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PatchMD ! No pills for me, over a year post op , labs are perfect
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PatchMD ! No pills for me, over a year post op , labs are perfect
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I was telling a co worker of mine that in my yoga class I pulled a muscle and have back pain from it, so she said "you should just go back to being fat, you had less problems " .. really wtf!!
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PatchMD ! No pills for me, over a year post op , labs are perfect
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@@amf1025
Hi neighbor! I'm from ulster county NY
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So excited today! I ran on the treadmill today for the first time in my life!! I was scared of falling and my butt cheeks felt like they were going to fall off, but I did it!!!
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9months out down 110lbs and I'm loving it! Still not eating much cuz my tummy just isn't having it most days. But went frm a size 48 to a 36 ????????
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So excited today! I ran on the treadmill today for the first time in my life!! I was scared of falling and my butt cheeks felt like they were going to fall off, but I did it!!!
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Awesome job!!
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Nope. I refuse to have food be my enemy with 'good' or 'bad' foods. That's the old diet mentality.
I make choices with food. I choose to eat on plan 90-95% of the time, so when I choose to go off plan and have a piece of cake or a couple of cocktails, I don't feel guilty about it whatsoever. I know I'm still eating well the rest of the time, so it's fitting into my plan.
When the choices I'm making causes me to gain a pound or two, I dial things back and follow plan closer to 100% of the time until those couple of pounds come off. No harm, no foul.
Obviously I followed my plan closer to 98% of the time during the losing phase to get where I wanted to be, but this 'mindful moderation' way of doing things has worked for me for 2.5 years during the losing phase, and especially the maintenence phase. As long as what I'm eating aren't trigger foods that will cause me to completely go off the rails, I can balance it.
I'm in this for the long haul, and I know if I compartmentalize what is good or bad, it just feels too much like a diet to me, and we all know how well THOSE work for us

Awesome job!!
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CW 148
GW 140
I just started running so I've been using the couch to 5k app. I'd like to run in a 5k by June .
I also need to up my Water, I struggled with Water from day one over a year ago, I'd like to get over the 64 oz a day, especially on my 2 hour workout days
Other then that, I pretty much still stick to my dr guidelines of Protein first and keep my carb intake low.

cheese is life.

My mid afternoon snack most days.
It's the first thing I look for when attending social gatherings.
Low fat yuk! Never!
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My mid afternoon snack most days.
It's the first thing I look for when attending social gatherings.
Low fat yuk! Never!
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I know this is never easy however you made your decision to move forward with WLS. I had to get used to the fact that others would be eating foods that I couldn't and certainly shouldn't have.
So, my point of view is that you should not be upset with them for making that choice. Many times they offer you some because it is the nice thing to do. That being said, you might ask them not to offer it to you given it is not on your eating plan.
You will have to grow a thick skin on this because the further out you are from surgery, the more tempting indulging in those things will become.
Best of luck to you!

Working... I will however be wrapping my Christmas tree with my old clothes that I can't donate and torching it in the front yard while I dance around it like a lunatic.

pounds gone!!
SW 252
CW 152
GW 150
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@@bloomie85
this is my result after 119 pounds lost. I can live with the loose skin...

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I'll be honest, I'm a shallow a**hole, and I'm cool with it. My weight fluctuated a lot...I would be thin at around 140 for a few years, then fat at around 180-200, then back to thin, then back to fat, then back to thin, until the last time I somehow ended up at 237 and nothing I was doing was getting me thin again. I hated myself. I was so ashamed of what I looked like and I was miserable. I had the sleeve because I wanted to like myself again and I didn't want to feel as if I had no control over my weight. Also, I like being hot.
I'm now at 39 months post-op and I've been at goal for about 20 months, and within 3 pounds of goal for about 25 months. I had three major plastics procedures where I had pretty much all of me "fixed", but I actually did not really even think about the loose skin until I was within about 25 pounds of goal. Because I had lost weight before, I guess I just never really thought about being saggy, or more likely, I had not quite weighed that much before and I had gotten older, so my skin didn't bounce back like it had before. I only actually thought about it when I happened to wonder what fake boobs would look like. I scheduled a consult, with a surgeon who I think is totally awesome, and then a few days later I called and made another consult for a Tummy Tuck. Before I had that surgery with those two procedures I had no idea how confident I could feel in my own skin, since apparently I was pretty saggy most of my life and I just didn't realize it. I then had the rest of the 360 lift, a thigh lift, and a brachioplasty, and while yes, plastic surgery is a bit of a B, I would do it all over again in a second.
I would do so, not because other people now really have no idea I was ever fat, but because I can look in the mirror and not feel shame. I can wear tight clothing that I never could have worn before, I can run my hand across my stomach and feel tight, hard abs, which never, ever had I been able to do, and I can wear all of the backless shirts I never had the chance to before because the girls couldn't handle going without support. I am superficial and shallow, and I derive great joy from the fact that I wear a size 2 or 4 and I can look somewhat decent in almost anything. Plastic surgery though, while seems like it is all about shallow goals, for me was about feeling comfortable in my own skin. When someone is a jerk, I get dumped, or I have a really bad day, my first thought is never...well you're fat, so of course you're worthless...which is the way it always was before. Having my extra skin removed gave me confidence I never realized I was missing before and it has done wonderful things for my mental health.
Also, there is the very valid point made by Babbs that research indicates that people who do have plastics after major weight loss are more likely to keep the weight off. For me, I can look in the mirror and I see an attractive woman, not a deflated fat girl, and this may be shallow and stupid and I know that...but I have the right to do what makes me happy and a small luxury car in plastic surgery accomplished that. I imagine part of the reason that people who had plastics kept the weight off is because they aren't looking, everyday, at a reflection of the person they used to be. Also, for me, the removal of my extra skin made me WAY better at working out because nothing is flopping around anymore- I actually bested my 3 mile time a few months after my last procedure by almost 5 minutes, and I can definitively say that I noticed a HUGE difference in the way I felt working out when I didn't have any extra flubbiness getting in my way.
I will forever be grateful that I was in a place where I could have those procedures done and that I had such an awesome surgeon, because our goal may be to be physically healthy, but why can't the goal also be to be entirely happy in our own skin? Why shouldn't the former fat girl be allowed to feel...sexy...for the first time in her life? I don't think that wanting to be healthy means that you aren't also allowed to want to be beautiful, on your own terms, in your own way, and through whatever means you are able to accomplish that.
I am ok being shallow, because I am happy AND healthy, and I don't feel any great need to justify to myself or anyone else the road I took to get to the place I am now. So I'm as plastic as Barbie...good for damn me...and good for everyone else who does what they need to do, to be where they want to be. In the end, everyone's path is their own and how they get to where they want to be is hardly something I have any right to have an opinion about.

I walked the first few weeks then went to the elliptical. Didn't start weights till after 6 weeks. Ask your doctor thou he may be different then what I was told.
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Puree phase day 3 lunch.
1/4 cup chicken salad and a soft boiled egg.
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