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How are you all doing?? Hope all is well. I am still having Dad drama which I don't want to discuss because it is depressing
Have a great weekend and keep pushing!!
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Started Phentermine 15g July 4th (added Topamax 25g to 50g July 22nd)
GW 299
SW 398.6
CW 385
Total weight lost as of today: 13.6 pounds
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Good afternoon, Im back at MFP. I have been off here quite awhile that seems more than evident with the weight changes. I had RNY Oct 2005 lost over 150 lbs. I had my gallbladder removed 6 months after RNY. I had hysterectomy in Dec 2014 and it has been a constant struggle since then. Welcome to the wonderful menopause life! Ive also been diagnosed with hashimotos and anemic. I have now around 35 pounds to get to where I feel comfortable. I have been keto for around 9 weeks with little to no success so I'm here trying to figure out macros. Hope to figure this all out!1
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Molly - Are you still taking the same dosages? How do you feel with the Topamax?0
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Hey everyone, I feel like I have abandoned our group. We are finally moved out of our house in Vegas and into our rental in Prescott Valley, AZ. We are in. 400 sf park model mobile home in a 55+ RV park for the next six months. We still have a bit of rearranging/reorganizing to do as we brought too many personal items!
Yesterday, I actually walked 2.8 miles! I feel so good about getting some walking in after some crazy time. This morning I walked 1/2 mile and hope to walk more later and definitely planning to get Back on Track!
I will be checking in again, so hope to hear from everyone!
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Good morning! I am happy to report that I walked today! I also weighed myself yesterday and have been holding steady with my weight. It had been a while since I had weighed with the packing and moving and then getting setup in our temporary home. I was somewhat afraid to weigh; I know I am an emotional eater. It was somewhat of a relief to weigh and see that I am still down 15 pounds! Hopefully, I will keep going now and get some more of this regain off. Talk soon!1
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Hello Louise! Good to hear from you! Congrats on your new home too!
Congrats on maintenance too!! Awesome stuff my friend
Keep up the good work!
I have been hanging in there. I am still losing slowly but surely. I am going to try to hit it hard the next six weeks. I got my 5% trinket from WW, I want to get 10% before January 1st.1 -
Molly- Hello! Glad to hear you are doing good! Are you still on the medication and how is that part going? Congrats on the 5% token!!0
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I had gastric bypass in 2001 because I needed both knees replaced and the only way the doctor would do it is if I lost the weight. It was a long process. After surgery I almost died and ended up in ICU because I collapsed both lungs. I started at 292 and ended up around 220 and never got much smaller. I regained weight over the years until I reached my highest weight of 317 pounds mostly through grazing. I saw a nutritionist and lost back down to 220 pounds. Over the years I have continued this yo you cycle until now where I restarted my fitness pal at 275 pounds. I am now down to 264 through hard work and tracking. The surgery was not an easy thing for me. I ruined my teeth with all the vomiting. I developed chronic ulcers and barretts esophagus and now am on medicine for that. I also had an esophageal hernia where they basically redid the surgery two years ago. Grazing is still an issue but I try to make better choices now. Just wanted to tell my story. A lot of it was probably emotional eating. I lost both my parents in this period of time, my dad in 2010 and my mom in 2014.3
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Hi, Lois. I can relate to your journey. Complications due to WLS, but it is what it is and I’m dealing with them. I have gained 30 pounds since my lowest weight, over the past five years. I started the journey at 294 lbs. Went down to 145, now up to 175. I’m 5’8” and 60 yrs old. As with you, I am doing too much grazing, too many simple carbs, and too much stress-eating. Time to turn it around!
I need to stop making excuses and remember where I started. I do not want to forget to agony I went through for the first three months post-RNY. I want to use that memory to get back on track now. We can do this, one day at a time, one pound at a time!
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It's never too late to get back to basics and re-take control of the castle! Never give up. Never abandon your post. We all have to be extra vigilant for the rest of our lives. I would go back to the doc and talk revision with him. Maybe part of the issue is that panniculectomy ONLY deals with the removal of overlapping belly and doesn't address the FUPA (Fat Upper Kitty Kat Area). He SHOULD have gone ahead and rec'd a tummy tuck with FUPA lipo.
Also, if you remove a wad of empty fat cells, new studies show that when we re-gain weight and add new fat to empty cells, or generate new fat cells, they will grow above and below the area immediately adjacent to the removed old cells. That's how much our body wants to maintain our weight and homeostasis at our highest weight. ((hugs))
Get back to it. You CAN do this!!! And I agree, support is the key to success (or at least one of them)! We all need community AND accountability and MFP is great at that!1
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