Yasman

Hi guys! My surgery is on Monday-two days' time- at long last. Looking forward to hearing your stories and hopefully building a fla network. Yasman

Hi @sarahicorn, I'm pretty sure its an open group, since there is a member who joins us for support (he lost 90 lbs. on his own) even though he has not had weight loss surgery. Come join!

great job, great photos! Great spunk.

Hey everyone I'm so impressed with all of your results. You're doing great!

I had a towel moment yesterday at the pool. My towels (large) have been hanging off me gaping open for years. Yesterday, I noticed that the wrap around my breasts left extra, folded over and the folded over part dropped down and stayed both folded and covered the whole way down. It has been a long time since I measured inches lost but I guess its time... the weight loss has stabilized for a while now (not happy about that plateau) but clearly the body has been reshaping itself during this time. Yay!

Hi. I'm really stymied, staying at the same weight for many weeks now. Jan 5 307 Jan 12 309 Jan 19 307 Jan 25 307 Something's gotta give. Some how. Some day.

hi, Thanks susan for doing this for us again. cw is 307 goal for valtentine's day is 10 down, 297. Let's hope I make more progress than I did in the last one.

i am very late posting my last weight for thi challenge... 307. I'd like to join the valentine's challenge too.

I'm glad you didn't let her get away with it. The nerve of some people.

Congratulations! You look fabulous.

305.3 today

Yes. Musclegen makes an unflavored powder called GENEPRO which one tablespoon equals 30g of protein. You can mix it with yogurt, pudding, uncarbonated drinks (I tried it in diet coke one day and it was like a neverending fountain of foam. NOT a good idea...). It's great in coffee and sweet tea, I do it all the time. You can search for Genepro on Amazon.com and if you're a prime member you don't have to pay for the shipping.

306.9 this week.

sorry for the late weigh in. Friday's weight was 308.

Hey Kindle thank you for posting those. Great job! You look terrific. I'm digging the muscles... did you do a lot of weightlifting or strength training... ive mostly been focusing on cardio because that's what i enjoy but some definition would be nice.

312.8. really like pulling teeth trying to both lose weight and then keep it in that new low area. i just keep bouncing...

if you look the various Chinese food dishes up for their caloric values you may find that even a small portion of something benign like chicken and Broccoli will be at or above that 700-900 mark for just the one meal.

i second the recommendation for Genepro. I also get it on amazon.

308.4

I have heard of smoothe move tea on this board on another post/thread but what I don't know is where I can buy it. Can anyone offer some help there?

@@lsereno what is "5:2"?

Well, what I started with , while significantly less than I ever would have put on my plate before sleeve surgery, was a much fuller plate than yours. That said, what I ended with arguably looked exactly the same as what I started with. I was able to eat 1 (of 2) piece of ham, one bite of mashed potatoes, none of the turkey, 1-2 bites of green bean casserole, and about 2 ounces of sweet potato. At the end, I honestly could hardly tell myself what I had eaten vs what I hadn't. And the strange/fun fact thing was the whole time everyone else was eating, I was sitting there with a full plate not ogling what I could not eat. It was just "stuff" sitting there, of virtually no interest to me. Chalk up a win for sleeve surgery!

have you discussed what's happening with your doctor? I wonder if you may be a candidate for an additional surgery. I'm sorry that you are feeling afraid, but I can relate. I'm still fairly new to this, about 4 months post op and I've lost 47-49 lbs depending on which day I'm measuring with the scale. I seem to be stuck in this zone now for a couple months (not as frustrating as 2 years i bet) and I am constantly asking myself if maybe my verticla sleeve has stretched out or something else is going wrong. I can't remember if I did my introduction to this thread yet so here goes. Highest known weight 367 starting weight (at sleeve) 357 current weight 308.9-310 goal weight 160 I've been enjoying reading this thread and just want to shout out to everyone, more power to you! If they say a journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step, I say dudes and dudettes, you are so courageous and I admire you for taking the first step!

I'm at 4 months out and just in the past two weeks have noticed that what was noticeable (but normal for me because of medication i'm on) hairloss has ramped upinto actual hanks of hair coming out at time. I try to minimize my handling of the hair as much as possible, hopefully limiting how much will be coming out. I am now going to go get some biotin i hadn't heard of that until I read this post. I Have had a whole WHOLE lot of hair my entire life so i'm hoping that I have the bandwidth for this kind of hairloss for the time being.

today's weigh-in: 310.0 i have been really having trouble with hitting a new low weight and then bouncing up for a week-10 days before returning to a lower end of the spectrum number. makes me feel sort of like if a weigh-in is on the low end that i'm cheating somehow.... and there's the "water" weight issue of carrying around everything you ate for several days before eliminating... could just wish to eliminate immediately prior to weigh-in but of course that doesn't happen! Happy holidays to all and good work on the challenge. I've seen so many people reaching onederland or twonederland on this and the hallowe'en challenge that its now my new personal goal.