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LOLOLOLzzzz the butt enhancer on this one is a crazy.

Yesterday Thursday, Jan 23 Maintenance : 5'2" / 1.25 yr PO Sleeve / 114.4 lbs ---------------------------------------- K, gonna do one more day of this low-cal business and then I'm gonna go back to a higher intake starting tomorrow so as to maintain at 115lbs. Plus we are going to my little niece's bday party tomorrow and I am totally planning on having some CAKE! ---------------------------------------- 8:00pm - 1 black coffee w/ stevia + 1 skinny tea latte 2:00pm - 1 peppermint tea + salad w/ vinaigrette + carrots + cucumber + 1 oz green apple + 4oz avocado + 2 tbsp sour cream + 1 tbsp salsa + 1/3 cup taco meat filling + 4oz kimchee ** ate half of this ** 4:00pm - ** leftovers of my 2pm meal ** 7:00pm - 1 skinny tea latte + salad w/ vinaigrette + carrots + cucumber + 1 oz green grapes + 1/2 tbsp sour cream + 1 tbsp salsa + 1/3 cup taco meat filling + 1/2 oz achovy fillets + 3 tbsp blue cheese + 1/4 cup shelled edamame ---------------------------------------- Totals: 683 cals - 35g Protein - 28g NET carbs - 42g fat

If you really want to get past and/or troubleshoot this stall, it may be in your best interest to track your food 100% of the time (for at least a little while to really KNOW for sure what you are taking in) and take your measurements. It may sound like a lot of effort, but anything worth doing is. Good Luck!

I know right? I have supplemented my wardrobe with some girls' sized clothing I got as hand-me-downs from my Kid. P.S. I just noticed we are basically the same size (weight and height)! Though it looks like you are more legs than torso, and I am more torso than legs, lol

LOL good for you for stopping (am assuming you were full)...I would've just finished that last bite off regardless!

First you look pretty HOT tummy or not. My initial response is to go with how you feel, and if you are comfortable. If you are going to be self-conscious, then choose something else. We need you to feel awesome for your Very Important Meetings. With that said, if it were me, I'd go with a a looser dress that drapes over the second curve vs hugs? P.S. Also don't think there is need to hide the boobs, it's not like you are showing alot of cleavage or anything, and they look awesome (I dont see any asymmetry in height ether...)

SHEIN.com UPDATE: OK, so I got my first SHEIN order delivered this afternoon! And no, I didn't get the entire 113 item long wishlist, LOL, I shortlisted it to a mere 8 items (this time, hahaha). One item was for the Kid so really, I only got 7. Anyhoo, for the relatively cheap prices of the products, they are much more well made than I thought they would be. Shipping to Canada took 8 days from order submission and was FREE. Sizing is pretty good, the items I got in XS fit well enough, wished they offered XXS, but I can live with the XS fit. I got a bikini in size S since they didn't have it is XS, and I sort of knew it might be too big, and yeah, it was. I also got a halter that was "ONE-SIZE", and that was too big too. Otherwise and pretty pleased with my purchases and can't wait to wear them all out somewhere!

...is this an ongoing problem for you? Do you take anything for it?

@northcountyr1...you look like a totally different person. Congrats on the weight loss and still looking great 4 years later!!!

...and so is Gwyneth Paltrow and Gwen Stefani!

sending you hearts...❤️

@Findaway : wow the wedding dress makes your waist look TINY

Update: Since putting on the scar tape, a lot of the achiness & soreness in my armpits & boobs had lessened significantly. However, last night both my boobs started aching in the underboob areas. So...Mr. suggested I get some compression going across my chest. Since my sports bras are just not tight enough, I fashioned a vest with some ace bandages. OMG my under-boob pain went from like a 6 to a 3 almost immediately. AND for some reason, I have ZERO armpit soreness now (dont know if its related or just a coincidence) I heart compression. Here is my new look (arm garment + sports bra + ace bandages + abdominal binder). I'm calling it mummy-chic. Now I want to get some leg compression socks...

Does it have the texture of Haloomi?

@Arabesque thanks for the recipe! I'm making these tomorrow sans the oats cuz I'm a little carb-phobic, LOL

I was wondering where you were...hadn't seen/read you around much. Happy that you are well and going strong! Here's to crushing some fitness goals! 😘 P.S. You know, full disclosure: since the beginning of my involvement in this forum over a year ago, you quickly became one of the folks on here I aspire to emulate...so hopefully I will be following in your footsteps and cross the line over to being fitness-centric as well in the near future ❤️

K, here is my contribution to the conversation: 1) During and immediately after the weight loss, my neck was in serious turkey territory. At the time it was my number one priority for plastics. But over about 3-4 months after I stopped losing weight, my neck is significantly less gobble-gobbley. I've done nothing to it except maybe massage it every morning and night when applying my moisturizer. It is still not the best, but it is much better than before. And I'm 47 so my snap-back-young-skin days are behind me. Sooooo for those still in weight loss or just finishing, give it some time and you may see some improvement later on. 2) In the summer of 2018 (before WLS), I started a round of IPL and Laser to remove my freckles. First it totally works, and second, it had the bonus side effect of reducing the appearance of lines at the side of my eyes, between my eyebrows and to a lesser extend my nasolabial folds. I believe it has to do with the whole encouraging collegen growth. However, now with all the weight loss (and I haven't gone again since surgery), my wrinkles are back plus some. I paid $1000 CAD for 6 sessions. Sooooo, I can attest to the validity of IPL and Laser to address fine wrinkles, from personal experience (I dunno about RF though). 3) I think that no amount of-non surgical options will give the result of addressing nasolabial folds & neck sagging with any a degree of high effectiveness or permanence. With the exception of botox/fillers which have results, but not the permanence (and can actually cost you more in the long run). And I'm not sure botox/fillers would address neck sag? Anyway, that's my brain dump for y'all this morning. With that said, I already have a face lift to address neck & my NL folds (and maaaaabye a butt lift) on my wish list this year...but I dunno, I am sort of sick of surgery.

Yesterday Wednesday, Jan 22 Maintenance : 5'2" / 1.25 yr PO Sleeve / 114.8 lbs ---------------------------------------- It was getting harder to NOT engage in evening snacking last night. I had a good 5-10 minute inner conversation with myself about the harmlessness of eating ONE ginger molasses cookie. After drinking a cup of tea and finding myself still thinking about that darn cookie, I decided to just go upstairs and put some physical distance between me and said cookie and go to bed. It worked, LOL. Plus I got a really good night's sleep 😎 I am sitting in the kitchen now with those cookies in my line of sight, and I don't really care for them vs. last night. I'd rather be enjoying my tea. Which I am. My scale says I got under 115 this morning. Now I know this is mostly water weight so I am going to have to sustain sub 115 for at least a week for it to really count. ---------------------------------------- 9:30pm - 1 black coffee w/ stevia + 1 skinny tea latte 2:00pm - 1 skinny tea latte + salad w/ vinaigrette + 1/2 oz avocado + 1 tbsp sour cream + 1/2 tbsp salsa + 1/8 cup taco meat filling (ground beef, red onions, jalapeño peppers) + 4 oz pan fried/roasted duck breast 7:00pm - 1 skinny tea latte + salad w/ vinaigrette+ carrots + cucumber + 1 oz avocado + 2.5 tbsp sour cream + 2 tbsp salsa + 1/3 cup taco meat filling + 2.5 oz pan fried/roasted duck breast ---------------------------------------- Totals: 649 cals - 43g Protein - 12g NET carbs - 45g fat

Yay, Sophie, I was thinking about you yesterday...glad to see you are doing well! BTW, you look way to chipper in that last photo for someone who just had surgery, LOL. And I am amazed at how straight you are able to stand! Although I suppose fleur-de-lis has a vertical incision which wouldn't hunch you down as much?...you are fortunate that you will be spared the back pain! Looking forward to reading about your progress 💜

For past 2 days, I purposefully didn't eat until 2 or 3 pm, and that part was relatively easy cuz I am not normally hungry in the morning anyway, and I just went out to shop or do errands to keep me busy until mid-afternoon when I would get home to eat my first meal. My restriction stops me from overeating, and I made sure not to eat junk (I tell myself that I can have some junk later after I lose a couple lbs, lol) The more challenging part was in the evening. I said I wouldn't eat past 7. When I felt like I wanted to eat, I drank something instead (which means I probably wasn't really hungry, just snacky). So was I hungry? I don't think so. I wasn't full either, though. Just satisfied, I guess. Edited to Add: With that said though, I will not be able to sustain this way of eating long term. I'm just doing this temporarily to get down to a happier happy-place, lol.

Sadly, I am not skilled in this way...I'd have to pay someone to do it, and adding the cost of that to the dress just doesn't make it worth it anymore. I returned the dresses and went shoe shopping to fill the void. I found these suede green babies and put them on hold for later cuz I was emotional-shopping and need to decide if I really want them when I'm less irritated...

...personally, I like the stuffed sausage sensation over the balloon effect, lol.

Yesterday Tuesday, Jan 21 Maintenance : 5'2" / 1.25 yr PO Sleeve / 115.3 lbs ---------------------------------------- I baked a batch of molasses ginger cookies for the fam last night and didn't even eat one *mic drop* 😎 ---------------------------------------- 9:00pm - 1 black coffee w/ stevia + 1 skinny tea latte 3:00pm - salad w/ vinaigrette + carrots + cucumber + 3 tbsp blue cheese + 2.5 oz apple stuffed pork loin + 1.5 oz kimchee 7:30pm - salad w/ vinaigrette+ carrots + cucumber + 1.5 oz avocado + 3.5 tbsp sour cream + 1 tbsp salsa + 1/2 cup taco meat filling (ground beef, red onions, jalapeño peppers) ---------------------------------------- Totals: 584 cals - 32g Protein - 26g NET carbs - 35g fat

The pity party continues... I went dress shopping yesterday to ease my pain of not being able to wear pants comfortably yet and ended up coming home with 3 dresses...all of which I am returning cuz after modelling them to the Kid, she pointed out they are too big. I was so excited at the store trying them on because my tummy didn't look huge (to me) in them, that I failed to notice they were to kinda big in other places. Duh. I am returning them this afternoon and am very sad because I know they didn't have any of these in smaller sizes. Whaaa.

Ah popcorn. I have been known to get a couple handfuls from my date at the movies on occasion. Though the last time I had popcorn, it was of the caramel kind and I missed about 30 mins of the movie cuz I had to do my dumping business in the washroom. 🙄