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agreed. but in the defense of the BBL-ers, ain't nothing wrong nor judgeable with those either! love and speedy recovery to everyone who chooses to have surgery, no matter what kind of surgery that is ❤️.

its been a couple months since i last made a salad for myself at home in my trusty salad bowl. i blame the holidays and vacation and pure laziness! salads always, ALWAYS! hits the spot! 347 cals for the entire bowl, ate about 3/4 of it? yummer! p.s. i don't normally eat this late (its after 9pm here), but i was making and assembling empanadas for the past couple hours to fry in my deep fryer tomorrow. never deep fried my empanadas before (i always bake them)...we'll see if they turn out...i'll post pics tomorrow!)

so today the deep fryer i bought on an online sale was delivered (yes, i said deep fryer! don't judge me!) i spent all morning and afternoon researching recipes so that i could use my new toy. short-listed to 5 recipes that i knew i already had the required ingredients on hand for, and then....realized i had no oil! whomp, whomp. sooooo.....dinner tonight ended up being strawberry yougurt with a chopped up fresh fig on top. i was so hungry (cuz i forgot to have lunch because of the aforementioned researching, dammit) that I ate 2 of these babies. (2x yougut) + (2x figs) = 360 calories. isnt my tiny spoon the cutest!??

Ace!

i noticed my face slimmer after just 10-15 lost lbs. but this makes/made sense to me because, historically, if i gained 10-ish pounds, i saw the change in in my lower cheeks. ive updated all my picture id to look what i look like now except my passport. i had just got one of those 10-yr validity passports a couple months before surgery and today i still have another 5 yrs left on it. it does often cause a delay when i cross borders as the agents always do double takes, ugh. sometimes they comment or ask about the weight loss, and once an agent actually called over another agent to show them my passport and they both looked me over incredulously. that was awkward. but i've never been denied entry.

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1/2 a toasted bagel with melty cheese a piece of spam. 345 cals. basically ate it all. i've become accustomed to not eat anything just for the sake of eating it...thereby undoing a lifetime of "clean your plate" mentality. so even if it's a tiny morsel of food that keeps me from a polished plate, i won't eat it unless i actually, really, want to eat it.

eventually, most likely, yes. but you may not want to. either because of a reaction to sugar or stomach real estate or the starts of slippery slopes. i'm 5+ years out, and while i've sampled many a slice of pie over the years, i have not yet, even once, eaten an entire regular slice (i think, at least, if i DID, i mostly likely paid the price), which is fine by me as a taste/bite is enough for me and a whole slice would have me on the couch suffering from the effects of dumping (i.e., the "price") but yeah, eventually you'll likely to be able to eat the way you used to. your decision if u want to or not good luck! ❤️

Edit: <-- content deleted and moved --> I started a reply but it went on a tangent and became small novel so I moved it somewhere more appropriate (which can be found at the link below!). But the gist of it is what you are going through is temporary and most, if not all, of us have gone thru it in varying degrees. Today's concern will likely be a footnote for you in the future. And there are many more concerns to come your way that will likely have the same fate. Hang in there ❤️

yep, i had a tummy tuck, arm lift and breast lift back in 2019. since i didn't get implants (just a lift) i didn't really go up a bra size, i pretty much stayed the same, so clothing wise, no change....BUT i did buy new bras anyway because my boobs fit bra's differently...for instance, i used to spill out of demi-cup bras pre-surgery cuz of all the loose skin, but afterwards i looked much better in them, an no longer needed "full coverage" bras to hold all my boob material in, haha. Further, since after the breast lift, i go commando more often than not because the boobs stay up on their own now lol (which btw, is a total bonus for wearing those triangle bikini tops )

yesterday's snack and dinner. SNACK: nuts and hershey's kisses (i blame the kisses on the poster who mentioned them last week...couldn't get them out of my mind so had to buy them of course!). Ate it all: 366 calories DINNER: Mr. grilled me up a big ol ribeye at my request! kinda anti-climactic for the actual portion i ate, but still. it was effing delicious...plus there is still leftover i can eat today! 309 calories for my plate, ate it all. including the steak in its entirety below (second pic)

am totally going to try this

shhhh...yea it is! 😂😂😂😂

i was so excited to get new clothes i started buying around 3 months post op (even though i still had a horde of "skinny clothes" i could still wear that i kept all those years). and i continued to buy clothes here and there as i shrunk, and especially when i sized out of all my skinny clothes. the clothes i bought only lasted maybe 3-4 weeks before they were too big to wear anymore. annoying yes, but i had sooo much fun shopping and wearing cute new stuff, i didn't mind so much. though from a practical sense, i probably should have just bought more sparingly and focused on items that would last longer (think drawstings, wraps, belt-able items...and nothing structured or tailored-fit). best tine to overhaul ur wardrobe would be when u have been in maintenance for a couple months....but then where's the fun in that??? 😂

another online sale purchase i am not sure about! its a gold-ish, ruffled, asymmetrical, one-shoulder top. the listing called it a "statement top". nobody in the house is a fan, but i really like it for some reason...i think with a pair of black wide or straight leg pants with stilettos i could pull it off. BUT i have no occasion to wear it in the horizon. im probably gonna keep it since it was only $15 (Canadian!) on sale.

one of my post-holiday sale purchases: a faux leather trench coat. i first ordered it in XS, bit it seemed a little big so i exchanged it for this XXS...still feels a little big in the shoulders and the sleeves are def too long. undecided if i am going to keep it. The Kid says its too Matrix-y and Mr. says its giving Inspector Gadget vibes 😂😂😂😂😂😂

well i love ur xmas outfit! it would totally fit in for my fams xmas day morning and afternoon parties...about 7-8 years ago we all sort of all silently decided to show up xmas morning at the in-laws in our pjs or other loungewear...we stayed this way throughout the morning into the afternoon party at my SIL's. lol but we would change into something more presentable for the xmas dinner party whereever it was held hahahha the beauty of wearing comfy clothes at xmas: as elle woods would say: they aren't as "binding" (i.e., room AND camouflage for food bellies!)

i wanna play too! on the left: May 2018 - 5 months before surgery...235 lbs on the right: last month, Dec 2023 - 5 yrs, 2 months after surgery...dunno what i weighed that day as i was on vacay with no access to scale, but this morning i clocked in at 117.2 lbs.

went to a late night Izakaya joint last night (a Japanese bar and tapas place) 1. octopus crudo with nori strips (ate 1: a snall spoonful of octopus put in a strip and eaten like a micro-taco) 2. steak tartare with crostini (ate a HEAPING spoonful of tartare on 1/2 a crostini) 3. grilled white miso salmon with rapini (ate ALL the greens and ALMOST all the salmon..my dinner companions had some to taste, i ate the rest) estimated 375 calories for what i ate, but that seems a little low, so imma gonna pad that up to 500 for the unknown ingredients i inevitably missed. oh, and i also had 3 gin and sodas, so tack on another 300 cals... so total would be 800 calories for the evening. adds up, huh? there was more items on the table that i didn't try (boo) because i made the rookie mistake of drinking mid-meal (double boo)

1/2 a jr. bacon cheeseburger and some fries with gravy. 297 calories for the plate, ate it all.

i told exactly 5 (trusted) ppl for this very reason. still got a couple comments tho...but i digress. i'd like to think that if someone said this to me, i'd just look em in the eye and agree with them. basically shuts them down cuz they don't need to defend their position. done. *mic drop* lol