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@@gowalking, I loved loved loved this post!! Yes!! I wish you would write a book.

"I'm not an 18 and I know it's just this fit but I'm taking it. " Sweetheart, it zipped. You are an 18. Until you become a 16. Congratulations.

I'm here! Spent the day with my lawyer. Have to go back tomorrow and spend another day with my lawyer. This weekend is costing a fortune. I hate divorce! I'm successfully taking off the weight that I have gained. This is a big confidence booster for me. When I go to court on Monday, I want to feel as confident as possible. I have 2.2 pounds left to go to get back down to the lowest weight I have been so far. I know I shouldn't be that focused on the numbers, but right now I'm taking every little thing that makes me feel better. As for my food, it is high Protein, almost 0 carb. This is working for me right now. I discovered Trader Joe's mini party meatballs. They're great! No exercise today or tomorrow. Too busy. Also it's raining outside. But, I'll be okay. I have a Coda meeting tomorrow, and that is saving my sanity one meeting at a time. I don't say it often, but I do want you all to know that this thread and the people on it are very important to me. Thank you all for checking in, and the ones who haven't checked in for a while, please come back! We need you here! I need you here! BariatricPal is the one place where I have been honest with myself and with others about my eating, my drinking, and my exercise. It is extremely empowering to have this outlet. Okay, here I go, back to the divorce crapola. Lots of work to do tonight.

Yes, you will have a gain after a little while. But don't fret. Stick to the program, and it will come back off. I would also advise to not weigh yourself. Wait until you go to the doctor's office. Congratulations!

Oh I'm so sorry it went so badly! It happens to me in a restaurant if I get careless. What I do is excuse myself quickly, say my stomach is a little upset, I'll be right back.I go to the ladies' room, and spit it out. It usually comes up gently without any problems. The food is not actually in your stomach, it is in your esophagus. Therefore a little light burping will bring it up. Just spit it in the toilet, rinse your mouth at the sink, and go back to your seat. The most important thing now is do not, do not, do not try to eat any more. Tell your companions that you think you might be getting a stomach bug. When they ask if you were okay, say oh yeah the feeling passed, but I'm just going to take the rest of this food home and eat it later. My closest friends know that I've been banded. But I never told them when I spit up in a restaurant. I always let them know that it was a close call, but I'm okay. No point in embarrassing myself and making everybody uncomfortable. Again, do not try to eat anything for several hours after that. Your band area is inflamed and it will get worse. Not only that, trying to eat when your band area is inflamed can create serious problems down the road. And I hate to tell you this, but it is not the last stuck episode that you will ever have. Don't worry though, now that you know the signs right before you got stuck, you will recognize what it feels like to be getting stuck rather than got stuck. Lesson learned. One of many!

Please take a minute to look back in your family a couple of generations. Almost all of us develop habits based on how we are raised. I found OA at age 28 and realized that my obese upbringing by obese parents was a result of their obese upbringing by obese and alcoholic parents. I was blessed to see this and get the opportunity to change it before I had children. Having said that, I raised my toddlers into teenagers with healthy food habits. We ate at the table as a family and didn't serve soda, or other unhealthy extras while they were little. Unfortunately over time I gained back the weight I had lost. My kids ate healthy but watched me become morbidly obese. By the time they were teenagers, I was eating in front of the TV and so were they. My younger daughter was slightly overweight in her preteen years but became very active in sports and got health conscious in high school and slimmed down. My older daughter never was overweight. Last year I got WLS and have dropped 100 pounds so far. My daughters are my biggest cheerleaders. One daughter kicks my ass when I make poor food choices. They are both excited for my new life. My point is, we teach what we know, and sometimes even though we know better, we don't do it ourselves. It's also not a straight road. I'm on a path to health today, but my girls have seen it good, bad, and good again. They don't have kids yet, but when they do, they will make their own mistakes and successes. I'm back living with my mom while my divorce is starting. My mom is 100 percent in food dysfunction. She is disabled and can hardly walk and lives to eat. We rarely eat together because she likes to binge alone. I learned from her as a teenager that the way to lose a hundred or more pounds was to eat salad and hot dogs for a year. Of course she gained it back. When she was losing weight back then I was overweight at 15. My mom became skinnier than me and I hated her. It's a generational cycle. You can break it for yourself and for your kids. But you probably won't do it perfectly. Peace.

My band dims my appetite for 4 hours between meals and I am no longer ravenous. ***drops mic***

Off the top of my head this came to me. I have a running list of my weights and the dates in my phone. When I feel like I haven't made any progress, I look back a few months and see where I was compared to where I am. I also look in my closet and I have NO fat clothes left. I got rid of them. Even the ones that are one size bigger than I am now. Everything fits and everything looks good. Except for my baggy bathing suits. I need a new one again! My closet always had several sizes when I was fat. I also say a few prayers every day that put my head in the right place.

Got back into Onederland today. Whew! Five more pounds to get off all the excess I gained recently. Hope to walk at lunch for the first time this week. Couldn't even get all my stairs in yesterday. food is spot on. It truly feels good to hear that rumbling in my stomach in the evening instead of feeding it with food or drink. Today the plan is Hamburger for Breakfast Peppers and cheese for lunch Seafood salad and tomatoes and cucumbers with ranch for dinner

I started out slow with exercise and still am slow. I walk stairs at work. Can you try four flights of stairs today and build on that over time? Not all at once. I don't like to get winded at work. I'm up to 24 flights a day. 12 up and 12 down. But I do them in three chunks during the day.

I sincerely hope you have a better experience than I did. I'm a bander. I was an occasional social drinker before WLS. Like one drink every couple of months. After about 7 months post op, I started socializing with friends on the weekends and began enjoying wine a few times a week. My weight loss came to a grinding halt. The relaxation of the wine or cocktails enabled me to throw my food plan out the window and eat foods that are not conducive to weight loss. Plus the calories in the drinks themselves. After no meaningful weight loss over five months, and then a gain of eleven pounds following three weeks of holiday/birthday/you name it, I decided I needed to say goodbye to my Olivia Pope diet of red wine and popcorn. I've lost five pounds this week and feel back on track. Which is good, because I have fifty pounds left to get to goal. And I WILL get to goal, dammit! My experience is probably not the usual. As I said, I only occasionally drank before WLS. People who have wine as part of their regular routine may be able to adjust to it better and account for the calories better than I did. I just have to chalk alcohol up to "not working for me" and move on. Plus side is that my friends like having a permanent designated driver now, and they insist on paying my cover charge in clubs and springing for my one glass of cranberry juice. So I've got that going for me.

Oh been there done that! My worst stuck episode lasted overnight into the next day. I was miserable. Now I'm getting much better at sensing if I am headed for Stucksville. This last fill puts me right on the border of perfect/too tight. If I chew correctly and slowly, perfect. Sloppy or fast, Stucksville. When it does happen, I call it quits and wait for the next mealtime. I never want that overnight misery again.

I had to skip my lunch walk today again because I had to run errands. But the scale is showing a loss and I've got 5 of the 11 pounds I gained off. I bought some Protein shakes for my desk because I think I'm going to end up with two meals during my work day instead of one. Legal stuff is getting worse, but it's not getting me down. I'm just doing what my lawyer instructs me to and preparing well for court next week. I'm glad I have my meetings and therapy to help me through this difficult time. And this board, of course! dinner will be hamburgers made by my mom. I'll add a veggie or a salad to mine and leave off the bun.

Never.

I've started including these little peppers in my lunch. Big crunch and low calorie. I had about six of these with my cheese sticks. Yum! What's your new favorite thing?

Amazing. You are an inspiration.

My weight loss stopped several months ago. I started to gain this month. I've recently gone back to 1200 calories a day, which is what I was eating while losing. It's starting to come off again. Not easy. I was used to bigger and higher carb meals. But I want to get to goal, so it is what it is.

As my confidence goes up, I am more able to recognize and remove toxic people from my life. Nobody needs that kind of friend.

I was wrong. Have to work through lunch today. That's okay. I'll get my stairs in. I've been getting hungry earlier at work. I'm considering adding a snack to my day. For today I brought my lunch, and dinner at home will be quite late. So maybe a snack in the afternoon. Could be a protein shake.

I gave up wine recently because I wasn't losing weight. I gave up TV eating pre op when the psychologist refused to clear me for surgery until I broke that habit. If you need a snack, have one at the table before TV and like it says above, get something to do with your hands while watching tv. I've started grown up coloring books. Sounds weird, but there are some beautiful designs, and it's calming and keeps my hands busy. Good luck.

Welcome, @@Glammaw! Good job, @@bacon! I had a good, good day. Lawyer went well. Therapy went well. food is spot on. 1200 calories yesterday and today. Tomorrow I will be able to once again walk on my lunch hour. I've missed it. Got my stairs in both days. It feels so, so good to be back in control with the food.

Well yeah, you have a smudge there on your thigh. Other than that, you're frickin BEAUTIFUL and no, not overweight. But seriously, take a shower, girl. ????

My recent gain is slowly coming off. I peed like a racehorse all night. I have the lawyer appointment today at noon. Nervous. Breakfast is seafood salad. (Aren't we WLS patients weirdos?) lunch is three cheese sticks instead of two since I was so hungry after lunch yesterday. Plus some bell peppers. dinner chicken salad, tomatoes and cucumbers. Same as yesterday. Boring is safe. I have a therapy appointment after work. Gonna be quite a session tonight.

You'll have steak again. And the best part is, your next ribeye will provide three meals' worth of portions, taste delicious, and satisfy you on so much less. I'm not kidding!

@@s_suther, praying for your granny. I had a good day. I was hungry as heck all afternoon but rode it out until dinner. I ate v e r y slowly and by doing that, my one cup of chicken salad and some cucumbers and tomatoes with a little ranch dressing was just enough for dinner. I'm feeling optimistic again. Off to an OA meeting now. Tomorrow at lunchtime I have a lawyer meeting. I'll bring my lunch and eat before I go.