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Back to work tomorrow...ugh. Gonna get one more good workout in today, hopefully. I work 16 hour shifts and am too beat when I get home to exercise. I hope two thirty minute sessions on my days off make up or the three work days with no exercise. Weight loss is picking up again, so something must be going right!

weight loss suddenly stopped and gained 4 pounds... WTF?!.. then realized it's cuz of the soup I made 2 days ago which is super salty (by accident)... am chucking the rest of it... but glad to have figured out why i gained suddenly, and I MEAN SUDDENLY.. in about 12 hours!!

Tried my first Zumba class - SO much fun and so happy I managed to keep up, pushed myself to keep going and wasn't the unfittest person in the room any more. Think it helped get me to a 3lb weight loss this week.

Still doing great, but no major weight loss since surgery. I am a slow loser!!! But on the positive side I am a Loser! LOL!

I spoke at Options last night and one gal was literally wiping away tears when I was speaking about the hair loss I felt so bad for her. I assured her it would grow back and it's so worth it all!

Well, I believe I may have it my first stall. Haven't loss any weight in 3 weeks and acutally gained a pound last week. Still holding on to it to. This is an awful feeling. So scared because I have so much more to go and I fear this may be the end of the fantasy phase. Terrified!!

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I must be getting better because the food that my husband eats for dinner smells SO good to me! Yesterday he came home from an Indian restaurant and I just buried my nose in his hair which smelled like Tandoori Chicken. Ummm. It was like I was taking shots of a forbidden drug! LOL

ok, so i added pics to look at of me and my family. this is me well over 311lbs, before i had the kahunas to step on the scale. i lost some weight right after the hawaii trip in september of 2010. began this weight loss journey in november of 2010...mabye i'll add some more of me a little smaller now soon. hate taking pictures though.

cute hair!!!!

hey how are you doing? how is your loss going? I am just a month out. from your profile pic you look great! I am 40lbs down after the first month.

Well by the end of last week I lost those two pounds. I think I may stall or lose slow over the nest couple of weeks before my secret weapon arrives. Also, my PCP doc is having me come in for some testing. I may have low T. If so she may prescribe a topical treatment. That will hyper-accelerate fat loss but preserve all of my lbm. I'll wait on that because I don't really want 240lb of lean mass.

I am trying to decide if this is the right surgery for me. My concern is getting pregnant. I want to get pregnant in about a year - my weight loss goal is 60 lbs. I've been reading forums trying to find out if I would be making a huge mistake to have this surgery and then try to get pregnant one year later.

cont... the 2 mo, I only had 2 lbs of weight loss. This month (3mo), I sought help from my surgeon and he said because my bmi was low from the beginning, it is expected. I decided to start working out which I wasn't doing before and lost 10 lbs this month. Are you going through the same problem?

Sorry to hear that you are not feeling well. Glad to hear of your wonderful weight loss

Thanks so much for getting back to me! Sorry it took me forever to respond!! Im still trying to figure this site out! lol....UGH to the loose skin! I hate to work out, but I guess I have to bite the bullet and do it Did you cut your hair? Im trying to let mine grow out for my wedding next may, but its driving me nuts!! and I LOVE zebra print anything!! I hope you are doing well!

Ugh! I started smoking too and it sucks. I can feel my body getting worse as I continue to smoke. Monday is my goal to quit. If you look at my loss in December I grazed a lot on sweets, being the holidays, and also my body had a moment of "Wait! ARE WE STARVING?" So each month is up and down. I pulled up my boots and watched my carbs after that. Been pretty steady since!

Oh yes, I remember the early stages of locing. It took my hair close to two years to loc, so I understand where you're coming from. Good luck! I'm sure things will be fine.

Happy to hear you are doing great. I remember reading about your complications early on and was wondering how you were doing. The hair thing is inevitable. :-(

I haven't had surgery yet. Hopefully sometime this year. Nice to hear from you!

GOAL... I want to hit my 100 lb weight loss by my 9 month surgery date... Hmmm...

longer-life,

I am doing great! Thank you so much for asking! I'm able to eat pretty much whatever I want (just small amts). I have lots of energy and I'm down about 40lbs. The only downside is everytime I wash my hair a good bit comes out. I know this is only temporary though. How are you doing?

That is so awesome! Congratulations on the amazing weight loss! I am hoping I see results like that when my body finally adjusts to this eating multiple times a day thing, lol. Yeah, I've heard he is pretty good, and he is one of the only sleeve docs my insurance covers here. What is your diet like?

Woohoo! I have heard some good things about him. I am having my surgery with Dr. Webb at NFL Surgeons in Jax also. How is the 3 month supervised weight loss going? I am almost in month 3 of my 6. Only three more days!

Stay strong on your weight loss jouney Nickle, I have faith in you !!

Way to go on all the weight loss! How much can you eat at a setting now? I wasn't really tracking cals or anything but I wasn't really losing so I came home and figured out cals for last Sat and I couldn't believe it - I had like 1700 cals!! No wonder! I didn't even eat anything bad. I just assumed I couldn't eat that many cals if I ate foods that were ok. Wrong! I've really gotta watch it now!