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ElectricBoogaloo

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  2. Posted

    Hey there, peeps!

    3. 2018 Goals:

    • Goal weight: 140 pounds (less if my body says so...130-135 would be my college weight)
    • Get back into my goal clothes. I never made it to goal with the band, but truly believe I can with the sleeve. Interestingly, I have great clothes in the mid-range/still fat (where I settled with my band), but will happily donate those clothes...when I get back in them (5-10 more pounds)...kind of addicted to clothes...love jeans...just counted, have 53 pair...WTF?! Who does that? I promise I am not a hoarder.
    • Breast reduction/lift and brachioplasty.

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  3. Posted

    I am hard pressed to come up with a procedure (laparoscopic GI or esophageal repair issue? Hernia repair?)

    ...but more importantly, how about....

    None of your damn business...I will be away for a few days!

    Have the kids stay at family or friends during your surgery...no reason for him to be at your house while you are away. At least for me, po wasn't bad, I could interact with people without them noticing. It is also none of his business if/how you are losing weight...so go ahead and count your points on WW!

    You are no longer married to him, owe him nothing...he is now her problem.

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  7. Posted

    20 hours ago, FluffyChix said:

    Ok, so many of us struggle with diet fatigue. We get to a level where we feel great in our clothes, and life is taking off again and we're comfy in our bodies and are having fun loving life. We ARE successful. But we still may be 10-25lbs out from goal! What's a person to do to recapture that lovin' feeling and re-amp the diet and exercise and mindset back to losing? :D

    I saw this article and I think it could definitely be applied to us and our situations!! What do you think?

    https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-2-mental-shifts-highly-successful-people-make

    I appreciate you sharing this article. It really resonated with me.

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  9. Posted

    I was banded in 2014 and actually loved my band. Even though I didn’t make goal, I counted my experience as a success because I was probably on my way to my very own episode of M600PL and the band prevented it with also an associated weight loss!

    I was recently revised to a sleeve because I was diagnosed with esophageal dilation due to my band (scary stuff). That part...not so good. At the time I elected to get the band, I wasn’t at a place where I would consider anything more invasive.

    It is definitely a tough and personal decision. There are folks who are wildly successful with many years under their belt and those where the band has to be removed for whatever reason (even if all of the rules are followed), with significant symptoms and comorbidities due to the band.

    Have a thorough discussion with your team about the pros and cons for you and do extensive research. If I had to do it again, I would still get the band because I wasn’t ready then. If my first surgery were today, I would have opted for the sleeve instead, but I now have a different mindset (can’t distinguish if my mindset has changed based on my experience with the band or just overall wisdom/lack of fear of the other surgeries).

    I wish you well with your decision.

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  10. Posted

    On 11/16/2018 at 7:10 PM, ElectricBoogaloo said:
    • Challenge Starting weight: 190
    • Current weight lost: 20.8
    • Losing or maintaining weight: Losing
    • Fitness/exercise goal: 6 days/week
    • Total weight loss at the end of challenge: (Post January 1st 2019)
    • Check in: Tell us how you are doing - (How is your diet and exercise plan going? Any struggles? Stress level? What have you overcome? Any strategies that have helped) Struggles: Lately I have been having difficulty getting in water/fluids. I am now using a straw (with permission), which is helping tremendously.

    • Challenge Starting weight: 190
    • Current weight lost: 30
    • Losing or maintaining weight: Losing
    • Fitness/exercise goal: 6 days/week...didn't happen consistently
    • Total weight loss at the end of challenge: (Post January 1st 2019): 9.2!! (CW 180.8)
    • Check in: Tell us how you are doing - (How is your diet and exercise plan going? Any struggles? Stress level? What have you overcome? Any strategies that have helped) Struggles: During this challenge, I was in a stall most weeks with an overall loss of 9.2#...SCORE!!! On the weeks that I lost, it was one pound or less. I went to DisneyWorld for Christmas (5 days) and came back to a 4 pound loss!! Thanks Mickey...I think. I'll take it!😊

    Thanks @Healthy_life for starting this challenge. I can't remember a time when I lost nearly 10 pounds (or any pounds?) over the holidays!

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  19. Posted

    On 12/27/2018 at 1:51 PM, mousecat88 said:

    Oh snap. This is an old thread and I walked into some drama. EXITING. LMAO.

    Bwahahaha! @mousecat88, I actually am quite drama-free, but I guess there is a first time for everything!

    The hypocrisy with a dose of soapbox standing was just too much (as well as the 80+ thread responses and 2500+ views without anyone addressing that comment until that eventful day)😆😂😒!!

    Turning the light off and slowly backing out of the room...

    12 hours ago, GreenTealael said:

    I agree

    Thank you, @GreenTealael.

    I am left to assume that they agree as well, given that all I got back were retorts, sophomoric insults (are we still in kindergarten?!), and a threat to leave BP (to her own detriment)...still no answers!

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  21. Posted

    You know when you have one of those days that you should play the lottery (I don't play)?!

    Well yesterday, I walking down the fish aisle at costco lamenting on how much I miss orange roughy...my favorite fish and the fish that actually made me say that I like fish...which has been over fished and disappeared about 10 years ago. Lo, and behold, orange roughy right before my very eyes... ORANGE ROUGHY!!!

    One of those happy moments I will never forget, even if dementia is in my future!!

    Lottery score!😊

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  22. Posted · Edited by ElectricBoogaloo

    16 hours ago, GreenTealael said:

    I'm proud of you ❤

    Thank you! I was sooo proud of myself, I had to shout from the mountaintop (in my first thread creation)...the little things in life!

    Now on to killing our next challenge...within the time frame...for real!!!😊😒

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  24. Posted

    5 minutes ago, sideeye said:

    Open to suggestions - never met a religious/cultural holiday that hasn’t got some good stuff to raid.

    And now since the holidays are mostly over: how did the relations/friends react to seeing you in the flesh? I was (pleasantly) dissected for most of the holiday as aunts compared the last time each of them had seen me with now, and also with me as a teenager, and with my mother, and then focused in on what had changed which month... They also decided that “something” had changed rather dramatically between Thanksgiving and mid-Dec that couldn’t be explained by a 6 lb weight loss. I told them it was a 24 hour sex marathon in Vegas, and because my aunts are great, they just cackled like lunatics and told me to add that to my swimming/walking fitness regimen.

    Bwahaha!

    It was chill. We spent Christmas at DisneyWorld...never again (I was outvoted 😒).

    I got the obligatory 'you look nice' from most. No one knows that I had surgery. Shhhh!

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