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Good for you! Woo hoo!

Finished Monday on plan. Feeling great.

Sorry it was a bummer experience but yay for you for taking charge and getting one anyway. No way are you going to stay out of that hot tub after all your hard work!! Congrats on your weight loss!

Nothing small about that NSV! Congratulations !!!!

I think you look great and that's not bs. Cute suit too. Now I'm tempted to go find one without a skirt.

Don't overthink it. Just try it. I tried yoga as an obese person and survived. My knees cracked loudly but nobody cared but me. I also tried Zumba. Knees didn't like it but again, nobody cared but me.

I just walked slightly over 2 miles on my lunch hour. Walking a 5k will be a breeze. I didn't realize a 5k was 3.1 miles. My knees won't let me jog, but I can walk. Yay!!

I'm referring to notifications in the iphone app

Fired up today. Walking the stairs at work. On lunch break I'll walk the neighborhood around my office since it's finally warm here. Breakfast was sausage and bacon. Lunch will be a cheese stick and a package of Buddig beef and some peanuts. dinner will be Olive Garden as mentioned. I can do this!!

@@bacon, I added an extra mile to my walking today. One down and five more to go for the week! My food was pretty good but I got yelled at by both of my daughters. After church we had lunch in a restaurant and I had a bowl of Soup and ate the chicken and hard boiled eggs out of a salad. Then I took the rest home because I'd had enough. So far, so good. Then my daughter and I shopped for her laptop and a few other items and then I came home with the overwhelming desire to fry up a dessert for everybody. I did, and had three or four of these tasty little things myself. Not a great choice but not the end of the world. Probably about 400 calories at the most. Then I had a kale salad. A few hours later I was hungry again and had another kale salad. Then I walked my extra mile for the day and here I am now. The yelling came long distance from my daughter in Madrid after I bragged about the delicious dessert I fried up. "Mom, why would you cook something like that after all the work and progress you've made? Nobody needs that stuff in the house." Then my older daughter chimed in (love group texting, don't you?) saying "Yeah, you shouldn't have made them. I didn't ask for them." So anyway, they are both right. I'm done eating the treats. They came out wonderful but I don't need them. I was proud of how they turned out and I had a few, but that kind of food will derail my weight loss. So I'm done. My younger daughter suggested that I research healthy recipes and make those kinds of foods when I get the urge to cook or bake. True. Anyway, my weight was up this morning when I woke up. It was very discouraging, especially since I had no alcohol this week and haven't gone to the movies to eat. However, the old body here is hanging on to the fat, and it's not going to let go until I up my exercise. So @@bacon's challenge came just in time. I'm going to push that extra mile each day. It's not that hard because I was a sedentary slug, so every extra bit helps. As for the 5k, I'm starting to believe it is doable. My knee pain was gone today like a miracle when the steroid shots kicked in finally. I walked the dog around the neighborhood and felt really good. My mini goal this week is to get back down to 195 by next Sunday. I'm going to walk an extra mile each day and stay away from alcohol and sweets and movie crapcorn. My daughter is in town until next weekend, and I'm taking her and her cousins out to Olive Garden Monday for dinner. I will have soup and salad and a meatball and NO breadsticks. I'm very happy to have this thread for daily check in. Thank you all. How did everyone do?

. When it's at 7, how well did you get down food Food is always able to go down. My only stuck episodes were with dry pork or other meats that I didn't chew thoroughly or ate too fast.

Congrats!!

Great interview ! Thanks for all you do!

It seems better after I turned my phone off and on.

Debbie, my sympathy to you. And hang in there. You're a very strong lady and you will prevail.

My daughter's computer is a bust and she lost her data. Data recovery could cost $700-$1700 and so that's not going to happen. We're buying her a new laptop tomorrow. Ended the day at Red Lobster but it was fine. I had lobster and salad and veggies and skipped the biscuits and drinks. Feeling good. I've never done a 5k in my life. I'm not going to overthink this. Just say YES and DO it!!

Bacon, challenge accepted! This was exactly what I needed right now!

Aw, I fell in love with a little ranch house today. Let the dreaming begin!

Checking in. Breakfast was actually at home. Yogurt and almonds. lunch was a chopped salad with chicken and bacon and balsamic dressing, and I passed on the bread. At the computer store now. Maybe an open house this afternoon.

It's 32 degrees here. Finally, a heat wave!! Taking my poor pooch for a neighborhood walk today. Way overdue.

Thanks everyone. Attitude is everything, so today I'm keeping my head in the game. My daughter is home (❤️) and we are going for haircuts now, followed by Breakfast out with my mom. No potatoes or bread for me. eggs and bacon. After that, my daughter and I have to take her laptop for analysis. Her hard drive crashed yesterday and she wasn't backed up, of course. She's due for a new one (it's over 5 years old) so even if they rescue her data we probably have to buy a new one. And then today or tomorrow she and I are going to go to one or two realtor open houses. Scared out of my wits, and I'm nowhere ready to buy, but it's time for me to look forward and plan for the day when this divorce is over and I start again in my own place. As I said, I'm nearly paralyzed with fear thinking about moving. But I need to take the first step, which is to dream. And an open house or two can get those wheels spinning. Thanks for all your encouraging words. I will use the divorce as motivation. Interestingly, I think that's actually been part of my problem. Some messed up concept of unworthiness. I am worthy of good things. A new life, a new body, a new home. I'm going to achieve my goals. Today I'm going to stay on plan with my food which is high Protein and no snacking and very low carbs. This will be a successful Saturday! Bacon, glad you're eating. Whew!

Best post of the day!

Well it's definitely easier than without WLS. But not easy.

@@enjoythetime, I'm dealing with that too. I stopped logging my food and so then when I have a less than ideal day, time to blame and shame myself. Ugh. I still have fifty pounds to lose and I can't believe my motivation to do the hard work has waned so much. What the heck. I'm not stupid. I know I'll struggle with weight all my life. Heck, I've lost more than this before. Consciously I'm not expecting the magical cure. But am I expecting it subconsciously? The stupid thing is that I wasn't struggling this hard twenty pounds ago. Moderate eating was letting the weight fall off. Not anymore. I have every reason in the world to be motivated to dig in and get to goal. Be my best physical self, especially now as I face the NSETBEx in this godawful divorce. Grit my teeth and just do it, dammit. If I did that I could be at goal by the end of summer. But I'm complacent. I'm still obese but comfortable in the world today. I blend in. I fit in chairs and don't get embarrassed eating in public. Why is that good enough now? I want it all. I really do. So what the hell is going on with me? It's not like I'm not focusing on the emotional stuff. I go to two CoDA meetings and at least one OA meeting a week. I see a therapist every two weeks for the divorce. I don't know. I just don't know. I keep thinking somehow exercise will be my salvation. Yet I can't seem to commit to a gym. I'm actually afraid of it. (????) I'm so scared of giving up on myself. @@bacon, if you can drink warm tea or anything warm maybe the pill will dissolve over time. But you're probably irritated and may have to baby your band for the rest of the day with liquids. Unless you can't drink I would think the ER might be overkill, but only you know how severe it feels. Also, you don't want to go into the weekend with any issues and not be able to reach your doctor. Let us know how you're feeling.

Ok, Warriors, help me out today! I don't want to slip into negative thinking because I messed up yesterday. I slept lousy because I ate too late and made poor choices and I woke up feeling less than perky. Today my knee is slightly less painful upon waking, so I may try the stairs at work, but probably not many. I have a favorite dinner of my daughter's ready for the oven tonight, but it's carby, so I need some Protein on the table for me. I will have a taste of the dish I'm making, but I want to commit to starting with a simple protein for myself and a salad. Since it is a meatless Friday for us, that protein will be half a cup of yogurt with almonds. Back up to lunch. Two cheese sticks and a handful of nuts. I don't get a full lunch hour today so that should work. Breakfast will be two scrambled eggs. That's my day in reverse. I'm excited to see my daughter who hasn't been home since January. I get her for a week. Saturday we go for haircuts and then breakfast out with my mom. Saturday I'll have more protein choices that include meat. I'm thankful I can post here when I've been less than successful, and I can still find support. food addiction is a disease of isolation. Not doing that anymore. What's the plan today for everybody?