devichan

3-month checkup: officially no longer considered "morbidly obese." My birthday was last Wednesday.,. I had organic strawberries and sugar-free whipped cream for my birthday dessert. I can almost fit a size 18!

Down 50 yesterday from surgery! I'm calling it officially 216, though, since I bounce up and down by up to two pounds... but the trend is always, always down. So 3 months, 50 lbs. I am so very happy with this rate!

Good on you for staying careful on the cruise! That's hard work. And I'm glad someone else is dropping at the same rate as I am.

Just wanted to share that this morning, I weighed in at 221.5 (down from 309 in December, 265 June 3). This is equal to the smallest weight I've been since I was 19, and I turn 42 in two weeks. By my birthday, I'll be back to my teen-level weight again. I am doing so well! I don't mind the 1-2 lb/week average dropping. I feel like it's healthy for me and I'm so very happy. I have energy and skin tone. I am starting with a bit of the hair loss, but I was braced for that and it's no worse than it was 12 weeks out from my childrens' births. (I've actually had worse hair loss from regular diets.) I CAN eat anything, but I'm being very choosy with my foods. I've discovered a love for sweet and savory tuna. I'm also eating more seafood, which is great because I've always loved that. I've even celebrated by getting a new pair of glasses, my first in years. They're a lot like my 80s glasses. Pics in my gallery!

The surgery was fine, actually. Not painless, but I didn't experience much pain at all. I was off the pain meds by three days out and working from work at 9 days. (Don't tell my doc.) My knees don't even feel like the same joints I had two months ago, there's such a big difference. I have only needed to take Tylenol one time for knee pain since the surgery, and I had been a 6-Advil-A-Day habit. NO regrets.

Before.... And two months after!

I heart Dr. July. I've had a very smooth recovery except where I pushed myself too hard. And while I'm stalled right now, I just discovered I'm down 4 pants sizes since January, three since the sleeve!

I'm in a stall right now, nothing down in a week. I am getting in my water and making sure to get one shake in a day. Hoping it's just TTOM stuff....

I was just wondering the same thing. Sleeved 3-JUN and nothing in a week.

This one's really silly: Is Onederland a) 100 pounds dropped, or crossing from the 200s into the 100s?

Holly, I'm so glad you updated. I've been debating posting this, but I'm in a polyamorous relationship and I have been since 1993. It sounds like you two are finally getting to the Successful Poly Mantra: Communicate, communicate, communicate. If you need someone to talk to about multipartner issues who has been there and made it work, please feel free to PM me. If you think that was a side effect of other issues and you're fundamentally monogamous, you can still PM me and I'll listen. I wish you the best and healthiest outcome for everyone concerned!!

Tuesday was my 5-week appointment. I'm healing beautifully and have permission to do weights and start ab exercise next week. I wore size 22 shorts this last weekend and my 28s are literally falling off me. And best of all, the thing I most wanted, the thing that makes all the numbers irrelevant, is my knees. I haven't needed to take any pain meds for them since the surgery. That's what I wanted: to be able to walk pain-free. I'm hoping that even with the arthritis being aggravated during the winter that in six months I'll be small enough to make meds irrelevant or at least not an everyday thing there too!

I did my first (light!) weight training yesterday, and my muscles are yelling at me. Is it OK to take acetominphen for muscle soreness? I know NSAIDS are Right Out.