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So i did JUST say i would cut down on eating cookies, but that doesn’t mean I can stop baking them! I find I am a late-night-boredom baker and here is a batch of ginger snap cookies that I whipped up last night due to the aforementioned boredom. I haven’t eaten any (yet?) but if I did, one would be 100 calories.

Coconut shrimp…mmmm…yummmmm

Operation Try-Not-to-Eat-So-Much-Crap: Day One. Gonna try to cut down on the alcohol, cookies and popcorn I’ve apparently been consuming quire a bit of late. Just to see if I can! Today’s salad lunch: 238 calories. Still in the middle of eating it, and will likely finish all of it by the time the day is over. There is a bunch or romaine leaves under all those toppings, swearies, lol

Sittin’ on the porch just chillin’ with my feet up. Just had to take a pic at ALL THE EXTRA ROOM i have in my rain boots since losing the weight ….I remember being so bummed that I couldn’t get my giant calves to fit into tall boots…now i’ve got room to spare! *high fives self*

Yes, fun…but definitely NOT for weight loss phase!

Yeah...I tried to find the feature in the mobile version, but it only does it for max 7 days. The desktop version does charts for 7, 30, 90, 180 days and 1 yr. Oh, and it also does export (to .CSV format) for whatever duration you want.

I'm 3 years out, and over 2 years in maintenance. Like some above, I weigh myself every morning (to make sure i'm not leaning to far above or below my happy weight range); I track everything I eat (to keep eye on caloric intake), get some exercise in (run min 5K 2-3 times a week, plus other random activities here and there: dancing, hiking, swimming). I've figured out that at my current activity level, i can maintain my current weight at around 1800 cals a day. Other random things I do that I *think* contribute to MY maintenance (or could just be habit now and may not actually be making a lick of difference, lol): I try to keep bread, rice, pasta intake low. I don't completely avoid them, but they don't have main billing in my diet, or even supporting cast. More like nameless extras with non-speaking roles, lol I make it a point to never eat to full. I may not always succeed, but I try. I wear tight pants. Don't laugh, but having tight pants on when I go out for dinner helps to ensure that I won't overeat to over-fullness, when it's easier to do so cuz I'm just sitting around a table for hours with food, you know? I always share desserts (or get a mini/micro one) cuz I know dessert is my downfall. I don't eat before noon if I can help it. If my weight goes above my happy weight range, I cut some calories until I until I'm at the bottom of said range (luckily this hasn't happened in over a year...knock on wood) I do my running in the morning so its done and i don't get a chance to procrastinate throughout the day. That's all i can think of at the moment, but I'm sure there are a whole bunch of other things I do....

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Ha, I had a better offer...lololozzzzz

I think you should consider Professional Baker as an option. I'd definitely be a repeat customer.

Lolololzzzzz. It's EXACTLY like dinner roulette!!! I'm totally going to incorporate that term into my vocabulary 😂

Like others said, give it some time, you are still very early on and things will settle to a NEW normal. Water: i had pobs the first week with water…tasted so metallic to me. Found that in could stomach it if it was hot/very warm. Then a few weeks later, could only stomach it if it was ice cold. Now i can drink all kinds if temperatures. Further, the first couple weeks i could only get down tiny sips . Then suddenly I was able to gulp down lots (found this out by mistake when i was super thirsty and didn’t think to sip). Gurgling: I’m one of the ones that this still happens to years out (ill be 3 years end of this month). Not as often and loud as before, but still. It sounds like i have a swamp thing living in there. Hang in there, a year from now you can laugh at urself looking fab in a bikini. Good Luck! ❤️

Fam went to Korean BBQ (without me!) but they brought back some Banchan for me (traditional Korean side dishes), which, honestly, is my fave part of Korean BBQ anyway! Clockwise from top: Seasoned black beans, spicy marinated dried cuttlefish, spicy anchovies & peanuts, and radish kimchi. About 1.5-2 tablespoons of each. Total for plate: 170 calories. Ate it all.

Ok,I really just pulled up the logs for my own curiosity. That and I'm bored. For funsies, here are my food logs for the first 7 days of my first AI vacay post op (@10 months, and in maintenance). Again, it is probably highly inaccurate as I was just guessing what was in the food and tried to pick the closest match from the MFP database. Also, all those mojitos were actually vodka sodas...i think!! Looking it over I guess I ate more crap than I remembered! Averaged about 2200 cals a day.

Tonite's dinner: Mango salad w/ cashews, mint and ginger syrup AND a teacup filled with Massaman Chicken Curry: ate all 430 calories worth of it.

I wanna see his pics, please!!

Super cute slides, @Arabesque!! With a lovely pedicure to boot.

I sneezed once and felt sore for hours. (and I turned out ok, 😂)

Smart decision to wear more fitted styles...looks fab on you! ...and I like the colour!

Ah, we can be dress twins! I like the fit up top on the longer dress! The shorter dress is fun and cute, the longer one shhhhhexxxy. 😍 ...and that watermelon drink looks sooooooo good.

If only i didn't cut it so many times, it would have been past my boobs by now! *sigh* I actually went in to get a root perm...to fluff up the top of my head due to the the perm I had in the early summer growing out already. You can see how flat the hair is up top vs the bottom in the before pic on the left. It was pretty funny looking when I first got it though...think 80's metal band lololololzzzzz. Hecks, ya! Sometimes I'll wrap the top leg behind the bottom leg, just cuz I can. When I was bigger, if I ever managed to cross my legs, my top leg would like stick out at a 90 degree angle!

Middle eastern. Marinated roasted sliced meat on a spit typically served in a pita with various veggies and sauces, depending on region. YUM!

I hear ya. All my scars pretty much suck, but the arm ones and my side boob ones from the breast lift can’t always be covered by clothes. I looked into tattoo scar camouflage a while back but my scars are much darker than my skin AND are not smooth, and I was told this type of procedure is more effective on white, flat scars 😭😭😭 So i’m just getting a for real tattoo strategically placed on the worst side boob scar. Am gonna wait out the arm scars for now and just hope they get better. But do keep us updated, would love to see some good after pics…even if its on someone else’s arm!

Woot woot!!! Lookin’ great! 👍🏼