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James, that was a great article. You are an inspiration.

@@VSGAnn2014, holy crap. Sending love your way. [emoji175]

!?!?!?! What happened!?!?

Posting just so Julie doesn't get a complex.

Stay connected here. It's helped me stay on track during my divorce. [emoji175]

I think it's fixed. Thanks Alex!

I go out to eat with friends once or twice a week. My go to meals are julienne salads or Greek salads. I recently stopped ordering soup because it was inflating my daily calories too much. I like to chew. A friend is doing low carb and got me hooked on bunless hamburgers. I stay away from p asta and starches but can almost always get a salad somewhere.

Me too just yesterday!! I was looking in the bathroom mirror and thought it was a shadow. Nope!!

Those blank notifications are dead links.

Under the. Notifications tab. I am being told when things are quoted or liked but not seeing any replies.

And if you reply to this I won't know, because notifications are gone! I am only getting the ones that say someone likes my post. @@Alex Brecher

Only likes to my posts are showing up in notifications. No replies to threads I follow.

Pretty sure I'm missing lots of recent notifications.

Speaking for myself, of course not. We are all in various stages of decision how to treat our obesity. Stay here for the support. Best wishes to you. We never know what the future brings. Good luck to your wife too. Keep posting!

Gowalking, I agree. And I knew before surgery that I would be a different person. I had been briefly thin once before, and I was different. This time I wanted my self confidence and courage back. I knew I had to shed my large body to get to that place because I had done it before.

I'm not at maintenance or goal yet, but reading all your posts makes clear how successful people eat. You have all expressed a deliberate consciousness of what you're eating, and staying on top of changes as they happen. Kudos to all of you. I hope to join you this year.

So glad to have run across this new forum.

Well said. I'm shocked at my turkey wattle on my neck. I need to remember what my face looked like when I was 302 pounds.

What ^^^^ Lisa said.

She's feeling better today and the temp has stayed under 100. Doc says it has turned around.

My b reakfast links will never be the same.

What a week we have had. My youngest daughter has been in and out of two different emergency rooms over the last five days. She had strep throat, but penicillin was not keeping her 104 fever down. Finally, today, she is taking a turn for the better. It is so hard to be 300 miles away from her when all this has been happening. By pure chance, I was visiting both of my daughters at college last weekend when the first emergency room visit took place. She has been tested for meningitis, mono, two types of flu, strep throat, and three tick borne illnesses. Turns out she had been bitten by a tick in January and didn't remember it until the doctor asked her about it. She thought she had been bitten by a spider over three weeks ago. The tick borne illness tests are still being analyzed but she's on the med used to treat it just in case. I can't remember ever being this scared before. But today she's getting her pep back and fever is staying low. She's on two antibiotics right now. Having a child sick is awful. Having a child sick long distance is excruciating.

Very common. I was told that lying down all night distributes tissue fluids evenly throughout your body. So the tissues surrounding the band are "plumped up", if you will. As the day goes on, gravity pulls fluids down the body. My feet are more swollen at the end of the day, for example. Since the upper body fluids have traveled south, the tissues around the band are not as "full". The result is a lesser feeling of tightness. I don't know if this is what's actually happening, but it makes perfect sense to me, and it matches my experience.

Standing up

I'm sorry about your marriage. I'm going through divorce myself. It's hard as hell and I need this place. Welcome back.