Munchkin
Full of Fairy Dust
I now agree with you. You are another superabsorber. Welcome to the club you never wanted to join.Nothing mean about it! It's what I need to hear because every single time I've revisited WLS I always tell myself I can do this without surgery. And maybe because I have had some short-lived success while doing whatever it is, I beat myself up because I stopped doing whatever it was to have that success. Most recently I did a dietetics program where I tracked my macros (every.single.gram.of.food), checked in weekly with a coach and had a personal trainer who kicked my ass twice a week for an hour. I dropped my A1C without meds from 9 something to under 6. SUCCESS. Except after 18 months, I only lost 25-30 lbs. (started at 309.) Then I couldn't sustain it (financially and honestly, weighing and logging every bite of food = not super sustainable) plus I needed more weight loss, so I bailed and declined VERY rapidly over the past year. I gave up, again. So to jump in from that to a DS is a hard pill for me and I start thinking about how if I just stuck with that, keep tracking macros, get my butt back to the gym I won't need surgery. But even when I was doing it I felt like I was climbing that mountain against wind and rain and biology. I never felt solid and could actually feel my body fighting me at every turn, every meal, every workout. Eat. Stay fat. Feed me.
Life as a postop is going to be easy compared to this crap.