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check out the Maintenance Menu Thread:

It was 400g/.88lbs from ALL the areas in total, LOL (arms, tummy, side boob)

I wasn't given any food related instructions in terms of avoiding any specific foods from my surgeon, nor have I ever heard of foods that can affect scar healing... But I was given the following tips to follow or not long term from my surgeon: massage incisions if you can stand it keep area hydrated/moisturized (I told him I was planning on using Bio-Oil, and he for it) Use silicone scar tape for 3-6 months stay away from the sun optional: cortisone shots in the future (which can be covered by insurance)

Your new boobs make your waist look teeny-tiny! Va-va-voom 😍 You look reeeeeeeaaaaaaaallllllly good and I want your skirt. And your booties. Are you able to do all the things you were able to do pre-surgery, mobility-wise?

Again with the awesome shoes! Looking SHARP.

Sorry everybody, I'm on a posting-spree at the moment... Here is a pic of the compression garments in play these days (I'm aaaaaaaalmost standing up straight!)

Some BEFORE and AFTER / IN PROGRESS pics of my left arm and abdomen! P.S. Sorry no B&A boob pics, but I did some measurements and it looks like I went from a 30B/28C to a 30D (mind you I am still swollen so this is likely to get smaller) *image-specific comments are include with the pics below...

* TMI Alert * So this AM, it actually wasn't bad at all (at least the pooping part). Now the holding in suppository was another story... First I have to mention that Mr. was not down with doing suppository last night in the end, he wanted to wait the full 24 hours as per the packaging for Take Two. Now, yesterday I had the suppository in less than 2 mins before I started to feel the urge, which resulted in pooping out just the suppository. Boo. So this morning I kept that sucker in there for 15 minutes despite the fact that I could feel my body already wanted to go after 2 mins. Not sure if that was a good thing (cuz it took some real effort NOT to go), but at the end of those 15 mins, I was rewarded with a long-ish snake like poop that slid out with minimal effort. YAY!!! I was expecting a bunch of watery stuff to follow, but that was it. Which leads me to suspect that there is still stuff up in there (plus I still feel relatively bloated). So Miralax/Clearlax, Benefibre, Chia is going back into my daily diet until I start to feel normal again. Finally, I didn't do a before and after weigh in, LOL that was the last thing on my mind a the time. In fact I haven't done a "real" weigh in since surgery. I did do one fully clothed and constipated yesterday and it was 115, which was my weight the morning of surgery. Right now all I care about is fitting back into my jeans!! (oh and the ability to stand up straight would be awesome too)

* Begin Nerd Alert * Moving averages basically smooths out the fluctuations of data points in a graph, where in our case the "data points" are the daily weigh ins. For instance, I use a 10 -day moving average. Each day's weekly weigh-in is averaged out with the last 10 days' entries to give me an average. So if I am 115 lbs for 9 days and then on the 10th day i go up to 120lbs, instead of accepting this outlier number of 120 lbs as my weight, I would use 115.5 lbs ( ( 115 * 9 days ) + ( 120 * 1 day ) ) / 10 days = 115.5 Now if I continue to stay at 120 lbs over time, then this is reflected in my moving average as it hangs around. Heres the calc if I am at 115 lbs for 5 days and then be at 120 lbs for the next 5 days: ( (115 * 5 days ) + ( 120 * 5 days ) ) / 10 days = 117.5 Only if I stay at 120 lbs for 10 days then do I theoretically accept my weight at 120 lbs: ( 120 * 10 days ) / 10 days = 120.0 By using a moving average, the daily fluctuations are evened out and gives you a little bit of perspective and hopefully alleviate some stress/anxiety from focusing on a number likely attributed to water weight or poop retention/release on any given day. P.S. As I progressed into maintenance, I increased the divisor (number of days to include in the average) as my daily fluctuations now are much more varied than it was during weight loss mode. * End Nerd Alert * - hopefully you stayed awake long enough to read this last line, LOL ❤️

@McCaw1980, holy CRAP you look amazing. Even those last 25 lbs lost from September to now can totally be seen in your latest After Picture. You must be busting with pride P.S. I think I may have the exact same pic on the beach with the buildings in the background (with a heavier me in it)..Gold Coast?

...also: THE PACKAGE HAS BEEN DELIVERED. THE EAGLE HAS LANDED. ELVIS HAS LEFT THE BUILDING. ...and so concludes Poop Watch 2019 after 13 effing days.

#winning @rs : are you able to put on the garment yourself? How is your arm mobility now?

Curious: what about the band do you miss?

Haven't tried, no...am hesitant to do so after all these different measures without consulting my PCP. But Mr, and I decided to draw a definitive line in the sand: if the suppository does not work tonite, he's taking me to the ER for some professional help. Again, its not so much that I'm in any pain (should I be?), it's more that I'm totally freaked out of the idea of 12 days of poop in me. P.S. I started feeling "earth moving" feelings in the left side of my stomach (like when a bout of diarrhea is about to come on) about 45 mins ago...prunes working perhaps?

Sexy AND clever. Nice.

People Suck... I didn't tell many people that I had WLS (just Mr, the Kid, Mom, Sister & BFF). Those NOT in know were told that I ate much less, chose healthier foods, cut out carbs and exercised every day to lose the weight. I've been in maintenance for a while now, so being the main topic of conversation at family parties has lessened. My weight loss is no longer interesting, thank goodness. These past couple days, showing up at the various Xmas parties this season hunched over from my TT, I decided to let those who asked that I had plastic surgery to remove excess skin from massive weight loss. I was surprised to get the comments and questions most on here get from others when they share they had WLS! I got: "Why didn't you just do it the real way?" "Cutting your body parts off is a little drastic, isn't it? Why didn't you just go to the gym and turn it into muscle?" "I think if you just dieted more, your skin would have shrunk just like your body did"'. "Plastic Surgery is cheating". "Wow, that's pretty vain of you". After attempting to explain to the first two or three busy-bodies that skin cannot turn to muscle nor shrink with massages or lotions (!), I gave up. I always knew people are sometimes stupid, but man, extended family seems to always raise that bar of stupidity to new levels. Should have stayed home and kept my mouth shut. Le sigh. To add insult to injury, I didn't even get to dull the drone of their yapping with alcohol. I am on a regular date schedule with my new friend, BENEDRYL to keep the itching at bay, and have yet to finish my round of antibiotics, so I figured I should refrain. Which was too bad, as I'm sure a couple glasses of wine would have made these people much more funny and much less annoying. Le double sigh. Poop Watch 2019 continues... Today marks Day 12. I am carrying TWELVE days of poop in me, people. Mr. (he's a keeper) assisted me with suppository insertion this morning. After no less than 2 minutes, I felt the sweet, sweet urge to push. So I skipped (skipped!) to the toilet and out came........a partially melted suppository. That's it. Are you effing kidding me. Now, the instructions on the box said not to use more than once in a 24 hour period. It also said that it should have worked within 15 mins to an hour. So I'm going to try it again at 6pm tonite, which is 12 hours after this morning's attempt as I figure I basically pooped the suppository out before it even melted and do its thing. In the meantime I ate 2 prunes. Good News is that it didn't make me sick, Bad News is that I am not a fan of the taste. I am also drinking water like a crazy person. Miraculously, despite my backed-upped-ness, I don't have any pain nor cramps. Just a feeling of absolute bloat. Ugh. In other news... Haven't weighed myself since the day of surgery (I was 115 lbs even 10 days ago). Out of curiosity I stepped on the scale earlier and surprise! I am still 115 lbs even. However, I was fully clothed, along with wearing an arm compression shrug & abdominal binder, am retaining fluid to the equivalent of a 4.5" increase in waist circumference, AND have 12 DAYS OF POOP in my belly. Arms continue to not comfortably raise higher than my shoulders. I am not yet standing up straight. Hands continue to deflate and my forearms no longer make me look like Popeye (I'd say they are maybe 85% to normal) The v-jay is no longer sore (but is still looking up at me!) For some reason my skin on my face is FABULOUS. I suspect this is due to: (1) not wearing make up for 10 days (2) all the water I have been drinking (3) all the sleep I have been getting (4) swelling??? Been wearing too-big clothes for comfort and ease, and am totally looking forward to putting something cute on and going out. BUT. MY. PANTS. DON'T. FIT. Le Triple Sigh.

An excerpt of my 10 day Plastics Post-op Update (link to this below): * TMI Alert * Poop Watch 2019 continues... Today marks Day 12. I am carrying TWELVE days of poop in me, people. Mr. (he's a keeper) assisted me with suppository insertion this morning. After no less than 2 minutes, I felt the sweet, sweet urge to push. So I skipped (skipped!) to the toilet and out came........a partially melted suppository. That's it. Are you effing kidding me. Now, the instructions on the box said not to use more than once in a 24 hour period. It also said that it should have worked within 15 mins to an hour. So I'm going to try it again at 6pm tonite, which is 12 hours after this morning's attempt as I figure I basically pooped the suppository out before it even melted and do its thing. In the meantime I ate 2 prunes. Good News is that it didn't make me sick, Bad News is that I am not a fan of the taste. I am also drinking water like a crazy person. Miraculously, despite my backed-upped-ness, I don't have any pain nor cramps. Just a feeling of absolute bloat. Ugh.

You're making this constipated girl hungry. And that is a feat. Also: Kick-ass cheesecake bar recipe, PLEASE!

Yeah, its likely fluid. Don't want to complicate anything, but if you have the time (and the inclination), you could calculate your moving average (or download an app that does it for you) which could soften the blow of any visual fluctuations on the scale, on paper at least

ASS. KEEPER.

Seeee??? Confidence. The ultimate by-product of all of this. ❤️

Love the sweater...and the colour even more Congrats on the 205 lbs loss. That is CRAZY.

Day. TWELVE. 😳

Wowza. The difference is AMAZING. Yay, you!!!!