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Look at em GUNS! NIce!

I'm not @lesslana, but this is the scale I have (the Withings Body+ smart scale). https://www.withings.com/ca/en/body-plus It's got pretty good reviews, tracks the main body composition info for up to 8 different people, is wi-fi and bluetooth enabled and now comes in 4 pretty colours, lol (I have white). It doesn't do heart rate though, but my watch does that so I can live with that.

I was told this as well.

I had back pain around my 1 month mark, and was told the same, posture changing etc. I also had hip pain around the same time. Then sometime between month 2 and 3 they both went away. May have been because my body adjusted, or because I started to exercise. Worth noting that during this "pain" time was when I lost the most weight, at the fastest rate.

According to the BMI scales, the "normal" weight range for a woman my height is 101-135 lbs. So I just picked a number in the middle-ish: 120 lbs as my goal weight. As for my surgeon, he had at first suggested that I could expect to lose about 60% of my excess weight in a year. Which, based on his estimation of 130 lbs as a benchmark for "normal" weight for me, meant I could expect to lose about 63 lbs by my one year surgery anniversary. He was pleased to find out that I lost those 63 lbs by my 3 month post op mark. I'm don't think its always helpful for surgeons to give their patients goal weights, though...but that's just me.

Walk, walk, walk, it will go away soon. ♥️

ditto.

Same. I weigh every morning when I get up. I have one of those smart scales that keeps track for me and I pay attention to my moving average more than the daily numbers. So long as my moving average is going down, I'm good. Though I do know that some people get some anxiety with the daily up and down fluctuations or stalls, so if this is you, maybe a less frequent weigh in may be better.

Hubba hubba. You look great! Congrats

I did this for the first time ever back in January (about 3 months ago) and it was great. I've been two more times since, and would like to go more often, but it's not easy to find a climbing partner...I don't think i'd enjoy it as much if I didn't have company; I may join a group or something in the summer... So....the first time I went my fitness level was slim to none. I was only walking daily and just started going to the gym around that time. I think I was around 180 lbs at the time too (there is a weight max of 275 or 300 lbs i *think*), and I was able to climb just fine on the beginner walls, and with some effort, could reach most of the tops of the intermediate walls. My one tip would be to take it slow and rest in between climbs. I was too excited about the newness of it all I may have went a little too fast, too much that first day because the next day I was SORE. Omg, like crazy full body sore. I didn't realize how many muscles (like all of them!) are used in climbing. Even my all around my neck was sore for f's sakes. But it is a lot of fun and I'd say try it out and don't worry about being embarrassed, you'll be too focused on getting to the top (which is so satisfying and confidence-building to reach) Oh, and the place I went to smelled like feet. Apparently that's normal. You get used to it. 😁

oops. baked before i read this. 😐

#6 Bake Cookies for a Friend. Chocolate Chip Cookies (the REAL kind) for my BFF and her fam. Of course, Mr. and the Kid smelled them and insisted on keeping half the batch for themselves and eating them for breakfast. Damn their athletic metabolisms and bottomless-pit-stomachs! This is what is left. I assume they were delicious (they certainly smelled nice).

*smacks lips*

...the seaweed snacks are missing....

I'm a little over 5 months post op and I carry the following everywhere I go: beef jerky, a day's worth of vitamins & a thermos. Earlier when I was newly sleeved, I would also carry around a mix bottle with a scoop of protein powder in it, and fill it with water if/when I needed it.

omg i have to do this.

2 NSV's at my checkup today: 1) my body fat percentage is 31% which puts me in the "acceptable"/"average" range for women. yay! 2) i have a thigh gap (of sorts)! had to take off my clothes and stand with my feet 6-8" apart, and lo and behold light could be seen shining between my legs (ok, that sounded weird).

Wow wow wow. 111 lbs is 6 months is AWESOME. Congratulations!!! I hear you about sizing...its so inconsistent among stores. But its fun to shop now, isn't it?

#5 Take a long deep breath. Done. 😁 That was easy. Went to my 6th month post op check up today with my nutritionist, nurse and social worker (3 weeks early, as I had to reschedule my appts), and all's good so far, other than that my NUT wants me to eat more carbs/fibre as she would like me to poop more, she didn't talk about calories this time, which was different. Lab work done a well, but won't get results until a couple weeks.

A pre-plastic-surgery Leah Remini...which is weird because I'm asian.

EDIT: I see you posted this on another thread, so I removed my original response so as not to have duplicates

#4 Exercise: Went to gym after dropping the Kid off at school, did 20 mins upper body strength training with free weights (arms, shoulders, back, chest). Then went to Hot Yoga (1 hour) Later tonite, after the fam has dinner will do my daily 5km walk around the neighbourhood.

You. Are. A. Beast! 😮

The length of time it takes me to eat. Sometimes i just want to hurry it up already (at which i will get rewarded with some awesome foamies), and other times I just want to just say F it, i dont want to keep having to eating this. I’m always the last person eating, and I feel like I’m drawing attention to myself, amplified by the miniscule portions on my plate.