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Originally Posted by yankeeblue08  HI Rap!
We haven't had an update in awhile! how are you doing? how is the hunger? I need your inspiration to keep me on the straight and narrow. I am going to a seminar this month. I think the scariest part of me is giving of my friend, food. It's going to be hard to let go, but I know getting thinner is much better and healthier.
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*hugs* Yankee Sis!
I'm doing fabulous, thanks! 2 weeks out of surgery, and I don't feel like I've had surgery. I don't feel my port or band at all. So far so good! I can only hope this continues, but then I haven't had a fill yet . . . I think that's when the true test comes!
Yes, I'm hungry, I think I've entered "Bandster's hell" . . . not healed enough for a fill, but my stomach has healed enough to be hungry. I have to fight it it and stay on the plan my dietitian outlined for me. I'm still doing "mushie" foods, and it gets a little tiring having to puree everything, but I don't want to sabotage how far I've already come. The hunger part is hard, but I see a light at the end of the tunnel, I know one day I'll get a fill.
So for now I'm toughing it out and hanging in there. Also hard is that the scales seem to have really slowed down. I want out of the 230's, but those last 2 pounds are not coming off! I have increased my exercise, but still the scales are being stubborn. I have to remind myself that right now, this is a time for healing . . . more weight loss will come later. When the weather gets nice around here, I know the weight loss will pick up again . . . when I go outside for a walk, I tend to stay out there MUCH longer than I stay on my treadmill. I did 40 minutes today on my treadmill, and it gets easier each time to do more, but it's just not the same as being outside!
BIG CONGRATZ!
to you for going to a seminar! That's the first step, and that's the only way to do this, just take it one step at a time. You'll do awesome! I know it's hard giving up food, it is for me too . . . I made hubby a chocolate brownie with chocolate frosting birthday cake this week. It was so hard baking that and not being able to eat any of it, but I did it! I didn't even lick a spoon. It made me feel good to be able to resist. Something that might help . . . stop looking as food as your friend? It's what made us miserable in the first place, friends don't do that!
You just gotta look at the wrong foods and say "I don't need you". Make new friends . . . better health, energy, feeling and looking good! Besides, not all of "diet" food is bad . . . there's some good stuff and yummy recipes!
Ok, enough chatter from me
I'm proud of you for doing this too! If you ever need anything, you know I'm always here for you.
love 'n hugs!
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