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You know I love and support you, Donna. I think you have an awesome will power and WI'l e just fine with whatever you choose. You know your body the best. Don't think I'm not going to still come knocking on your door. Your mom owes me a Jordan almond.

I could have written that post, Healthy! And CG is right...looking forward there is a bright future leaving all that guilt behind. Weight loss doesn't fix everything, but for me it's given me the strength and energy and confidence to tackle the other stuff.

I think it's different for everyone. My loss of appetite is not because my band is too tight. I have no trouble eating. Yesterday for dinner I had shredded pork carnitas minus the tortilla topped with guacamole, sour cream, cheese and lettuce. I ate the equivalent of a full cup of that. And it took me about 45 min to eat it. But, I could have just as easily not eaten anything and been fine. This morning I ate one scrambled egg and 1/2 cup of oatmeal. But I wasn't "hungry"... There is no one size fits all solution with the band or any other diet/weight loss efforts including what the green zone means for an individual. Eating as little as I do my labs come back good, my Vitamin levels are good and my doctor certainly doesn't call it starvation or malnutrition.

I just posted a bit about this on my blog. I also have no hunger in the green zone. I am forcing myself to eat at least twice per day because my loss slows and almost stops completely when I don't. So for me the lack of appetite has a detrimental affect on my band. I'm still in the "figure it all out" mode...I have to say having been on both sides I prefer this to being hungry all the time, but as my ultimate goal is health I also know eating well is what will get me there.

Really love this! You are a true success story...doing it right...seeing changes, making permanent lifestyle adjustments. Way to go.

Fantastic!

Anesheim! You look completely different...like i wouldn't even recognize you as the same person! Gorgeous!

You are smart to join this site...it's kept me on track and put me back on track more times than I care to admit. You can do this!

Beautiful! I have a peridot ring my mom gave to me long ago. Its too big, but I don't want to size it down yet until I'm "done" with my weight loss. While I haven't settle on a prize yet...funny enough...I've been eyeing some beautiful rings...they are one thing I want to wait on because I know my ring finger size will change. The more weight I lose the more excited I get about wearing jewelry. I never used to wear rings, necklaces or bracelets...It might be because before I felt like it drew too much attention to me. Now I'm like, "Hey...check me out with my jewelry bling." ha ha ha...

Awesome!

seriously adorable post. I love both of these NSVs....you are on cloud 9...shout it out!

It wasn't until I started this process that I even realized I'd try and make my kids eat "just a few more bites..." I did a lot of reading and the basic principle is that no child ever starved themselves...if they are hungry they will eat. I've also stopped even offering "dessert." My kids get a treat occasionally at random times during the day...but I don't ever want them to associate eating meals with a sugary reward after!

Fantastic job!

Awesome job! You DO have an awesome attitude!

Big thumbs up! Congratulations on your weight loss and your wedding!

Great job! I LOVE your big smile in the "after" pictures...you can tell how happy you are these days! Keep rocking that weight loss!!!

I love Zumba!!! I go three times/week and its the greatest workout and so much fun. Today it was like Hot Zumba...the room must have been 90 degrees. Ugh. So what are your favorite zumba songs? Does your instructor go with mostly latin music or popular tunes? I love pretty much anything Pitbull does to zumba to... Yeah...I'm at the point where its time to add in the weight training. Starting in January I'm going to add 2 days of crossfit into my workout....that will give me the strength training I need. I'm excited to see the results!