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At the suggestion of a fellow sleever (thanks DeezJeans) I'm starting a post-op success story thread. This can be a 'numbers' thread...when you do your weigh in's, you can post your pounds lost here, and we can keep a running total. We can use this thread JUST for pounds lost! Looking forward to the thousands of pounds we WILL be losing! Here's what we would like to do. Please send me a private message with your goal pounds lost. (Meaning, if your goal is to lose 150 pounds, just jot that down in a quick private message and send that to me.) Then we will compile all the pounds from everyone who wants to participate, and post the full amount, and then work towards those goals with weekly updates. We will be recording those pounds lost AFTER surgery! You will still post your pounds lost on this forum here so we can Celebrate all of your victories (and I will keep track of them on my trusty spreadsheet, and then report the weekly pounds lost) If you have any questions, please let me know!

Hi everyone! Happy surgiversary to everyone having their surgiversaries this week! Mine was last week, and it was almost hard to believe that a year had passed! I'm currently already working on my 2015 goals...I think I see some exciting things for next year! But for now, here are our weekly numbers: 16 people counted this week Total pounds to lose goal: 2079.8 Total pounds lost to date: 1908.2 We are at a wonderful 92% of our goal! That's incredibly fantastic. You should all be SO proud of your accomplishments! Keep it up!

Time for some numbers this week! 17 members (Not all posted for this week) Total pounds goal - 2203.80 Total pounds lost to date - 1989 We are at 90% of goal! This is a special month as we all celebrate our one year surgiversaries. Congratulations to everyone who has faithfully posted and kept with it! The encouragement and success is SO beneficial to everyone! Keep it up!

Awesome MGR! Way to go!

Good morning everyone! Great job on posting numbers....I'll post our weekly total later today to give any last minute folks time to be included... HW - 280.3 SW - 256.3 CW - 165.4 TPL - 114.9 TPG - 140.3

Hi everyone! I've got some numbers for us today...(even on 'time' LOL) Total pounds goal - 3019.8 Total pounds lost - 2397.2 We're at 79% of our goal! It's amazing to see that, and I love posting these great numbers. By the way, those numbers are shared between 24 participating members....that's AMAZING! Keep up your amazing work everyone!

ACK! I forgot to post the numbers....work got a little crazy today, but here goes: We currently have 25 active members participating. Total pounds to lose goal: 3125.8 Total pounds lost to date: 2458.1 That means we are at 78.6% to goal! Congratulations everyone...we're getting close! Keep up the fantastical work!

I had emailed Quest to see if I could get a sample of the chips. They said that because it was new, they didn't offer samples. I was very interested to see how they would taste, but won't buy them/pay for shipping without having tried them first. Which flavor did you get? Here are the ingredients (for Mrs. RRn) Protein Blend (Milk Protein Isolate, whey Protein Isolate), Dried Potatoes, Corn Starch, High Oleic Sunflower Oil. Contains less than 2% of the following: Sea Salt, Calcium Carbonate, Natural Flavors. I have been eating Quest bars for probably 6 months, and love them, although I was just introduced to the Victory bar, and although they don't have quite the texture as the Quest bar, I really like them as well, and am getting them now.

Final call for numbers for this week's tally... I'll post our numbers in a few hours...giving some people the chance to get their numbers in... It's looking good folks!

Mooncat, I am a bit confused by your numbers. TPL from your HW is 136. TPL from your SW is 121. I wanted to make sure your CW was accurate, because I couldn't calculate a TPL number of 73, and want to make sure I get you down for your total weight loss!

Hello everyone, and I hope you all had a nice 4th of July! I'm a day late in posting the numbers, because my days are all messed up! LOL I'd like to continue the independence day celebration with some more fireworks: We currently have 31 people who are participating (meaning they have posted in the last two months) Total Pounds Goal: 3925.8 Total Pounds Lost: 2840.9 Drum roll....we are currently 72% to our overall goal! I don't think there is anymore fantastic news than that for today! Congratulations to all of you and continue your wonderful work and transformations!

Time for some numbers: Total Pounds Goal: 4313.8 Total Pounds Lost: 3017.9 That means we are 70% to our total goal! WAY TO GO!!! Keep up the GREAT work!

Hi everyone! Here are our numbers for the week: We have 38 active members posting regularly (thank you all!) Goal pounds to lose is 4671 Pounds lost so far is 2603.8 We are at an astounding 55.7% of our goal! Congratulations everyone, and keep up the GREAT work!

Late on the numbers again this week...but some good stuff to post. Currently we have 42 active participants with a total goal weight loss of 5227 pounds. As of this week we are currently at 2658.2 pounds lost WE ARE OVER HALF WAY!!! We're officially at 50.8% towards our complete weight loss goal. This week we had two milestones to celebrate - both Mich129 and macman have officially hit the 100 pounds lost milestone. Congratulations to both of you! Andrew0929 is coming up next! Have a great week!

HW: 280.3 SW: 254 CW: 211.2 Getting closer, and Super close to the half way mark!

I did not, and still have not told anyone in my family. I only see them twice a year, so I'm sure it will be interesting when I see them next.

Sashimi is my favorite as well. I literally could eat it every day. Don't even miss the rice and various goop...lol

Hi everyone! Here are our numbers for the week: 8241 = goal pounds to lose 3194.3 = pounds lost so far We're at 39% of goal! Keep up the wonderful and awesome work everyone!

One of the 'concerns' my surgeons office talked about was grazing...they strongly, STRONGLY advise against it. I was told that it should be 3 meals and maybe 2 snacks. I usually do the three meals and one snack, and get in between 700-800 calories and have upped the protein to at least 80g. I think you run the risk of overheating if you are just grazing throughout the day...so in my opinion, I would definitely caution against it.

Welcome to ONEderland Sandi!

No apologies necessary Nurse_B...you just posted 2 days ago I know what you mean about the exercise! I was SO happy to finally get back in the pool last weekend, and got to swim one day and then BAM got horribly sick all week long...add a weight loss stall in there, and that's enough to get a person down in the dumps! I'm finally feeling a little bit better today, and am hoping, hoping, hoping to get back in the pool tomorrow! Have a great day!

Ha! Silly me...I saw 'Winter' on the cover and just assumed it was this Winter... Sorry about that.

Shrimp has been one of the best things for my sleeve...absolutely no problems...and the best part is how few calories it is for so much protein. I keep it in the house pretty much all the time now!

I am almost 8 weeks post-op and had sashimi about 5 weeks out. I just went slow and didn't overdo it and it was probably one of the best meals I have had. I am not probably going to do sushi, just because I am going to stay away from rice from now on, but sashimi is such a wonderful alternative for me.

Awesome post!!!