I've lost 100 pounds!!!

dew11252 wrote: »

I am bookmarking your post so I can use it as encouragement. I won't do weight loss surgery - gotta do this on my own. Everything is me says I can do this - I just don't. Hmmm...

Fit2btied2016 wrote: »

BartBVanBockstaele wrote: »

dew11252 wrote: »

I am bookmarking your post so I can use it as encouragement. I won't do weight loss surgery - gotta do this on my own. Everything is me says I can do this - I just don't. Hmmm...

Depending on how serious your condition is, you may want (or not) the surgery. That said, if you can afford (time- and health-wise) not to have the surgery, chances are you will be better off. Don't forget that bariatric surgery does not remove fat. It is merely a tool to help you lose weight by eating less than you need to stay alive. That means that even with the surgery, you are essentially doing this on your own anyway. On top of that, surgery is not risk-free and there are life-altering consequences.

I second this. 289 lbs starting weight and to lose 50 is an achievable and reasonable goal!! Many people do not realize that after bariatric surgery the stomach often ends up the size of a golf ball. There are many complications that can happen. The amount of food that one could eat after such a surgery is often measured in teaspoons and tablespoons or liquids. Tiny amounts. The risk of surgery itself is magnified by the difficulties in intubating and using anesthesia on larger persons, the increased risk of blood clots, and so on. It's not a picnic. The person having surgery will almost always have to do a radical very-low calorie "diet" anyway to lose weight rapidly before surgery to help reduce some of these risks.

The person would be better off to just go on that very-low calorie diet and not have the surgery in that sense. (We are talking 800 or 900 calories per day here--if a person finds eating below 1500 calories hard, say, they will find these low-calorie diets more difficult still. Very often it's actually easier to fast and not have any calories if a person is trying to break a carb addiction for example.

I hope they consider ditching all pop and sugar in coffee/tea and snacks as 3 easy ways to cut calories off the top. Bariatric surgery is extreme surgery, and many times it has to be redone. It takes a highly skilled surgeon and team, and the person needs to be well-informed of ALL options and risks and pros/cons before deciding on it or not. TV tends to glamorize it a bit or sluff over a lot of the risks.

I really hope the poster of this topic connects with some people that can be supportive for that original starting weight, or what would be most comfortable/easier to relate to, etc.

Walking is free and can be done in small increments of 10 minutes here, 10 there and so on. The small amounts of time will start to add up quickly, and the more a person walks, the easier it is and the better the knees will start to feel. The idea is to get huffing and puffing a bit.

There are knee braces that a person can buy to help support those joints to be able to move with less pain and to walk more. A physiotherapist or a medical supply store can help with their purchase and fit and give instructions.

Walking poles can help provide extra balance, confidence and stability and increase the calorie burn/exercise benefit by giving the arms more to do. A friend or family member or neighbour that is willing to go for walks can be very helpful and encouraging, or perhaps a dog that likes to go for walks (just be careful of larger dogs--they tend to pull when excited and can put a person off balance).

Just some ideas for you. You need to figure out what your strengths and weaknesses will be or how you are feeling at the moment so you can come up with a plan and break things down into little, smaller steps.

It's like making a quilt. You first need to decide what size quilt you are going to make. How about a baby quilt? What kind of pattern would you like to use? Flying geese? Nine-patch? A pieced picture from a child's coloring book? What kind of fabrics? Prints? Solids? What kind of quilting? Hand-quilted? Machine? Tied? Some of all of those? Are you going to use a rotary cutter to cut all the pieces, or cut them with scissors? And so on...

Say that you want to make the baby quilt for a little one expected in 9 months from now. How much time will you plan to work on your quilt each day, week, or month?

Losing weight is like making a quilt of new eating habits and lifestyle changes. You have to break everything down and then reassemble the parts into a new quilt.

***Make the quilt manageable, realistic, and the goals small until you get better at quilting (weight-loss) and things run more smoothly.***

And if you have never quilted, then try and fight something that you already know how to do well that you can use the process to help you break down the steps for weight loss. (Learning what calories you already eat, how to track your food, exercise, and so on, how to shop or cook differently, who can support you, encourage you...)


Hang in there! I wish you well :-) Let us know how you are doing once in awhile ;-)