OMG! I'm 230 pounds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:You should post on Reddit progress pics thread and give others inspiration.

I don’t think getting your stomach surgically shrunk down so that you are forced into malnutrition state and drop 100 lbs in a year should be “goals”

That state of malnutrition and quick weight loss results in sagging skin, bone density loss, and and muscle wasting.

Slow and steady weight loss naturally is the best way to go

You don’t know what you’re talking about. The data has shown over and over that without surgical intervention, big weight loss is not sustainable long term without bariatric surgery. It’s the best chance that very overweight people have at being thin if that is their goal.

Going from very fat to very thin in a short amount of time has negative health effects too- they just show up later.

Sweet jesus, stop talking. You don’t know anything about obesity or bariatric surgery. Currently, bariatric surgery is the one and only gold standard for treatment of obesity. That’s a fact. When it is successful and people are following the post-surgery diet, the weight pours off. In fact the weight that one loses in the first year after weight loss surgery is the majority of what they’ll lose. It’s supposed to pour off. That’s the point of the surgery.

It pours off because you physically can’t stuff yourself. Duh. But please don’t think cutting your stomach in half and surgically alternating your digestion doesn’t have its own set of negative health consequences. Anyone that is able to lose weight through their own will and lifestyle changes should absolutely do that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just to get off surgery for a minute, I had a wake up call five months ago when I got up to 255 pounds. I’ve lost 45 pounds since then purely through diet — coffee in morning and otherwise only eating once or twice during the day. Hey after a few months you could be down to like 185. You can do this. It doesn’t s not truly that hard, just strength of will. Good luck, OP!

Statistically, you will gain it all back and then some. But sure, it’s not that hard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just to get off surgery for a minute, I had a wake up call five months ago when I got up to 255 pounds. I’ve lost 45 pounds since then purely through diet — coffee in morning and otherwise only eating once or twice during the day. Hey after a few months you could be down to like 185. You can do this. It doesn’t s not truly that hard, just strength of will. Good luck, OP!

Statistically, you will gain it all back and then some. But sure, it’s not that hard.

Wow. This thread is awful. Good luck, OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just to get off surgery for a minute, I had a wake up call five months ago when I got up to 255 pounds. I’ve lost 45 pounds since then purely through diet — coffee in morning and otherwise only eating once or twice during the day. Hey after a few months you could be down to like 185. You can do this. It doesn’t s not truly that hard, just strength of will. Good luck, OP!

OMG...I read 185 as IBS. I was shocked to think that this was being suggested as a weightloss measure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People are going to yell at me for this, and maybe they should, but a low dose of adderal changed my relationship with food completely and I’m now slim without any effort.

I have legitimate ADHD but any dose high enough to actually control my symptoms messes up my sleep. In trying to find the right dose I discovered that 5 mg a day has almost no effect on anything else, except it gives me a tiny little edge of self control over my eating habits. It turns out that’s all I needed.

For the first time in my life I now eat when I’m hungry and stop when I’m full and don’t eat between meals. I used to think about food constantly and now I just don’t. It’s been truly life changing.

This is intriguing. I've never bothered to get diagnosed but I'm fairly certain I have ADHD.

Are you scared that you would gain the weight back if you ever went off the meds?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People are going to yell at me for this, and maybe they should, but a low dose of adderal changed my relationship with food completely and I’m now slim without any effort.

I have legitimate ADHD but any dose high enough to actually control my symptoms messes up my sleep. In trying to find the right dose I discovered that 5 mg a day has almost no effect on anything else, except it gives me a tiny little edge of self control over my eating habits. It turns out that’s all I needed.

For the first time in my life I now eat when I’m hungry and stop when I’m full and don’t eat between meals. I used to think about food constantly and now I just don’t. It’s been truly life changing.

This is intriguing. I've never bothered to get diagnosed but I'm fairly certain I have ADHD.

Are you scared that you would gain the weight back if you ever went off the meds?

I wish I could talk my doc into prescribing this for me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People are going to yell at me for this, and maybe they should, but a low dose of adderal changed my relationship with food completely and I’m now slim without any effort.

I have legitimate ADHD but any dose high enough to actually control my symptoms messes up my sleep. In trying to find the right dose I discovered that 5 mg a day has almost no effect on anything else, except it gives me a tiny little edge of self control over my eating habits. It turns out that’s all I needed.

For the first time in my life I now eat when I’m hungry and stop when I’m full and don’t eat between meals. I used to think about food constantly and now I just don’t. It’s been truly life changing.

This is intriguing. I've never bothered to get diagnosed but I'm fairly certain I have ADHD.

Are you scared that you would gain the weight back if you ever went off the meds?

I wish I could talk my doc into prescribing this for me.

They're drugs - Amphetamine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People are going to yell at me for this, and maybe they should, but a low dose of adderal changed my relationship with food completely and I’m now slim without any effort.

I have legitimate ADHD but any dose high enough to actually control my symptoms messes up my sleep. In trying to find the right dose I discovered that 5 mg a day has almost no effect on anything else, except it gives me a tiny little edge of self control over my eating habits. It turns out that’s all I needed.

For the first time in my life I now eat when I’m hungry and stop when I’m full and don’t eat between meals. I used to think about food constantly and now I just don’t. It’s been truly life changing.

This is intriguing. I've never bothered to get diagnosed but I'm fairly certain I have ADHD.

Are you scared that you would gain the weight back if you ever went off the meds?

I wish I could talk my doc into prescribing this for me.

They're drugs - Amphetamine.

We know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You should post on Reddit progress pics thread and give others inspiration.

I don’t think getting your stomach surgically shrunk down so that you are forced into malnutrition state and drop 100 lbs in a year should be “goals”

That state of malnutrition and quick weight loss results in sagging skin, bone density loss, and and muscle wasting.

Slow and steady weight loss naturally is the best way to go

You don’t know what you’re talking about. The data has shown over and over that without surgical intervention, big weight loss is not sustainable long term without bariatric surgery. It’s the best chance that very overweight people have at being thin if that is their goal.

Going from very fat to very thin in a short amount of time has negative health effects too- they just show up later.

Sweet jesus, stop talking. You don’t know anything about obesity or bariatric surgery. Currently, bariatric surgery is the one and only gold standard for treatment of obesity. That’s a fact. When it is successful and people are following the post-surgery diet, the weight pours off. In fact the weight that one loses in the first year after weight loss surgery is the majority of what they’ll lose. It’s supposed to pour off. That’s the point of the surgery.

It pours off because you physically can’t stuff yourself. Duh. But please don’t think cutting your stomach in half and surgically alternating your digestion doesn’t have its own set of negative health consequences. Anyone that is able to lose weight through their own will and lifestyle changes should absolutely do that.

Long-term obesity also has its own set of negative consequences. Fooling yourself into believing that you can lose a shit ton of weight and keep it off long-term is an exercise in futility. If a person has progressed to the phase of being classified as obese, more extreme measures need to be taken than dieting. I am convinced that the more times you gain and lose weight the more challenging it becomes each time to lose it. The body revolts, or at least mine did.

It's realistic for an overweight person to diet, but obese and morbidly obese people should consider more intense approaches that will last.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You should post on Reddit progress pics thread and give others inspiration.

I don’t think getting your stomach surgically shrunk down so that you are forced into malnutrition state and drop 100 lbs in a year should be “goals”

That state of malnutrition and quick weight loss results in sagging skin, bone density loss, and and muscle wasting.

Slow and steady weight loss naturally is the best way to go

You don’t know what you’re talking about. The data has shown over and over that without surgical intervention, big weight loss is not sustainable long term without bariatric surgery. It’s the best chance that very overweight people have at being thin if that is their goal.

Going from very fat to very thin in a short amount of time has negative health effects too- they just show up later.

Sweet jesus, stop talking. You don’t know anything about obesity or bariatric surgery. Currently, bariatric surgery is the one and only gold standard for treatment of obesity. That’s a fact. When it is successful and people are following the post-surgery diet, the weight pours off. In fact the weight that one loses in the first year after weight loss surgery is the majority of what they’ll lose. It’s supposed to pour off. That’s the point of the surgery.

It pours off because you physically can’t stuff yourself. Duh. But please don’t think cutting your stomach in half and surgically alternating your digestion doesn’t have its own set of negative health consequences. Anyone that is able to lose weight through their own will and lifestyle changes should absolutely do that.

+1 my friend just got bariatric surgery and had a rare complication where her intestines had a adverse reaction to the band and it’s been a month and she is still on an iv and can’t eat anything. She was hospitalized for a long while too. It’s not just a walk in the park.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People are going to yell at me for this, and maybe they should, but a low dose of adderal changed my relationship with food completely and I’m now slim without any effort.

I have legitimate ADHD but any dose high enough to actually control my symptoms messes up my sleep. In trying to find the right dose I discovered that 5 mg a day has almost no effect on anything else, except it gives me a tiny little edge of self control over my eating habits. It turns out that’s all I needed.

For the first time in my life I now eat when I’m hungry and stop when I’m full and don’t eat between meals. I used to think about food constantly and now I just don’t. It’s been truly life changing.

This is intriguing. I've never bothered to get diagnosed but I'm fairly certain I have ADHD.

Are you scared that you would gain the weight back if you ever went off the meds?

I wish I could talk my doc into prescribing this for me.

I too have ADHD and was recently prescribed ritalin. It has had a HUGE impact on my work but the nice side effect is I have no problem waiting until hunger and stopping when I've had enough. I no longer have the urge to emotionally eat.

They're drugs - Amphetamine.

We know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You should post on Reddit progress pics thread and give others inspiration.

I don’t think getting your stomach surgically shrunk down so that you are forced into malnutrition state and drop 100 lbs in a year should be “goals”

That state of malnutrition and quick weight loss results in sagging skin, bone density loss, and and muscle wasting.

Slow and steady weight loss naturally is the best way to go

You don’t know what you’re talking about. The data has shown over and over that without surgical intervention, big weight loss is not sustainable long term without bariatric surgery. It’s the best chance that very overweight people have at being thin if that is their goal.

Going from very fat to very thin in a short amount of time has negative health effects too- they just show up later.

Sweet jesus, stop talking. You don’t know anything about obesity or bariatric surgery. Currently, bariatric surgery is the one and only gold standard for treatment of obesity. That’s a fact. When it is successful and people are following the post-surgery diet, the weight pours off. In fact the weight that one loses in the first year after weight loss surgery is the majority of what they’ll lose. It’s supposed to pour off. That’s the point of the surgery.

It pours off because you physically can’t stuff yourself. Duh. But please don’t think cutting your stomach in half and surgically alternating your digestion doesn’t have its own set of negative health consequences. Anyone that is able to lose weight through their own will and lifestyle changes should absolutely do that.

+1 my friend just got bariatric surgery and had a rare complication where her intestines had a adverse reaction to the band and it’s been a month and she is still on an iv and can’t eat anything. She was hospitalized for a long while too. It’s not just a walk in the park.

[Anonymous]

For anyone who has FB, there are groups for individuals with low BMI's who have had the procedure done. Anyone can join and observe. There, you can follow the journeys of thousands of people who have gotten the sleeve. Being a part of an online support group was a gamechanger for me since I had no other support.

I would caution that if you are under a certain weight/BMI (Under 37 BMI), not to join groups targeted for the morbidly obese-- you won't be received well. Plus the experience for individuals who have less to lose is drastically different.

Search: Low BMI Gastric Sleeve

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You should post on Reddit progress pics thread and give others inspiration.

I don’t think getting your stomach surgically shrunk down so that you are forced into malnutrition state and drop 100 lbs in a year should be “goals”

That state of malnutrition and quick weight loss results in sagging skin, bone density loss, and and muscle wasting.

Slow and steady weight loss naturally is the best way to go

You don’t know what you’re talking about. The data has shown over and over that without surgical intervention, big weight loss is not sustainable long term without bariatric surgery. It’s the best chance that very overweight people have at being thin if that is their goal.

Going from very fat to very thin in a short amount of time has negative health effects too- they just show up later.

Sweet jesus, stop talking. You don’t know anything about obesity or bariatric surgery. Currently, bariatric surgery is the one and only gold standard for treatment of obesity. That’s a fact. When it is successful and people are following the post-surgery diet, the weight pours off. In fact the weight that one loses in the first year after weight loss surgery is the majority of what they’ll lose. It’s supposed to pour off. That’s the point of the surgery.

It pours off because you physically can’t stuff yourself. Duh. But please don’t think cutting your stomach in half and surgically alternating your digestion doesn’t have its own set of negative health consequences. Anyone that is able to lose weight through their own will and lifestyle changes should absolutely do that.

+1 my friend just got bariatric surgery and had a rare complication where her intestines had a adverse reaction to the band and it’s been a month and she is still on an iv and can’t eat anything. She was hospitalized for a long while too. It’s not just a walk in the park.

Recently took care of 2 post bariatric surgery patients. One a couple months out, one a year out. One ended up dying. What is considered a post op complication is a very gray area, but let me just say, many many people go on to have problems post surgery. Some immediately, some years down the road. It isn’t as great as people like to make you believe, especially the surgeons that do them. In some cases, those risks are worth it, but it really should be a last resort after exhausting all options to lose weight without surgery

[Anonymous]

Stop thinking so much about food. If you get stressed out, stick with your emotions-feel them pass through you. Dont turn to food because youre upset.

Also limit your portion sizes. Cut em in half if you can. Your stomach will shrink in size and you wont need as much to be full. Go on a cleanse first where you only eat raw fruits and veggies (smoothie cleanse is a great way to do this) to reset your dietary habits