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Aaaaaaah. Ok, well in that case: Protein Bread! Or like you said, jut cut it out. After a few days your cravings will go away Nope never tried it. I've seen it in the grocery and always linger and read the labels but have never actually put any in my cart. If I ever have a major craving (which I haven't so far) I may just have to try. The closet I get to pasta are Shiratake noodles, which are nowhere close to actual delicious pasta, but it'll do, LOL.

Yeah, I know what I stated was a very simplified assessment, and everyone is different, I get that too. Maybe I should have prefaced it with "As it pertains to me..." I am probably the average person whose metabolism is not so very disordered. Calories in and out affects me pretty straight-forwardly. Edited to add: ...or maybe i am not average and am actually outlier...I dunno? Edited to add #2: While I don't eat before noon, I do often eat up until and beyond midnight.... Edited to add #3: I also have a relatively low body fat percentage so that is also a contributing factor...?

Pasta: I had it for the first time at 11 months post op while on vacation. It was delicious. Haven't had it since I got back home. I figure I'll keep it as vacation food. (I also tried regular bread and rice during the same vacation, but surprisingly they didn't do much for me, so not eating them is no biggie) On the other hand, I know I can't tolerate sugar (i.e., desserts) in large quantities, but I indulge anyway. Sometimes its worth it, most times it's not. LOL. P.S. Can you swap out the regular bread with some no/low-carb bread? So you can still enjoy with less "carbi-consequenes"?

@okayestmom your pups are adorbs. It's clear you (and your daughter and your husband) are dog-lovers! Love that Sandy is asymmetrical too. Bwha-hahahhhahaha 😂 Could you go for the walk and have someone else hold the leashes? I'm feeling restless myself these days as I haven't left the house since Friday. It's raining and slick out so a quick walk outside is a no-go. I'm resorting to pacing back and forth on the front porch every couple of hours. Mr. said I could tag along with him to go to get an oil change for his car later. I'm actually excited.

More like 4.

You know, I've done the reading about the benefits of IF and all that, and in terms weight management, I have read the many success stories of others that have implemented it in some form or another and I have even noticed increased rate of weight loss when I do it. Overall though, I also subscribe to the idea that IF speeds up weight loss because at the end of the day, you just end up eating less calories. Less calories = weight loss. I don't eat breakfast in the traditional sense. My first meal of the day is generally after noon. Unless I'm on vacation or if I have brunch plans. Now on those days that I do eat before noon, I notice I still eat the same amount for the rest of the day as if it were a normal non-breakfast day. So more calories = weight maintain or gain. I know there are other aspects of the IF methodologies, but in essence, in terms of weight loss, I think the old adage holds true: Eat less calories than your body burns and you will lose weight. Disclaimer: I also know that the above statement is not held up by some, and I respect that.

Yesterday, Sunday, Dec. 29 Maintenance : 5'2" / 1yr PO Sleeve / ??? lbs (last weigh in 115.0 lbs on Dec 18th) ---------------------------------------- * TMI Alert * Now that the constipation has passed, I sort of have the opposite issue now. I pooped THREE TIMES yesterday. Not diarrhea poops, but the good S-shaped poops that come out nicely. And not just little S's, I'm talking long-ish snake-like poops. THREE TIMES. I was pretty hungry yesterday I think as a result... ---------------------------------------- 1:00pm - salad w/ vinaigrette + cucumber + 1 grilled shrimp + 1 oz grilled octopus + 4 oz grilled pork chop + 1/4 cup full fat milk 3:30pm - 1 oz beef jerky + 2 french macarons 5:00pm - salad w/ vinaigrette + cucumber + carrots + 1/2 avocado + 1oz cheddar + 1 oz almonds + 3 oz grilled pork chop 7:00pm - 1/2 cup greek yogurt + 1 oz blueberries + 1/2 oz almonds + 1 tsp chia seeds + 1 oz beef jerky + 2 Lindt Lindor Chocolate Truffles 10:00pm - salad w/ vinaigrette + 1 grilled shrimp + 1/2 oz grilled squid + 1.5 oz bbq pork + 1/2 oz roast beef ---------------------------------------- Totals: 1706 cals - 114g Protein - 85g NET carbs - 95g fat

LOL you are right! the keyboard letters are not mirrored...now why did I think they were? ** Ok, now I've got another mystery for you. in the Before pics, my left hand had the IV in it.....and I took both sets of pictures with the same phone... ???????? ** Edited to add: just did a little experimenting, the mirror effect does not happen with the native camera app on the phone but it does happen when using the camera via 3rd party apps (i.e, Snapchat & Instagram). I'm pretty sure I used the native camera app to take all pics though, so I dunno why my giant IV-inserted left hand looks like its my right...??

Lol, i had to do a double take too. Phone cameras don't mirror image subjects like regular cameras do. Look at the letters on my keyboard...

So I'm hoping to wear actual pants for NYE instead of these yoga pants and joggers I've been living in for the past 12 days. So I tried on my jeans and the button closed, but barely. And breathing was not the easiest, lol. I know, I know, I'm supposed to put the tape measure away. Obviously, I'm not a good listener, as I went ahead and took some measurements. NOTE: I just realized that my math sux and that I should have stated in my quote above that my waist measurement increase was +5.5 inches (and NOT 4.5" 🙄 ) ...anyhoo, I am happy to report that my +5.5" waist circumference swell has reduced to a +2.5" swell. I'm down to 28". I wonder if when all is said and done I will get smaller than my pre-op measurement of 25.5"? He didn't take much bulk off, mostly only skin, so probably not, right?

@chayarg : have you tried Intermittent Fasting? Lots of folks on here have experienced great success with it. Basically it's time restricted eating. One of the psychological benefits of it is that that instead of thinking "I can never have this" and feel constantly deprived, it becomes more of "I can't have this right now". There are whole bunch of other benefits, as well. There is a long running thread on this topic here:

Maintenance : 5'2" / 1yr PO Sleeve / ??? lbs (last weigh in 115.0 lbs on Dec 18th) ---------------------------------------- Friday, Dec. 27 ---------------------------------------- 3:30pm - salad w/ vinaigrette + 1/2 oz cheddar cheese + 1/4 avocado + 1 oz honey glazed ham + 4 chocolate covered coffee beans + 5:30pm - 1/2 cup greek yogurt + 1 oz blueberries + 1 tbsp sliced almonds + 1 tbsp dried cranberries 7:30pm - salad w/ vinaigrette + 1 oz roast pork w/ 1 tbsp gravy + 1/4 oz cheddar cheese + 1 oz avacodo + 1/2 white chocolate macadamia cookie + 1/8 Portuguese custard tart 10:30pm - 2 Keto choco-coconut fat bombs Totals: 1202 cals - 51g Protein - 81g NET carbs - 69g fat ---------------------------------------- Yesterday, Saturday, Dec. 28 ---------------------------------------- 2:00pm - 1/2 cup crab & corn chowder + 1 veggie spring roll + 1 cocktail shrimp + 1 oz pork chop + 1 cup Ginataan (a Filipino coconut-milk based desert with sticky rice balls and fruit. 5:30pm - salad w/ vinaigrette + 3.5 oz grilled octopus + 1/2 a pork sui mai + 3 turnip cubes + 2.5 oz pork chop + 1 shot of Amaretto 9:00pm - 3oz pork chop + 1 Keto choc-coconut fat bomb. Totals: 946 cals - 54g Protein - 74g NET carbs - 40g fat ----------------------------------------

The bra is a different color, but the exact same (when I find one that fits comfortably I buy them all). ...you may be related to @sillykitty ..but there are positive things about being flat chested even when I was overweight. Less sag, no under boob sweat, less weight to lift while doing a plank. I was big-boobed since puberty. Even after my breast reduction circa 2005, I still had big boobs. I think I liked them big because other people seemed liked them. They were a no-effort confidence booster. However, I love that my boobs are smaller now. Even more so that for the first time since I was like 14 yrs old, they are PERKY. Also, I don't see a flat-chested person in your pics. You've got a plenty of boob going on up there. Also, I wonder why the left side swells more, is it a heart thing? Just curious my swelling is getting better as well. The nurse mentioned that the difference in swell size in my hands could be because my giant hand was the one with the IV in it. But I dunno. The left-side-heart-theory sounds like a possibility too. When you feel better clothes shopping is going to be more fun! Oh, shopping had long ago become a fun activity for me again. I can't afford for it to get any more fun, I will lose my house, LOL. *** I forgot to ask you earlier: in your pics, you look like you are already standing up straight? How many days post op were you able to accomplish this? I am on day 12 and still can't do it....

This is the one I get whenever its on sale at Costco (price is in Canadian Dollars, lol)

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.