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During our many veg years, the portobello ravioli or minestrone was the go-to choice. They have two apps that we've done, too - a hummus with pita and the bruschetta. Eh. Nothing great for a sleever but you won't feel awkward and have to avoid food.

I know how frustrated you are, coops. You know, even at my goal I am still overweight. No, not the same as falling under obese, I know. Right now, today my BMI is 28 - I'm just a few pounds from obese, myself. I mean, here I am thrilled that I'm thinner and looking good...and I see my doc in April and he says he'd like to see me between 107-127 pounds...what the hell?! Am I doomed to always be the fat girl, even when I'm clearly NOT the fat girl? Damn that BMI chart all to hell. I can hardly stay under 137 pounds and my doc would like to see ten less than that at least? He's crazy, the world is crazy and I'm not going to make myself crazy trying to reach a goal that is most likely unattainable for me. I think this group will help us get as far as we can get. And I know that you've had a heck of a time reaching goal and I'm not saying that it's not possible. I just hope that we can all find that balance between being thankful for how far we've come while keeping the drive to go as far as we can and while also feeling love and acceptance for ourselves. I can't keep beating myself up for not being the smallest girl around. The very fact that I can wear clothes from a normal store should be a cause to Celebrate every morning. I should not be frustrated that the number isn't smaller than it is! I never dreamed I'd reach this point. I have to remind myself of that every time I get frustrated or fall into the old habit of beating myself up and putting myself down. I never thought I'd be here and I am. I have no reason to be ungrateful or unhappy, and I have to remember that. Much love, coops! You and Globe have both had a heck of a time and I know how frustrated you are. If it's any consolation, you DO look fabulous, you HAVE accomplished a lot and I'm totally jealous that you've had plastics and I still have a saggy, baggy tummy. ~Cheri

So, I love to bake, it's what I do for fun. Have you ever prepared that big Thanksgiving or Holiday feast and by the time you're ready for dinner you don't even want to eat? That's how I am about my cooking and baking. It's a blessing. I bake two or three days every week; my kids will not eat commercial bread no matter what I buy. It's a habit I got into living in Kyrgyzstan, where I was forced to bake whatever we wanted, because the only local bread was round, chewy lepyoshka! There are only a handful of things that I make that I'm tempted to eat more than one or two of, and I usually don't keep them in the house long. I take my portion, give the family some and treat my husband's coworkers to the rest. And yes, my kids are spoiled. My son thinks that I can make anything he wants and his future wife will probably hate me. I did a regular day today but I find that these hot, muggy days (I am NOT complaining, at least it's sunny outside!!) make me not have much appetite. I'm reaching my calories, but I won't lie, I'm not sure I'm doing it the "best" way. I've had a small dessert each night this week. I'm down two tenths of a pound from yesterday and expect to log a two or three pound loss this week so it's not hurting me. What are your opinions on this? Calories are calories and the way I felt most happy in maintenance before was to enjoy what I wanted to eat. So long as I don't need to eat something, I feel okay having it as a treat. For instance, soda stays out of my house except for special occasions. I cannot stop drinking it and drinking it makes me want those foods I used to eat with it - namely, popcorn or french fries. It's empty calories (I hate diet) and I could easily drink an extra 600-800 calories a day if I kept it in the house. But I made a Chicago style cheesecake last night. I had a tiny sliver and I was fine. Less than 100 calories for my portion, I enjoyed it, I was satisfied and frankly, I have no interest in the remaining four slices in the fridge. So for me, that's an okay food. How do you guys deal with "not perfect" food choices in your house? Are most of you all or nothing or are you similar to me in this? I'm just curious where we all are. I do wonder, if much like oregondaisy, I'll find my fourth year more challenging with respect to maintenance and moderation. ~Cheri

I lost a lot my first week and regained almost all of it right away. It was odd, but it seems now that my body has "settled in" so to speak and unless something changes tomorrow, I'll have lost 2 pounds this week. So, my point is to hang in there and see how it goes! I've noticed more scale fluctuation (and that's saying something because my scale is always all over the place) with 5:2 so it's possible that you're experiencing the same. ~Cheri

I think 5:2 is really helping me, too. I mean, sure I am losing a small amount of weight and that's good. But I feel like it forces me to stay accountable to myself, too. I'm forced to track my calories - I can't get sloppy with it or I'll lose count for the day. I also find that I'm pleasantly surprised by the amount of satisfaction and support I find in both this thread and the 5:2 thread. By posting daily I force myself to kind of stay on track. It's another way to be accountable when I check in with you guys here and there, too. I know I want to post each day. What I don't want to post is that I went totally ape, you know? I still embrace moderation in a way I know some of you can't, but I keep myself more "in check" knowing I'm going to have to track those calories, you know? It's also very nice to know I am not alone in this and that there are many of us still chugging along or who have found that you really do need to stay diligent forever. I do admit that sometimes reading the newbie threads is frustrating - in a different way now than it was six months ago. I just want to say to them, stop worrying about how fast that scale moves. Stop trying insane diets and stop trying to kill yourself with exercise hoping for those fast, fast, fast results. I know that the word "journey" is a cheesy one and I use it all the time. But it's true - it's really true that this is a long haul thing. This is not a one year transformation. It's a never ending process. The minute we think it's over and we get slack and the minute we just let loose and stop being diligent is when we find ourselves in trouble. I think that the longer I'm in this the more I realize that losing the bulk of the weight is the easy part. Staying close to goal and maintaining, or shedding those last fifteen pounds or so and keeping them off is the real challenge. I'm only 32...what is this going to be like for me at 40? I hope second nature - I hope that at some point it's just the way I live and keep myself on track and that I don't always need support and guidance to stay on the right path. In a way, it's like I'm married to my sleeve. Even if I didn't realize it at the time, I was making a lifelong commitment that doesn't end. Not if I want to continue to look and feel the way I do, anyway! ~Cheri

I wonder if this is more common post sleeve? I know every pregnancy is different but I was sick for six months this time and had insane food aversions. For a while I could only eat simple carbs...nothing else would stick. With my previous two pregnancies (a single and twins) I had NO morning sickness whatsoever. ~Cheri

Be on a PPI - some people aren't aware they need them. The acid can cause a feeling much like hunger (rumbling tummy) even if it doesn't burn your throat or feel like heartburn. Constipation happens, be prepared to use something like Miralax. But above and beyond the ugliest thing is the realization that you will eventually have that surgery can help you lose the weight and help you be thinner and healthier, but that whatever made you obese in the first place will still be there. I am three years out and truly felt that surgery was going to work miracles. In some ways, it did. I'm doing a great job with maintenance and I've not seen any real regains. But everything that made me want to eat before is still there. My love of food, my food memories, my way to cope with stress, my way to bury feelings, my way to show love and bond with my family...food was a major part of my life prior to surgery and I was in denial about my overeating and about my poor coping skills until well after my surgery. Everyone looks at goal as the big thing to achieve, as if it's the biggest hurdle in this journey. And goal is tough and it's amazingly rewarding to get there. But just over that hurdle is a long, long and winding road called maintenance. And THAT is really where your journey begins. Because maintenance takes forever and you have to really change for the long term to stay there. This is not a diet. This will not work if you treat it like a diet. This is the rest of your life and even at goal, you're still going to be YOU and that's important to realize. For me, that has been the biggest change and the most difficult one so far. ~Cheri

Hope everyone had a good 4th - we just lounged around and stayed lazy. It was nice. Today's another normal day. I'll fast tomorrow. I'm holding steady on the scale, which puts me down 2 pounds for the week so far. If that's true and it stays, I'm okay with that, even if it puts me up over last week. I'm having trouble getting my Water in lately. No interest. I think nearly three years of pushing it every day and I'm just tired of it, so I'm going to challenge myself and try to get in at least 64 oz. each day for the rest of this week. Maybe it'll be habit again after that. Hope you all have a great day. Fridays are busy for me - I make homemade bread every Friday morning and then we do a big dinner. Well, it's a big dinner for everyone but me because I always eat the same amount of food. Anyway, I'm off to start my day in the kitchen. With a big cup of water, of course. ~Cheri

I understand and have been feeling the same way. The diet part of 5:2 I find pretty easy. It's the bouncing on the scale I have trouble with - because I do notice far more fluctuation between fast and regular days. I think I need to weigh only once a week while doing this, because it also bothers me and frustrates me, even though I know that I ALWAYS see a 3-4 pound gain when I'm on my cycle. And I know that 1 pound a week is what we expect to see on this program. Honestly, that's about the rate I lost at from about 5 months out from surgery, so I feel like mentally I should be better about this but nope, I'm still mad every time I look at the scale and see it bounce. I'm down half a pound from yesterday. I also feel like absolute crap. Doctor is closed today, of course, so we'll see what I can do tomorrow. I hope everyone enjoys the holiday. We're staying in and not even venturing out for fireworks later. The rain hasn't let up here in a week so it would be a soggy mess out there, anyway! ~Cheri

I get this! It makes me angry and I am not going to lie, I am finding that mental shift from "I do what I want" to "Oh crap, I can't do what I want" terrible. There are a number of us here and on the 5:2 thread fighting to get those last few off. It's a pain but it's part of the process. The part nobody talked about a few years ago when I was sleeved! In all my time here, the only constant voice that this can be a challenge is oregondaisy. And because things were so easy for me before, I just assumed they'd stay that way, but something really does change a few years out, I think. In any case, welcome back and join us here. We definitely understand the struggle! ~Cheri

Then in your case I'd give the surgery a SOLID year and then start TTC. And that means working your buns off that whole year, getting labs done at 6 and 12 months to check your levels, taking a chewable prenatal the entire time, getting your B12, Iron and folic acid up to speed. No reason NOT to take all of that for the year up to TTC as you know. By one year out, or by 70% excess weight lost, I'd talk to your doc about TTC. You have confirmed a fertility issue just by TTC more than one year without success. Has anyone run a full panel on you and on your partner? I ask because we TTC for four years and were told repeatedly that our only issue was my weight and endo and despite the fact that they did several hormone panels on me and the fact that I was tracking my fertility and using a BBT each day, they implied that I wasn't ovulating. Well, I was, actually - and on a "perfect" 28 day cycle, endo be damned. In any case, after years of the "just lose weight and your fertility will be all better" talks, we finally had a doctor willing to check my husband's sperm count. Oh, lo and behold! We had count, motility and morphology problems and he got a diagnosis of antisperm antibodies. See, those years of TTC those doctors looked at him and because he had previous children, assumed he had no issues. And they looked at me, overweight with a tipped uterus and endo and blamed my size. So make sure that you're working with a compassionate, caring and openminded reproductive endocrinologist! Lecture over. In any case, many women report that their fertility increases as they lose weight and over the last four years I have seen any number of "Oops I'm pregnant!" posts by women that had previously TTC and had no success or by women that were even told by their doctors that they couldn't get pregnant without assistance. Keep your hopes up - you really do have plenty of time. ~Cheri Edit: Clearly I shouldn't get on VST before my morning coffee - I see you confirmed you both have small issues and I missed that and rambled on. Sorry! In any case, see if the surgery and loss helps. If not, there is help out there that can help you conceive!

Pagie join us on the vet board. You are not alone! There are a number of us fighting to get either a few pounds or as many as fifty or sixty off. Some never met goal; some met goal and had regains. You've done an awesome job and deserve to be proud of your success. And don't beat yourself up about regain. Ten pounds in three months? If I went totally off the rails I could gain ten pounds in a week. Our definitions of "off the rails" are probably different. In any case, 5:2 is what a number of us are trying and it does seem to be working. I can say that it's almost exactly how I maintained before (I just had a baby a few months ago) and while those fast days can be challenging at first I think it's definitely an easier (but still sane) approach to kind of wean out of disordered eating and back into a structured program again. It's hard to go from doing what you want to being very strict again - but this approach has left me feeling satisfied (for the most part) and has been pretty easy to stick to. In any case, you belong with the vets! And you can definitely do this and reach your goal if you get your head in the right place and focus. ~Cheri

I was 29 when I had WLS and we chose to have another child...well, exactly a year ago! I got pregnant on 5 July 2013, so when I was 31 years old. Honestly, unless you have a very good reason to believe your fertility is in some way compromised try to relax and focus on learning the sleeve and your new life first. I was one of the youngest women at our clinic (we did suffer from infertility, almost entirely due to male factor, though) and even when I was getting regular 'ole prenatal care I was still one of the youngest ladies each time. Women are waiting longer and longer to have children - my peer group (should I say our peer group, because I'm only a few years older than you) is just now starting to have kids. If you have PCOS, losing weight is definitely going to help with insulin resistance and with regulating your hormones. Focus on one hurdle at a time - you're definitely not too old to have children! ~Cheri

Oh, and I logged a workout and am ending the day at 1,290 calories. Not too shabby but a little lower on the calories than I'd been doing last week. That workout was ugly. And I am not going to lie, I definitely slacked at the end. My lungs are not back up to speed, but the antibiotics seem to be doing their job and kicking this thing out of my system. Protein Shake, hot shower, bed. Yeah...going to bed before nine pm at the start of a four day weekend. I'm old, or at least I feel old, so don't judge me! ~Cheri

In my initial loss, I could only eat 700-900 a day or I would not lose. But the idea of 5:2 struck me more as my maintenance program. And crazy as it sounds, I really am able to eat that many calories and maintain. Maybe I burn off more than I realize being on my feet all day or chasing my kids; I don't know. I do spend almost the entire day up and doing things - today I spent three hours baking, two hours straightening the kitchen and making dinner, killed an hour doing laundry and that's just the time I did "work" and not counting the running around I did for the kids, or the time I spent making everyone Breakfast and lunch. I'm no athlete but I'm busy all day long. Anyway, I approached this more like my maintenance which was eating roughly 1,200-1,600 calories a day and then fasting around 500-600 calories on fast days. I think it worked pretty well but I suppose the only thing to do is wait for a normal week (while I'm not still sick and while I'm not on my cycle) and see where that sweet spot is with my intake. I only track sporadically in maintenance - about one week out of every four, maybe - just to make sure I'm on track. But if the scale doesn't move out of my maintenance window (and it never did, until I got pregnant) I don't stress about how much I eat and I never seemed to have an issue. I'm three years out in twelve days and am only doing 5:2 to lose the last seven (okay, almost eight) pounds I have left over from my pregnancy. Once those are gone, I plan to transition back into maintenance - this time going with a more structured plan like 6:1, though this plan is pretty much how I ate before when I was maintaining, anyway. I suppose if those pounds came off quickly and easily (and stayed off) I might consider going a little lower if it's possible. Maybe shooting for 133 or so. I don't know. I always had trouble staying right at my goal weight. My body LOVED 137-141 and staying in that window was absolutely effortless. If I tried to get that scale just two pounds lower consistently? It was a fight to keep my calories low and I never could seem to stay there. So either those numbers are just a "happy weight" for my body, my body doesn't want to be smaller or I just have to work harder than I was working to get past that point and be smaller. I suppose I never stressed too much about just a couple pounds because I plan to do plastics, anyway. Some day. In my dreams. You know, once I'm not hauling a baby around...or carrying a toddler...or have some help around the house so I can recover. ~Cheri

I was down 2 pounds this morning - today was a regular day but I swear it was almost a fast day because I kept forgetting to eat! It's ridiculous. Yesterday was the first fast day where I went to bed really feeling hungry - hormones, I tell you. Anyway, I woke up and was so excited I could eat...and then I kept forgetting to stop working and eat my meals. Anyway, no worries I still managed to get my calories in. What to you guys aim for on your non-fasting days if you eat 500 or so on fast days? I know the plan is set so you'd hit 2,000 but there's no way I want to go there. I'm just trying to see where everyone else is at. I just barely got over 1,200 today (and I still have to eat a small snack and drink a Protein Shake to get there) but normally my "maintenance" window is about 1,400-1,600 calories or so. Sound about right, or are you guys going higher? I know I can eat more and not gain, or at least that I could prior to baby. I'm just not sure I want to. Hope everyone is doing well today. I have a bunch of crabby kids and need to start bedtime, so yeah, I'm going to run off and do that. ~Cheri

Thank you so much for sharing this. I've maintained even here on VST that the underlying reasons for obesity and how we lose weight aren't fully understood by the medical field, even if they regularly prescribe the standard 1,200 calorie diet and 90 mins of exercise per week as a cure-all. Prior to my surgery I was an insulin-resistant type II diabetic. Perhaps it was the very drastic change in diet post op, but the last time I took medication was the insulin they gave me in the hospital after my surgery. My sugars are so good now that they hardly budge all day long, unless I forget several meals or overindulge in something exceptionally sweet. When I finally had a doctor tell me the signs of insulin resistance? They went back to my CHILDHOOD, a time when I wasn't obese at all - when, in fact, I was the smallest, skinniest kid in my family and my classroom. I can't remember the entire list now, and I'd have to dig out the book that my doctor recommended to me, but chronic constipation, eczema, endless carbohydrate cravings (even when eating a healthy portion of a complex carb), etc. I did gain weight starting with puberty and I did continue to pack on pounds over the years despite my many, many diligent attempts to shed weight and get more exercise. I was called a liar, my doctors and nutritionists were condescending and judgmental and I was told that every little ailment I ever had could be cured if only I would just eat less and exercise more. I have five year old daughter that is very active and a healthy eater. She does not have a diet heavy in processed foods and she does not sit around and consume junk all day. And she has every single indicator of insulin resistance that I had in my childhood - the same indicators my mother and her mother had - and yes, I do in fact come from a long line of short little fat ladies. And she is already obese, even though she gets a great deal of exercise and eats well. I can only hope that in the future we'll see some breakthroughs that help us better understand the connection between insulin resistance and obesity. If nothing else, it would be a huge change to have doctors that are actually sympathetic and aren't condescending to us. Nobody knows how to lose weight better than a fat person - we've tried it all - we do not WANT to be fat, and yet the medical profession is constantly treating us as if we're deliberately sabotaging our bodies and as if we're just so incredibly lazy that we don't deserve respect. ~Cheri

Oh, another vote for the Ahi Carpaccio. Go easy on the soy they put on the side to keep the sodium down and it's a soft super Protein meal. I still can't finish the plate and I'm a few years out! I can eat most anything on the menu now but still find myself ordering this more often than not. ~Cheri

It depends on how soon you get pregnant and it's very individual in any case. Most that wait experience a normal weight gain. For instance, I gained 32 pounds. Right on track with a normal pregnancy and the first time I gained a normal amount. I've seen posts from anywhere in the low twenties to more than fifty pounds. Much of it is individual and whether or not you have complications will effect your gain. Those that get pregnant while still in their early stages post op might continue to lose for several months of their pregnancy. Some simply stall out and start to gain. Again, it's very individual. We have a few cheerleaders here for just getting pregnant right away, and that's fine if you're willing to do it. I would not intentionally get pregnant if you still have trouble eating your nutritional guidelines, though. I'd very carefully weigh the pros and cons of where you're at in your loss as well as nutritionally and make a smart decision that will work for you. I was seriously deficient in several vitamins/minerals until more than a year post op. Additionally, I had tremendous restriction until almost 1.5 years out from surgery. I still get an overfull feeling from eating one hard boiled egg. Because I'm also lactose intolerant and developed an aversion to meat while pregnant (I had terrible morning sickness for almost six months of my pregnancy) I had a hard time eating. If I hadn't had the capacity to eat what few carb-laden meals I could manage I would have had a real problem. I'm actually amazed I gained weight at all because I felt sick almost the entire time. And my baby was born small - 6 pounds, 7 ounces and they induced me a week early because they were worried about IUGR. Again, it's an individual thing and you aren't going to know how it will happen until you've already made the choice. But weigh that against your fertility, too. For instance, if your fertility is definitely decreasing (say, for age or poor egg quality that will only get worse with time) you should move ahead sooner rather than later. I can say that it's always possible to pick up and lose weight again. However, weight loss does seem to slow down a bit once you pass a certain point. I am having a heck of a time losing the last few pounds from my pregnancy. They have come off and gone on again more than once in the past three months. It is not easy to transition back into losing weight once your body has been eating more and gaining, that's for sure. If you're close to a year out and close to goal I'd say jump on and do it. If you're still in the early stages of loss or having a sleeve it's one thing for it to happen unexpectedly and quite another to choose to do it. I'm just putting that out there, because there are a lot of women that have surgery to increase their fertility, and who knows who will wind up here reading this? Both of you are far enough out that you should be okay but make sure you're prepared. Good luck! ~Cheri

I'm sorry you had to go through that. I didn't tell many people but once I was already at goal I confided in someone that I'd had surgery. She is overweight and gave me that whole "I'm going to start a new diet and I know that will work, I'd never do what you did, it's too drastic, blah blah blah" thing. Well, two years later she's back over 250 pounds again (she only ever lost 80 pounds and promptly regained them) and she lives in a constant cycle of crazy strict dieting followed by massive binges. She's miserable and unhappy and won't even talk to me anymore. Oh well. You don't need those people in your life, I promise. Even though it stinks to be treated that way just let it roll off your back. In a year, they'll all be congratulating you on your success. ~Cheri

I stay away from the Protein Bars, but mostly because they just don't interest me. I'm glad that never got to be a habit. Same for the PB2! Some people really have an addiction to that stuff. I just hate Peanut Butter in general, so I don't have to worry about that. I don't think there are many foods I can't walk away from at this point - maybe soda would count but I hardly keep it around now because I know it's a problem. Oh, and cheesecake. I made a Chicago style cheesecake for a dinner I hosted not too long ago and thank goodness I had the foresight to pack up a pretty little box of it for each guest to take home. Because the three slices that were left? I ate them all, one night at a time. I tracked those buggers, don't get me wrong. But my calories were on the high side that week! And yeah...eating dairy like that makes me ill...so that was interesting. But oh my, it was good. Too good. I don't have many foods I can't walk away from or that I think about when I'm doing other things, so that's something I won't be doing again. So there's no way I'd go introducing a new food that other folks already said is like crack. Oh, and I hope I have a good 5:2 week, because my three year anniversary is on the 15th and I'd like to look good in the picture and feel good about my weight when I post my update! ~Cheri

Do get labs run, just because. I was sleeve in MX and put off my labs and once I had them past one year out, I was seriously deficient in Iron and B12. The supplements for those two things changed my life and I went from kinda dragging like a zombie to feeling really good again. I hadn't even realized how bad things were because it was my every day. And try a PPI, even if you don't think it's acid. I still get the occasional run where I need a PPI for a while and it feels exactly like hunger pangs. The stomach will growl and everything but it's just acid and if I take my pill it will quiet down and I'll feel better. More than half the time I have a problem, I never feel any burning or acid in my throat. It's different than it was in the beginning. If you want to move your meals around, do it. I still eat small meals and Snacks all day long rather than eating three main meals. ~Cheri

Good suggestions. chicken is on tonight's menu anyway, so I'll do that instead of my planned meal. Pairing it with a bunch of salad will make a fuller plate but not jack up my calories. Laura, too funny on your Vegas posts - and how cruel of them to even consider putting a scale in the bathroom when they KNOW everyone eats like mad there? Oh, and how about I feel like an idiot? I'm pretty sure most of my bounce up can be explained by hormones. Apparently, my cycle moved to sync up with the young ladies in the house, and I wasn't expecting to see that four pound bounce for another week. That, meds, being sick and nonstop rain for five days could explain every ounce. ~Cheri

Someone PLEASE move this thread to the vets forum before people hitting a normal plateau less than a year out start screwing with their bodies needlessly! Or before newbs start to think this is the way to eat all the time. I think that combining 5:2 with the sleeve is too much, honestly, and that this is a method that is better suited to maintenance or to shedding weight several years out. Just my opinion, of course, but I can see there being issues from this post being here. So, I'm doing 5:2 and pretty frustrated. I lost ten pounds in five days last week. I got sick. I didn't eat very well for a few days. Just not many calories in general, and when I would eat I'd eat most of my calories in one meal. Between that and the antibiotics and maybe just being sick in general...all ten pounds came back. Big frowns, all around. It doesn't matter if I really gained (or lost) anything. I would rather the scale hadn't moved at all than see it dip down into the promised land only to fly back up and put me in weight loss hell again. Loss phase sucks. In any case, back on a fast day today. Sipping green tea and doing a decent job of things. I have to space my calories out into four small meals for fast days to be easy on me. Otherwise I have a problem with my sugar going up and down. How do ya'll make fast day dinners work with your family? Normally I'd just eat whatever sitting at the table with my little ones and my husband but my stepkids are in for the summer and they (the girls in particular) pay attention to every bite I put in my mouth. I hate to rig up my calories to be heavy at the end of the day so I can eat dinner with them but seriously, they're kinda freaking me out. I guess I can just spell it out for them, but sometimes they try to emulate the way I eat anyway, and we're trying to avoid any issues. Their older sister (not here this year) is very troubled and anorexia is a part of that. From time to time the younger gals have tried to eat along with her, too, or with their mom when she does her crazy diets, so I want to avoid any trouble. I was also working out until getting sick (it's in my lungs now, YUCK!) but I've been on my feet a lot and have been finishing up some move-in things so it's not like I'm being a lazy bones. I feel like I'm losing a part of my soul saying it, but I actually think I miss doing my evening video. It's like I'm losing my mind around here! Anyway, fast day for me, not too tough to stay to 500 calories when you feel crummy and your meal plan is set. Hope everyone else is doing well! ~Cheri

There are plenty of natural products out there if you look for them! ~Cheri