Raine

We have a water crock at home, and ever so often when at work, I buy a dear park water 23oz with the flip top and re-fill it for days on end lol. I bring it everywhere with me, have one at home, on my desk at work and on my nightstand. In between I drink diet snapple peach iced tea, mmm love the stuff.

Congratulations! Great job, girl!

P.S you lost more in 7 weeks than I did in 4 months Its all about perspective my friend.

Hey Texas, Here are my stats: Surgery date 27-Apr 193 27-May 178 tried to quit smoking 27-Jun 181 Said screw it and stopped trying lol 27-Ju l187 27-Aug 180 today-176 Over the past 4 months I have tried different things to try and speed up my weight loss, sometimes they work sometimes they don't. I am carb sensitive and if I eat just a little too much of them my sugars go up. If I didn't try to quit smoking and lost those two months instead of gained, I still don't think it would have been more than a total of 10lbs for the 2 months. So that would make my total loss since surgery 27lbs. Slow for some, yes, but basically I'm trying to tell you everyone is different and if you keep at it you will lose weight, even if its slow, you are still losing and winning!

THANKS! I had such a wonderful day yesterday, had to just share it all with everyone!

Oh, Myrori, I have been following you on here for months and can honestly say the attendant is absolutely correct. Beauty is all about what you have on the inside and it shines through and you have it in abundance!

hahaha that is freaking great!

I believe this is realistic LOL, lets rock and roll people! SN: Raine Starting Wt: 176 Current: 176 Goal: 165 Lbs to Goal: 11

You go Fern! Fantastic job, but I have to say you are more than average

Yes it is easy, easier to only swallow 3 pills a day rather than 20, easier to work out, easier to walk, easier to smile, easier to face the day, easier to have sex, easier to work, hmmm just all around easier, so I think taking the easy way out is worth it, don't you???? LOL

haha that is great, isn't it

Ditto for me lol. I hope it lasts for a little while though, I live in the south and 90+ temps don't bother me at all. Internal air conditioning is great, however am not looking forward to the winter months, I can't even imagine how cold I'm going to be then!

Today has been what a day, I tell ya! I was talking to this guy at work today about weight loss, and told him I have about 25 more pounds that I want to lose, he looked at me and said he can't see where I'm going to find 25 more pounds LOL. Then I found that video and sat there and watched it like 10x in row because like I said in an earlier post today, I now see the difference. We get so used to seeing ourselves as fat that we tend not to "see" it when it starts to fall off. I was looking at the BMI chart and I am officially no longer obese, I am now overweight. I didn't think that would affect me as much as it did because I believe the BMI chart is a bunch of BS lol, but I was just so happy about that, that I had to joke about it and tell everyone that would listen to me. The best of all is I got my blood results back from my surgeon. Pre op when not on meds, my triglycerides would range in the 1000's, no meds for the past 4 months and they are 433. Still high and I'll have to take a pill for that but I knew that going into this. My cholesterol, on medication would range about 250ish, now no medication for 4 months and it is 236, my doc said it is so close to normal that she is going to wait until my next test to determine if I need anything for that. And the best of all, my A1C was 6.4 withouth medication for the past 4 months. And that number is skewed because when I tried to quit smoking I was taking Chantix and that spikes the blood sugar big time. So we both figured that had I not taken the Chantix, my A1C would have been around 5.5-5.8 which is amazing because I used to take 4 pills a day for this and now, nada! It has been a day of wonderful, fantastic, awesome, brilliant (for my friends across the pond ) tremendous, fabulous, hmmm insert adjectives here LOL, day. Just thouight I would share my happiness with you all.

Yeah, it does!

I found an old video of me in a Martial Arts class from a couple of years ago. I couldn't upload the video but I took a couple of screenshots, they are blurry, but I was watching and oh boy, I now see a difference between then and now B and A.bmp

There is a maintanence thread on here somewhere search it, you will find that a lot of them have issues with maintaining goal.

I am 4 months out and just last Friday night I went out to dinner with a friend. I had steak with sauteed squash. I ate about 1/2 the meal and took the rest home to hubby.

Well done, Pasquini. Unfortunately, ignorance is bliss as they say, I say it should be painful, this way maybe people will stop and think before doing or saying things that show just how ignorant they are.

Holy moly batman! You are doing great!

The first time I did it I was thrilled and like you didn't even realize I did it. Now I do it all the time just because I can LOL

Great job so far and welcome to the board.

It sure does!

You are right, now is your time, enjoy it!

The restriction will help you keep to what you have to do too. My issue was quantity, I could eat healthy but too much of anything is not healthy regardless LOL. I think you will be fine, it will take time for you to understand your new stomach but in the end it will help you do what you were never able to do by yourself.

Tiff all the hard work paid off! Congratulations on the new home. VERY happy for you!