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Love most of them but my favorites are Choc brownie, vanilla almond, Apple pie and double choc chunk. Only ones I don't like are Peanut Butter Choc (it's fine but I can't taste any peanut butter!) and banana nut

Exercise and toning just helps fill out the loose skin it doesn't make it not loose...genetics and age do that. I'm not in my 20's/30's but have been toning and exercising from the start. I run half marathons and training for a full, do yoga and weighs and have 18% body fat...but I also have loose skin covering it.

Still researching--what is vertical ?

Forgive my ignorance, what kind of competition? Body building? Beauty? Something else?

Those of u who got approval through bcbs did you just have skin removal of muscle tightening as well?

I can relate to all the body issues you describe--saggy butt, deflated boobs, skin I tuck into my pants...a face that looks older...BUT I LOVE my body! I love what it can DO that it never could before!! Running (15 miles today), yoga (handstands!), swimming and cycling (triathlons), heck just walking up flights of stairs or around the block! Fitting into airline and movie theatre and lobby seats with room to spare, fitting well behind the steering wheel, fitting into an off the rack size 4 easily and consistently. LOVE my new body for sure. And I look great in clothes

Used the app last year and have now run five half marathons several relays, 10ks 5ks and misc trail distances. Training for a full marathon in may. C25k is awesome!

The average American woman consumes over 70g of Protein and eats about 1900 calories (men it's over 100 and about 2700 cal). http://www.ars.usda.gov/SP2UserFiles/Place/80400530/pdf/0506/Table_2_NIF_05.pdf My guess is when we were obese many of us were eating more than that in protein grams and calories (Big Mac anyone? 26g protein. Whopper 31g 12" cold cut combo at subway 38g...yeah I am choosing fast food and maybe no one here ate that but the info is easiest to find). 100g is a lot and most people probably don't need that much but it's not in the dangerous range. Def talk to your nutritionist and doctor. My dr and nutritionist have a range they expect from most people, they have me at a higher level because of my exercise level.

Wait are you talking to me? Saying I'm ridiculous? That I'm not getting 100g of protein a day? Who are you to say that??? In that total I include 20g from either one Protein shake or bar a day (I don't agree with you that the body passes most of that out and I have science to support that claim, but feel free to disagree that's what makes the world interesting) the rest is from food. You may eat less than 4oz of meat a day, great! You may use vegetarian/vegan protein sources, great! You may get a lot less protein a day than I do, great! I am not saying we all need 100g I am just saying that is MY average and it's far from a harmful level (though there def is a harmful level). We are all different and different things work for each of us. Please don't call me ridiculous. I'm not judging whether you are right or wrong about whether we need to count this stuff. I don't count it most days myself, just once in a while out of curiosity. Most days I eat 3-6oz of lean meat, at least one greek yogert, some cheese, nuts or nut butter, Beans and legumes, and yes one protein shake or bar. I eat a varied balanced diet with YES aprox 100g of protein. I work out a LOT--marathon training (I've run three halfs in 2015 so far), yoga 4-6 hours a week and swimming and bicycling to keep up for my upcoming triathlons. I have 18% body fat. This is what works FOR ME. To claim you know what is best for everyone, THAT is ridiculous.

Yes too much protein is hard on the kidneys. But 100g if you are building muscle is totally reasonable and nowhere near the too much area. Check w ur dr and nutritionist to be certain but I work out a lot and have a lot of muscle mass and I get 90-110 grams a day typically at 5'6" and 135lbs

Crackers, chips, popcorn, Cookies... They all start to digest in the mouth and break down so quickly and easily they slide right through for me. Strangely yogert does not. It fills my stomach and makes me full. Probably because of the Protein, I imagine.

I have to eat more because of my activity level too. Your body seems to be speaking loudly and clearly, listen to it!

As soon as your dr clears you! Mine said six weeks

Quest has a new unflavored one and it's the first one I actually can add into things and not taste a difference! Wish they'd had it earlier when I had my surgery, but better late than never!

Started couch to 5k program at six weeks out. 15 mos post op and have done a few half marathons, a couple of Ragnar relays, a triathlon a number of 5/10k's and am currently training for a marathon and a Spartan race.

coffee Plain greek yogert Ricotta cheese "crepes" Protein ice cream

I started at 44 and am 14 months out at goal at 45

I have heard that quite thrown around here but my insurance receipts didn't say that. They said around $127 and my insurance had their "contracted rate" and so only paid less than half that. That said, I didn't find the cream worthwhile

I lost a full size

Different surgeons have different plans. I was cleared for anything I could tolerate at six weeks out by my surgeon and nutritionist. There was still a lot I couldn't tolerate, but I was given the go ahead to try.

Wow clearly I hit a nerve with you so I am going to let this lie except to say that as far as posting in w thread that "didn't apply to me" I thought I had something to offer-- the notion that often our bodies chose their own goal weight.

16 months soda and carbonation free!

Whatever floats your boat ???? Nope not judgmental there. To me the difference is between stating a personal preference and issuing a blanket statement (which you clarified you didn't so no big deal) that a particular body type is unattractive (not sexy). I think blanket statements about particular body types (fat, skinny, tall, short, whatever) is something most of us have experienced in the past as obese people. People judge fat people are ugly/dumb/lazy/whatever--they issue blanket judgements based on physical appearance. And I just think this forum should be free of that. There is a tendency in our culture as a whole to yo yo between fat bashing and skinny bashing (The Megan Trainor song All About That Bass empowers curvy girls but at the expense of girls without them). I wish we could just get past it as a society. But again, you clarified you weren't doing that so great.

Ooooh I want to try this! I like the idea of doing the cherries and then stirring in the vanilla bc I hate the froth

Lol I hear ya! I can't get over that the thing that determines my pants size now is the distance from hip bone to hip bone! Not the inches of fat covering them!