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You are rocking your look. Very Amy Winehouse but with colour. Bet you turn heads. VaVa Voom lady. My biggest change is colour too. My go to colour is red. A big change from the - did not want to be seen fat person who thought black hid her. Yesterday it was a gorgeous summer day here and I had on a red minidress and as I had just returned from abroad I had a great tan. Heads were spinning. Ha, I loves it. I am 66 Ha. I think my biggest change has been the ' I don't give a f**k what you think' Confidence is a wonderful. I wore a bikini for the first time ever this holiday. I chose one with a little skirt to hide my extra skin but felt fine. Well done us.

OMG I think I gained weight just looking at that photo. Scrumptious. Gotta have a treat once in a while!

Eughhhh. I hate when store bought food doesn't even try to live up to its promise. Yeah I agree, chuck that second portion - life's too short!

Ouch! Live and learn.

Girl thanks!! Mine looking pretty rectangular too 😂😂😂. Now I'm just laying down relaxing. I have to give an update in a few few months once they settle in the correct position. oh and the sensation in the nipples I did not lose those. I went in for some breast massages today and oh my gosh I was like yes I feel you squeezing on my nipple so I'm glad that the sensation was not lost. 😂

We can buy these at M&S. I love them. 16 grams of protein and 99 cals a pack

Mmm, best kind IMO!

Do you still have your gallbladder ? I had these symptoms when I had this trouble. Whatever it is, i hope you get answers very soon.

A couple things related to my weight gain - when I gained weight it was due to eating fast food/junk food during nursing school and then the pandemic (people sending goodies to hospitals) and the stress of the job. I also had two traumatizing relationships in that mix - what was 30lbs would have been 60lbs pre-wls When I was gaining weight, I wasn't stepping on the scale. So now, I do this often to keep me accountable. You are going to regain some, your stomach is tiny and then the swelling goes down and you can eat more (and you should)! I feel like wls is the only way I could have kept this off. The best thing is that the food noise is gone! I would redo the surgery once a year, every year, if I had to. That's how important is been to me.

I bet you’ve tried a lot of diets and tried many different exercise plans & I bet you’ve were committed to them too but didn’t continue because they didn’t work for you or were to restrictive or had negative side effects, etc. If diets and exercise programs alone worked no one would be obese. People have to change their thinking about how they look at obesity. Obesity is a disease. There are psychological, physiologically, emotional, genetic & other complex & nuanced factors behind obesity. Unless your critics are obese they cannot understand what you have experienced. If you had a respiratory disease, heart disease, cancer, etc. would they say you’re cheating or taking the easy way out by having surgery or taking meds?? You have made a choice to become healthier. You have made a choice to be there for your family and friends for a long time. You have made a choice to be able to live your life as you want to live and enjoy it. Weight loss surgery is not an easy way out. There is no easy fix. Surgery opens the door to an opportunity. What you do with that opportunity is up to you and the long term effort you apply to it. Good on you!