feedyoureye

I have lost all the regain and a few more, so I am at the high end of my "bounce" range-goal! Thanks!

Someone elses picture is attached to my signature line now.... and mine is missing there... you must be having a nightmare! (Marty S is the owner of the picture....) Kim, feedyoureye

Alex has put me in the lapband section.... I like the colors, but never had a lapband!

They are changing it over tonight. The VST forum will largely be the same, but there will be other parts of the site dedicated to other types of surgery, and a place we can all talk together as well.

The pre pro-op helps shrink the liver and prove to the doctor that you can follow directions. Sucks I know.... but you will look back soon enough, and it will be just a blip on the radar, and your ticker will show all that weight flying off.... try to set your mind to something else, read, TV, hand work, gardening....take your measurements now, you will love having them when the scale slows down now and then....

Our local Y also offers belly dance classes! So fun, and size/age does not matter.

I bought the Brown sugar... I use it to make a few things, mostly baked goods.... I love salted caramel and the chocolate really does taste chocolaty!

okey dokey!

Love my One.

Drink more water... this too will pass...

I eat everything, and have paid time and time again for doing it. I'm working with moderation.... not always with a small m! How about a tiny little nicey nicey fat free/sugar free frozen soft serve yogurt.... with a giant glob of real hot fudge with almonds on top? I remember licking potato chips at about three weeks out.... I too, eat 2nd class and track on MFP. (TGF the sleeve!!)

Thats good, I buy mine at Smart and Final, $4.99 ...or less if you buy 6 at a time. (mixed is fine)

MFP really helps me to keep on track. No tracking? Weight gain! I also gained 22 pounds over around a 9 month period... I just got it back off and it took me 5 months! I used the 5:2....You can do it! Protein first, no Water with meals, and get moving girl.... and oh yes... hang out here for support! So true!

^^^ What Clk said ^^^ yOu have done great, and just take it easy, you can get back on track soon.

Thanks! When you have your Reply to this topic window open to type in, at the bottom right there is a button called "More Reply Options" push this, you will then see "Attach Files" on the bottom left side with an image of a paper clip. First choose/select your photo from your computer, then select "attach this file" Add other photos if you wish in the same way. Then press "Add Reply" which is center bottom of your message window.... or you can preview post as well to just take a look at it before you decided to post it.

But sometimes you have to post a pic! This is my dance class.... dress up day! ....i have "tattoos" on my face, and look like I am missing my teeth or something in this photo~ dork! It is so much fun.... dancing tonight and on friday.

Developing the strength to get back on the 5:2 in the face of: "I already missed a fast, Ill just miss one more and get back later" "I"ll start new on monday"... "I don't feel like it today".... dinner dates, visiting guest dinners at home, illness, vacations, holiday season..... is so vital! It seems the body forgives these events if we get back to following the plan pretty soon. I know in the pre-sleeve days (and part of the sleeve days too!) Those kinds of events threw me off the track of the many diet plans I was following... mostly terminally. Then I would go looking for a new plan where I was not "tempted" to quit. The sleeve really helps slow that process of regain down enough to get back on plan without as much damage. And the 5:2 helps even more my normalizing our feast days better than some other plans. The more/quicker we get back to fast day after deviations, the more this will be the habit, The more this will be normal life. Good work getting back on that 5:2 and your workout day! Also, I'm old and don't text that much, what is FWB? I guessing some kind of Bootie call?.....Friend with benefits? got it.....

For me, the loss and gain cycle were such a fragile thing (not quite as much now, but yes, it could be) Injury, long term guests-change in company, travel, emotional cycling... after I had gained the 16 pounds (factors were the above) I started doing things "right" back on the scale, writing all food down, and gained 6 more pounds. I was trying different eating plans, looking for something that would work...the first being TDEE eating with added weight lifting... thats where i gained the 6 pounds, freaked out and then tried phase one Southbeach... I lost 4-5 pounds there, not quickly.... then I started the 5:2 and finally got the numbers going in the right direction again....it also took staying away from the gym for 4 months, going to sports medicine docs and physical therapests for a while to get me back to the gym.... I find I am doing OK with a week or 10 days of "vacation" eating patterns, with a reduced fasting sched, and back on the wagon right away... Thank goodness!!!!! but it has been a very fragile thing, this weight loss........

We can use this one... I walked today, 3.13 miles. I know thats not as much as is recommended, (closer to 5 miles-10,000 steps) but it seems to work for me. I do that much about 3 sometimes 4 times a week. I go with a group on tuesdays and thursdays from my day program. About 7-11 of us go walking in the neighborhood, sometimes to a nearby mall, sometimes I make them birdwatch!

Congratulations! That is so great to hear. I just hit goal today... and won't mind if I lose 5 as well... feels great huh?!

I really don't recommend it to people under a year out. You can see the program that started it all here: http://leangainsguide.com/diet/igf-1-and-fasting/

I am definitely colder now, and really like it. I hate being hot. I would much rather put on another layer than take on off! Now I am more of a snuggler!

I use the 5:2 method... but if what you are doing is working, I say stay with it! Later on down the road if things slow down or stop before you want them to, check into the 5:2. Its a two day a week reduced calorie fast (500cals) regular eating the other days (I eat around 1200-1500 a day on the normal days) I have gotten off over 20 pounds that way.

Drum roll!!! I am now (at this very minute, cant speak for tomorrow...) below 170... that has been my long term goal. Chocolate chips and all! Im still not "normal" on the one sized fits all bmi charts, but really close. Im planning on creating a good bounce range so I should be able to get there some time! Anyway, happy dance! I must be on the same wave length... I took one cup of pumpkin, two egg whites and some torrani SF brown sugar and cinnamon syrup, ground ginger, nutmeg and salt, poured it into a large pam sprayed cup, covered and microwaved about 5 minutes.... giant single serving of pumpkin "pie" I drained it a bit, its wattery, I topped with chopped walnuts and cool whip free.... breakfast. Something about November shouts pumpkin! You can always make a pumpkin "mug cake" and freeze the rest of the pumpkin....