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Now is the time to get back on the horse. I really had to get to the point where it was real to me that I needed to watch what I eat and get moving forever. I really just wanted to be normal and not have to do anything special except "be myself" and follow my desires and not gain the wight back. I did gain 22 pounds back without even seeing myself doing it. I just lived life and gained 22 pounds. I then realized I had to watch everything I ate.... I don't mean I can never have things the I like to eat... I really just have to watch it, I write everything down I eat, not mater if its healthy or crap... I write it down, try to get in my protein, vitimins, water and exercise. I also am working on getting more sleep. Seriously, when people say you need a lifestyle change, they wern't kidding. How much do you want to live longer? Healthier? Be there for your kids and see the world? Enjoy life? Some days I still feel that little twinge that I want to eat the whole box of donuts... and sometimes I eat one... and write it down in MFP. I think writing it down takes some of the romance out of eating it. Its harder for me to see it as my lover if I reduce it to calories and protein and saturated fat. I try and keep the fridge full of snacks I can eat. All kinds, sweet, protein, crunchy, smooth.... salty... I dont want to be caught with a box of cookies when Im down... I will dig in. But if I have SF fudge bars, or 100 cal yogurts, or SF pudding, or oatmeal or something that hits the spot without taking a huge bite out of my calorie allotment, and doesn't wake up my sugar monster... I can make it through the day. Be prepared....for the long haul. I LOVE being at goal.It took me three years to get there. I still fight for it on many days... It is worth it. Good luck to you all.

Hi guys, Wanda, cant wait to hear about the book, really , southbeach was one of the best programs going when I was fat. I still use parts of it daily. I might be willing to do a bootcamp if it was not toooo horrible. I have managed two days of fasting this week... feel the desire and ability to follow through a little more than in the recent past... Did not lose any, but am at the pretty low part of the "bounce". Boy, I can really see clearly how stress brings on hunger... At least I can see it! I am imagining myself 5 pounds lower... I think Sheryl is helping me to believe I can do it... I really just have to get over my resistance to getting back on track... I have been just doing what I need to barely stay at the top of my bounce range. Some great veggies coming to the markets is a good incentive for me to eat better.... Swiz, love the "thin suit" thing... sometimes I feel like Im wearing one too... Hope you all have a nice moms day, Im going to a family potluck... they are asking me to bring something they have never eaten before....(I like to make Indian and such) Hope Florinda is doing well... Sent LauraVen a note, but nothing back yet....

For dinners most nights I have a big bowl of home made veggie soup with some kind of fake meat in it for protein... or a big bowl of some kind of veggie stir fry , fruit and veggie salad or veggie baked casserole. I almost always have home made fat free pudding with peanut butter or dark chocolate chips on top for desert. I might have a fat free greek yogurt with fruit or nuts mixed in for breakfast, and some kind of left overs for lunch. What ever I eat, I write it down in MFP. 5 days a week I eat tp stay in the guidelines of saturated fats, carbs and protein... not always perfectly... between 1200-1500 cals depending on exercise... one/two days a week I try to stay under 600 cals (the 5:2). I eat what I like, and I find if I cook it myself, I can eat much better then prefixed. I do like wheat crackers with low fat cottage cheese as a snack. I have to watch the crackers, or I will eat too many at a sitting. This is a go too for protein. I can eat quite a bit... so as my ability to eat more developed, I added more low cal veggies to my meals... cooked or raw.

Welcome and congratulations on the magnificent weight loss. We are here for you if you need us.

My center has one every month...I went once early on... mostly RNY, but may be different now... I actually keep putting it on my calendar, then not going. I certainly would not want to host one... too much on my plate now... but really enjoy and get lots of value from hooking up with you guys! I don't really know anyone here who has had the sleeve... Diva is from my town, but have only meet up with her once in person. If I wanted to, I guess I would probably be out there more.

At my three year checkup, they said EAT MORE PROTEIN. I really lost a lot too... I probably do not eat enough protein....

G'Day all, fasting today.... making up for extra lovely eating this last few days... Well /REALLY try and fast on ths as well...twice a week for a change! I hear some happiness here... LOVE THAT!

have loads of fun Coops!

I agree, track everything... even if its junk. especially if its junk. Start there. I used the 5:2 to get off 22 pounds I regained... and to stay at maintinance. Do reach your protein goals and water.... that will help so much. find out about 5:2 on the vets forum, I posted links thereto help others start out on it.its easy, and works for many vets with regain problems. Best of luck to you.

Read it all. I remember hearing about something like this early on...not Mexico, but getting an "elbow" in the sleeve that restricts food passing through the middle part... my doc made my sleeve bigger to help avoid this.... Best of luck to threm... I would not be happy about getting RNY... but.... it might just do the trick for them. I have just had company in town, and we have been eating out every meal. I have not gained (miracle!!!) as of this morning.... I think it might be the one day a week I have managed to do the 5:2. Glad you are getting closer to being in your new place. That will be such a relief. Poor fella! My hub is not a very good patient... I feel for you and him! Hope he feels much better at the end of the 6 weeks. Time to get off of ****creek my girl! One step at a time. Sleep does make more things possible, and even if you change one thing, you will feel better for it. You are worth it girl! We love you. Take care.

Hi Gamegirl, I totally understand. Sometimes you just have to do something else for a while! I have only been on maybe once a week for the last month... but I do sneak a look now and then... I still need to stay alert, or the numbers start to go up. Congrats on your approach to goal!

So happy your have taken the bulls by the horns and gotten back on track! Now is the time, before things really get out of hand. Good for you... you can do it!

Love your hat Georgia! Could you guys look any cuter!? I wish I was there with ya. Maybe some day. As you might tell, I have not been on the Vets forum for at least a week. I have gotten out of the habit... have been spending all my net time on the Ancestry.com site... hours a day! I know, its one thing to move a thread, but keeping the little dickins off posting is HARD to do. I put in reminders now and then, and NO ONE seems to notice. I understand, you really can't get that you don't know everything, and things will change for you soon enough when you are early out. The Vets forum should be like the zoo... you can look but don't get in the cage with the animals! Yes, we might bite! Sorry I have been out so much, just so busy with several projects... Fasted Monday... I have to say that the fast day or two a week had kept my weight in the ballpark... I have been a pound over bounce, but just went back in to the zone. Playing a little fast and loose with the guidelines lately... I have not been able to lose the 5 pounds the Doc wants to see off.. but at least still at goal. Wanda, I am so impressed you are working on a play! So cool. If you put some footage on youtube or something, let us know! Sheryl. I soooo wish I could drop 5-10! Not because of depression though.. I lost 35 pounds once from depression.. it was the only upside! Now days if I am depressed I want to eat more! Not fair! Taking a couple of days off this week to visit with friends from out of town. Denise, wish we could have met for coffee while you were in Sac, maybe next time girl. Stick with it ladies, summer is around the corner, its going to be in the 90s this week here.... Love ya!

Love Banksy! We have some in San Francisco, but he hasn't visited Sacramento yet... his work has really become a treasure! He is a pain in the a-ss some times, other times he is a lovely guy. imperfect for sure, as am I. I know he won't change.... but we learn as we go, and I hope for his sake he lets go of whatever it is that causes him to feel so threatened or entitled.... One foot in front of the other my girl. Do what you have to do, and work your way out of where you are, and to where you want to be. Best wishes from me to you... Good advice. I look like the newspaper! thin from the side, broad from the front. You could not look more cute than you do in the all black outfit! Slim, shapley, great legs and a great smile! Love it! Have you been on the host forum? There are lots of posts on how to do stuff. Glad to have you in the Vets forum... I have been a slacker the last month...lucky if I answer my own posts! I usually send a message to the poster or just leave one on the post... perhaps you have seen them...I usually say something like "Great question, as this is a vets only forum, I will move your post to another forum where anyone can answer. Come back when you reach 12 months out! Best of luck." or something like that. There is a link called Forum Management at the top of the page, press that, and choose what you want to do... like move... it will bring up a drop down list, choose what forum it should go to... and there you have it. If you have questions, just message me...

My dog wakes me up every morning about 4:30 am. She is old, and wants breakfast and needs to be let out (she now pees on the floor before scratching on the door to be let out....) I get up for her,because I may not have her much longer... but the sleep thing is really a mess. I try to get to bed earlier... but that only goes so far... I try to go back to bed, but when Im up... Im up. I take a hot bath on these mornings, and jut try to relax... I definitely have times of deep sadness, and I want to feel, but I don't want to be paralyzed by it... sleep would not solve the things I'm sad about... but might help with the stunned paralysis...

I so admire what your doing. It will give you comfort into the future that you know you did what you could for your mom, loving kindness is the best gift. I do hope your change in meds will help with your exhaustion... I was going to recommend taking your meds (food!) when your mom does. keep some good protein bars in your pocket... even if your not hungry, eat them like the medicine they are for you. I buy protein smoothies now and then when I want to get in more greens and nutrition when Im sick and dont feel like cooking. Bolthouse at Target has a good green smoothie...odwalla as well. Best of luck to you and your mom in your precious final moments.

Kathy, I'm sorry you fell, but loved your post! What a great way to love your life! Hope the sore parts feel better soon!

You weight less than me, wear a smaller size than me. I am in maintenance right now. Guys who I have known for years see me now, and their eyes bug out and they say I look great. Im sure guys do that to you as well, you are a sexy stunner. YOu do not look fat. You have an hourglass shape and a butt (im jealous) and look like a normal (way above averagel!!! ) woman... its time to start enjoying the fruits of your efforts! The way I look at it, I might like it if I lose 5 pounds... but I am in maintenance now... and thats where you really learn what normal is. Losing the 5 pounds do not make me a better person in any way. I can be casual about getting them off...if ever. To tell you the truth, maintenance for you is probably going to look exactly like what you are doing right now. You do NOT look fat to me.

Thank you Sarah, and am going to the vets forum to see what Sheryl wrote!

OK, I have been sick, and just not feeling like coming here,or much of anything else... but I'm back. I have been eating a little crazy, over by 700 cals yesterday... have been writing it down...making myself do it... Hanging around the tippy top of my bounce range. Missed two days of work and two dance classes...I figured I'd better get my butt back her to catch up before there were 100 pages between where I left off and the new end of the line. My fasting has been pretty pathetic... maybe one real day in the last 10. Thank you all for sharing. You are such real women. Love ya all! I am still working on the family tree "book" and its pretty fun. I am finding out our little renegade, ragtag, mainly agricultural salt of the earth DNA doners come from some blue blood. Of course most of them were scoundrels, warlords and a few even were beheaded and poisoned... not to mention the plague. Who needs Braveheart or the Tudors? Bit by bit I am identifying some of the photos in the family albums... some great farm shots, horses pulling plows, pulling carriages, being ridden by farm ladies and gents. Chicken coops, green houses and garden fields... What ever the family found dear. Last night my husband told me I should "get over" the idea that Im an artist... that I'm not. When he's mad at the world, he doesn't mind taking a low blow at me. I have been "on the shelf" for almost a year, however I am in a show opening tonight, and have offers of several more if I want them. My ideas/feelings are just too big for my work right now. I hope to change that soon. Learning to use the camera, my birdwatching adventures, my family history research for the book... have all just been more interesting, and i hope they will inform my new work when it comes. Only I can say when I am or am not an artist. It took me years to commit to calling my self an "artist" and not just a person who makes art or likes art, or the like... I take the profession too seriously for that...for heavens sake, Michelangelo was an artist .... it is more than just making x amount of objects, and is a way of seeing the world as well. I asked him if he thought it was a good idea to insult me in ways that makes me hate him. He sort of slowed down and went back to his business... and in a few minutes was putting on a better mood.... he does not know how to apologize in a straight forward manor. Its a shame.

Well it was my 2 year anniversary yesterday and I did hope to be at goal but it is not meant to be - I am 96% of the way there! In my innocence I did think that I might have made goal by year 1, however, a slow rate of loss soon made it evident that it would take longer. Not too disappointed though because without the sleeve I would be up on my starting weight of 263 by now I'm sure. Still ploughing through the house and sorting out the cupboards, it's amazing how many trips to the tip (rubbish tip - don't know the US translation) we have made as well as numerous trips to the charity shops. It's quite cathartic clearing out the old life to make way for the new one. Hope everyone is well. I didn't get to goal until almost year 3. Still was a sweet event. You will get there Cathy! Wohoo Girlfriend! I am so proud of you! Oh and I almost forgot: I earned a 4.0 for the entire year. That means that every single class I took I got an A in. Wow, makes me feel confident! I had hip and foot problems before WLS... they mostly went away but I promptly got bone spurs in my knee. WTF! The walking wounded... wounded by gravity and fat! At least now they don't say "Lose weight" as a remedy. Found out i have pretty significant arthritic changes in my hip. Injection today and next is physical therapy. I am pretty blue about it. It's funny, I accepted excess skin as part of the price I had to pay for the decades of obesity. I was prepared to live with it even if I couldn't have plastics. Somehow, all this joint damage (on top of two knees with no cartledge left) is just a reminder of how much I have hurt myself being so fat for so long. I will get over my pity party soon, but for right now I am grieving for the things I have lost to obesity. It is funny that I never went through these emotions while losing weight. ... I think it is just that i look so freaking normal now that sometimes I believe that I am... but it is an illusion. Doesn't matter how good you look, underneath the hood is still someone at least somewhat disabled... and my future life continues to be impacted by obesity. Holy cow girl! Your on the move now... The wheels are in motion and things can get better soon! Oh for heavens sake! That is a tragedy. I didn't go through menopause until my later 50s... and when I got WLS they said use your birth control... lots of people get preg after losing weight because of the uptake of hormones from the fat...I was 57! Sheryl, I am sure you are experiencing a mid life crisis. I said that too, not just Swizz. Everyone seems to reivaluate their lives at around age 50. I could not live out in the country. I have friends that do. Bill does. Bill's ex says she is pregnant. She is eithe or 54. She says she wants nothing from Bill. I think she is crazy to want to have a baby at her age. We are really afraid she will carry it for awhile and anything past 26 weeks they will try to save. She is going to mail him the blood tests results. So far, it's just brought Bill and me closer. He's so freaked and I just feel bad for him. What a mess. I work with adults with Downes every day,and they are larger than life individuals ! I would hate to see any of them go...but I would never pass judgement on any pregnant woman to take a pass on having a child with Downes...quite a handfull! Denise - this is fatal attraction drama! She is 54, and pregnant?! From what you have said about her, I wouldn't put it past her to falsify a blood test or even the pregnancy itself. Shoot, if she is as messed up as you have indicated, it could very well be a phantom pregnancy that her mind concocted to "keep" BIll. oy. As for me, I leave for Germany tomorrow, I have formal complaints against my leadership for HPPA violations, and I could possibly be on the west coast before the end of the month. I am filing for worker's comp, I do not yet have a job lined up in Seattle and the apartment I found requires, as they all do, proof of employment, any suggestions?

You came to the right place, as soon as you get in 200 posts you can get into the Vets forum, and join us working to get the last few pounds off, or struggling with weight regain. Really, post here and develop a group that knows who you are! Help others, that really helps me.

I went to the refrigerator case at my local health food store, and found some that are formulated not just for dairy (like many are. ) Theres an am and pm dose... I really cant say which one is best, but eating fermented foods (pickles, yogurt...) helps as well... organic non soap washed locally grown raw fruits and veggies(they have microbes on the skin that will break them down in nature), a variety of fibers....you need to feed the flora as well as establish it...

The bacteria mostly lives and works in the intestine, not the stomach, so it will be ok. It just passes through the stomach.

If you can find the host for the section your post is in, they can delete it for you. I am not the host for this section....