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Yes. But an example I'll pull is bacon from the Breakfast buffets. One slice of bacon is approximately 44 calories. 1/4th of a slice of bacon is approximately 11 calories. Is 1/4th "enough"? You bet.

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I eat and drink anything and everything I want. But I am very uninterested in a lot if what I wanted before. And now a bite or two of the anything and everything feels perfect. Miracle.

Nope. Never.

Roasted pumpkin seeds, shell and all, are a crunchy, salty treat with a nice nutritional profile if you don't go crazy.

About $650 for Kors

I worked out of town all week and this thread is fun, so I'll share with you SOME of what I ate in 5 days. 4 Breakfast buffets with scrambled eggs, bacon, hash browns, fruit, coffee with cream and yogurt. 5 glasses of wine 4 Jolly Ranchers and 15 mini chocolates (Kit Kat, Snickers, Rollos, Reeces) 1 pizza buffet with salad 1.5 Panera bagels with blueberry cream cheese for Snacks Oriental snack mix chiraschi sushi with miso Soup and salad 1 coconut Water 1 roasted lemon garlic chicken platter with jasmine rice, veggies and pita from Tazikis 1 Syrian salad with chicken, roasted veggies, pita, and jasmine rice 1 chicken schwarma plate with chicken, rice, roasted veggies, salad and tzaziki 28 draft beers ........and I lost 1 pound

Can coffee Cause Weight Gain? By The Daily Meal | Healthy Living Flickr/epSos.deGuess this means we'll be holding off on the daily cups of coffee from now on: A new study published in the Journal of Agricultural and food Chemistry has found that too muchcoffee can increase weight gain and fat cell retention. Researchers at the Western Australian Institute for Medical Research and the University of Western Australia's School of Medicine and Pharmacology examined a compound called chlorogenic acid (CGA), found in coffee. Researchers were hoping that CGAs would specifically increase insulin sensitivity, reduce blood pressure, and decrease body fat thanks to previous research showing that coffee reduced the risk of type-2 diabetes. Unfortunately, the study did just the opposite. Researchers fed CGAs to obese lab mice that were put on a high-fat diet for 12 weeks; the animals were fed enough CGAs to account for six cups of coffee a day. Instead of losing weight, however, the mice gained weight; the results were either the same as feeding mice regular food, or worse. The CGAs "had no beneficial effect on their blood sugar levels and also, a little bit more worrying, the mice on this coffee compound tended to accumulate fat in their liver," University of Western Australia's Kevin Croft told The Age. So the results? Assistant professor Vance Matthews says that three to four cups a day does still decrease the risk of cardiovascular disease and type-2 diabetes, but more than five or six cups a day could reverse the process. In fact, it might actually case an "abnormal retention of fat within cells." No wonder the FDA is worried about crazy kids binging on caffeine. -Jessica Chou, The Daily Meal

I have been "stabilized" for 2 months at 148. I ate crazy stuff during the weekend holiday. Most especially key lime pie @ 450 calories a slice of which I ate 2 slices in 2 days, along with baked beans with brown sugar and pulled pork, watermelon, cheese, screwdrivers, beer, potato chips, baba ganoush, and I don't even recall what else. Got on the scale today... 144 lbs. Sometimes you have to shock your body. Not often, just rarely.

I had watermelon with salt, baked beans with pulled pork, cheddar cheese garlic bread, key lime pie, screwdrivers.

My surgery was Sept. 26 and I'm in the same situation. I haven't lost in 2 months. I do eat more than I did for sure, but I also make a lot of good choices. I don't even eat a fraction of the sugar, processed foods, or saturated fats that I did before. I'm wondering if I can reconcile myself to partial success and never getting to goal. I could make a huge push and lose the last 20 lbs, but could I sustain that with my lifestyle? Perhaps not. It is frustrating, yes.

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I'm right there with you, buddy.

Maxalt. Even half of one.

Mine said 75%

I am ashamed of myself for scanning as much of this thread as I have. It makes IQ points drain right out of your ear.

Damn straight.

When the 20s got baggy, I went to my closet where I had multiple wardrobes in different sizes. When the 18s got too big, I started on the 16s. At that point I started cleaning out and bagging up. Then I was in 14s, then 12s, which were the smallest size I had. I kept a few tops that were passable, and two skirts that I could pin at the waist. The rest was taken to Goodwill or consignment. At Goodwill I found several pair of higher end name brand capris and pants in size 10. I've been this size for 2 months now (7 months since surgery). I have 2 pr of 8s that are still too tight. I have yet to go clothes shopping. I don't know if this is the size I will be or if I will drop another size. I am afraid to start culling through the looser size 10s. Until you are in the actual predicament, it is impossible to know how that feels, though encouragement is well intentioned and mostly appreciated. So many of us have wired ourselves to negative internal dialogue and the anticipation of failure. This sounds completely nuts, but I feel that I have had some success, but failed to even reach my revised goal. Hoarding or holding on to clothes is both crutch and security. Now my size 10s are feeling like failure. It isn't the specific number printed on the tag. It's that I have been able to cleanse my closet and psyche with each size change. Now that it isn't changing, it feels very different.

That really illustrates the point about different body proportions. I wear a size 10, too.

That is not the point I was making at all. Taking it out of context makes it sound like I endorse that as a path to success That is just nuts. What I WAS saying is that nobody can point a finger. My comments were directed at the OP and also to let others know you don't always have to be perfect and beat yourself up all of the time when you aren't Anyone who wants to be a StepfordSleever, have at it. I wish I could walk such a tight line. I'm doing really well to be "good" 80% of the time.

Good grief. This is a scary leap of faith for most of us. I was a smoker who loved beer, hated exercise, and was completely addicted to food. I was not ready mentally to have this surgery. It was terrifying to enter into unknown territory. Now I'm down 75 lbs. and guess what? I'm smoking again (bad, I know), now I drink wine and some mixed drinks, I still don't exercise and I eat out all of the time. AND I'm still losing weight. I'm no failure and no person can tell me if I had a right to go through this process. Plus....I'm lookin' pretty damn good and having a hellofa time.

It isn't failure at all if you reached your personal goal. At 5'3" my first goal was 115 lbs. Since then I have changed it to 125 lbs. Very different caloric tolerances between our respective goals. That doesn't mean one is right or wrong or better or worse. People also carry their weight differently. Alcohol has more calories per gram than any other food. Depending on your goal weight range, consumption of alcohol may seriously impact your progress, or not. This isn't said as judgement, just as one of many perspectives.

It's a public forum. People are people, not robots. People have a variety of emotions and experiences. Past failure influences current perspectives for many. Some ask silly questions that could already be answered by using a search feature. Depression is real. So is anger. So is joy. So is fear. When the exact same question or comment is posted for the 100,000th time in one month, it becomes tedious. Everyone is not an optimist. Some people are motivated by straight up tough love. And thousands of other reasons.