Cecilia

I hear ya! My new little hairs are about an inch long, just long enough to make it impossible to style my hair. THICK at the roots, and THIN at the ends. Just about had it all buzzed, but resisted the temptation! ... it IS coming in nice and thick though. I expect it to make a full recovery, if I don't go insane first!

Hee-hee! Yep. The sex is fun. What's not fun is how little hair I have left. The new stuff is growing in to take its place, but I'm *this* close to getting a very short cut. Sigh!

Well Hello everybody! I lost you all for quite some time! I wish the old website had sent me an email or something proactive telling me to migrate over and how to find the posts I was following! Nevertheless, I'm here, and I'm jazzed. I have an update for all of you. I hit a nearly intractable plateau at around 170 lbs (on a 5'8", large boned, pear shaped frame, for reference). That was a happy size 12 bottoms, but still overweight according to BMI, even though my medical team considered me a success. I noticed that I was starting to just "eat normally" without much regard to what I was putting in my mouth, and I could maintain. But I still want to get to my personal goal of 155. I also noticed some other emotional stuff that caused me to seek out a DBT therapist. I've been going for a couple of months, and we've begun to peel off all sorts of onion layers, so to speak. One of the core principles of DBT is "mindfulness," and one of the challenges she gave me was to be more mindful of what I'm putting in my mouth, so I started recording my intake on MyFitnessPal. Not trying to "be good" or anything, just writing down every office cookie and candy cane I snarfed, every latte and handful of pretzels. ... well. Lo and behold the scales just whooshed, and I'm starting to lose again. I realized I had a certain amount of anxiety about losing more weight, even though I want to, you know? It doesn't make sense, but there you have it. A fun revelation is that the smaller you are, the less weight loss it takes to drop a size, so now I'm looking at new slacks for work again (the loose 14's are falling off my flat ass) and I've had to buy new bras. Again. AND I'm suddenly aware of how I've been depriving myself of the right amount of Protein as well, and fluids. I've had two bladder infections in the past few months, and I chalk it up to not being able to pee enough after sex to (sorry, TMI). Interestingly, I've found that I can eat steak again!!! I get 6-ounce New York Strips. I cook one up and have half for one meal, and eat the other half cold at the next meal, like beef Jerky, or on a salad. It's so YUM!!! I can't believe I used to pound down an 8-oz steak, AND a baked potato, AND bread all in one meal! Yeesh! Anyway, I'm looking foward to hearing updates from all of you, and I'm looking forward to meeting with the medical team in February and wowing them with my continued weight loss. Hugs and Happy Holidays to all of you losers! Cecilia

Stuck at 170. 10 lbs to go. HW: 275 DoS: 230 Feb 2013 CW: 172 GW: 150

I'm down to 170. I fight for every pound which comes off at the rate of about 1 pound per month now. I know if I got going with more exercise I would see the last of it come off, but I'm just not able to motivate myself to do that at the moment. HW: 275 DoS: 230 Feb 2013 CW: 172 GW: 150

I'm thinking you're going to need to change your name from thunder chunky to something else! :-) HW: 275 DoS: 230 Feb 2013 CW: 172 GW: 150

Those tiny bathroom stalls where you can tell they made it undersized to accommodate a handicapped stall next to it? I can walk right in and don't end up with my thigh touching the maxi pad waste basket! HW: 275 DoS: 230 Feb 2013 CW: 172 GW: 150

Congratulations!!!!! HW: 275 DoS: 230 Feb 2013 CW: 172 GW: 150

OMG. I'm starting to spend serious money on clothes... It's so fun to shop! I had no idea how good it would feel to look in the mirror and think "dang that looks good!" with EVERYTHING I try on! HW: 275 DoS: 230 Feb 2013 CW: 172 GW: 150

Good Lord! I can feel my ribs! HW: 275 DoS: 230 Feb 2013 CW: 172 GW: 150

with whom? HW: 275 DoS: 230 Feb 2013 CW: 172 GW: 150