Hello all Or anyone who might read my posts.... I have been struggling to lose weight even with the surgery. I tend to have stalls almost every week for weeks. I am 7 weeks out and so close to onederland its not funny. I can even taste it (no pun intended) I struggled pretty bad over the holidays, office parties and food and cookies and treats, OH MY! Thank god my sleeve does not like sweets too much so I have been throwing up a lot lately. A LOT! we went out to dinner for Christmas Eve and I ended up in the bathroom sick... then we went to dinner two days ago and I think I had my first dumping syndrome attack or something. the minute I was done eating I felt instantly sick to my stomach, I knew I had to throw up. We went shopping right after and I ended up in 2 bathrooms throwing up, Diarrhea, chills, shakes, sweats, you name it I had it. The good news is, I lost 3 pounds the next day...however that was yesterday and we went to visit our Italian side of the family and again cookies and italian pastries..I throw up all the way home, but this morning I was a pound heavier. UGH. I am now 202.4 I was 201.4 yesterday...SO CLOSE to onederland!! So today I have tried hard to get my head away from food and think about how good it is going to taste to be under 200. I'm praying this happens by new years, but again the dreaded period is approaching and so is New Years....But I'm seriously needing to stay away from the bad foods, I hate throwing up and its happening every day. I have a problem with eating slow, and that stinks, and I also have a problem with waiting after I eat to drink, all this makes my food come back up...I'M TRYING HARDER now! I set a timer after I eat so I know when it is safe to drink again. I'm trying to rid myself of the cookies and snacking, its so hard, I wish I could say this surgery was a cure for my eating issues but it isn't. It's up to me to do this, and damn it i am going to do this! Why did I put myself threw so much just to continue my bad eating? I think not! It feels so good to feel my bones again, when I lay down I can feel my hip bone, and ribs and shoulder blades, so cool.

I am walking but I know I need to step up even my exercise plan. And I plan to! we just put a bid on a house, so thats scary not sure we will get it since there were 4 bids on this house. if its meant to be it will be. I'm going to try to attach a picture of my face, before surgery and after, and one day I will be brave enough to do a body shot. I still wear the clothes I wore since before surgery, they are getting big, but for some reason I can't bring myself to try on smaller clothes, I don't know why....anyway, Here's hoping you all are doing well and that the coming year we all reach our goals...my tiny good is Onederland! :-) by the way if my picture uploads...can you see a difference? not sure if I can... stats are Starting weight 244, weight at surgery 218, current weight 202.4