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you probably aggrovated the muscle. I wouldn't think too much about it - I had incision tenderness for a while - not the actual incision, but under it - felt like I did too many situps. If it doesn't lessen in the next while, go back to see your doc

oh I make it with the crust, I just don't eat the crust

You may lose differently. You may have other requirements - maybe you need more protein.

you have to find what works for you. Have you tried circuit training? Perhaps your calories are too low. Are you still losing, just at a slower rate? What does your doctor say? Have you been to see him/her regarding this?

Start back at the basics. http://www.verticalsleevetalk.com/topic/28139-the-basics-boot-camp/ LilMissDiva's basic boot camp. Good luck!

LilMissDiva has an amazing boot camp basics - http://www.verticalsleevetalk.com/topic/28139-the-basics-boot-camp/ That's the link to it

I think I'm going to make pulled buffalo chicken for dinner. Now to find the little crockpot! And the chicken! haha!

ugh! so true! I took on too much and split one of my incisions open! Luckily it was just top layer of skin after stitches were out - but still! I did too much and that's what happens! Take it easy! We still have a lot of rebuilding to do! What you didn't do is fall off the wagon and let it run you over - that in itself is a HUGE victory! Congrats on that! Let your emotions out! Stuffing the weight of a cheesecake down on them makes them 10 times as bad!

I think a lot of people lose their bp meds after weight loss. I think you can too!

I'm one of those people that would totally have showed her a mouth full of chewed up food. If she's that interested in what I'm eating, I wanna give her the full show! Yes - I truly am that person haha. It does suck - but other people's issues are theirs and theirs alone. Don't accept her trying to convey her problems to you.

We moved away from wingstop and suffered! Luckily there was a local restaurant with good wings - but I LOVE the garlic/parm ones! BW3's has nothing on Wingstop!

I love asparagus! Cannot wait til they grow in the back yard this summer!

leftover homemade pizza without the crust here

Same here! 3 wings from wingstop and I'm done! Makes 2 meals out of a 6 piece

I have officially tired of chicken. This has lead me to find new dinner ideas - and even go back to some old staples. I made hommade pizza for dinner. This was about the only thing my step mom ever made for dinner that was tasty. I never tire of it. Its got so much meaty and veggie goodness on it. I just don't eat the crust. The pizza is about an inch thick - just piled high with lean meats and veggies and some cheese. My hubby loves it and he eats the crust too - I make it at home and he loves it works out great Our other thing is Applebees or Ruby Tuesday. Applebees has great steaks I usually get the garlic sirloin with broccoli and sauteed mushrooms and onions. The whole meal is about 500 calories and its about 3-4 meals for me. Yesterday we ordered and the hubby went to go get - they screwed up on our meals so they replaced them, so now we have tons of leftovers in the fridge. One thing I never get tired of is red meat - and considering I get anemic so easily, I'm not going to complain about all that yummy goodness in the fridge I cannot wait til hunting season. I will be filling my freezer with elk and mule deer. Hopefully, we'll have a chance at a bison as well. If I never have to eat meat from a store again, I'll be happy I do have a confession though - I'm not a big infomercial person, but I did buy a nu-wave oven. I thought it would be good for the hubby when he was travelling in hotel rooms to be able to cook something quickly, etc. Well - I LOVE the damn thing. You can do anything in it! If you warm something up - like takeout or whatever, it tastes EXACTLY like it did when you first got it. I'm in love with the thing. Oh- and you can also cook frozen meat in it and its delicious. I think that's my favorite - forgetting to pull something out for dinner and resorting to pizza or fast food is no longer an excuse - pop in a frozen steak or something and its good to go

Well, the change that caused the weight gain was me getting sick. I was on severe steroid regimens that caused my weight to double in less than a year. So yes, I feel completely different - since I don't have the underlying illness going rampant and no more steroid treatments, I feel completely different. I tried to never let my weight define me. But in that, I did let it control me a bit. I didn't wanna be the fat girl in the room. I didn't wanna be the one that, my husband's friends would look at him quizzically after meeting me, wondering why he's with me. So I isolated myself a lot. It was actually pretty easy to do because when I was sick, I couldn't go places with people - I had such a poor immune system and getting sicker was not something I was going to contribute to. So after I started rebuilding my immunity, I just didn't change that. Now, I'm still not wanting to meet a whole lot of new people, or even see people that haven't seen me since I've been sick, but its getting better. I'm a very social person normally, so its getting harder and harder to resist going out and having fun. I've made plans for the future - the next 6 or so months. If i hit goals, or even come close to them, I'll go ahead with them. And I really want to go ahead with them so I'm going to stay on track and hope my body does the same.

What she said I hope to never test my limits. That's what got a lot of us here in the first place.

I hope that you're able to get it under control. I had surgery about 3 days before you did and there is zero way I could eat 1/5th of what you did. What worries me is that you may be overstuffing your sleeve - you may not feel "bursting full" because your nerves haven't fully healed yet. That is a dangerous proposition. You could be damaging your sleeve - its not necessarily the types of food you're eating at this point, but how MUCH.

Yeah - to him its not! So unfortunate that you had to find out

haha I ordered it too Can't wait to get it!

curves is beneficial to someone who doesn't have and pretty much has never had a workout regimen, or for anyone that isn't comfortable at a gym. how DARE anyone in the medical profession say that movement and exercise isn't beneficial. That just irritates the ever lovin' hell outta me. I think its a great way to get started!

vitamins shouldn't have any effect on your antidepressant, in fact, a lot of doctors tell people to take antidepressants at bedtime 1, because it can cause upset stomachs, 2. because they can interrupt sleep, 3. You will have the entire night to have it work into your system.

I too have always been just one of the guys. You have to be true and honorable to yourself. It can be an odd adjustment to the attention, but if its too much for you or it isn't the correct attention a man should be paying to a married woman, you need to speak up. Please don't disrespect your husband or yourself by keeping silent about it.

Pretty much just right away - take my Vitamins, go to the bathroom brush my teeth and i'm in bed No reflux issues here at all.

a complication or procedure should never be sugar coated. If I find that a doctor isn't shooting me straight, I fire them.