After answering a question about expected weight loss and seeing some people say a stone a month lost etc i have a few questions for the big losers out there...
Seriously now and please answer honestly:
1. How is your eating now? As in do you tolerate food well? Can you eat most things?
2. Are you ever dissatisfied with 'what' you are able to tolerate or not tolerate?
3. Do you think your loose skin would be as bad if you'd lost it slower?
Probably too soon for me to consider myself a BIG LOSER, as I'm just approaching 3 months post op, but I have had consistently good losses every week having lost just short of 6 stones in total - almost 4 of which were post op.
To give some context, previously when I have done SW or WW or other fad diets, I have always had good weekly loses, the prob was always keeping it off. I recall going to classes with friends and generally I tended to have greater weekly loses (compartitively), so I appreciate that I can lose weight, maintainance has always been the prob as it has always gone back on as quick as it came off. Time will tell this time, but WLS certainly gives a better tool for managing maintainence with, in theory.
In terms of how I eat now, I think I mostly eat very well, I seem to have good tolerance for food and can eat most things easily, just experienced mild nausea at times if I push it, which I try not to do.
My body tends to dictate what I fancy eating, I crave protiens in the form of fish or lean white meat, cheese and always have vegetables. I've also developed a healthy appetite for fruit, pinapples, melons, oranges, just lovely and great to snack on.
I've gone off carbs strangely enough, rice, pasta, potatoes, although I do force myself occassionally it just leaves me feeling bloated, sluggish and heavy, so I tend to avoid.
I dont measure or weigh my portions, I just take a small amount annd sometimes I suffer from "etes bigger than belly syndrom" old habits die hard, but the beauty is I just cant eat it, when I've had enough I scrape my plate, because if I left it before me I would wait for that feeling to pass then start picking again when the discomfort passed.
Im satisfied with my level of tolerance, because it means I can still enjoy what I fancy, however what I fancy is the good stuff right now. It's liberating. For me, I dont want to get caught up in weighing and measuring portions, I just want to learn how to not over indulge and to eat only what I need after all there is no famine.
Time will tell on the loose skin front, but so far it's not bad at all. Tummy a little loose but it was loose before after the kids, I'm 43 and not looking for iron board abs. I can see a little bat wing thing going on there though and think that might be a problem, but one I'll happily live with. The Boobs are not what they were or where they were, I MISS THEM! But I figure when I get to goal, if it troubles my spirit, I shall just have to buy me a pair!
Generally my skin is not loose or wrinkly though, good old coco butter and olive oil methinks.
sorry for the long reply and great thread.
