amazing, that's really something! good for you, Ginnie!
Thanks.WOW!
Thanks NA.Big difference, very exciting!
Thank you.Wow is right!!! I'm so happy for you!
Thanks Jackie.amazing, that's really something! good for you, Ginnie!
Thanks Hil! Glasses are fun.You look great! Love that smile and your glasses are super cute (both pairs)!!!!
Thanks so much Jen.So excited for you!! Congrats on the awesome weight loss so far!!
tomorrow is weigh-in day again, so we'll see how I did this week.
Great work! You are a wonder! How are you feeling?
WOW @more2adore you are doing great!! So inspirational for this anxious pre op!
If we starve ourselves our metabolism shuts down. We only absorb 40 to 50% of our calories so we NEED about 2000 to keep our metabolism in full burn mode. Not that I do it often, but when I do manage it for a few days in a row, the Weight just melts offSo it's been quite a while since I updated - figured it was time! Last time I gave an update here I had started a thread about calories and how I was stalling, etc. The advice I got most from most people/places (not just here) was that I might have to eat fewer calories (I was at 700-800) or that this might be all the weight loss I see from the VSG (yikes). But I decided to listen to my surgeon's dietician's advice - she had said to up my calories to 1000-1200. I have to tell you - that has been HARD, even harder than I expected. But I've incorporated higher-calorie but still healthy foods into my diet (like avocado) and most days I am (barely) over 1000 calories and under 50g carbs (and at 70g+ protein). Once I switched to this, the weight started coming off again! I'm not 100% positive it's all the calorie change - it might be the Metformin my endocrinologist put me on as well. But either way - I was very relieved to see my weight start dropping again. Last week when I weighed I had lost 7 pounds that week - tomorrow is weigh-in day again, so we'll see how I did this week. But I looked at the stats and I realized - my BMI is DOWN over 30 points. I've gone from a BMI of 109.7 (when I was 600 pounds) to 79.0. I mean, WOW. There are many people having weight loss surgery whose BMI is 30... I've lost an entire one of those people, haha. Not just their excess weight - but the entire person, lol. That's hard to wrap my brain around! Oh, and I'm getting very close to having lost half MY excess weight, which is awesome! Fingers crossed the stalls stop and the weight keeps going. Thanks for all your support, people.