once you're been at your ideal weight for at least a year should you even consider plastics - but that's just my opinion. I see both people, but MAN, is that man in the mirror UUUUGGLAAAY... J/K. It is definitely a head trip, no doubt. 1.5 years out, and I'm still not used to my new image, and neither is my DW. LOL - Marc it probably took me a good 4-5 years to get used to the image in the mirror. I don't necessarily like what I see either, but at last I'm alive to see the image
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Post by teachermomolp on Apr 22, 2014 21:11:50 GMT -5
Tina- WOWOWOW! THANK YOU for that wonderfully detailed post. I'm amazed at what's going on here already with my body. I really appreciate your post. Thanks all!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2014 7:49:27 GMT -5
Tina, By your desciption, your going through what I did at 6- 8 months out. The disproportionate weight loss. Lose in some places, and not in others. I empathize with you, it is a hard clothes time. It is also a very hard body image time. If you like me, you feel that you are lumpy, disproportionate, small head and shoulders, but big arms and legs. chest is reducing, but stomach isn't so much.
Don't get down, it will all level out in the end. Your still losing, and thats what matters. This is a transition state. The final product is not for another 8 months to a year away.. Sounds like a long time, but you'll see, goes by real fast.
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Surgeon: Dr. John Rabkin
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Post by ampt on Apr 24, 2014 15:18:11 GMT -5
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