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I highly recommend you watch a terrific movie called - Forks Over Knives - http://www.forksoverknives.com/.
It will help tremendously with your diet. If anything it is very enlightening and will likely change at least one thing for the positive with anyone's diet.
You are doing great! I can't wait to get under 200lbs, but I know that is just around the corner.
One Love.

Congratulations! I feel the same way. Love it! You are doing great!

You are doing great on your pre-op diet! Terrific. I hear you on the healthy lifestyle aspect. To me it is what it is all about. Why continue bad habits and an unhealthy diet and lifestyle after the sleeve, if that is what got you/all of us in a morbidly obese state in the first place. The sleeve is the ultimate helpful aide/tool to achieve and live the ultimate healthy lifestyle. I love my sleeve (today is 3 weeks from my surgery date) and I know you will also.

You are doing great on your pre-op diet! Terrific. I hear you on the healthy lifestyle aspect. To me it is what it is all about. Why continue bad habits and an unhealthy diet and lifestyle after the sleeve, if that is what got you/all of us in a morbidly obese state in the first place. The sleeve is the ultimate helpful aide/tool to achieve and live the ultimate healthy lifestyle. I love my sleeve (today is 3 weeks from my surgery date) and I know you will also.

Does Nsv stand for...new size victory? I've seen nsv every where, but just not certain what it stands for. :-)

Hang in there! It will pass. Your body will heal and work it out. You do however, need to get your Water and Protein in, it is important. And, yes, if you need your pain meds, use them! You've, like all of us, had MAJOR surgery. It is not an easy process, but you will get better, each day. I'm on my 15th day post-op and once you are out a week you will feel much better. I feel terrific, though still a bit tender, but honestly, it does get so much better and you will find everyone on this site is super supportive - we've been through it.

You've got this - especially with such a fantastic attitude! I love the energy and enthusiasm! I had my vsg surgery on 1/17/12 and started a blog (very cathartic). Looking forward to following your success. Feel free to check out my blog.

So I made it to the goal of 170 back in december. Which put me at a 25.8 bmi. I flirted with resetting my goal since 164 supposedly puts me at below 25, then thought maybe 160 that way I have 4 lbs room between me and overweight.
I have been half heartedly trying. I mean I run 3 days a week 3 miles 2 days then 4-6 on saturday (I ran 10 today my eating has been ok but not hypervigilent like I have allowed myself a bit of bread or tortillia here and there. so I have gotten down to 166 and then back to 170 back and forth.
so today I thought, I have been eating better and maybe i'm actually back to 166, hoping to see 165 on the scale and thus being one more lb toward normal weight range.
Standing on the scale waiting for the digital numbers to appear I prepared myself to see 168 or 169 and hoped for 166 and dreamed for 165. There on the scale appeared 162!!!!! 162!!!!! wait let me just say 162!!!!!!
*huge crazy grin* Rocky theme blasting in my head as imaginary streamers fall from the ceiling.
2 lbs below the normal range threshold!!!!! honestly I can't say anything else because I am having a very hard time even discribing how I am feeling just yet.
That is 149lbs lost from my heaviest. 111lbs since surgery may 10th of last year; 8 months and 4 days 8 lbs below a goal I picked out of the air, thinking there was no way i'd ever reach it, and 2 lbs below overweight range. 33rd precentile for my height that mean 67 percent of people my height are heavier than me!
thank you that is all
Pasquini