BlondePatriotInCDA

I appreciate the comment!

All great resolutions! Isn't it refreshing not to have a resolution to "go on a diet"!?

Happy New Year to everyone! I just wanted to wish everyone here a happy new year and I hope everyone achieves their goals and meets the upcoming year with a happy healthy body and overall outlook! Everyone deserves success for the hard work put into their bodies. Thank you for all the support you've given me and for helping others by answering their questions and concerns. What do you look forward to this year, any resolutions or new goals you've set out for yourselves (after all we've all had the lose weight one)? On to the new year and all that it brings - face it, embrace it and live it!

Not always, but they do try and utilize the skin as long as its healthy. It works better than skin from corpses! 😆

Agreed, especially since they utilize (if you authorize it) the excised skin for burn patients etc. So, the medical community is getting something at no cost, even at a profit from not only our skin, but that of the person/S needing the skin!

I'm at 16 month P.O and still on 800 calories a day. I inquired at my 12 month check in and they stated to just stay the course, but IF IF I was still hungry I could go up no more than an extra 100. Anyway, I actually find it fairly easy now on 800 and I worry about going above it - its actually easier now. I guess your body adjusts to the "new normal" and it becomes easier. Just do as your program is set up unless it becomes unbearable, but I think you'll find it should get easier for you.

Great way to look at it, thank you - I'll keep telling myself this, especially since I only have two months until my 18 month check in and don't think I'll "make goal" before my clinic visit.

You're looking fantastic! I lost my brother recently, its never easy, I'm sorry you lost your grandmother. Take care of yourself, it sometimes becomes a second thought and sometimes a third after we lose a loved one. My thoughts are with you.

Its most definitely a win! Sorry you were at first over whelmed, but take it as the wonderful win that it is.

Congratulations! A very momentous occasion worth celebrating. 😁

Ohh, I've been contemplating getting a helix piercing... Glad you mentioned this!

I feel someone noticing is so much better than just seeing the scale drop! Congrats!

Lol it feels wonderful! Thank you! You've made your goal weight and then some, definitely reason to feel proud and to celebrate! Great job!

Wow, you had me tearing up. You've come so far and through so much. You have great reasons to be proud of yourself.

Welcome! You've got this! Congratulations on your upcoming surgery. You've made a great decision for the rest of a healthy new life! 🤗

As of today I'm officially considered "normal" weight! Finally I'm no longer obese or overweight: Result BMI = 24.9 kg/m2 (Normal) 161718.525303540UnderweightNormalOverweightObesityBMI = 24.9 Healthy BMI range: 18.5 kg/m2 - 25 kg/m2 Healthy weight for the height: 107.8 lbs - 145.6 lbs BMI Prime: 1 Ponderal Index: 15.3 kg/m3 <Happy dance>

😂 Yeah I completely understand this! I can't find a comfortable sleeping position anymore - everything rubs bones upon bones and everything aches! Extra pillows in strategic places helps! What I don't understand is I didn't have this problem before when I weighed 108! BBF (before being fat)!

Thank you for your questions. My dieticians said anymore protein and bodies can't process it so it ends up being a waste unless I'm a hard core body builder / marathon runner athlete. They balked about going up even 100 calories...plus protein doesn't register as feeling full for me, it never has long term. I can drink a 26gram protein drink and nothing. Whereas carbs fill me up, so its a constant battle..or it was... It was agreed that I should start Glp-1's. I've been using this tool for the last few months and all I can say for me they're amazing. The constant mind food harassment has stopped! I no longer feel hungry all the time unless its nearing meal time. Plus my scale is finally showing downward progress - 20lbs+! Again, thank you for asking and your kind words.

I hope your day gets better soon! I completely understand where you're at, I've been in the same slump for a few weeks 😖 I'm hoping its the colder darker days doing it. You've been doing great, so just know its one day..you got it down!

Thank you MSpretty.

We all walk our own paths and have our own experiences. I'm glad for you that YOU haven't had my experiences. Unfortunately, the women I've know would agree with me. I didn't say all women..and your response is what I was referring to. Immediately saying I'm the problem instead of possibly seeing each of us having our own experiences and opinions. I was sharing my personal opinions and feel no one should be accused of "being the problem" for sharing. I believe we all need to be tolerant and understand we all experience life differently. I've been tolerant and just moved on when others miss perceived my shyness as arrogant, but I'm still entitled to my perceptions of how I'm treated without others attacking me.

I have a few female friends (2), but I get along with men better and always have. I have up until recently always worked in a male dominated field. I find most women (not all) to be too emotional, catty, cliquish and backstabbing for me. I am not an demonstrative emotional talkative person with others, other than with my family and husband. So, I'm told I come across as arrogant (its actually being shy and not emo and of course women take me as being bitchy instead of seeing the real me). So I completely understand where you're coming from!

I completely agree, its not just the weight that's changed.

I do like the Iceland brand (sells to n the U.S. too) Including their "yogurt" cheese!