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That's great news!

How exciting! Post when you can. Good luck !!!

Late to this thread and haven't read quite all of it but sending support.

@@stephh Onederland ! Congrats!

Saturday just over 2000 calories and Sunday just over 3000 (damn movie popcorn) and no exercise either day. Monday 1167 calories and 24 flights of stairs at work. Back on track. I knew the weekend was going to be loose but that movie popcorn is deadly. I don't know why I can't make myself give it up. It's definitely a comfort food.

I've been climbing stairs at work for the last week or two. As a conscious exercise. I'm up to three rounds a day now that total 24 flights of stairs. Twelve up and twelve down. I'm stunned. It's getting easier and it's a lovely five or six minute break from my desk three times a day. I'm so happy not to be huffing and puffing anymore.

My tolerance for a$$#0/3$ went down in direct proportion to my daily caloric intake.

Oh yeah. And my pending divorce. Oh yeah. And no sleep for the months before I left him. Hmmm.

May the storm be lighter than they expect and over sooner.

I just had a non WLS procedure under anesthesia last week. I asked the anesthesiologist if going under creates hair loss later. He said he had never heard of that but typically never hears from his patients months after their surgeries. He said physical stress in general can cause hair loss and surgery itself is a big stressor. My hair just started growing back after my March WLS and I was scared I would lose it again and it might not grow back a second time. My mom lost her hair twice to methotrexate and it never came back the second time. I did not believe my WLS hair loss was due to Protein deficiency or losing weight too quickly. I was sure the surgery itself was the culprit. I still think so, but maybe not the anesthesia per se.

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Welcome back. This place is full of support.

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Gorgeous !!!

I read the title of this post and thought, gowalking got the waistline measurements backwards. I'm sure she meant it used to be 36 inches and now it's down to 24.

"eat as if you do have restriction. so when you do hit the green zone your eating habits are already established." Terry is right. My surgeon had this attitude. My post op protocol was super strict with six weeks of liquids followed by 800 calories a day. Holy Moses did I want more food. I peppered the NUT with why why why and she said this early post op time was what my doc used to jump start a solid weight loss, get momentum going, and put good compliance habits in place. The nurse also had me on the treadmill day 2 after surgery. I was so damn complaint in those early weeks. I lost like crazy too. Was I hungry? Sometimes yes. Most of the time though, with strict compliance, my body got appropriately hungry at mealtime and was satisfied with the small meals. When I started messing around and began snacking, it screwed that up and I then got hungry between meals. That quickly taught me to stop snacking. Stopping exercise was the stupidest thing I did, because now it's really mentally hard for me to get back to it. I had a treadmill in my old house and I no longer do. But that's just an excuse. I am slowly adding a pathetically small amount of exercise back, and it's hard, but necessary if I want to get these last fifty pounds off. I'll get there. But the motivation of the early weeks and months doesn't last indefinitely. So build those strong habits now. Good luck.

@@csg WLS does not operate on our brains. None of them do. Head hunger is real and doesn't go away. Binge eating disorder, whether diagnosed or not (as in my case, but let's face it, I binged daily for decades) is about using food to comfort/entertain/numb/get high/all of the above. Until we find a different, healthy REPLACEMENT for food to do those things for us, you bet your sweet bippy we will return to the food. Don't take my word for it. These boards are filled with WLS unhappy endings from LapBand, sleeve and RNY patients who found a way around the physical limitations of their WLS and gained their weight back. I'm not accusing. I've read the confessionals here. And for every "help me I want to start again" confessional, there are probably twice as many who just dropped off the boards, never to be heard from again. I go to OA and CODA to work on the issues that led me to overeat in the first place. Because not only do I not want to fail at WLS and return to overeating, I don't want to replace my food addiction with alcohol or pain pills. And without working on my head, guess where I'd be next?

Amen.

Exactly!

A great post to start my day!!

Oh yeah! I joked about the Cinderella thing on the stairs and a passerby laughed along and said that's what shoes are for. A year ago I would have been worrying about stares on the stairs. And the meal was amazing. Lobster bisque and scallops and creme brûlée and a bottle of wine. Instead of avoiding the camera I asked the waiter to take our picture ! Living in the shadows for so many years changes you. It's so nice to know I am really here under it all and can find myself again.

The more I do the stairs the easier it gets. Friday I logged 24 flights. Three rounds of eight each. I don't know if it was that or the clean eating all week or the recovery from my minor surgery, or all of the above, but I'm down a pound and a half. Today is Sunday. I had plans with friends for a doggie play date in the park but we are expecting a bunch of snow. If it holds off for six more hours, we will still go. Movement is going to be what gets the scale to go down for me. I want to find a way to move more every day. The stairs at work thing is working out really well.

Thanks, peeps! My daughter said the jacket would look cute with jeans, so maybe I'll do that sometime. I had a great time. I had never been to the Signature Room at the Hancock before. To get in the building, you have to walk down a flight of stairs and then up an escalator back to street level before the elevator ride. I had a Cinderella moment and lost a shoe on the steps! Got a chuckle out of that. Our dinner was wonderful and the city looked amazing. My camera doesn't do it justice, but here is the view from our table.

My girls said the sweater looks better than the jacket from the fancy dress. Look at me, taking fashion advice from my kids!

This is the dress I ended up with for tonight's dinner at the 95th. I had a much fancier one but it was too big! So in a panic I ran to Target today and got this sleeveless dress for $27.99 and topped it off with a black sweater from my skinny daughter's closet! The heels are new and a size too big so they don't hurt my goofy feet. People, I have not worn a dress in 15 years. This is truly an NSV!