 Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and a very special welcome. If you're new here, my name is Jen. I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach and it's Friday, so it's wing and day. I am officially just over two weeks post-op from plastic surgery. We know I had quite a big gain upon returning from plastic surgery, which of course is to be expected. But what has happened since then? So this is going to be an interesting way in. So if you're excited, give this video a big thumbs up. Subscribe if you're not because I do a way in every Friday and I do upload five videos every single week. Don't forget to check out the description box down below where you will find nutrition coaching. I highly, highly recommend personalized macros and calories. This is how I've lost 140 pounds as well as one-on-one coaching. If you would like to chat with me directly, links, discounts to my favorite healthy things are also down in that description box. So let's talk about my week, my way in, and the WW workshop topic. Like I mentioned, I am just over two weeks post-op and let me just tell you, it feels like it's been two years. My friend Amy who had plastic surgery with me and I were just having this conversation today on how we feel like it has been a really, really long two weeks. I just have a feeling this is going to be a really, really long recovery overall because I have several more weeks, if not months before I am fully recovered. My back feels great. There's not a lot of pain with my back. There's a little bit of sensitivity on the incision line, but overall my back is the least of my worries. Where I have not pain but the most uncomfortable feeling is in my chest. There's still a lot of pressure in my chest. My implants are still sitting really, really high. So they feel like they're under my armpits a lot of the time right up at my collarbone and it feels like someone's on the inside just pushing as hard as they can on my skin which is absolutely normal. In fact, it can take months for your implants to drop into place. So this is just going to be my life for a while. So I've been definitely taking it easy. I find if I do too much or I carry too much weight, I'm not supposed to lift really more than a pound or two for a few weeks. I definitely get that really heavy sensation in my chest. Kind of the swelling and the the sign that I've overdone it. So I've been spending a lot of time just relaxing and just enjoying being at home. I actually hadn't left my house for over a week since I returned home. I wasn't able to drive for the first couple weeks post-op. So I spent a lot of time on the couch at home which was fine. I don't relax a lot as you guys know. I'm very busy. I'm very active. So this is definitely a change of pace for me, but it is something that is absolutely necessary for me to recover quickly and to get the best results from my plastic surgery. So it's definitely been a week. It's definitely been a really long week. I've been able to get back on track. I did do a grocery haul this last week and I have another one coming for you tomorrow where I just purchased food that was easy and convenient yet helped me get in my protein. I've been eating lots of fruits and vegetables, drinking lots of water, just trying to get back to normal so to speak when it comes to eating. And now that I have control over the food that I'm eating, it definitely makes that much, much easier. So basically just getting back to as normal as possible post-op. But before I share with you my weigh-in, let's chat a little bit about this week's WW workshop topic. It's another good one. And this is how to flip the script on self-doubt. We are 100% absolutely our worst critics. The things that we say to ourselves we probably would never say to a friend, family member, or loved one. So we need to learn how to flip that script and turn those negative thoughts, negative self-talk into positive self-talk which leads to positive results in our weight loss journey. Try this. Next time the worst case scenario enters the chat, call it out. There I go again thinking I can't do this. I'm going to fail. Pull a 180 with your thoughts and play out the alternative. If you don't fail, what's the best that could happen? What does success look like? Where does it take you? How do you feel and what are you doing? Zero in on the actions that made you successful. Meal prepping on the weekends, connecting with others at a workshop, going for a walk, most days before work. Then connect to here and now and the future. Of those actions, what's the one thing you're already doing and how can you keep it up? And what's something you can start doing and what will be your first step? You really just have to believe in yourself and you have to believe that you can succeed. And remember, it's not going to be sunshine and roses and unicorns all the time. There's a lot of ups and downs in a weight loss journey. Sometimes we're killing it. Sometimes we're not. And we have to give ourselves grace and know that we're not going to be perfect. As I always say, consistency over perfection is what actually leads to long-term sustainable weight loss. Start practicing what you're doing right. Start focusing on the things that you're doing right and the areas where you can make some improvements, talk to yourself and figure out what small steps you can take to improve. Really think more about the best case scenario versus the worst case scenario. If I do this, what happens here? That's best case versus if I do this, this is the worst case scenario. Spin that around, flip that script and make it a positive weight loss journey rather than a self-doubt negative self-criticizing weight loss journey. And as always, I want to share three fast facts from Weight Watchers with you. Number one, your brain is wired to protect you. This can make you jump to the worst possible conclusion without much evidence to back it up. Number two, as a result, you may doubt your ability to succeed, decreasing the chance that you'll even try. And number three, shifting your focus to the best case scenario can increase your confidence, allowing you to identify behaviors that help reach your goals. Again, focus on the things you do right and keep doing them. Don't focus on the little mistakes that you make, the fact that you went off track this last weekend, maybe the scale is not moving at the pace you want it to move. How about focusing on all the positive things that are changing? Maybe there's changes in your body, NSVs, non-scale victories, or maybe your relationship with food is getting better and better as the weeks go by. The more we focus on the positive, the more successful we're going to be. So I really like this whole series about how we talk to ourselves during our weight loss journey because mindset plays a big part in our success. Sure, food matters, exercise matters, water matters, all of that matters, but how we feel and how we talk to ourselves and our mindset maybe even matters a little bit more. So I'm really excited to see what weight, what Weight Watchers has in store for us for the next few weeks worth of this, how to take care of yourself, how to talk to yourself, better series. Now let's go ahead and jump into my weigh-in. Like I shared when I returned home from plastic surgery, I was up about five pounds and at the end of a week after returning home or just shy of a week, I was still up about 4.6 pounds. I also mentioned that I was on my cycle, so I'm sure that played a part in it. As I passed the two-week post-op mark, I still have a lot of swelling. I have swelling in my back, I have swelling everywhere. I'm not as SpongeBob-esque, but I still have quite a bit of swelling in my abdomen and I kept telling my husband, I have love handles and I don't have love handles. I just have some swelling in the love handle area and I typically don't have that, which is to be expected. I mean I'm only two weeks post-op and I have to keep reminding myself of that. But with that being said, the scale has steadily decreased all week, which I kind of expected as the swelling went down, as my cycle finished, as my body kind of starts getting back to normal. So when I stepped on the scale this morning, I am actually right back to where I was prior to going to plastic surgery, literally to the ounce. I'll go ahead and put up here on the screen how much I lost this week, my current weight, and how much I have lost total. So I'm basically right back to where I was prior to plastic surgery and that's really good news for me. Considering I do still have some swelling, I'm completely inactive. I mean, I would classify myself as absolutely sedentary because I don't do anything. I mean, I'm not wearing my Apple Watch, so I don't know how many steps I'm getting, but I bet you it's maybe two to three thousand per day. I'm not getting a lot of steps, which I can't be getting a lot of steps at this part of my recovery, but considering everything, I feel really good that the weight has come off. I'm right back to normal and I anticipate as the recovery process comes along, as I de-swell a little bit, I probably will continue to maybe lose a little bit of weight. My big concern is losing all of my lean muscle. I've talked about this a lot and I know that it's just not going to go away in a day, but weeks and weeks of not being active, there is bound to be a little bit of lean muscle loss, which is going to show up as weight loss on the scale, which is not the kind of weight loss that I'm interested in. So I'm really going to focus on doing my best to maybe maintain my weight rather than having it drop and as soon as I am clear to walk, which is pretty much the only exercise I'll be able to do for several weeks. It is summer here. It's beautiful here, so I plan on getting out and taking advantage of all of these walking trails in my community, but I'm just waiting for release from my surgeon, which I'm betting is probably going to be several weeks out. So considering everything, I'm really happy that I'm right back to where I was prior to going to surgery. And on a side note, they only removed about a pound, pound and a half of skin from my back and then I had implants put in. So the weight loss from surgery is probably null and it probably ends up balancing out between the skin on my back and the implant. So I wasn't expecting weight loss from surgery necessarily. So like I said, I feel pretty good about where I am and how things are progressing. I want to hear from you guys. How was your week? How was your weigh-in? What do you think about this flipping the script and turning negative thoughts into positive thoughts? And do you think that'll help you on your journey? Let me know everything down in the comments. And if you enjoyed today's video, give it a big huge thumbs up. Subscribe if you're not because I do a weigh-in every Friday and I do upload five videos every single week. Don't forget to check out the description box for nutrition coaching, links and discounts to my favorite things, and of course come and join our Facebook group. We'd love to have you. Happy Friday, friends. Happy weekend and I'll see you in tomorrow's grocery haul. Bye.