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It's been a while since I've posted. I celebrated my surgiversary on Dec. 27th. It's been a crazy year of ups and downs but I would say a positive experience overall. I enjoyed giving a shot with the challenges but I hit a long stall and am fluctuating around the same 3 pounds for a month now so I only met 1 challenge. But in a year the good news is I made it to my 1st goal to make it to onederland and goal 2 was met, I've lost over 100 pounds..101 to be exact in less than a year,met this back in November. Next is to shed this last 64 pounds to make it to my ultimate goal. High weight was 298, current weight 197. I've gone from a size 24-26/2x-4x to a comfy size 16.

My biggest struggles are sweets and breads. The holidays did me in and is probably why I'm in this current stall. I need more strength and courage to make it to where I need to be. My motivation has been lacking and getting back on track and using tools like vst and mfp, I'm hoping my dreams will come true. I'm feeling pretty good these days but my myasthenia has caused me a few problems. Taking my meds regularly and getting back to excercising as much as I can will help. Wish me luck everyone. Hope everyone has a blessed new year and rock your sleeve. It really works.

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Hey! Congrats on the two goals. It's nice to see you around again. :) u can lose the remainder of ur weight. U have the tools and the knowledge- now all you have to do is rock it out! U can do this!!

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surgiversary on Dec. 27th

peacequeen

We've missed you :)

great to see your lovely, smiling face again - brings class to the neighborhood ;)

you were sleeved a couple of weeks after me, so i do remember your problems, leak et al. glad things have been improving - stall and all

sweets are a weakness for me too-hard to deal with sometimes -_-

don't be hard on yourself about the holiday goodies - done, past and forgotten (I'll never tell ;) )

I see B) your hard work continueing - losing that last 64 lbs!!!

good luck with all your great plans - back to exercising, MFP

i know you have the strength and courage to continue the success you've had with the sleeve-

as you hope - ("your dreams will come true!!)

take care

keep up the good work

this will be the 1rst of many, many, more happy new years for the rest of your longer, healthier, happier, life :)

btw bud - we've both lost 101 lbs!!! - cool!!!

ps - happy belated surgiversary - i would have baked you a cake but....... :lol:

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Congrats on 100 pounds! That is amazing. I too struggle with bread and sweets and although I usually only have a few bites I know that my long term success will depend upon my ability to control my intake of them. I know that some posters have said that their taste changed and sweets no longer taste good to them, wish I could say the same. Good luck on your continued success, you know what you need to do. Maybe looking at a few "before" pictures will help.

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