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Bariatric Life With Mel, Doncaster (2026)

16/06/2025

Morning everyone!

So, it's happened I am below the 15st 7lbs with a 1.5lbs loss this week. This also marks my 80th lb loss and I'm also now under 100kg again. There's still 15.5lbs before I'm under 200lbs but I'm feeling more and more confident that I'm going to see that happen. My period has started today and I have the busiest week I've had in a LONG time this week, so I'm in alot of pain, and extremely stressed 🙃 so honestly this next week food wise is just about doing the best I can, while also giving myself a little grace. My periods make me feel so so ill, sometimes it's just about trying to eat whatever sounds possible to me at the time. Yesterday? I had left over prawn and pea spaghetti for breakfast and then I ate 6 lemon and white chocolate cookies. Not all in one sitting, it took 3 attempts over many hours, but honestly it was the only thing that remotely sounded possible to me. Definetly not the best choice but it was better than me not eating at all. You'll be glad to know that today is looking alot healthier because my wonderful partner is cooking for us and then we are eating out this evening where I can choose something good. I guess the point I'm making is that while sometimes I don't always eat the right things, I am comforted by the fact that I don't have the same drives to do it as before, I wasn't craving cookies yesterday, I just needed to eat. It'll be interesting to see what the scales say after my period has ended but honestly I just need to survive this week! 😂😂

Wish me luck 🤞

09/06/2025

The scales finally let up this week after two maintains with a 3.5lb loss. This brings me to the point I've been dreading, 15st 7lbs. I'm not sure how I'm going to react when I see 15st 6lbs and I'm saying when, because I definetly think I'll see it and I've accepted that the scales might be able to go lower than 15st 7 for me 😂😂.

Ideally, I'd still like to get a couple more stone off, but I'm trying to relax a little so that I can mentally process this next chapter. I've done really well and I've done the first leg of this journey now, the really important leg, the one that gets me to a healthier me. This next leg is still about health, but it's also about accepting myself and finding the spot where I can honestly say I'm happy with how I am. The next little bit is uncharted waters but I think I'm ready. Only one way to find out 😂 I'm not sure what I'm expecting to happen when I see 15st 6, something along the lines of the world splitting in two 😂 but it's a necessary ceiling for me to break.

Onwards and downwards we go 😬😬🥴😅

02/06/2025

Morning 🙌

Today and last Monday saw two frustrating maintains. I'm glad that they are maintains and not gains, however, my weight has fluctuated so much between these two weeks between 15st 13 and 15st 7, but I think this is all hormonal. Before my surgery I had period issues, and I was told with weight loss they would magically get better, and they haven't, but the problem is if I go back to the doctors they will still probably not take me seriously. It's really frustrating because the level of pain I experience isn't normal and I suffer through my entire cycle. Yesterday morning I was 15st 7 and this morning I'm 15st 10.5, I can't possibly gain 3.5lbs overnight, it's all fluid retention etc, it's so frustrating.

However, i think I'm still doing much better food and protein wise and so that's what I'm trying to focus on. I've also been swimming a couple of times and I am starting to include workouts. I took measurements for the first time since my surgery too and I've lost several inches from everywhere including over 10 inches off my waist! I couldn't believe that one 😂🙌 So lots of positives and let's hope my body decides to behave over the next couple of weeks 🤞🤞

19/05/2025

Hey guys,

I am officially 6 months post op! Time really flies. I'd love to say I'm completely used to my new stomach by now, but honestly it's a wild ride and I am still getting caught out with my restriction and occassional attempts to eat bits I know I shouldn't and then feeling ill 🤦‍♀️ However, I didn't post last week due to my period being particularly brutal, but I'm back now and I'm 4lbs down this week, bringing my 6 month weighloss to 5st 6lbs in total.

Mentally I am doing alot better, but I have been addressing a problem I didn't expect... fear of weighloss 😂 A couple of years back I got down to 15st 7lbs and that is the lowest I've weighed in about 8/9 years, I'm now only 3.5lbs away from that again and I'm fairly confident of hitting it soon. I guess it's the fact it's been so long since I knew myself at a weight lower than that and its hard to explain if you're not experiencing it, but change is scary, big change over relatively little time too.

I am having to get to know a whole new me, in mind, spirit and body, discovering curves and bones I didn't know I had and it can be really exhausting trying to keep up and accept all these changes. None of my old comfort clothes fit me and I can experiment with new looks and be braver with my figure, but it's alot! I feel like a teen again trying to figure out what works and what doesn't and body dismorphia is real 😭. I think being so close to that 15st 7lbs made me drag my feet a little and in a way sometimes having an extra snack or two to sabotage, because below that point is completely new territory for me and I needed time to just get in the right head space to face that. Not that my sabotaging stopped the weightloss 😂 it seems to be very difficult for me to gain. I am getting there though and I am mindfully now addressing when I'm trying to sabotage the losses and I am trying to be kind to myself.

This weeks loss is the biggest in about 2 months so I know I'm turning a corner with this now and I'm gonna try and go slow and steady through this new me. I am trying to consistently make the active choice to continue with the weight loss with equal excitement and nerves, but this has been a curveball I wasn't anticipating.

Onwards and downwards 💪😅

07/05/2025

Hi guys! It's been a minute hasn't it 🤣 it's currently 26 weeks post op and I'm now down 5st 1lb (on Monday). Although I stepped on the scales today because I just felt lighter, and I'm already down 3lbs this week and I've hit the 15st bracket!!!

I had a bit of a rubbish month as you can see from the last 4 weeks of the original weight tracker. I was very very ill and weightloss had to take a backseat, BUT this week I'm back and excited to continue 😁😁 I'm having so many non-scale victories now and not sure if you noticed but my BMI is now 39.9 which means I've knocked off over 10 BMI points and now I'm also down an obesity category. If you didn't know there are 3 obsese categories and I'm now out of the 3rd one and into the 2nd. Another 10 BMI point and I'll be in the 'overweight' category. That would be insane! Gonna give it a good shot though 😁

Hope everyone has been doing well and I'm glad to be back 😁😁🥳✨️

Let's go 💪

24/03/2025

Week 18 post op!

You may have noticed I didn't post last week. After my period, we were really ill with slapped cheek and we had just gotten home from Scotland and essentially we were knackered. I also experienced half a lb gain last week and I wasn't ready to sit down and figure that out.

Not to worry though because even though the previous 2 weeks have had no result, this week I lost 8.5lbs! Just wow! This just proves to me that I didn't need to doubt myself and that my body was just fighting off the illness and now that it has, I've shedded all that weight. This actually brings me closer to being in the 15st bracket than the top of the 16st bracket which is nuts. I'm excited to see what happens next week but I have to say this weigh in has been a relief and really pleasant surprise when ive needed it the most.

I wish you all a wonderful week and some pleasant surprises of your own 😁

10/03/2025

4 months post op!

What a 4 months it has been. It would be nice to celebrate the occasion with a loss, but today I have had my first maintain. Am I worried? No!

This last week I've had my period which apart from the amount of pain, has been fairly normal in blood amount and cycle length so a massive win on that front if that continues to happen!

Me and my partner have also been struck down by fifths disease/ slapped cheek and we are incredibly ill today. I almost didn't even weigh. Earlier in the week before the symptoms kicked in I was down a lb, but my body has been retaining fluids and I've had a fever for the last 3 days. Today all my joints are painful and the hell continues 😪 I'd never even heard of this illness but I doubt we will forget it.

So, yes it's a maintain, but I'm ill and my body needs to respond how it needs to respond. Sometimes weighing yourself just isn't appropriate, especially when you're ill. I have weighed but only to keep the documentation going correctly, but honestly I could have gained this week and not worried. Gotta give yourself some grace where it's due, and I am greatful that I have a body that is able to fight this disease even if it needs a couple lbs of water to do it.

I hope everyone else is having a good week and we have a Scotland trip this weekend, so let's pray we are all well for that 🙏 Thanks guys ❤️😷

03/03/2025

This week has flown! I'm 15 weeks post op and this week I lost 2lbs.

We have spontaneously decided to move house this week which has caused some disturbance 😂 I've also started my period, which I had suspected last week. A 33 day cycle is really strangely healthy for me, which is a really positive sign! However, did you know that woman can gain up to about 5lbs while on their period? Just from the blood and retained water etc needed for the period. As a woman you are the lightest in your cycle the day your period ends. So, knowing I was on my period and definetly feeling the bloating and overall just feeling heavier, I was really surprised to see a 2lb loss this week.

Honestly if I'd seen a gain this week I would have been okay with it, because I'm not going to pull myself down over something natural occurring in my body. The further out I get from surgery the less likely I am to see bigger weight losses so weeks like this I might ocassionally get gains which aren't true gains.

We are litterally on 17st though so I'm really excited about the possibility of being in the 16st bracket next week potentially! We shall see 😁😁

24/02/2025

Week 14 has been wild!

I've lost 3lbs this week bringing me to just over the 4st loss and I've knocked exactly 10 points off my BMI 🥳

Why has it been wild? Well... towards the end of this week the scales were suggesting I'd actually put on weight, and the scales all week have been up and down, basically all over the place. I was really nervous about weigh in today, but suddenly I've dropped 3lbs. I'm not complaining but wow what a week 😂 I have been feeling quite crampy and just generally 'heavy' in the uterus department, I feel like my hormones have been having a party too. It's meant this week while I've been under incredible stress from my uni work and the kids have been off school, I've second guessed everything I've put in my mouth and worried about it 😅 🤦‍♀️ I eventually came to the conclusion that maybe, just maybe my cycle is regulating and the big changes I'm seeing is due to my body getting ready for my period. I'm currently on day 28 of my cycle which for 'normal' women means the start of their period but it hasn't meant the start of mine for at least 10 years as my cycles can be anywhere between like 35 and 80 days. So who knows really 😂

You'll be happy to know I have calmed down and reasoned with myself, I've gotten much better at that lately, but I think it was the added stress of my studying and the kids that boiled everything over. I'm human, it happens 😂

Anyway, after then the surprise 3lbs loss, there's a real possibility of maybe even getting into the 16st bracket next week which is wild! I've not seen the 16s in about 2 years, the lowest weight I've been in the last 8 years was 15st 7lbs for reference, so that will be a momentous victory WHEN I get there. Speaking it into existence 😂

I hope everyone had a good week and will join me in prioritising being kind to ones self in this next week 😌

17/02/2025

I'm 13 weeks post op!

This last week flew and towards the end of the week I've gotten out of my depression for the most part 🥳 I think I've eaten better this week but I have had some things I probably shouldn't have and I lost 1lb. I had my appointment with my bariatric team on Wednesday and she was really happy with my progress, she thinks I've lost 17% of my excess weight, but maths isn't mathing here. I think it's more around the 25% mark as on my app I'm 35% to my goal. In 3 months though I shall take 17%!

I feel ready to draw a line today, really watch what I'm eating and drinking (valentines cocktails 🤦‍♀️) and it's the February half term so I need to get us all out walking, especially the boys. I've got ALOT on, but I'm actually proud of myself because I am actively working on things at the moment instead of just putting it out of sight. I'm in my last year of a science undergraduate degree and I've got my dissertation along with another module. It's so stressful 😭. There aren't enough hours in the day to study it feels. The boys school have all sorts of events coming up too and generally gotta organise my youngest birthday and other seasonal events.

Sometimes I feel like I'm in a baseball cage just batting away everything thrown at me all the time. The pace of life is ridiculous 😂 As soon as I sign one thing another letter appears etc. Anyway, everything will be okay as long as I keep batting away and this week is going to be a good week! Say it with me, THIS WILL BE A GOOD WEEK!

10/02/2025

Bit later than I'd planned to write this but I'm 3 months post op now!

I'm 2.5lbs down this week but even though that sounds good, I know in my heart this week I've not achieved this the right way. I've not eaten properly at all, sometimes not at all, and a couple of occasions I've eaten the complete wrong things. I've had an extremely bad mental health week though so I'm not going to dwell on it and pick apart the whys. All I can say is hopefully this week is going to be healthier and next Monday we shall see another loss and I'll feel like I've deserved it and done my body proud. I do have a face to face appointment with my team on Wednesday though and first bloods since my surgery. I'm nervous about what they are going to say about my progress and even more nervous for the blood results. I am hoping seeing the team will also inspire me and reboot me. Bad mental health weeks are just going to happen, and I'm battling so very hard, and so hopefully I shall be okay for the most part over the next couple of days. A reminder to everyone that s**t happens, but just keep plodding on and eventually everything will be okay. It's possible we could get really close to the 4st loss mark next week which is exciting and the next stone boundary is also in full countdown 😀

Here's to a better week!

03/02/2025

It's that time again! 11 weeks post op! Time is just flying. ✨️

This week, I had my period which finished two days ago. I had suspected once that had finished I may see a larger weight drop and that's pretty much exactly what happened. I'm down 4.5lbs this week, which I'm really happy about and pleasantly surprised with.

This means since my surgery I have lost 50lbs exactly in total now with a loss of 3st 8lbs. It also means that according to my 'progress' bar I'm a 1/3 to my target now, which I've put at 10st 7lbs, so there's a long way to go, but I'm very happy with the progress. It's worth noting that this target weight isn't in the 'healthy' BMI range, but it's very close and if I ever get close to my target I can always re evaluate how much further I'd like to go, but we are a good 7 or so stone away from having to consider that.

I am though, feeling a little pinch from my muscles in places, weirdly my back and around my hips have been pretty achy, now I'm not sure what this is yet, but it feels muscular. So what I'm saying is that weight training is starting this week properly, I'd been doing little bits here and there, but now I feel is the right time to go a little harder at it. The plan is to build up to a good weight dumbell and then return to my gym classes.

I got this and thank you to those who are continuing to support me 😁 Have a great week and I will return this time next week. ✨️❤️

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