This was a fascinating read to me personally, because 18 months ago, at the age of 59 and 30 years of being overweight, I went on a medically supervised liquid diet weight loss plan. I was allowed 4 shakes per day and nothing else for 10 months. What worked for me was the 'cold turkey' off food...I simply was not allowed to eat anything. There were some days it was hard, but the program included weekly visits to a support staff of nutritionist/psychologist/doctor/exercise trainer who functioned as my cheerleaders.
Like you, I never had any idea of a realistic weight goal--I was just 'let's see what happens' because the concept of weighing less than 245 was so outrageous.
I ended up losing 100 pounds and have been on sustaining for 2 months now (after several months transition back to food) and still go weekly to my support team.
Being not-fat is the strangest feeling, you capture that very well (I can buy clothes in the normal-sized section
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I am impressed by what you've achieved. Congratulations!
I don't know if I have much helpful to say about surgery to remove skin. Insurance tends not to cover it (though they damned well should, which is both my opinion and my weight-loss surgeon's). My plastic surgeon makes it a policy to begin with whatever troubles the patient the most, so we started on the upper third of my body; I'll be going back at some point for the lower two-thirds, which is a big surgery requiring six weeks of recovery. At least I now know to prepare surgeons to support my back before we begin! If you're in the LA area, I can certainly recommend someone.
I don't think anybody really understands it. Clearly it's related to hormones, and maybe an endocrinologist would have a theory, but I haven't heard one.
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As Dori would put it, I am for that.
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Like you, I never had any idea of a realistic weight goal--I was just 'let's see what happens' because the concept of weighing less than 245 was so outrageous.
I ended up losing 100 pounds and have been on sustaining for 2 months now (after several months transition back to food) and still go weekly to my support team.
Being not-fat is the strangest feeling, you capture that very well (I can buy clothes in the normal-sized section ( ... )
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I don't know if I have much helpful to say about surgery to remove skin. Insurance tends not to cover it (though they damned well should, which is both my opinion and my weight-loss surgeon's). My plastic surgeon makes it a policy to begin with whatever troubles the patient the most, so we started on the upper third of my body; I'll be going back at some point for the lower two-thirds, which is a big surgery requiring six weeks of recovery. At least I now know to prepare surgeons to support my back before we begin! If you're in the LA area, I can certainly recommend someone.
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