BrownEyedGirl

I lost 11 lbs the first 2.5 weeks, which was last Wednesday. I had my surgery on a Friday and I didn't like the 1/2 week so I'm now going to start weighing myself on Fridays. My next weigh in is this coming friday and I'll try to let you know. I have a bad memory so forgive me if I forget but feel free to PM me. It should be on my ticker. I'm not including weight lost on my pre-op diet which was an additional 10lbs.

Truthfully, I'm terrified of going a full week and a half without weighing myself. If I did that in the past I would have spiraled out of control in that short of time. Plus I'm very nervous about yesterday. I got weak and ate more than I have in some time and am wondering what that could have done. There are so many old habits and emotional ties to food and junk that still need to be broken.

I'm looking forward to the scale being an aid and not an enemy and something to be feared. I'm not even 1 month into this so I'm still working out all the bugs.

*throws confetti* Welcome back!!

Woohoo and congrats on getting of your @-s-s!! Pretty soon you'll have a much tinier @-s-s to get off of. Dangling participles, aside... GOOD JOB!

One of my goals after losing weight was to go to surfdiva and learn to surf! No joke!! I've had to sit and watch others take lessons while I sat on my fat arse missing out on yet another great experience. Sign me up! I need baby waves. I'm pretty shaky on my ankles having broken both but that may change once those spindly things aren't hauling around all this extra weight.

First, you've nothing that isn't covered by the cross. Read Psalm 51 keeping in mind what David had done and was still able to ask for forgiveness. David was called "a man after God's own heart". Psalm 16:2 is a good example of why.

Like you, I'm on the liquid phase of the diet and realizing just how I've let food become so much to me. I even passed up going to a movie because I couldn't eat popcorn. I wasn't hungry, I just don't know how to enjoy a movie without food. It sounded boring. I may go just to do it.

We have bad habits, practices, and attitudes we need to repent and turn from. We can do it. We have to. I'll be blogging soon about some news I got tonight. A dear friend is in the hospital with only a 50% chance of getting out. Why? She's obese and her problems are piling up. She says she's tired of fighting and ready to die. She would never admit she had a problem and she would never do anything about it. Just kept gaining until she reached close to 400 lbs.

I'm so sorry to hear about your husband. Let him act out. That's his sin and let God deal with him. Pray for him though. He needs it. I have the opposite problem with my husband. If it was up to him I'd only eat one ice cube a day. He wanted me to stay on clear liquids longer because I was losing weight so fast. From the start told him that I wouldn't be cooking dinner for 3 weeks and I haven't. He's cooked all dinners (save 1) and bought most of the food. Truthfully, I think I could have cooked without a problem but I'm enjoying the time off. Don't tell him that.

Don't let your husband sabotage you. Pray for strength and for your husband to support you or at least get out of the way. And don't comfort yourself with food. One thing becomes obvious as you go through forums, not everyone is successful with the band. Let's not waste our money, effort, time, health, and lives on something that doesn't love us back. I'm talking about food.

Go get 'em.

Let's keep that promise, Erica!

Yah, it's been pure joy. NOT! But today is much better.

I had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Ortiz last year and he said, "What is crap? Crap is food that has been processed. You eat processed food and you're eating crap!" I was thinking crap has all the nutrition taken out of it too. Just like processed foods. So, when I was tempted to eat junk food, I just asked myself if I really wanted to wolf down that crap. lol.

It went great!!

I bought that Isopure also. Just keep in mind that you don't want a fatty liver that complicates the surgery. That's what I kept telling myself. Everytime I said no to something I imagined my liver getting cleaner. I lost 10 lbs exactly. lol.

Good for you on being honest with yourself. I came to the same place as you are now. I'd do anything to lose weight I thought, except diet and exercise. I'd eat my healthy meal and then when I was hungry eat the one I wanted to eat anyway. But since I just had chicken and broccoli for lunch I thought my diet was broken. Forget the trip to Taco Bell I made on the way to pick up my son from school.

I also quit calling myself overweight. I'm fat for crying out loud. Yes, I'm overweight but I also fall into the fat category. Yes, I know, it's a hurtful mean word, but it's also true and that's what hurts the most. How on earth can I be offended when other people notice I'm fat? I'm blocking their field of vision!! How can they not notice?! lol

Anyway, all the best to you. I pray you meet the success that you desire and more importantly, achieve the health your body and spirit need.