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I agree, track everything... even if its junk. especially if its junk. Start there. I used the 5:2 to get off 22 pounds I regained... and to stay at maintinance. Do reach your protein goals and water.... that will help so much. find out about 5:2 on the vets forum, I posted links thereto help others start out on it.its easy, and works for many vets with regain problems. Best of luck to you.

Read it all. I remember hearing about something like this early on...not Mexico, but getting an "elbow" in the sleeve that restricts food passing through the middle part... my doc made my sleeve bigger to help avoid this.... Best of luck to threm... I would not be happy about getting RNY... but.... it might just do the trick for them. I have just had company in town, and we have been eating out every meal. I have not gained (miracle!!!) as of this morning.... I think it might be the one day a week I have managed to do the 5:2. Glad you are getting closer to being in your new place. That will be such a relief. Poor fella! My hub is not a very good patient... I feel for you and him! Hope he feels much better at the end of the 6 weeks. Time to get off of ****creek my girl! One step at a time. Sleep does make more things possible, and even if you change one thing, you will feel better for it. You are worth it girl! We love you. Take care.

Hi Gamegirl, I totally understand. Sometimes you just have to do something else for a while! I have only been on maybe once a week for the last month... but I do sneak a look now and then... I still need to stay alert, or the numbers start to go up. Congrats on your approach to goal!

So happy your have taken the bulls by the horns and gotten back on track! Now is the time, before things really get out of hand. Good for you... you can do it!

Love your hat Georgia! Could you guys look any cuter!? I wish I was there with ya. Maybe some day. As you might tell, I have not been on the Vets forum for at least a week. I have gotten out of the habit... have been spending all my net time on the Ancestry.com site... hours a day! I know, its one thing to move a thread, but keeping the little dickins off posting is HARD to do. I put in reminders now and then, and NO ONE seems to notice. I understand, you really can't get that you don't know everything, and things will change for you soon enough when you are early out. The Vets forum should be like the zoo... you can look but don't get in the cage with the animals! Yes, we might bite! Sorry I have been out so much, just so busy with several projects... Fasted Monday... I have to say that the fast day or two a week had kept my weight in the ballpark... I have been a pound over bounce, but just went back in to the zone. Playing a little fast and loose with the guidelines lately... I have not been able to lose the 5 pounds the Doc wants to see off.. but at least still at goal. Wanda, I am so impressed you are working on a play! So cool. If you put some footage on youtube or something, let us know! Sheryl. I soooo wish I could drop 5-10! Not because of depression though.. I lost 35 pounds once from depression.. it was the only upside! Now days if I am depressed I want to eat more! Not fair! Taking a couple of days off this week to visit with friends from out of town. Denise, wish we could have met for coffee while you were in Sac, maybe next time girl. Stick with it ladies, summer is around the corner, its going to be in the 90s this week here.... Love ya!

Love Banksy! We have some in San Francisco, but he hasn't visited Sacramento yet... his work has really become a treasure! He is a pain in the a-ss some times, other times he is a lovely guy. imperfect for sure, as am I. I know he won't change.... but we learn as we go, and I hope for his sake he lets go of whatever it is that causes him to feel so threatened or entitled.... One foot in front of the other my girl. Do what you have to do, and work your way out of where you are, and to where you want to be. Best wishes from me to you... Good advice. I look like the newspaper! thin from the side, broad from the front. You could not look more cute than you do in the all black outfit! Slim, shapley, great legs and a great smile! Love it! Have you been on the host forum? There are lots of posts on how to do stuff. Glad to have you in the Vets forum... I have been a slacker the last month...lucky if I answer my own posts! I usually send a message to the poster or just leave one on the post... perhaps you have seen them...I usually say something like "Great question, as this is a vets only forum, I will move your post to another forum where anyone can answer. Come back when you reach 12 months out! Best of luck." or something like that. There is a link called Forum Management at the top of the page, press that, and choose what you want to do... like move... it will bring up a drop down list, choose what forum it should go to... and there you have it. If you have questions, just message me...

My dog wakes me up every morning about 4:30 am. She is old, and wants breakfast and needs to be let out (she now pees on the floor before scratching on the door to be let out....) I get up for her,because I may not have her much longer... but the sleep thing is really a mess. I try to get to bed earlier... but that only goes so far... I try to go back to bed, but when Im up... Im up. I take a hot bath on these mornings, and jut try to relax... I definitely have times of deep sadness, and I want to feel, but I don't want to be paralyzed by it... sleep would not solve the things I'm sad about... but might help with the stunned paralysis...

I so admire what your doing. It will give you comfort into the future that you know you did what you could for your mom, loving kindness is the best gift. I do hope your change in meds will help with your exhaustion... I was going to recommend taking your meds (food!) when your mom does. keep some good protein bars in your pocket... even if your not hungry, eat them like the medicine they are for you. I buy protein smoothies now and then when I want to get in more greens and nutrition when Im sick and dont feel like cooking. Bolthouse at Target has a good green smoothie...odwalla as well. Best of luck to you and your mom in your precious final moments.

Kathy, I'm sorry you fell, but loved your post! What a great way to love your life! Hope the sore parts feel better soon!

You weight less than me, wear a smaller size than me. I am in maintenance right now. Guys who I have known for years see me now, and their eyes bug out and they say I look great. Im sure guys do that to you as well, you are a sexy stunner. YOu do not look fat. You have an hourglass shape and a butt (im jealous) and look like a normal (way above averagel!!! ) woman... its time to start enjoying the fruits of your efforts! The way I look at it, I might like it if I lose 5 pounds... but I am in maintenance now... and thats where you really learn what normal is. Losing the 5 pounds do not make me a better person in any way. I can be casual about getting them off...if ever. To tell you the truth, maintenance for you is probably going to look exactly like what you are doing right now. You do NOT look fat to me.

Thank you Sarah, and am going to the vets forum to see what Sheryl wrote!

OK, I have been sick, and just not feeling like coming here,or much of anything else... but I'm back. I have been eating a little crazy, over by 700 cals yesterday... have been writing it down...making myself do it... Hanging around the tippy top of my bounce range. Missed two days of work and two dance classes...I figured I'd better get my butt back her to catch up before there were 100 pages between where I left off and the new end of the line. My fasting has been pretty pathetic... maybe one real day in the last 10. Thank you all for sharing. You are such real women. Love ya all! I am still working on the family tree "book" and its pretty fun. I am finding out our little renegade, ragtag, mainly agricultural salt of the earth DNA doners come from some blue blood. Of course most of them were scoundrels, warlords and a few even were beheaded and poisoned... not to mention the plague. Who needs Braveheart or the Tudors? Bit by bit I am identifying some of the photos in the family albums... some great farm shots, horses pulling plows, pulling carriages, being ridden by farm ladies and gents. Chicken coops, green houses and garden fields... What ever the family found dear. Last night my husband told me I should "get over" the idea that Im an artist... that I'm not. When he's mad at the world, he doesn't mind taking a low blow at me. I have been "on the shelf" for almost a year, however I am in a show opening tonight, and have offers of several more if I want them. My ideas/feelings are just too big for my work right now. I hope to change that soon. Learning to use the camera, my birdwatching adventures, my family history research for the book... have all just been more interesting, and i hope they will inform my new work when it comes. Only I can say when I am or am not an artist. It took me years to commit to calling my self an "artist" and not just a person who makes art or likes art, or the like... I take the profession too seriously for that...for heavens sake, Michelangelo was an artist .... it is more than just making x amount of objects, and is a way of seeing the world as well. I asked him if he thought it was a good idea to insult me in ways that makes me hate him. He sort of slowed down and went back to his business... and in a few minutes was putting on a better mood.... he does not know how to apologize in a straight forward manor. Its a shame.

Well it was my 2 year anniversary yesterday and I did hope to be at goal but it is not meant to be - I am 96% of the way there! In my innocence I did think that I might have made goal by year 1, however, a slow rate of loss soon made it evident that it would take longer. Not too disappointed though because without the sleeve I would be up on my starting weight of 263 by now I'm sure. Still ploughing through the house and sorting out the cupboards, it's amazing how many trips to the tip (rubbish tip - don't know the US translation) we have made as well as numerous trips to the charity shops. It's quite cathartic clearing out the old life to make way for the new one. Hope everyone is well. I didn't get to goal until almost year 3. Still was a sweet event. You will get there Cathy! Wohoo Girlfriend! I am so proud of you! Oh and I almost forgot: I earned a 4.0 for the entire year. That means that every single class I took I got an A in. Wow, makes me feel confident! I had hip and foot problems before WLS... they mostly went away but I promptly got bone spurs in my knee. WTF! The walking wounded... wounded by gravity and fat! At least now they don't say "Lose weight" as a remedy. Found out i have pretty significant arthritic changes in my hip. Injection today and next is physical therapy. I am pretty blue about it. It's funny, I accepted excess skin as part of the price I had to pay for the decades of obesity. I was prepared to live with it even if I couldn't have plastics. Somehow, all this joint damage (on top of two knees with no cartledge left) is just a reminder of how much I have hurt myself being so fat for so long. I will get over my pity party soon, but for right now I am grieving for the things I have lost to obesity. It is funny that I never went through these emotions while losing weight. ... I think it is just that i look so freaking normal now that sometimes I believe that I am... but it is an illusion. Doesn't matter how good you look, underneath the hood is still someone at least somewhat disabled... and my future life continues to be impacted by obesity. Holy cow girl! Your on the move now... The wheels are in motion and things can get better soon! Oh for heavens sake! That is a tragedy. I didn't go through menopause until my later 50s... and when I got WLS they said use your birth control... lots of people get preg after losing weight because of the uptake of hormones from the fat...I was 57! Sheryl, I am sure you are experiencing a mid life crisis. I said that too, not just Swizz. Everyone seems to reivaluate their lives at around age 50. I could not live out in the country. I have friends that do. Bill does. Bill's ex says she is pregnant. She is eithe or 54. She says she wants nothing from Bill. I think she is crazy to want to have a baby at her age. We are really afraid she will carry it for awhile and anything past 26 weeks they will try to save. She is going to mail him the blood tests results. So far, it's just brought Bill and me closer. He's so freaked and I just feel bad for him. What a mess. I work with adults with Downes every day,and they are larger than life individuals ! I would hate to see any of them go...but I would never pass judgement on any pregnant woman to take a pass on having a child with Downes...quite a handfull! Denise - this is fatal attraction drama! She is 54, and pregnant?! From what you have said about her, I wouldn't put it past her to falsify a blood test or even the pregnancy itself. Shoot, if she is as messed up as you have indicated, it could very well be a phantom pregnancy that her mind concocted to "keep" BIll. oy. As for me, I leave for Germany tomorrow, I have formal complaints against my leadership for HPPA violations, and I could possibly be on the west coast before the end of the month. I am filing for worker's comp, I do not yet have a job lined up in Seattle and the apartment I found requires, as they all do, proof of employment, any suggestions?

You came to the right place, as soon as you get in 200 posts you can get into the Vets forum, and join us working to get the last few pounds off, or struggling with weight regain. Really, post here and develop a group that knows who you are! Help others, that really helps me.

I went to the refrigerator case at my local health food store, and found some that are formulated not just for dairy (like many are. ) Theres an am and pm dose... I really cant say which one is best, but eating fermented foods (pickles, yogurt...) helps as well... organic non soap washed locally grown raw fruits and veggies(they have microbes on the skin that will break them down in nature), a variety of fibers....you need to feed the flora as well as establish it...

The bacteria mostly lives and works in the intestine, not the stomach, so it will be ok. It just passes through the stomach.

If you can find the host for the section your post is in, they can delete it for you. I am not the host for this section....

I believe most of the "action" is in the intestines, not the stomach...

I just did a course of antibiotics, so killed off my gut biome... i am now taking a pro biotic in the am and pm for a month... also eating some organic fruits and veggies raw along with cooked. I do not use soap to wash the raw food... just Water if needed. a variety of fibers, cultured foods like pickles, sauerkraut and such...active culture yogurt... the idea is to get a variety of foods to give the biome something good to eat and thrive. Sugar and too much over cooking/processing all the time can really make the biome sick.... so I have read....

I hooked into Ansestery.com 14 day free trial, to see if I could find anything.. of course, the free is over and I am lost in ancestor land! My goal is to print a book for the family. My mom and dad are pretty much the last generation left from the old school... Im going through the photos with them before its too late... I sure don't know who anyone is in the photos. If you have even your mom and dads birthday and place of birth, any grandparents names... the application does a lot of the work looking stuff up for you... census info, death and birth certificates... and with some work other clues... I though my family came over later as well, some of them did, but it is pretty amazing how long many families were here... before the Revolution.... I have found 2 slave owners , a couple of Quakers, some transport ship names.... but hardly any personality.... a few stories.... that is the interesting part, and that is the part that is lost... almost lost... I haven't the time to interview my folks about everything, but trying to get a word now and then... and the best surprise? All the animals. I have pics of people on horseback, with wagons, with dogs, with cats and even a goat pulled cart full of kids. I dont know who many of these people are, but I think I will put a collage together with the animal pics... love them. I know animals are a big part of my life, and I relate to them. I see the ap in the name, and verch must be daughter of? As my friend Jack says "We're in the Zone" meaning old enough to start seeing the end stages of life all around us... I just saw this on Facebook, and thought you might like.... A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was. The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles roll ed into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was. The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full.. The students responded with a unanimous ‘yes.’ The professor then produced two Beers from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar effectively filling the empty space between the sand.The students laughed.. ‘Now,’ said the professor as the laughter subsided, ‘I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The golf balls are the important things—-your family, your children, your health, your friends and your favorite passions—-and if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full. The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house and your car.. The sand is everything else—-the small stuff. ‘If you put the sand into the jar first,’ he continued, ‘there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff you will never have room for the things that are important to you. Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Spend time with your children. Spend time with your parents. Visit with grandparents. Take your spouse out to dinner. Play another 18. There will always be time to clean the house and mow the lawn. Take care of the golf balls first—-the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand. One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the Beer represented. The professor smiled and said, ‘I’m glad you asked.’ The Beer just shows you that no matter how full your life may seem, there’s always room for a couple of Beers with a friend.

Coops, I have been working on my family tree and a whole branch comes from Wales. Robert Ap Hugh (Pugh) Your 8th great grandfather Birth 1670 in Llanycil, Merionethshire, , Wales Death 3 Dec 1718 in Lower Gwynedd, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States Here is the first one to come to America... my 8th great grandfather!

Hi Sophie, you look great, and I think you should do what you want as far as a weight goal that is... I think having a little bounce room is smart, at 7 months things are not where they might be after 12 or more months... weight regain is greatest at 3 years out, so a little room to bounce is a good idea. I am going to move your post where others can answer too, this vets forum is only for those over 12 months out to post on. Vets can still answer you where I am moving it to. Best of luck, Kim

I am so sorry for your loss. I am going to move this post to someplace where everyone can give answers, not just vets. Take care.

Some of the most forward and promising research on weight gain/loss has to do with the gut biome/microbial system. This is just one more bit of research. I am going to move this to the research forums here. Other bits of this kind of research is posted there and I think I put some in the 5:2 info links in the Vets forum if you are interested.

Hurray for you girl! I'm sure it feels so good to get over that hump and feel some success. Congrats!