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This is very inspirational. Fabiola, you are beautiful!!!

I'm glad you're ok. Get checked.

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Jane, I'm glad it's behind you!

Stay in touch with your bariatric team. Follow the food plan and don't worry about the weight right now. At four weeks it's all over the map. If you eat the way they tell you, the weight will start coming off. Good luck.

Never ever ever give up on yourself!

Sheesh. Until I read this, I never thought about it, but three family members have died at home in my mother's house where I live right now. My grandmother, my aunt and my dad. Right in the room I'm sitting in as a matter of fact. Not natural causes (stroke/cancer/ALS). I'll bet lots of homes have had owners die at home.

Debbie, your transformation is amazing. Liz, you nailed it when you promised yourself you won't leave the boards. As you guys know, I stalled for a year (yeah, I know a year is technically not a stall) and then gained a little over ten pounds before I was ready to get my sshit together. I wasn't ready until I was ready. But once I was, miracle of miracles, my band was as reliable as ever. In December I cleaned up my food. I dropped the crap that I knew was causing my weight gain. Dumped the fried everything. Dumped the movie crapcorn. Focused on p rotein instead of bread and p asta. Alcohol was already gone. I tracked the food honestly and even bought a kitchen food scale and used it. I faced the truth about what I was eating. And the truth was that I was regularly eating over 2000 calories a day. No way was this old shot-metabolism, zero-exercise body going to lose weight on that amount of calories per day. Slowly I got my calories down to approximately 1100-1200 per day. I've gone from 204 down to 189 since December. It's been slow but it's coming off. And that "tightened" my band without an additional adjustment. Funny how this contraption works. Feed it lean solid p rotein and no sliders for a couple of weeks and restriction comes back. Don't give up on yourself. I don't know why I stagnated for a year. Furthermore I don't know what emotionally kicked my butt into reenergizing. I have my theories, but today the reasons are less important than the success I am experiencing. It feels good to feel good again. You will too.

Talk to your surgeon. Don't put your fingers down your throat ever again. Retching to throw up food can cause a band slip. That's serious.

Take care of you. I'm divorcing now and self care is my focus. I'm so grateful every day for the resources I have: dear friends; a good lawyer, a therapist, CODA and OA. I need them all. My WLS was the first step I took in self care before I filed for divorce.

You'll get there. But if you're like me, then it will bounce back up over 200 briefly. Now that's frustrating. My advice is the very first day you see 199.9, don't weigh yourself again for another week. And the day that you do, make sure you have not had anything salty the night before and that you have had plenty of water the day before. That 199-200-199 bounce was enough to drive me mad.

It's suddenly slow loading posts for me too. iPhone 6. Noticed it yesterday. And some double posts due to hanging.

I'm so glad there's a solution on the horizon!

I'm so sorry.

Happy dance!!!

((((Hugs))))

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I'd like to be able to log my weight easily. I'd like to see a person's gender.

Today is my two year bandiversary. It's also my new low weight, 189. On my way to goal!

I'm sorry to hear this. I hope you get relief soon.

Thank you !

Update from me. Since I first replied to this post in December I have lost ten pounds. I cleaned up my food (eliminated all the crap, the sliders and fried foods) and track faithfully and honestly. I'm also working with an OA sponsor. My band feels like it's working better, but in reality, I'm working my program better! I'm optimistic that I can get to goal.

Not Debbie, but thanks. Not telling my daughters is only to see if they notice a difference is all. So far nobody in my life has noticed. That's fine with me. I'm happy with it.

Thank you!