Globetrotter

I did not realize that acid and hernias were linked, I too have a hernia which is about to be repaired, though I think mine is umbilical..

Righteous! Rad!!

Check out my post in the lounge, "giving myself permission".

Haha, curds and whey! Little Miss Muffet was a sleever!

@ Miriam - no, I do not think it was solely luck of the draw, that would almost be easier if it were. Instead, I know it is because I did not take enough time to care for myself afterward, I did not get to be with my surgeon and nutritionalist and care team in the first 6 months, nor did I have a trainer to guide me. I think if I had had all of that, I would have met goal within the first year. Couple with the fact that I really am a bizarrely slow loser and here I am. Even at my heaviest, before surgery, on a doctor approved diet and with a personal trainer, my body refused to lose more than 4 lbs a month!

For my first 6 months I weighed every single morning like clockwork, after (sorry TMI) my morning BM. C'mon, we ALL know that is the best time ... anyway, I steadily lost a pound every other day, I should have recognized this fact and weighed accordingly but I didn't, I weighed every day. So, every other day, I'd be in an awesome mood! And every other day, get out of my @%$^&* way >=[. Now I haven't been on my scale in over a month, because the number hadn't changed in 3 months and it was getting so dispiriting. Maybe the morning after the last day of my next cycle I will get on and face the music =/

Between the headaches and the bloat I am definitely going to say you are dehydrated, I know you think you are drinking enough, but you aren't, it was really difficult for all of us to gauge our amounts early on. sip sip sip!

At the time of my VSG I was a 44H. 18 months later I am a 34 DDD. I have lost 125 lbs but even though I've lost volume, the breasts are still there, just deflated =(. That DDD cup still isn't adequate to properly contain all the empty skin and I'm not even at goal yet. I'm afraid that when I am at goal, in another 40 lbs, that I will be a 32DD, and it will all be empty shriveled skin! =( =( I intend to get total body reconstruction after achieving goal, I think a mid C cup would be just fine.