JustWatchMe

Congratulations on your growing family! Please take the time to care for yourself. You will have more energy if you do. You'll also have a personal goal that is so important. As moms we often put our own care last but it's not a good idea to put our goals and dreams on the shelf. Best wishes and check in with your bariatric doctor for a refresher!

I'm narrowing in on green but not quite there yet. However I do have many many days where I am completely satisfied four hours between meals. If. If. If that meal was high in Protein and if. If. If it's not head hunger messing me up. For example I had lots of head hunger this month. I know it because real hunger feels different. Real hunger starts with a grumbling in my belly and a gnawing empty feeling and funny enough is not always accompanied by appetite. Head hunger is edgy antsy I gotta eat something even if I just ate something five minutes ago. It's restless and has nothing at all to do with satiety or nutrition. We will battle head hunger forever. I'm learning tools to fight it. I'm just very grateful my band truly helps with the real hunger.

Just had my second shake of the day. Un jury makes a great individual packet that I bought back when I was planning my vacation in May. Our office has small water bottles in the machine, so I drank some water and shook up the packet with the remaining 8 oz of water. Lunch is done!

Good luck!

Sheesh!

Thanks tmf. I'll watch those when I get home tonight.

My best friend commented on my "tiny ass" in jeans. I said yeah it would be great if I could see it but it's behind me. All I see is the baggy belly in front. Getting smaller but still there. If I didn't have this big belly roll I bet I'd be in much smaller jeans by now. Oh well. I'm still happy with my progress.

Congratulations!!!

Pick the most urgent things to get done today and focus only on those. Get OUTSIDE on your meal break. Get some oxygen and walk even if it's just around the block or building. Breathe some air. Hydrate. Plan something comforting when you get home. Light a candle or take an hour to read or listen to music. You are changing your life and you've already started. Soon your attitude will start to catch up to your body changes. You're worth this and NOBODY can take it away from you!!!

I'm no expert. All I know is what I've read here from other WLS patients. But it's a modified intermittent fast. Basically you fast twice a week and eat normally the other five days. YouTube has a lot of videos. For the fasting days women eat or drink 500 calories. Men 600. That's it. Mondays and Thursdays seem like popular days for the fasting. For some reason it gives the body a reset and helps weight loss. I thought I'd try it since it's easy and not too different from when I have to go on liquids after a band adjustment. Just calorie driven rather than liquid driven.

I started a thread for my 5:2 and no-weigh week here: http://www.bariatricpal.com/topic/318937-starting-52-and-no-scale-this-week/ All are welcome!

"That's my alien implant"....." That's how far up the probe went..... (Too much? Sorry.) I call my band "E.T."

Ack! I'm on the fence about it. I see the merits of ditching the scale. However, I avoided the scale for years. Once I started losing weight this year, the losses buoyed me up. I got a little "high" every couple of days watching the numbers drop. This month, not so much. My food has been all over the map and I'm down and up and down and up the same five pounds. I'm afraid to stop weighing because I'm afraid I'll give in to overeating every day. I'm still tracking my food in MyFitnessPal and being very thorough. Not too happy when the numbers show I've eaten 1500 calories or sometimes more when my doctor wanted me to be consuming so much less. I haven't asked my doctor's office for any eating guidelines lately. Afraid they'll say 800 calories a day again. I haven't talked to the NUT in months. I've been thinking of trying the 5:2 fasting thing this week. Maybe I'll go for it tomorrow and Thursday and ditch the scale until next Sunday. Ok no scale until next Sunday. Yikes. Haven't not weighed since my vacation in May.

Good luck with all the tests

Welcome to Bandland! Hope things are going well.

Although there was more music than usual right after surgery, today things are generally quiet. Except for stomach gurgles. Don't get me started on those.

About three inches below my left breast. Like B52, the more belly fat I lose the more prominent it is. It sticks out a lot actually. Oh well. Not baring my midriff anytime soon.

@, I like my surgeon but I never see him anymore. Just my nurse for fills. I suppose if I had a problem I could get an appointment with him directly but I haven't seen him since April.

@@gowalking , I can't find it using the new iPhone app. Help!Ah, found it. App kept crashing.

Just saw this post and I hope things are going better for you. Take care.

You're also a pretty lady and a smiling lady as well!

Omg this is the thing I say to my own mother at least once a week. Bless her judgmental, thoughtless, loose-lipped heart. Not about WLS either. Lol.

Karate chops to the neck and shoulders relieved my gas pain several times a day.

Six weeks

Wow Bruce, that is really terrible you have to wait until Monday. Have you considered just going to the ER?