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Sorry Lovin' and 5:2 girls, I feel like an A$$. I approved her application without her meeting all the criteria. I think she is good to go in every other way, but 5:2 is the point of this group, so point well taken. K

I don't know how I got out of the other end of today without over eating calories. My choices were horrible! I had three mini croissants, which I brought for my co-workers (yeah right!) Later I had two giant organic vegan cookies ( still full of calories, one of them was 480 calories!) I ate a low cal dinner, and lunch... and went to the gym which gave me another 250 cals burned. Logged it all. Fasting tomorrow. Fingers crossed I get back on track in the AM.

Welcome! I think you might like the 5:2. It gets things going, and theres lots of support here for it. You came to the right place!

Check out Coops, she is still working on reaching goal at 3 years, I am doing the same thing at 2 1/2 years. There are a number of people here who have not yet reached goal, or reached it and gained some weight back. Everyone is different, and you can lose more weight even after the "honeymoon" is over. http://www.verticalsleevetalk.com/topic/83844-how-many-vets-are-actually-at-goal-and-staying-there/ http://www.verticalsleevetalk.com/topic/28952-gonna-get-to-goal-wanna-join-me/page__st__1420#entry910284 and some of us in the same boat are trying the 5:2 eating system and have a private group Here: You can take a look at it, and if you want to try the 5:2, let us know and we will add you to the members. Its for people over one year who are using the system. Good luck! It is possible, but not easy for some of us! I am now 15 pounds from goal.

or ask him to put the dressing on the side and guess from there,,, rather than throw up my hands and give up, I just give it my best shot. Figure the dressing in half oil, and use your spoon to measure it out onto your salad. Close enough to keep in the game!

I'm more like 10-12 hours too... but I make my first meal a low carb protein drink, that does not disrupt the fast chemistry. (I think I read that in the book someplace.... I'll have to find it....) Then eat other low carb choices starting around 1:30-4 pm- dinner 7 or so.

You have done great! Almost there. Then that darned maintenance!

I kept looking at the pics and saying "no way!" Glad to see the other pic, SO CUTE! PS No offense to the gal in the pics, 2 months ...she is on her way too!

If you are over a year, have not hit goal yet or are in maintenance, but gaining... check out the 5:2 group. Read through, and try the plan, if you like it after a couple of weeks, ask to join, and we will admit you, Its a good group of Vets some as far as 4 years out in this boat. Great support and a good plan that seems to work. The group is not open to those under a year... follow your surgeons plan if that is the case. http://www.verticals...ing-the-52-way/

Its hard to know what some of the Vets are saying until you experience it for yourself! Early out I thought I would never be hungry again! Do try more water or drinks, protein first if you have slipped on that, protein snack.... watch the carbs....cut the sugar if you are using it. See if that helps... you are almost a year out, so if this doesn't help, join us at the 5:2 and give that a try! It does separate the real hunger from the head hunger for many. Best of luck!

I have dieted my whole life, I lost 17 pounds when I was 10 years old! I was under 175 for years, I am 5'9". Around 20 years ago I suddenly gained 50 pounds, then slowly 30 more. I managed to stay under 257 (set point?) for years. Then I started to creep up, and nothing I did seemed to get the weight off. When I started to have other problems, blood pressure, and cholesterol... I knew I had to take things to the next level. WLS. My Bariatric Doc recommended the sleeve, and it looked SOOOO much better to me than RNY, I jumped on it. I was one of his first patients. I have been very happy with the sleeve, but never got to my modest goal (my doc never set a goal). I was about 5 pounds away from goal, when I hit a serious stall... then I gave up some accountability, and gained 22 pounds over around 4-5 months. I had long term company, a vacation to New Orleans, bone spurs that kept me from the gym and walking until I got through the whole sports medicine system... and a few other things that made it very challenging to stay on track, and in a blink... 22 pounds up. At the first of this year I got back on track, logging everything, getting a fitbit to keep track of exercise, and try a couple of eating plans to try to kick start the weight loss. I tried "eat more- lose weight" I started to gain (around 4-5 pounds) which is normal on that plan, but I chickened out because... well it was gaining weight! I then tried the Southbeach phase one... which is good, lost a couple of pounds, but lets face it, its a diet. I am a vegetarian, and that adds some extra carbs. I was still coming to VST, getting support from my buds here, but stepped that up. Some of us grouped together who had gotten to goal and gained, or others that had never made goal, and that conversation started here. Georgia introduced the 5:2 fast diet into the conversation, and some of us jumped on it around 6 weeks ago. We have had varying degrees of success, but it has had positive results besides weight loss for all of us. As of this writing, I am down 7 pounds at 5 1/2 weeks, (was at 8.8 pounds a couple of days ago) after some very slow loss (around 1-2 pounds a month). I am getting close to my lowest weight after surgery, and to goal. I had my surgery January 19, 2011, and am over 2 1/2 years out as of this post.

!!! Low blood pressure? Low blood sugar? I fasted yesterday, after two days up by 1.8 pounds. This morning I was in the same place. Hope to knock those off soon! fingers crossed...XXX. Ok, here is a graphic showing my fast days and weight loss so far. Started June 11th-was down 8.8 pounds + 1.8 = 7 pounds down in 5 1/2 weeks

Fast day today. I will be working at the State Fair, home of the deep fried mars bar and its relatives! I'm going to take some blueberries and a cheese stick.... drink a protein drink in the AM. Fingers crossed! I'm up 1.9pounds, so really want to stick to the plan today....

Sorry, I haven't been using my iphone app for the site much...

Love my fitbit one. Its my second fitbit. I find it really motivating. It has about 5 functions... steps, flights of stairs(elevation during hiking as well) sleep, activity level, calories burned, alarm, and it hooks up to a website that gives you results. It also hooks up with MyFitnessPal if you want it too, and MFP will add in exercise calories into your calorie total. If you do something that will not register right, like weights, upper body workout, gardening... you can add it on fitfit or MFP and it will over ride the step component to give you a more accurate reading of what your output is. It will upload on your phone or computer. I clip mine on my bra. I really use it everyday to get a more accurate picture of my "calories in/calories out"

I would have to agree... When the honeymoon period is over for a few months or so, it gives you some insights that you just cant have when you are earlier out from surgery. Being over a year out, in maintaniance for a few months will be the starting point of being a vet. There are some questions and experiences that just don't come up till even a couple of years out. The people on here that are in that phase have a different conversation going on... earlier we had conversations and questions that any newbie would have, what to eat, best Protein powders, how many calories, what about stalls.... after the honeymoon its more how to lose the last few pounds that just wont come off after 8 months of eating 1200 a day.... or, I have gained 25 pounds, and the old methods wont budge the weight, my hunger is back, I can eat more, and need a new plan, guilt or shame for "failing"...... these kind of things. Vets dont mind helping newbies, Vets helped me so much when I was new out of surgery, but answering the same questions over and over, that don't really have anything to do with what we are going through, is a bit of a drag after a while. So we started the Vets forum, to discuss those other issues that rear their ugly head after a year or so. I think this will be a rich resource for the people who are newbies now, but will see what we are talking about soon enough! The things that many of the Vets agree on is "At some point maintenance can become harder than losing the weight in the first place" and "This is going to be work the rest of my life, I can't just lose the weight, and forget it or I will gain weight" Thats what we are working on.

Give it a try! you are far enough out to try this plan. After a year or two or three some of us have still not gotten to our goal, or got to goal and have experienced a bounce of 10-25 pounds that we hare having a lot of trouble getting off, some of us have been useing the 5:2 and slowly getting some movement. It might be good for you, give it a try and if you like it you can join our 5:2 group if you like. Sometimes that stall can end up lasting for months and months. We just want to make sure people know that we don't think this is for people who are still under a doctors care, early out, before getting to a more mature place in the healing and weightloss process. Congrats on the 98 by the way! Great!

I invited Iegal, sleeve4me, and I think I invited darla, but not sure it it was the right person....

What a cute dress! And nice legs I might add!

Globtrotter! Where are you!? She seemed like she was wound up pretty tight,, perhaps taking a break from the whole weight loss/diet conversation for a while. Come back when ready GT! We miss you girl!

Laura, may I recommend inviting: globtrotter M2G butterbean leeann71 amytug

Went out with the dance girls after class for a pow-wow at a sushi restaurant. Had this lovely roll called the Popeye... but all the rice and soysauce got to me.... up 1.7 pounds. Fingers crossed its just the salt. Skipped alcohol and just had water. Only went over my allotted cals by about a hundred, not too bad really. Tomorrow is another day!

Just going to get this rolling. Here is an "official" 5:2 fourm. Not all links are equal, just some reading if your interested... This is where I linked to the 5:2 FAQs page: FAQ: http://www.52fastdie...c.php?f=1&t=246 Home Page: http://www.52fastdie...7ab7bbb545beb71 Intermittent Fasting May Help Those With Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease, Study Suggests http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130426115456.htm Effect of intermittent fasting on lipid profile and hematological parameters in healthy volunteers in Jordan http://universalresearchjournals.org/ujmd/pdf/2012/January/Fararjeh%20%20et%20al.pdf The Power of Intermittent Fasting http://healthdivas.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-power-of-intermittent-fasting.html some recipes: http://www.lavenderandlovage.com/2013/05/the-fast-diet-menu-planning-and-recipes-revisited-for-the-52-diet.html

So I signed up yesterday, went there today and was not signed up.. I signed up again, and am waiting for approval. Miss Georgia, sign up for the other one with three members, I think your on the smaller 5:2....

check this out, carb addiction medical report just out.... http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/807209