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Wow!!! You look great and that's quite an inspiration!

Awesome!!!

Funny how many of us eat fish for breakfast.

Good luck. You can do it. The band is waiting to help. I had to refocus as well. I've been stagnant with weight loss for five months and even started to gain. That got my attention. I recently gave up wine and my favorite carby Thai comfort food, and the scale has started to move again. It's not easy, but I've found my motivation again. Staying connected here helps me a lot. The beauty of WLS is that we can succeed if we put the work into it. Before WLS I would try and then fail over and over again. It was so demoralizing. Let's do this thing!

Hello warriors!! I had a super busy day and got a ton of stuff done. Laundry, legal stuff, paid some bills, got my car appraised at CarMax (seriously, $1500 trade value? sheesh!), bought a gift for my mother, bought two dresses, a sweater and a pair of shoes for me ????, saw a movie with my bestie (Age of Adeline -- loved it), and managed to do all of this on two cups of chili and two large iced decaf coffees for the entire day. Not the best food plan, but by the time I got home, I just felt like waiting for tomorrow to eat won't be such a bad idea. I'm having an early Mother's Day brunch out tomorrow, so I'll likely have a bit more food than usual. I'm committing here and now to pass on the champagne. I'm tired just reading this! Hope you're all doing well. One more week until my eldest daughter comes home from St. Louis, and 12 days until my baby returns from her semester abroad in Spain. The countdown has begun! I can't wait to hold her in my arms again. This momma is going to have a very happy Mother's Day week!

Please don't hesitate to call your team with questions. They really are there to help you! From my own experience, I had no drinking limitations except to keep my liquids sugar free. My guess is that as long as you have no discomfort, drink away!! Congrats on your surgery!

Bander here. Welcome!!

Side note: Great American Bagel serves chili at 8am.

As a bander, I eat some of the oddest foods for Breakfast. This last month, I've had seafood salad, meatballs, and right now a bowl of chili. It doesn't bother me, it just amuses me. What's the weirdest breakfast you've eaten since WLS?

Very inspiring. I've learned from your story over the last several months and I appreciate your willingness to help newbies. It's encouraging to hear of long term success with the band. You always make it clear that there's still work to do on our part, but when we do, amazing success can follow. Thank you!

Welcome to your new life. It's wonderful. Congratulations !!

Congratulations !!! You're on your way!!

Don't ever give up on yourself. You sound like you are on a successful path. My band has given me a chance at a normal life. I'm 54 and I am healthier today than I was at 35.

Happy Friday! I'm walking stairs at work today and had a Protein Breakfast. lunch will be errands and probably a bowl of Soup from Subway. dinner is Red Lobster with a friend. No cocktails, no biscuits. Caesar salad and lobster and shrimp and green Beans. I'm trying to watch sodium because I notice Water retention day to day with the rings I wear. When my rings are tight, I don't fret over a small scale gain. But sodium is bad for my blood pressure, so it's good for me to be aware of it now. Saturday I will have a day all to myself. I may buy some shoes. Sunday is my outing with my BFF, her mom and my mom for Mother's Day. Brunch at a hotel. I'll post before I go that day.

Im here but super busy at work and home. food is very clean and I'm feeling great. Exercise has been lacking. I did almost no walking or stairs this week so far. Yikes. Have to step that up before @@bacon slaps me with a new challenge. I'll write more soon. Off to CODA tonight. Hang tough, peeps!!!!

As I creep to green, my fills are 0.01 each. Sounds ridiculous but it makes a difference! I have a 14cc band. Fills 0.10 seventh fill 07.80 0.10 sixth fill 07.70 0.10 fifth fill 07.60 0.25 fourth fill 07.50 0.25 third fill 07.25 2.50 second fill 07.00 4.50 first fill 04.50

Goal after stall or gain? Share your 2nd ???? wind!!! I would like to hear from anyone who reached goal weight after a period of months or years during their WLS process where they stalled out or even gained weight, but then refocused and got to goal. I'm not talking about a four week stall. I'm talking about five/six months or more where you hovered at a still high weight or even gained some back, but then found a way to get back on track and got to goal. I know you're out there! Please share what it was like, what happened, and what it is like for you today.

I had a beginner hot yoga class but the temp was warm, not hot. But the reason I didn't keep going was my LOUD knees. We held poses for several minutes, and my cracking knees sounded like a machine gun. I couldn't help but burst out laughing uncontrollably. Since I am sure I was a disruption to the class, I dropped yoga and decided walking was more my thing.

This. Made. My. Day.

This post made me look up the BMI calculator again. I must have used a different one before because the one I found today says that at 5'5" my weight needs to be 149 to be normal. 150 is overweight. I had chosen 145 as my goal but I'll be happy with 149. I just want to be normal. I agree that my motivations have changed. Once health problems improved or went away, I decided I wanted to look good too. Nothing wrong with that. What improved or went away? High cholesterol gone. Arthritis greatly improved. sleep apnea gone. Acid reflux gone. High blood pressure greatly improved. Back pain totally gone. It's been so long since I felt like $#!+ that I seriously have to think hard to remember all of my former ailments. My lowest adult weight was on my wedding day when I was still 5'6". (Yes, I got shorter.) I weighed 156. So where would I like to stay? 149. Yep. That's a good number. I'm also encouraged this month because I was at a weight loss standstill for five months. I think I've broken through that over the last two weeks, and now I feel like I can really get to goal. All I had to do was give up wine. *sigh*. Oh well, it's all a matter of priorities. I wanna be skinny, dammit!

What I have done. My last few fills were 0.01 each. Now I think it's perfect. For now. I've been at perfect a few times for awhile. I'm still losing so I expect it to change over time. Pro tip: the tightest part of my day is first thing in the morning. If I can swallow two Tylenol arthritis caplets with a sip of Water, I am happy that I am not too tight.I actually do that during my fill under fluoroscopy as well. Here's what jumped out at me from your post. You should not be eating until you feel like you can't eat any more. You've already eaten too much then. What works for me, is to slow it down a lot. As you approach finishing one cup of food, ask yourself with each bite: Am I satisfied? Is it possible that the next bite might make me feel full? Be honest with your answers. This is difficult to do for people who love food. But if either answer is yes, stop. Physically get up, walk away, go to the bathroom, wash your hands, come back, sit down, wait for a minute. Timing is everything. It takes time for those signals that you ate to reach your brain. It doesn't take long. Two or three minutes at most. Once that happens, and you are no longer starving, you can make this decision objectively. Good luck. The band is now working for you. Now we need to work with the band. This is the tricky part.It truly does give us our signals. We just need to learn to listen to them. And then to actually obey them.

I was banded a year ago. I just wanted to tell you you're doing great. This is the hard part. At the right fill level it becomes so much easier. But creep up on your green. Don't overshoot it.

Brava!! I'll add this. I heard it in a motivational podcast. "I started to recover when I stopped listening to myself and started talking to myself."

I've gotten behind on this site. I follow too many threads!! It took three hours to catch up tonight. I'm in a great place today. NSETBEx and I settled on a few current issues like tuition for the kids, contributions toward current expenses and legal fees. It's a start. God smiled on me and gave me peace going in to the courthouse. I'm not afraid of him anymore. I also woke up Monday with the 11 pound gain gone plus a bonus pound gone. That did wonders for my confidence. Monday was huge. It was the first time I faced or spoke to him in nine months. I have not felt this free and strong in well over a year. Thank you all for your prayers and support. You were with me and it made a big difference.

Thank you for every word of this post. It is very inspirational and gives me such hope for my own long term success. Congratulations!